Companies spend big bucks to make us remember them. They put billboards along the roads, run commercials during the Super Bowl, and have celebrities posting their products on social media. But whatever message they're trying to send, ultimately it's the relationship we have with them that matters.
A few days ago, Reddit user NotANameReally posted a question on the platform: "If brands were brutally honest, what brand would have what slogan?" And people responded. From IKEA and YouTube to Nike and Google, no business was safe. Continue scrolling and check out their poetic truth bombs. They're grrrrrrreat!
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Internet Explorer
NotANameReally said the idea to ask this question wasn't that spotaneous. "[I thought of it] sitting down, trying to come up with something to post that would make people think, enjoy reading, and replying to," the Reddit user told Bored Panda.
According to them, the discussion that followed was a really pleasant one. "Every reply seemed very relatable to everyone, including me. My favorites were all the funny Comcast comments and the Taco Bell comment by Ferrrociousb. It said, "Taco Bell: you can make 32 different things with those 5 ingredients, why mess with perfection?"
Friskies
Communications and Outreach Team Leader at Creatopy, Diana Bolboaca, likes to think of a brand like a person. So if its logo is like its face, a slogan is like its voice. It either catches your attention and speaks to you or you can't really understand what it is blabbering about.
"You know how important first impressions are," Bolboaca wrote. "[But] not all big brands have catchy slogans, though, while some of them create a new one for each major campaign. So no, having a catchy tagline or slogan is not the cornerstone of success and ... you don’t need to hit the nail right on the head the first time."
Trojan
"But having a catchy slogan up your sleeve is undoubtedly a great way to cut corners when approaching your audience, and a useful tool in your arsenal when it’s time to get creative," Bolboaca explained.
The creative said that slogans are meant to persuade and act as a shadow identity of a brand while promoting a specific product or service—a genuinely successful slogan is also a long-term commitment. A good slogan is memorable, positive, and sets its brand apart as well as highlights its benefits.
Tesla
The Simpsons
I'm totally convinced that God is watching the Simpsons and taking notes! :D
From a consumer point of view, NotANameReally thinks slogans need to be honest to let us know what the business is about instead of being vague or straight up lying but being too open might bring hatred towards the company or a massive loss of consumers that they used to have before. So they need to be balanced.
Hot Pockets
Gilette Woman
Blue is primary color. Pink is blue, red and white. This is why it costs more! No? Ok, let me think of something else then...
Q-Tips
Instant Ramen
you'd be much better off with beans and rice. Most of these noodles are chemical franken-noodles that are gastrointestinal disasters waiting to happen. So delicious, so very deadly.
Starbucks
WebMD
Amazon
Bing
Disney
Youtube
Ryanair
Altoids
UPS
Wish
Walmart
Apple
Yellow Pages
Adblocker
This one is just stupid, since many ads cannot be skipped without an ad blocker. I use Adblock Plus and a couple of site specific ones, and I don't see any ads ever - not on YouTube, Facebook, this site, or any others. If you ever come across a site that will not show you the page before turning off your ad blocker, you would do well to move on and avoid it, because along with their flood of ads, they also want to deliver tracking cookies and other data mining code.
Precisely. And these sites rarely have unique content. For instance, I just copy the news headline on a 'blocked' site and find the content elsewhere.
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65,051 ads blocked by ABP... glad I didn't have to push a "skip ad" button for each!
8870 for me. I had a different adblocker before it though.
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a good one will mute unskippable ads. I think we all want that on our tv when streaming is unavailable
Drano
Note: this post originally had 70 images. It’s been shortened to the top 35 images based on user votes.
BoredPanda - Come for the art and comics, stay to fight about politics.
True! And usually American politics. I get it, we have problems. But they're all problems I already know exist. And people who don't think these problems exist probably still won't be swayed with 40 tweets from educated people about it.
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Toyota - I’m not going to brag about my new beige Camry, but it’ll go about four times farther than the average American car.
When you haven't even seen half of these companies .__.
Comedy Central: "Did you like that episode? That's great! Cause we'll be showing it 20 more times this week."
Nickelodeon - We squeeze and absorb in dirty waters a sponge for 20 and more years
Albert Heijn (supermarket): "No matter what you want to cook tonight, we just sold out a key ingrediënt."
BoredPanda - Come for the art and comics, stay to fight about politics.
True! And usually American politics. I get it, we have problems. But they're all problems I already know exist. And people who don't think these problems exist probably still won't be swayed with 40 tweets from educated people about it.
Load More Replies... Toyota - I’m not going to brag about my new beige Camry, but it’ll go about four times farther than the average American car.
When you haven't even seen half of these companies .__.
Comedy Central: "Did you like that episode? That's great! Cause we'll be showing it 20 more times this week."
Nickelodeon - We squeeze and absorb in dirty waters a sponge for 20 and more years
Albert Heijn (supermarket): "No matter what you want to cook tonight, we just sold out a key ingrediënt."
