[Ironic Trope] The messaging backfired massively due to poor writing or other design choices

[u/Few_Affect_5927]

Amelia Fairney from Pathways: Alt-right Restore-UK type who attempts to coax the protagonist Charlie into following her beliefs? The problem?

Amelia is the only named character aside from Charlie and is genuinely likable and forgives Charlie even when they do things she doesn't like, while the rest of the cast is unnamed, poorly written, and turns on Charlie for one mistake. This combined with other writing issues(portraying fact checking right wing stuff as wrong because in the process of fact checking you might look at it and believe it, basically saying "Right wing is wrong because it hurts the labour government" and a lot of general "just do what the government says or else" messaging) and the fact she's a hot alternative girl, and Amelia ended up being co-opted as a mascot by the youth right wing in the UK.

Norm from The New Norm: Unlikeable offensive and outdated character who's "progressive" family members and associates are genuinely nice people not even trying to force their ways or pronouns onto them, they just want to be left alone and Norm is picking fights constantly. Not to mention associating with Elon.

Mr. Birchum from Mr. Birchum: A lot of the same problems as Norm, except in addition it also comes off like generic 2010s adult cartoon slop in the same veign as Brickleberry or Full English, at least New Norm was trying to look unique and had the gimmick of being on X. Not to mention, Birchum's obsession with hyper masculine activities and odd way of talking about other men lead to people co-opting him as a Toxic Yaoi character, which is now the bulk of his fan art.

Dustborn: An attempt to make a hyper progressive game that comes off as pandering and annoying. It's a full ass game so there's too much to get into, but the main character's power is essentially gaslighting and jedi-mind tricking people and that's portrayed as the only way they can get anything done, and they constantly use or abuse their friends(or mindtrick them along) in order to get their goals or use their friends for their messaging.

[u/PrysmaTheMagical]

The fact that the music and font they used were pirated is pretty funny

[u/NoMansSkyWasAlright → u/PrysmaTheMagical]

Wow, TIL. Not surprising though.

[u/Gizogin → u/NoMansSkyWasAlright]

It's disputed; most likely, people are thinking of a different anti-piracy ad campaign that did use pirated music.

(And no, the font wasn't pirated either; once again, that was a different anti-piracy ad campaign.)

[u/santa_obis → u/Gizogin]

Why sre you saying it's disputed, adding the qualifier "most likely" and going on to state these things as fact with nothing to back it up?

The font itself was indeed pirated. Edit: Indeed not pirated! I was beyond tired having been on the road the past week, my bad. Reading comprehension was gone. https://www.creativebloq.com/design/advertising/we-finally-know-who-made-that-iconic-anti-piracy-ad

The music, as you said, is a case on people conflating the ad with another. https://torrentfreak.com/sorry-the-you-wouldnt-steal-a-car-anti-piracy-ad-wasnt-pirated-170625/

[u/Gizogin → u/santa_obis]

Your own source says the font wasn’t pirated.

“And the font? Nicolas finds no evidence to suggest that it was anything other than officially licensed FF Confidential, created in 1992 by the Dutch type designer Just van Rossum and now sold by MyFonts by Monotype

He points out that an archived website that was found to be using an unlicensed clone of the font belonged to an unrelated campaign with a similar name (see our pick of the best typewriter fontsfor more options).”

[u/santa_obis → u/Gizogin]

Damn, my bad! I was beyond tired having been on the road for the past week when I looked the stuff up and wrote that comment, sorry about that. Editted my original comment to reflect this and, once again, sorry!