It was an ad for a livestream app. It showed a short clip of a pretty girl sitting in front of a camera. From the look of it, the clip looked like it was taken from a real livestream and not something staged for the ad. The girl was smiling and saying: “Mom, dad, did you hear that? <Someone I assume to be her boyfriend> told you to come with him to Saudi Arabia and mine diamonds with him, then come back here to give the diamonds to me and my fans”. The clip ended there and the app was showed.

The ad just left a bad taste in my mouth. Getting your parents to come with your boyfriend to mine diamonds and gift them to you and your fans? What kind of child says that? And this is a person you think would best represent your app?

Maybe I’m more offended by the clip than the ad itself. The clip obviously belongs to a longer video so maybe there is a context behind all this. So am I right that the ad is offensive or is there a bigger context behind it and I’m just judging the ad too harshly?