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Clash City Rocker

(3,396 posts) Wed Dec 4, 2019, 08:36 AM Dec 2019

Can we talk about that Peleton ad?

It just strikes me as creepy. The woman is super-thin to start with, but her husband (I presume he’s her husband) gives her a surprise gift that sends the message “you need to lose weight.” Then she looks horrified at having to use the bike, but at the end, she comes across as a Stepford wife, so happy that her life was changed because she dropped from 120 pounds to 110 pounds.

Maybe I’m overreacting? If so, I’m far from alone. Their stock has dropped as a result of the ad.

https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/12/3/20993432/peloton-new-commercial-horror-movie

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Can we talk about that Peleton ad? (Original Post) Clash City Rocker Dec 2019 OP

The mockery on Twitter has been savage and hilarious Shrek Dec 2019 #1

I love the selfie chronicles videos of her experience on the bike. democratisphere Dec 2019 #2

Where can I see that? cwydro Dec 2019 #4

Right here. democratisphere Dec 2019 #7

Perhaps it's me. I'm not seeing how it changed her. 🤔 TheBlackAdder Dec 2019 #9

Daddy has to keep his trophy wife in shape. democratisphere Dec 2019 #12

Beware of bad gift giving lunasun Dec 2019 #3

I remember that! Habibi Dec 2019 #15

A moustache waxer ......that one ain't never gettin out lunasun Dec 2019 #22

A friend tweeted this about that ad Dem4Life1102 Dec 2019 #5

Stepford Wives vlog these days. Who knew? Hortensis Dec 2019 #6

LOL! LuvNewcastle Dec 2019 #20

Why? It was so much better than last year's bathroom scale with visceral fat and BMI checks. 😂 TheBlackAdder Dec 2019 #8

K&R, The commercial is beyond tone deaf ... like someone from another planet wrote it and then uponit7771 Dec 2019 #10

It's 2019's "My wife, I think I'll keep her." Clash City Rocker Dec 2019 #19

I'm about equally concerned with global climate change and Peleton ads Bucky Dec 2019 #11

It's not so much a $2000 toy as a $2000 place to hang your laundry stopbush Dec 2019 #16

The sexism wouldn't be missed by the "walmart crowd" Merlot Dec 2019 #17

If my husband gave me that without my asking for it, his ass would be toast. redstatebluegirl Dec 2019 #13

I don't think the ad has caused their stock price to drop onenote Dec 2019 #14

We have a gym room at our co-op edhopper Dec 2019 #18

Years ago, maybe early 90s, Toyota was the one that got me riled MissMillie Dec 2019 #21

Shrek

(3,981 posts)

1. The mockery on Twitter has been savage and hilarious

Reply to Clash City Rocker (Original post)

Wed Dec 4, 2019, 08:47 AM

Dec 2019

But it's pretty hard to directly correlate the ad to a drop in the stock price.

democratisphere

(17,235 posts)

2. I love the selfie chronicles videos of her experience on the bike.

Reply to Clash City Rocker (Original post)

Wed Dec 4, 2019, 08:55 AM

Dec 2019

Me, myself and I on overload!

cwydro

(51,308 posts)

4. Where can I see that?

Reply to democratisphere (Reply #2)

Wed Dec 4, 2019, 10:18 AM

Dec 2019

Just the one on the commercial is funny enough, though they didn’t mean it to be lol.

democratisphere

(17,235 posts)

7. Right here.

Reply to cwydro (Reply #4)

Wed Dec 4, 2019, 10:43 AM

Dec 2019

You might want to sit down. Don't want you to hit the floor laughing!

TheBlackAdder

(28,205 posts)

9. Perhaps it's me. I'm not seeing how it changed her. 🤔

Reply to democratisphere (Reply #7)

Wed Dec 4, 2019, 10:49 AM

Dec 2019

democratisphere

(17,235 posts)

12. Daddy has to keep his trophy wife in shape.

Reply to TheBlackAdder (Reply #9)

Wed Dec 4, 2019, 10:55 AM

Dec 2019

lunasun

(21,646 posts)

3. Beware of bad gift giving

Reply to Clash City Rocker (Original post)

Wed Dec 4, 2019, 10:16 AM

Dec 2019

Habibi

(3,598 posts)

15. I remember that!

Reply to lunasun (Reply #3)

