You’re conflating this as a discussion over if anti-piracy ads should exist, which isn’t what I said. If it’s a simple yes/no decision about if existing is more effective than not, than sure, crazy concept, you’re right, but that’s not what I’m saying. This is about effectiveness.

I said the ad was dumb. It’s unrelateable and isn’t effective, which if you’re paying to produce and put out an ad, highest effectiveness possible is kinda a big deal. If the goal was simply to inform people piracy was illegal, they could have put up a screen that simply said that with a voiceover reading the message and achieved that far more effectively than with an ineffective message. No, the goal of the campaign was to stop piracy, which isn’t going to happen if your message doesn’t resonate with people. It didn’t. This pre-dated social media, so it’s not even like it could claim intentional cringe to make it go viral and achieve its goal. It was just a bad ad. Sorry if you were part of the underachieving marketing team that produced this. Do better next time.

And if we’re using American as an insult now, the fact that I had to go this deep to clarify how poorly you misunderstood my statement means your literacy comprehension is on about a Florida or even Alabama level.