When anti-gambling ads backfire.
So I stumbled upon this anti-gambling video from Singapore.
It was made before the Football World Cup of 2014 with a powerful message to stop problem gambling.
Of course its a good ad and I hope it helped some people realize their gambling problems, but couldn't they have chosen another less likely to win team that Andy's father bet on? Cause that World Cup, Germany won!
They tried to save the ad by making another one afterwards
A funny comment by a Redditor
Although I think he meant to say that Leicester would win the Premier League Cup, not Champions League. He might have sold Bitcoin a bit too early as well. ;)
If some of you are familiar with John Oliver's Last Week Tonight show, he made a really hilarious parody about this and its worth a watch!
@acidyo first of all thanks for these content. Gambling like drugs its easy to enter but really tough to exit these gamblers play to distract themselves, forget their problems, and reduce their stress & harmful negative consequences or a desire to stop.
I had experience of communication with a gambling man.
What can I say... He was ill. Just a desease, nothing more.
There are periods when a desease is seemed to be won but sometimes it gives a great hit and then you're just not you at all.
Money is so little what they can lose.
They loe themselves, freedom and understanding of reality.
It's a real drug(
I was once in a position when I used to spend all my money on gambling and it brought me down to the point where I lost everything . It's an addiction that's hard to overcome
So, bottom line is, betting is wrong unless you bet on the winning team :P and then just keep going.
I keep looking back to that story about the guy that bet on Leicester winning the Premier and the casino had to settle with him before the season ended, cause they weren´t liquid enough to pay him if indeed, Leicester won the league.
I bet a bit over sportsbet.io but just scraps to make it more interesting, a few mBTC over here and some over there, nothing big.
Gambling is an addiction the more you loss, the more you wany to recover your lost money or want ever you gambled back and the only way to cure addiction is to provide something to replace the addiction something that has more or equal value to the actual addiction
That John Oliver clip is hilarious! Obviously, Singapore should make more gambling ads because they can tell the future.
Haha, that was great.. and the John Oliver skit made it even better! In all fairness, that was a decent and awesome attempt to save the ad. It went viral, but in all the wrong ways I guess lol!
Haha yeah, everyone was probably like "damn, I wanna do what Andy's dad does". :D
Hi @acidyo this post is funny .
it would be nice if the gambling was dismissed but I think it is impossible because in singapore it is the biggest gamble lol
I just read this while playing some poker for crypto at Lucksacks... that makes me feel a bit weird lol. But it is a freeroll so... different story.
I agree that theres a fine line between recreative gambling and having a problem with it. And it usually is tough to realize and accept you have a problem when you have one.
Some ads are literally dumb. Like I use to ask myself : "is this ad really meant to sell something or is it just making fun of the sponsoring company?"
Another thing that baffles me is their choice of actors and resource persons. I mean, an untrained young child who is really talented in acting can do much better than some of these.
In summary, I think the ad company are the ones that actually lost the bet!
Remain awesome @acidyo.