As a card-carrying member of the Upload Generation, your
Kin is about a lot of things: chilling with your peeps and BFFs, taking pictures and video of all of life's most awesome moments, keeping tabs on your MySpace pals, and documenting the fascinating story of your nipples without a pesky American Apparel V-neck getting in the way. Or wait... maybe not? Microsoft has just pulled a Kin ad briefly featuring a young gentleman snapping shots of his PG-rated parts underneath his t-shirt in response to
Consumer Reports' concerns that the move encourages "sexting" -- a growing problem amongst the world's technologically-savvy (and hormone-riddled) youth -- saying that it "takes the issue of sexting very seriously and it was never our intent to promote it in any way." It looks like Microsoft has kept the commercial around on the Kin site and just removed the offending portion -- it was only about a second long -- so hanging out in underground speakeasies with fake hipsters is still okay, apparently. Follow the break for the original, unedited video.
posted April 17th 2010 1:27PM
I fail too see the problem except for the puritan overreaction. They should just lock it down so parents can prevent use of the camera.
@AlexCull They just lost a customer :*(
all i can think about is who would want to see a picture of someones nipple, it is probably the least sexy part of the body. at least the male body
Nah, this is just a ploy from Microsoft.
It is a marketing trick.
They did it intentionally :)
Now, everybody talk about Kin.
Clever ... Microsoft ... Clever
let the record show i loved edrward shapre before they where cool
Microsoft naughty long time. Just look at all the money they pay the EU. Where is that money going? To finance cell towers?
And nice to see there is a social revolution going on...in the neo-60's. I get all my social commentary from ads now...not. Nice song.
edward sharpe and the magnetic zeroes are so fucking ridiculously good.
if i wanted to buy a kin phone, after seeing that ad i definitely would NOT buy one.
That song is good. I'm really turned off by the crappy taste of some people here. (not everyone, but you know who you are).
Sexting is a problem? Are you high?
Manboobs!! At least it wasn't his scrotum. But I'd rather just see a commercial showing the phone features than having it obscured by the crowd of hipsters.
Coming from someone who know nothing about the Kin other than it's existence in two forms, this advert does nothing.
This is a serious question, I haven't even looked into this device yet. Is it a phone? A Zune thing? A Facebook/Myspace thing? What else does it do other than send/organise pictures?
This is stupid.
if you don't watch out, soon young people will be buying these things in order to hook up, send lurid messages to eachother and who knows what else. absolutely shocking.
It is not that bad I just think it is weird that misrosoft thinks many people take pictures of their bair chest. I mean WTF! The rest is cool.
What would have made it cooler is if she responded by snapping a pic of her snatch and sending it back to the guy.
Awesome!
Its sickening how sensitive our society is now days. So pathetic that a 1-second clip offended someone, so effin dramatic and over the top
I did not feel offended, don't we see guys with out shirts all the time? What is the big deal? MS Should Stand up for themselves, we have all got to stop cowing to the politically correct minority. If the truth is offensive then you need to change your thinking because the Truth will always be the best policy.