Am I right to be offended by this ad?

As described, it doesn’t sound particularly offensive to me, but it does sound inane and not at all appealing. I’d just ignore it and not bother to rate its offensiveness.

The ad is trying to appeal to the tik tok entitled teens and young adults. It falls short.

I’m with @Jeruba; it’s just inane.

It seems more like childish content for likes than offensive to me.

YES! I would say that you were quite right to be offended. I’m offended just hearing about it. I feel that more people should be offended by insultingly stupid advertising (and other media content).

Advertisers and (now seemingly more than ever) media directors sometimes (most of the time?) create their “content” as if their target audience are ignorant fools and idiots. This is not only insulting to people who aren’t fools and idiots, but it “normalizes” and encourages ignorance, folly, and idiocy.

Non-comedic idiotic content should be called out and not tolerated. I feel that anyone who’s upset that dirt-stupid politicians now represent them in government, and/or that movies are now mostly as dumb as comic books, should speak out against idiocy.

There must be a logical explanation to it.

For example, it can be a sequence from a movie that you haven’t seen, and so you think that it is just an add. But as you know, in movies ‘every thing is possible, thinkable, or allowed’. If I didn’t know that Yoda’s awkward talk was part of a movie, I’d find it utterly wrong, because it gives an example of wrong i.e. illiterate talking, which could be adopted by very young people and made them talk in an not up-to-date way. But if I know it’s part of a movie, than my impression is quite the opposite of it, and I find Yoda even likable.

To know something, what it is you first know must. :D

Your description is so off the wall, that I’m having a hard time believing you recounted it correctly. My reaction (assuming your account is perfect) is that this is some attempt at humor that didn’t come off well. Alot of these phone game ads are really low budget and done by obvious idiots.

Also…who mines diamonds in Saudi Arabia? Did you mean South Africa?

But do i find it offensive? No. And neither should you. I am very alarmed that the younger generations (yes, I’m old) seem to almost go out of their way to be offended. It’s like some kind of badge of honor. You should be offended when REAL and DELIBERATE offense is being given. Not when some idiot advertiser makes an awkward joke and executes it poorly. When it’s the latter, just roll your eyes and click away.

@Entropy for context, Saudi Arabia is stereotyped to be a very rich country in my country, so that was used in the joke.

And also my country is really big on “honoring your parents”, so to see something like that get a pass is really jarring.

And I’m not going out of my way to be offended like a badge of honor. It’s just how I feel. I can be offended as horrible things too. This is more of the “annoyance” kind of offended.