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It seems like every brand these days is using some profound human experience to sell their product in hopes that it'll insight some feelings in their customers. We've seen Burger King do it, and apparently now it's Subway's turn. 

Twitter user Ryan Simmons pointed out that a Subway commercial made in Brazil went completely over the top, to say the absolute least, in this new dramatic two-minute video. The seemingly heartfelt ad features a young boy coming of age and ends with him ordering a sandwich at Subway. How the hell Subway's marketing team thought that one up, we'll never know. 

The ad features the main character creeping on his own mother, peeing in a fountain, and shaving his head. Yeah, you're just going to have to watch it to even remotely understand what we're talking about.

We get that sometimes mistakes get made. Even very embarrassing mistakes where people laugh at you for years. That's just a normal part of life. 

Where we draw this line of empathy, however, is when brands f*ck up so royally that one can't help but do a double-take. If you're still not on our side here, just think about how each of these designs likely had to go through multiple levels of editor-approval before being printed! Yikes...

Pretty much every person over the age of 50 loves to complain about how terrible the current generation is, from smart phones to our being "entitled" about everything (because God forbid we just want to eat, amirite?). So the next time an old person tries to pull that crap on you, just whip out this gallery of highly disturbing foods that the public actually used to consume throughout the 20th century, and we're betting that it'll shut down any and every argument they could possibly have about who the "best generation" is.

Do you ever just stop to think about how we're living in a dystopian nightmare and that life doesn't matter at all? You go to work every day to make money just to pay for your miserable life, and then you die without ever retiring. Enjoy these tidbits from our corporate overlords!

Job-hunting is hard enough without having to deal with complete and utter inadequacy at the hiring level. Like, come on people, get your sh*t together and at least set a decent example for your applicants! The following job ads will anger literally anyone who has any decent sense of grammar and punctuation. And we mean anyone. These are bad...

We have to admit that we have no idea how many of these people were trolling, but we kind of hope that all of them were for the sake of humanity... I'm not sure what to say about some of these ads from Craigslist.... People really will try to sell anything and everything nowadays all to make a buck. But I have to laud them for their gumption, because not everyone would be willing to get ribbed like this endlessly until the end of time. Or until the interwebz cease to exist.

Want to see the craziest Craigslist ads ever? Then click the link you missed. Or check out these Craigslist all time greats and decide for yourself which is better, and rate them as you see fit.

Tumblr never fails to bring the bizarre ads. Are they trolling? We have no idea, but we're kind of here for these.

Whoever was in charge of photoshopping these images really screwed up, big time! These are really just adding more impossible standards we can never live up to, amiright?

These people all tried to market something - whether that something was good or not is debatable, but they all produced some pretty WTF-worthy ways of pushing their services. (Sidenote: these are not real ads - check out Alan Wagner on Instagram for more).