Comments on: Quick Hit: LG “Secret” Stalkerphone

By: SunlessNick

SunlessNick — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 05:23:32 +0000

I’ve only just come across this post. And I have to second what PortlyDyke said – that is among the creepiest ads I’ve ever seen.

By: Laura

Laura — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 04:25:22 +0000

Exactly dolia. It’s like he’s been a bit of a norty boy, now it’s back to reality….talk about madonna / whore complex…it just gets better and better doesn’t it.

I assume that incredible piece of rapemongering was intended for web only, not for television. That makes it more insidious really – they know they wouldn’t get away with it on TV.

There should be a Facebook group for this.

By: dolia

dolia — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:30:37 +0000

…and what’s with the lighting on creepy dude?! That green tinge says “secret” in the tortcher-pron stallker sense of the word – it makes much more obvious that this girl is meant to be someone he doesn’t know. What I found must creepy was the seamless transition from stallker-raypest to son without a flicker of emotion – it’s almost like he felt ENTITLED and VALIDATED in his activities. Good thing behaviour like that in the real world is so thoroughly discouraged! /snark

When you turn the sound off, the acting of the woman on the bed just reminds me of the pouting that goes on in those late night phone sex ads, so I do find it funny at the same time…perhaps LG couldn’t get any more experienced actors to take their proposal seriously…

By: PortlyDyke

PortlyDyke — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 05:32:50 +0000

OMFG! That is one of the creepiest things I HAVE EVER SEEN! (and that’s saying something)

Calling/Writing LG (and Verizon, who touts them).

By: daiskmeliadorn

daiskmeliadorn — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:09:15 +0000

i sent them a message too, i’ll let you know if i hear anything back. i didn’t go into too much detail, kind of wrote as if it should be bleedingly obvious what the problem is, really!

By: katarina

katarina — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:53:59 +0000

Well, I just emailed them, but I was so busy explaining that spying on people in their bedrooms is stalking that I forgot to add suitably condescending advice about pornographic overtones being hackneyed marketing tactics and the need for more original thoughts from their marketing departments.
Anyone else willing?

By: Lauredhel

Lauredhel — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:28:28 +0000

Ugh ugh ugh, I didn’t know they’d done it before!

I’m glad the replacement oven we just bought is a Lofra. I liked that their website was just shiny pictures of appliances – no women in frilly aprons or anything like that.

Ugh, I just checked out the website for this “Secret” mobile phone. It’s titled “SECRET: BLACK LABEL SERIES”. Porn all the way down.

By: katarina

katarina — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:07:52 +0000

Thanks, Rebekka,
This is not LG’s first peeping-tom ad. They had an ad for air conditioning several years ago, with two young boys spying on a woman undressing in her bedroom.
When I mentioned how repulsive I found it to a male acquaintance, he started saying no, it wasn’t, because when he was a boy he and his friends– I stopped him by shrieking “NO! I don’t want to know!”
Emailing the media contact will be a much more useful reaction. I’m off to do it now.

By: Rebekka

Rebekka — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:59:21 +0000

It’s gross. I watched it yesterday and I’m still feeling physically ill when I think about it.

Suggest e-mailing their global media contact and letting them know what you think of it:
http://www.lge.com/about/press_media/form/MDRINF|01|001.jhtml

As I am doing right now.

By: Klaus K

Klaus K — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:29:17 +0000

D’oh! My partner just bought an LG phone (although thankfully not this model). I’m sure we will be taking this ad into account with respect all future electronics purchases then.