For the confused, this is a parody commercial created by putting a Target logo over a PSA by Sandy Hook Promise and then the clip at the end is from an actual, entirely different Target commercial.
I've seen this video countless times and it always strikes an emotional cord with me by the end with the little girl in the bathroom, but i couldn't help but laugh at that final "School takes a lot, Target has it all!" at the end.
Every time I watch this her emotional deliverance fucking destroys my emotional guards. Maybe it's because I'm a father with a daughter of my own, but it cuts deep.
Make sure you vote! 🤪 Voting is what makes this all better! Voting is what will make sure your local police officers are trained, well funded, and totally geared up to take on any issue like school shootings!
As a mom, watching these children and knowing they are doing this all alone without their parents or sometimes even an adult to help, somehow hit me in a different way here. (I know they're actors, but the scene) I guess I've always seen the after math, but watching children worry about their lives ending without a loved one, holy fuck. Don't know why it never hit me.
Speaking of shootings we literally just had one... Kinda ... Nobody got hurt bc they fled and later it was discovered that it was just an airsoft pistol but it scared the crap out of us.
There’s this movie called Elephant by Gus Van Sant which is a bit of a non-linear multiple perspective take on a mass school shooting and it is disturbingly realistic. Loosely based on Columbine.
Wow, that is actually fantastically well done and incredibly eye opening to sheep who don't think about stuff like this. If I was Elon Musk I would just form an Anti-Ad agency and make shit like this and push it far and wide on twitter instead of making stupid meme jokes.
As a student/ educator in America the fear of a school shooting happening while I’m at work is a real fear of mine that is in my head every time I clock into work. Just because there is not a school shooting every day doesn’t make it any less terrifying.. there is so much other violence such as bomb threats and stabbings that go on daily that the media doesn’t report. My kids are my first priority and knowing in an emergency situation that I will be putting my life before my kids is not something I want to be thinking about everyday. The parents of these kids send them to school to learn, not to be killed.
I used to work at an amusement park when I was 19-21 (I’m only 22), but one night when I was working an active shooter was at the park. All the employees were unaware so we only found out by the screaming and running crowd. I remember the restaurant I worked at inside the park got flooded with guests, and since I was standing by the doors to the back of the restaurant, I got pushed with the rushing crowd. Once we stopped at a corner, I turned around and realized all the parents had pushed their children to the front of the crowd. So it was me, a freshly 21yo, standing in a sea of 2-14yo. I’ll never forget their crying faces, and the way this one girl was panicking. Oh my goodness I remember her trying to crawl under the grease trap because she was that scared. I saw this PSA not too long after the whole ordeal, and it’s quite realistic to the panic these poor babies feel. I’m glad this PSA was made because it felt like it was the perfect way for it to click in peoples heads that this is exactly what children feel everyday when they simply attend school. Very tragic.
As a father of 4 school aged kids I never like seeing this whenever it’s posted but we’ll aware that this is just part of our society now. How fucked is that?
If the founding fathers could see what the incels of the NRA have done to their second amendment attempt to create local militias, they would nuke the far right from orbit.
I don't think the founding fathers would be surprised that evil people are doing evil things. And I doubt they would change their mind about the second amendment.
Please, corporations, keep shoving our noses in it. Maybe then the general public’s outrage will reach a level where we actually fucking do something about it. These ‘thoughts & prayers’ politicians really need something to directly effect them and I’m past the point of thinking I’m wrong for hoping their families get caught up in a mass shooting.
Wow, I'm so glad to not live in the one country where this seems to be a running issue which they can't fix even though the rest of the globe fixed it...
Holy fuck. This made me cry. I have kids and I worry every day. Kids shouldn't have to go through this. You know this won't be aired on any major networks. Which is sad because this is reality.
Because of the brave. Every school faculty member (who can) should carry and regularly train. The only problem is so many people working in education are wokesters.
ONLY americans can make something like this and show it to the world with a full grin. Its sad, honestly. That they had to have a lot of shootings in schools every year. And their politicians are masking it to be the cause of video games and such and not mental disorders or bullying or lacking in social experience leading to depression then to hasty dangerous decisions.
