Aqua Teen Hunger Force viral ads cause Boston bomb scare

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Sean @ Jan 31st 2007 7:44PM

This one really makes me upset. It may be some of the media's fault too though. I work in downtown boston and I take the subway to work everyday. Durring lunch I check the news and the media is making it seem like there are bombs all over the city - they report of bombs in "suspicious packages" scaring everyone.

The media wanted this to me another terrorist attack, and was trying to scare people into thinking this so they will watch the news. After seeing what was really posted around the city I shouldnt have been scared at all today. I hate the media for sensationalizing everything.

but the campain should have just used paper posters - they did have the bomb squad blowing these things up which led to the media getting a huge boner and reporting TERRROR!!!

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Monty @ Feb 2nd 2007 11:29AM

They used LEDs and not posters because that's currently quite the fashion. And this was all about the Cool (yes, I happen to make light-up things myself). Surely you've seen some of the graffiti done with conductive paint and LEDs?

What pisses me off is that these were done with care not to leave a mess to clean up (magnetic; pops right off, no property damage) and were fun/pretty to look at. These signs brought anyone with half a brain a little happiness in addition to advertising something (which I happened to love anyway). It should have gone down as exactly the right way to do guerilla adverts. They weren't *that* clever, but they were pretty.

Monty

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