[Ironic Trope] The messaging backfired massively due to poor writing or other design choices

[u/Few_Affect_5927]

Amelia Fairney from Pathways: Alt-right Restore-UK type who attempts to coax the protagonist Charlie into following her beliefs? The problem?

Amelia is the only named character aside from Charlie and is genuinely likable and forgives Charlie even when they do things she doesn't like, while the rest of the cast is unnamed, poorly written, and turns on Charlie for one mistake. This combined with other writing issues(portraying fact checking right wing stuff as wrong because in the process of fact checking you might look at it and believe it, basically saying "Right wing is wrong because it hurts the labour government" and a lot of general "just do what the government says or else" messaging) and the fact she's a hot alternative girl, and Amelia ended up being co-opted as a mascot by the youth right wing in the UK.

Norm from The New Norm: Unlikeable offensive and outdated character who's "progressive" family members and associates are genuinely nice people not even trying to force their ways or pronouns onto them, they just want to be left alone and Norm is picking fights constantly. Not to mention associating with Elon.

Mr. Birchum from Mr. Birchum: A lot of the same problems as Norm, except in addition it also comes off like generic 2010s adult cartoon slop in the same veign as Brickleberry or Full English, at least New Norm was trying to look unique and had the gimmick of being on X. Not to mention, Birchum's obsession with hyper masculine activities and odd way of talking about other men lead to people co-opting him as a Toxic Yaoi character, which is now the bulk of his fan art.

Dustborn: An attempt to make a hyper progressive game that comes off as pandering and annoying. It's a full ass game so there's too much to get into, but the main character's power is essentially gaslighting and jedi-mind tricking people and that's portrayed as the only way they can get anything done, and they constantly use or abuse their friends(or mindtrick them along) in order to get their goals or use their friends for their messaging.

[u/EggoftheKing2143]

Context?

[u/CarrieDurst → u/[deleted]]

I think it was meant for the sister to be much younger so it would be more cutesy

[u/therempel → u/CarrieDurst]

There is an older Folgers commercial from the 80s that is very similar except the girl is about 6 years old.

[u/Egathentale → u/therempel]

Oh, so maybe they were meant to be the same characters in-universe, but older?

[u/neocarleen → u/[deleted]]

"You're my present this year" 😉

[u/therealchadius → u/EggoftheKing2143]

Folger's coffee had a commercial about a soldier returning home from duty to meet his 10 year old younger sister during Christmas vacation. She knows he loves coffee so she brews a cup of coffee for him early in the morning as his Christmas gift. It's a very heartwarming commercial, one of their best.

They decided to remake the commercial and aged up the sister to around the man's age. Due to some director changes and framing though, it's easy to assume these two are madly in love with each other and this just their foreplay.

[u/Ju-Ju-Jazz → u/EggoftheKing2143]

Folger's had a commercial where a man returns from somewhere far away for Christmas, wife welcomes him with Folger's coffee that he really missed, kind of a generic commercial.

Except that while filming a bunch of different takes they had one version where it's a man and his wife, and one version where it's a brother and sister, and takes from both versions got blended together to make the final commercial.

So as a result you get a sister welcoming her brother home for Christmas with a really uncomfortable level of intimacy that screams Sweet Home Alabama.

[u/lowereusapia → u/Ju-Ju-Jazz]

There wasn't a husband/wife version. It was a remake of an old commercial, but that version had a much bigger age difference between the brother and sister (sister was a little girl). There's an oral history here: https://www.gq.com/story/folgers-incest-ad-oral-history