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[quote=Anonymous]So specific, here you go:

Jennifer Garner has a Capital One ad that starts with "You may know me from my other job, but I'm also a small business owner." Right away I'm irritated, because Jennifer Garner's main professional job is making commercials for Capital One. I know she's referring to her acting career, but the only acting she's done worth watching in the last 10 years is a small part on the reboot of Party Down, otherwise she mostly makes these ads and posts on social media. So no, Jen, I don't really know you from your other job. This is your job, this commercial I'm currently watching. Alias was ages ago.

But second, it makes me irrationally angry that Garner would describe herself as a "small business owner" and position herself as someone in a similar situation to the average small business owner, and thus capable of giving "advice" on how to take advantage of Capital One's small business services. As an actual small business owner, I would describe Garner as a "vanity business owner." Which is fine, but different. She's also, again, a paid spokesperson for Capital One, and has been for many years, so the idea that their relationship is premised on her business is ludicrous. It makes me really mad.

But the most enraging part of the ad comes at the end, when Jennifer is at the airport with her "colleagues" (a group of actors I am certain do not work for Jen's "business" and that she met on set the day this was filmed) waiting for the flight for their "business trip." She's extolling one of the perks of banking with Capital One, travel perks including access to airport lounges. She says, "I could get used to this!" in that folksy, guileless way she has of saying things. And then my head explodes.

YOU ARE JENNIFER GARNER. YOU USED TO BE MARRIED TO BEN AFFLECK. YOU HAVE A CRAP TON OF MONEY, LIVE IN A HUGE HOUSE IN MALIBU OR SOMETHING, AND FLY PRIVATE OR (AT A MINIMUM) FIRST CLASS WHEN YOU FLY. YOU DO NOT NEED ACCESS TO CAPITAL ONE'S SMALL BUSINESS PERKS TO GAIN ACCESS TO A FREAKING **AIRPORT LOUNGE** AND YOU ARE ALREADY USED TO IT. WHAT EVEN IS THIS, DOES THIS COMMERCIAL ACTUALLY INDUCE ANYONE TO BANK WITH CAPITAL ONE, WHY AM I THE ONLY ONE WHO THINKS THIS IS THE DUMBEST COMMERCIAL IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD.

/rant, thank you for reading[/quote]

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