it makes me sad that people outside of the toy collecting community will never have the full context of the “optibotimus fake coke commercial” disaster because it is just so funny if you were there when it happened

i’ll try to explain it as best i can regardless

optibotimus is a fairly prominent transformers toy reviewer. you could call his reviews the most baseline they could possibly be. Thew and Vangelus are on the far end of the “entertainment” side of toy reviews, Peaugh is on the far end of “purely informational,” Optibotimus sits squarely in the middle. He shows you the toy in front of a white screen, shows you what it can do, cracks a joke occasionally, and that’s it.

so

one day, optibotimus decides that he wants to run ads on his videos

fair enough, right? people do that. they put vids on youtube, run an ad on ‘em, get a little bit of pocket money.

how did he decide to do it?

he made an ad for coca-cola and started running it on his videos

he did not come to any sort of agreement with coke, he didn’t arrange for a deal.

he just made the ad, ran it on his video, and hoped that Coke would give him a brand deal because he was already running ads for them on his videos.

coke personally, politely, declined his offer.

his fans didn’t exactly care for it either.

I invite you all to watch it:

Yes, the video is 20 minutes long. just watch the first minute. watch the first minute knowing that that advertisement was made with no arrangement with Coca-Cola, the dude just thought that if he started running ads for Coke, Coke would start paying him. 

it’s so funny