Wed Dec 4, 2019, 11:04 AM

Dec 2019

God, it's hilarious!

lunasun

(21,646 posts)

22. A moustache waxer ......that one ain't never gettin out

Reply to Habibi (Reply #15)

Wed Dec 4, 2019, 04:20 PM

Dec 2019

Dem4Life1102

(3,974 posts)

5. A friend tweeted this about that ad

Reply to Clash City Rocker (Original post)

Wed Dec 4, 2019, 10:23 AM

Dec 2019

Link to tweet

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)

6. Stepford Wives vlog these days. Who knew?

Reply to Clash City Rocker (Original post)

Wed Dec 4, 2019, 10:33 AM

Dec 2019

It's clear that ol' Jesse here doesn't have one.

Link to tweet

LuvNewcastle

(16,846 posts)

20. LOL!

Reply to Hortensis (Reply #6)

Wed Dec 4, 2019, 01:09 PM

Dec 2019

Get her a mop, a broom, an iron, and an ironing board too. Keep your woman busy and she won't have as much energy to sass you.

TheBlackAdder

(28,205 posts)

8. Why? It was so much better than last year's bathroom scale with visceral fat and BMI checks. 😂

Reply to Clash City Rocker (Original post)

Wed Dec 4, 2019, 10:46 AM

Dec 2019

uponit7771

(90,346 posts)

10. K&R, The commercial is beyond tone deaf ... like someone from another planet wrote it and then

Reply to Clash City Rocker (Original post)

Wed Dec 4, 2019, 10:50 AM

Dec 2019

... someone for a different planet green lit it.

Clash City Rocker

(3,396 posts)

19. It's 2019's "My wife, I think I'll keep her."

Reply to uponit7771 (Reply #10)

Wed Dec 4, 2019, 12:39 PM

Dec 2019

Bucky

(54,014 posts)

11. I'm about equally concerned with global climate change and Peleton ads

Reply to Clash City Rocker (Original post)

Wed Dec 4, 2019, 10:52 AM

Dec 2019

It's a $2000 toy. I don't expect them to pitch this to the Walmart crowd.

stopbush

(24,396 posts)

16. It's not so much a $2000 toy as a $2000 place to hang your laundry

Reply to Bucky (Reply #11)

Wed Dec 4, 2019, 11:04 AM

Dec 2019

after you stop using it, usually 3 months after you get it.

Merlot

(9,696 posts)

17. The sexism wouldn't be missed by the "walmart crowd"

Reply to Bucky (Reply #11)

Wed Dec 4, 2019, 11:07 AM

Dec 2019

redstatebluegirl

(12,265 posts)

13. If my husband gave me that without my asking for it, his ass would be toast.

Reply to Clash City Rocker (Original post)

Wed Dec 4, 2019, 11:01 AM

Dec 2019

He would have done better buying me a vacuum cleaner than that. No way it is not a statement that she is "not slim enough for him". Bad bad bad ad.

onenote

(42,704 posts)

14. I don't think the ad has caused their stock price to drop

Reply to Clash City Rocker (Original post)

Wed Dec 4, 2019, 11:01 AM

Dec 2019

The ad was introduced on November 21--Peloton's stock price was 29.80

The stock price climbed to a peak of 36.84 by this past Monday. It dropped Tues, along with the rest of the market, closing at 33.48. Its climbing back up a bit today (33.90 as I type this).

edhopper

(33,580 posts)

18. We have a gym room at our co-op

Reply to Clash City Rocker (Original post)

Wed Dec 4, 2019, 11:45 AM

Dec 2019

I go to the room, get on a bike and do a 25 minute interval workout while listening to music.
I don't need a super-fitness motivational coach yelling at me on a tv screen.
I don't get this whole thing.
Yes, it is hard to motivate yourself for exercise sometimes, but that usually has to do with making time and getting on the equipment.
Once you are on the bike, you are already doing your work.

MissMillie

(38,560 posts)

21. Years ago, maybe early 90s, Toyota was the one that got me riled

Reply to Clash City Rocker (Original post)

Wed Dec 4, 2019, 01:15 PM

Dec 2019

A woman giving an account of a ride in her Toyota mini-van. (I won't put it in quotes, because I don't know the exact wording.)

It was dark, and it was raining. It was just me and the kids. I know I should have been afraid. But because I was in my Toyota mini-van, I wasn't. I felt safe.

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