India’s Edgy Playstation 2 Ads

by Joey deVilla on July 10, 2007

These edgy Indian print ads for the Playstation 2 turn the stereotype of the gamer who’s so into games that he doesn’t have a girlfriend upside-down: the tag line for these ads is “PS2: Because your girlfriend bores you shitless.”

Indian Playstation 2 ad with the tagline “PS2: Because your girlfriend bores you shitless”
Click to see the ad at full size.

Indian Playstation 2 ad with the tagline “PS2: Because your girlfriend bores you shitless”
Click to see the ad at full size.

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1 Julia July 10, 2007 at 10:44 am

Note to Sony: “edgy” != “sexist”

2 Joey deVilla July 10, 2007 at 11:43 am

“Edgy” is one of those words that has been rendered virtually meaningless by the entertainment and advertising industries (and a number of art majors as well).

I personally think that “edgy” can now be described as meaning “crossing some boundary of good taste”. Wil Wheaton, in trying out for acting parts and failing because he didn’t seem “edgy”, observed that it means all sorts of things, but it generally seems to mean “unwashed”.

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