Here is an original Colonial Penn commercial from 2024 with a white couple talking about the seventy year old marathoner.
https://youtu.be/EXGTeKt1fqw?si=iktgzr6pF9M3Xj6B
And here is a 2025 commercial with a black couple talking about a seventy year old marathoner
https://www.ispot.tv/ad/TfZZ/colonial-penn-sisters-neighbor
Sorry this is the only place I could find the latest commercial. Anyways it's essentially the same commercial except the couples race is switched.
Bonus points for the wife being the one in charge in both commercials. I am absolutely disgusted how for at least 20 years men are consistently depicted as incompetent in media and basically the children of their wives.
Its because women are the biggest consumers on the planet, and every ad agency knows this. It's all targeted at them
Jake from State Farm?
The OG commercial race-swap. Fuck fake black Jake.
Not this time
I don't have a problem with this. It's a commercial for a target audience, re-using the script is a cheap cop-out, but otherwise 'meh'.
I DO have a problem with 60% of persons across ALL commercials these days being "of colour" though...
One McDonalds ad had (iirc) 13 people (mostly in the background) and 8 were coloured. Of the 5 White folk? 3 were White women... with a coloured man...
here in Germany tons of commercials also feature mixed couples. always white woman and black/arab man.
there is one where it's different (white man, black woman) and it's for a dating app
Selling life insurance to black people is a terrible idea because even without tnb related deaths, they die way sooner so you're gonna have to pay out more.
On a different note, I think there's practically a speciation event occurring between people who watch ads and people who don't. I haven't watched a forced ad in over 20 years and every time I see one it's abhorrent from all angles. The stuff that is getting into crammed into normie heads is unreal. There's gotta be epigenetic consequences for this shit.
The only time I see ads is on the TVs at the gym (which are muted) and when I visit friends and family. It's jarring how annoying and pervasive they are.
I don't understand how someone can watch a movie or TV show on broadcast TV because they interrupt every couple minutes with 2 minutes of commercials, and I swear it becomes more frequent the closer you get to the end of the show.