Fake Mobile Game Advertisements

Mobile Game Advertisements are ads that pop up everywhere during app games, most notably on free-to-play ads.

Examples

• Match 3 Minigames: rely on players attempting to clear minigames, but end up losing because of something stupid. This results in failing a minigame of any sort.
• Puzzle Strategy games: players only get incorrect answers by not matching the element of any kind, resulting in people in the game getting misfortune.
• ASMR games: games that have grotesque and gross-out appearances, but when it progress, it becomes clean. However, some games can end up failing as a result.
• Simulation games similar to match 3 minigames, but players slowly activate something helpful, for instance, when players are almost finished completing the game, they activate something bad, resulting in a loss.
• Story games: similar to simulation games, but with choices to succeed the game, but ends up failing as a result.
• Interactive/ Playable Ads: This ad is playable (for real), but some with bizarre and buggy physics and rubbish graphics (so as not to overload your phone/tablet), terrible lags (only weak phones).
• Meme Ads: Gameplay ads with memes in them.

Why They 💩-ed

1. First and foremost, they are annoying to pop up while players have internet to play free-to-play games. Even after clearing the level or during gameplay.
2. Most ads can be mean-spirited, gross-out, torturous, or vice versa. These are evident when players use a wrong answer or mess up the player, resulting in failures.
3. The most common fake game ad is showing a fatherless family (often a mother, child, and baby) in a delapitated house dying of hypothermia. If the player does not solve the puzzle, the mother and children die. These ads often end with the player failing to solve the puzzle and the family dies of hypothermia. They're very cruel and mean-spirited.
4. Many of the ads don't even have real gameplay, they just have poorly done CGI/Blender/Adobe.
5. Some games, sometimes even family-friendly ones, may display ads that contain inappropriate content. These ads are somehow reminiscent to Elsagate.
   • They might use incredibly grotesque versions of copyrighted cartoon characters like Mickey Mouse from Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and SpongeBob from SpongeBob SquarePants, which can give kids and fans nightmares.
   • Some ads might also use official art of characters without permission. Some ads have characters perpetrating harmful and upsetting acts, such as an ad where an old man attempts to commit suicide just because his best friend died. Thankfully, his plan is cut off by two women who come to his house and fix it.
   • Some ads are even outright disgusting and nauseous, especially those featuring human waste or toilet humour. One example is the ads for Ant Legion, where a boy literally urinates on an ant or even recent ads for DIY Dessert. Others for various video games contains characters eating feces (and promptly vomiting afterwards) and rubbing feces on their faces.
   • In some cases, they might also advertise not-so-family-friendly games, mostly real-life-styled games like Choices and Episode. An ad even depicted mild gay sex.
   • Some ads feature a woman with oversized breasts and buttocks getting stuck somewhere, and instead of freeing her, the ad depicts the player sexually assaulting her!
   • An ad of Spa Masters had a woman getting bigger buttocks (which was one thing). The main problem is after her buttocks grew, she starts twerking, which actually goes on loop, twice. Some ads use hentai art, even if the game has nothing to do with anime.
   • Some of the creators seem to have a fetish for pregnancy to the point in many ads, pregnancy and babies are shoved out of nowhere, even when the ad has nothing to do with it. Most of these ads are prominent on Choices and Episode. Both games also have ads depicting lesbianism.
   • A recent instance of this existing was when ads for various Riddle games started showing up on YouTube, mainly on kids' videos. These ads showcased women getting stripped to their underwear in very explicit ways, which doesn't just objectify women but shows how broken YouTube's advertising system is.
   • Some ads use sexual innuendos. One example is the ads for Lily's Garden, where she is trying to close the top of a washing machine but fails. Then she sits on the machine to hold back the lid and turns it on, and starts to feel aroused, indicating that she's using it as a vibrator. And later on she takes her friends to a laundromat and they do the same thing.
   • Some ads are, even worse, sexist or even racist. An example for the former is an ad for a political oriented game where a female attorney demands all men to be evicted from town, and they get chased away.
   • Many of the ads are inappropriate for children, like racism, and even teenagers, like women having big breasts and buttocks and "blobley".
6. They provide false advertising since most ads do not reflect those in gameplays, making them pointless.
7. Most of the ads make no sense, like when a person starts off with a better life, they end up getting poor and letting the player start fixing their lives, but failing.
8. While these ads can be turned off via Airplane mode, some games plan ahead and either integrate the ads within the app itself instead or require you to be connected to the Internet for the game to start up, making it immune to the lack of internet. That makes no sense since mobile games in the past do not require internet to play the game. Even more ironic is that some ads "do not require Wi-Fi and they are ad free". Sega often disables access to their mobile games without internet connection until their customers pay to integrate ads. In addition, some always-online games will always promote an overpriced ad-free microtransaction if you wish to play offline.
9. They have overused stock sound effects, such as a woman screaming, and a man or woman shouting "WHAT?!". These can be annoying and painful to hear.
10. Bad lip-syncing, even on those with transcripts in speech bubbles.
11. Sometimes most ads (Notably Zen Word) will use AI generated images, voices, and deep-faked people just to cut costs on actors and artists.
12. Additionally, most ads will even steal assets from other games without permission, such as one ad for Whiteout Survival stealing a voice clip from Earthworm Jim 3D.
13. Certain ads (depending on device) are capable of crashing/freezing the app and can even make the app close itself!, This is problematic as you may lose certain recent game data, lose out on a reward in a game because of the ad crashing the game, some are not even able to display ads and only have Black Screen of Death (BSoD) in the app.
14. This has only ruined the reputation of mobile games, making people think that mobile games are just shovelware, just the mobile games that were originally released other platforms and AAA games, like Genshin Impact, two Honkai games, the GTA trilogy, Netflix Games (3D only), Minecraft (that's obvious), Roblox (despite the terrible reputation of the company and the game itself, there are many amazing games) and SpongeBob: Battle for Bikini Bottom Rehydrated are safe from this.
15. Certain ads for hyper casual games have meme captions like "If you win, you (do something)". One of the ads even disrespected Etika!

Redeeming Qualities

1. They are considered "so bad, it's good" because of their qualities.
2. Some ads can show good endings when the players are good enough, but still.

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