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Obviously made up...

This ad did the rounds last week and people were talking in the comments about this scenario.

Sure it could've happened, but odds are this is just made up.

>>randyr+(OP)
Been there and absolutely can see this happening, it is sometimes a prodromal symptom called a 'sign of reference' [1].

I recall during my first psychosis episode thinking a TNT logistics van contained a bomb and was being used as a terrorist vehicle to blow up a building (or maybe at the time I think it could have been targeting myself directly).

Also, in that same episode, the train stations in Sydney were being plastered on every possible space and surface with high contrast white on blue posters that said "HEY TOSSER!" [2]; it was an anti littering ad campaign bringing some levity to the situation. My mind was overwhelmed by both its alerting nature and the fact that everywhere I would turn I'd see a poster, and in my infirmity it felt like someone was pointing a finger an inch from my forehead arresting me to say I should stop being a tosser in the derogatory (Australian slang) sense (though my mind was contending with the many multiple meanings).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideas_and_delusions_of_referen...

[2]: https://imgur.com/a/wyVDNN4

>>randyr+(OP)
this seems reasonable to me, i don't have schizophrenia but i'm pretty sure i'd start stabbing a fridge if I ever saw it give me an advertisement

>>staina+n1
Same. I’m pretty stable but just looking at pictures of that ad in the comments I felt my heart-BMP raise.

It isn’t just the fact that it’s an ad. The intense black and yellow is unsettling with strong ‘warning’ vibes.

Here’s a picture for folks wondering: https://www.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/1ow6cpu/appa...

>>tyleo+s3
That's a webpage with an ad being viewed in the browser app.

It isn't part of the "cover screen" (home screen) where the Samsung ads show up.

https://9to5google.com/samsung-smart-fridge-ads-how-to-turn-...

https://www.samsung.com/us/support/answer/ANS10007562/

See >>46173339 .

>>randyr+(OP)
Rage bait marketing as some call it:

https://x.com/tbpn/status/1996352945710117030 / https://archive.fo/lTFWl

https://x.com/loganforsyth_/status/1995966653461623049

>>randyr+(OP)
On one hand you're correct, but on the other hand Carol is a very common name and this is a very reasonable reaction. I'm split, and I think this is plausible enough to take seriously.

>>randyr+(OP)
Could be made up, sure... everything on Reddit might be made up. But dismissing it outright feels a bit too easy

>>randyr+(OP)
Yes it was made up. A post from two weeks earlier [1] showed a fridge ad saying 'We're sorry we upset you, Carol.' That post now has an update:

> EDIT 2: Hello, I am the original poster of the carol AD image from a month ago. I am a male from America and my name is not Carol. The story about a Schizophrenic woman named carol was most likely fabricated from the 3rd top comment on this post. Thanks!

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[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/1ow6cpu/appa...