The Progressive Box Cringes Me Out Big Time

Oh no. Why. Why do companies have to try to appeal to people.

Maybe they're not really trying to appeal to the internet vloggers. If so, then they really need to hire new people to script their commercial. Why do I think this?

Well, to put it simply, the Progressive Box commercial about the box vlogging about it's life makes me want to regurgitate from my eye balls.

I hate it. I mean,it's funny, but only because it makes me cringe. In this commercial, the box is basically vlogging, and, that's fine, but the cringe part about it is the editing. A specific example of this is when the Progressive Box goes up to his regular roasted almonds street vender, the poor guy, and points the camera at him. Already, it's bad, because the look on the guy's face is clearly that if despair. A look of disappointment in his life. The mundane has become selling people roasted almonds.

Then the unspeakable happens.
Air horns.
Not, like, real air horns that the audio of his camera captures.
Not someone on the street blowing an air horn obnoxiously.
No.
A sound clip of an air horn. Edited into the video, with pictures of almonds on the screen.

No.

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