Weekly Viral Trend #1 Shampoo Commercial

This picture is a photo taken from Facebook. It is connected to a page that I previously “liked” called “I hate saying hi to people and they don’t see you and you feel stupid”. The post is saying that the models in shampoo commercials do not have a natural hair flip, but instead there is a person that is edited out of the photo (person dressed in all green attire behind the girl) to help the hair-flip appear more natural and beautiful. It is hard to know whether the posts we see on Facebook are actually true or not, so it is hard to tell if this is what shampoo commercial producers actually do. I think the point of the photo is to be somewhat comical but informing to its audience in some way as well. The top comment has 160 “likes” and it appears to be a sarcastic comment stating that she has been trying to get that hair-flip but it is practically impossible because she does not have a person standing behind her to help it move. The comment below states that the person believes that it would be useful to have one of these people helping her and a friend when they want to appear “fabulous”.

I think that the post could be untrue, but also not surprising if it is true. This would not be surprising because commercial makers do this for a living in order to get the viewers to go out and buy their products. If it is actually true, I think that commercials are portraying something that their product is not in order to make profit, just like most advertisements have done in the media for years. Was this post trying to intrigue people about advertisements in order to get “likes” and comments? The white font on the photo was placed there by someone that found that a person helps hair flipping in commercials promoting hair products. It is interesting because it makes others think about how many other commercials, other than those about hair products, use people in the commercials then edit them out. The amount of work that goes into commercials like these is extreme for the amount of time it actually plays for the audiences watching them.

This type of post seems to be looking for feedback, especially in the comment perspective. Many people are interested by this type of post because it relates to their personal lives, therefore, they respond to this type of post. I think relation within media and an individual is very important. If something is not relative, it is not as interesting or useful to a person, unless it is something extremely out of the ordinary. The issue of this type of post, though, is that some people may not realize that a large amount of what is posted on the internet is not true, especially through social networks. The reasoning behind the photo might not have been to be true, but to be comical.