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Marketing needs some work

This two-panel meme showcases a major marketing failure for a charity advertisement. The top panel displays a charity flyer featuring a photo of a young child living in poverty, with text that reads 'THROW ME AWAY. I'M USED TO IT.' While the copy is intended to evoke emotion about how marginalized children are discarded by society, it literally instructs readers to throw the flyer itself away. The bottom panel shows a smiling woman literally following the instruction, tossing a crumpled version of the flyer into a public trash can, highlighting the huge flaw in the poorly-worded marketing.
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"THROW ME AWAY. I'M USED TO IT."

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This two-panel meme showcases a major marketing failure for a charity advertisement. The top panel displays a charity flyer featuring a photo of a young child living in poverty, with text that reads 'THROW ME AWAY. I'M USED TO IT.' While the copy is intended to evoke emotion about how marginalized children are discarded by society, it literally instructs readers to throw the flyer itself away. The bottom panel shows a smiling woman literally following the instruction, tossing a crumpled version of the flyer into a public trash can, highlighting the huge flaw in the poorly-worded marketing.

Origin notes

This meme was posted to the 9Gag platform, with the original title 'Marketing needs some work'. It is a viral joke that makes fun of poorly thought-out advertising copy that backfires completely when taken literally by audiences.

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