A new ad from Clearasil titled “Pimples Make Terrible Prom Dates” shows a pair of female high school students preparing for prom, when one discovers she has a blemish.
“If this turns into a pimple, I will literally die,” she tells her friend.
Cut to a close-up of the pimple, which is actually an effeminate man with a shrieking voice in a pink ruffled suit who punctuates his words with a flamboyant kick before flipping his hair back and settling into a pointed toe pose.
Clearasil is applied, prom is saved, and the young ladies are returned to their prom dates safe from the marauding intruder.
Watch:
https://youtu.be/u2w7AxX2w1I
Homophobic?
Savage Garden’s Darren Hayes had this to say about the ad: “Imagine the marketing department brainstorming this @Clearasil commercial. ‘Let’s make the pimple an extremely gay guy in a pink suit and then we’ll kill it so the girls can go to the prom!’ hahaha.”
https://twitter.com/darrenhayes/status/983550662737723392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newnownext.com%2Fclearasil-gay-ad%2F04%2F2018%2F
Others had this to say:
https://twitter.com/gaydarkpriest/status/986134895322976256
https://twitter.com/hayofray/status/986003494086656000
@clearasil we noticed your ad. @glaad https://t.co/AgpmaZZIC0
— EdwinMoves (@EdwinMoves) April 14, 2018
(via NewNowNext)