What the duck have we devolved into? This is funny? I mean it would be, if people weren’t actively being targeted for torture and terror and murdered in mass. I’m all for satire… once there is some effort , at least discussing possible solutions. Otherwise this is just psychopathic.
Seriously what in the hell this just seems wrong. Sure xid use scissors to stab a shooter if he was close enough and I guess it's better than nothing there showing us examples, but there example might get a child killed, just like it could save a child I guess.
The vast majority of people have never and will never be involved in any kind of shooting, let alone at school. Most people don't even know anybody that has been involved in a school shooting. So to say this is the state of America is pretty silly.
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Adding the target logo makes it amazing satire.
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It feels more like a PSA for attention and action. I feel heartbroken.
"Don't make yourself a target, buy at Target"
Give this man a promotion, you sir are the new head of marketing!!! When can you start??
Jokes aside, you americans live in a dystopia.
Actually op is full of shit this isn't a target ad they just edited it to make it look that way
not made by target sorry.
That ad missed the mark......
For the confused, this is a parody commercial created by putting a Target logo over a PSA by Sandy Hook Promise and then the clip at the end is from an actual, entirely different Target commercial.
This was put out by Sandy Hook promise, not Target. Some shitposter added the target logo.
Now we need the Target parody account to tweet this
Yeah this was really dark
Shitposting makes everything better
I've seen this video countless times and it always strikes an emotional cord with me by the end with the little girl in the bathroom, but i couldn't help but laugh at that final "School takes a lot, Target has it all!" at the end.
I was going to say, this was absolutely NOT a Target commercial... I can't fault OP for not knowing, but still.
No big corporation would endorse this shitty commercial
Give that last girl an academy award.
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Yea she’s what turn it from funny to sad for me.
Every time I watch this her emotional deliverance fucking destroys my emotional guards. Maybe it's because I'm a father with a daughter of my own, but it cuts deep.
She is dead now don't you get it???
Wow that escalated quickly.
Not really, you could see it in the second cut.
yeah with the sock stuff I was still hoping it was for a zombie movie or something... nope
This shit was so dark the police wanted to shoot it
Fortunately it was in an elementary school, so they didn't actually go in to do it.
This made me snarf.
gawd dayum!
Nah it was so dark that Foot Locker closed early due to supply shortages.
Don't think Target put the ad out, but yes this is definitely TAF.
https://www.sandyhookpromise.org/back-to-school-essentials-psa/
funny asf
As a father of a 3rd grader and a 7th grader this is goddamn terrifying.
As the brother of a 3rd grader and a 7th grader this is terrifying
As a father of a 7th grader in Australia; this is why I said no when she asked if we can go to Disney Land.
Make sure you vote! 🤪 Voting is what makes this all better! Voting is what will make sure your local police officers are trained, well funded, and totally geared up to take on any issue like school shootings!
Also infuriating. These assholes that think the world is against them, and therefore need to kill random people, need to learn basic life skills.
As a mom, watching these children and knowing they are doing this all alone without their parents or sometimes even an adult to help, somehow hit me in a different way here. (I know they're actors, but the scene) I guess I've always seen the after math, but watching children worry about their lives ending without a loved one, holy fuck. Don't know why it never hit me.
My fiancé is an elementary school teacher. She doesn’t know that every hour I google search for a school shooting just to make sure she’s okay.
The original was a psa someone just edited it to make it look like a target commercial.
I hope that last girl acts more. God damn.
Laughed at the skateboard scene but started getting depressing real quick.
Speaking of shootings we literally just had one... Kinda ... Nobody got hurt bc they fled and later it was discovered that it was just an airsoft pistol but it scared the crap out of us.
I'm so sorry you had to experience that. Why are humans like this? it's horrible.
At 34s you can see the assumed shooter walking through the hallway while the girl is helping her friend with the socks. That terrified me.
WHAT THE FUCK
I discovered that many laptop compartments in backpacks are ideal for ballistic plates...
This is taken from a longer video:
Man, the boy with headphones wouldn’t have been able to react to it as quickly as the others
He didn't. You see people beginning to scramble and run behind him as it cuts away.
Not a real target ad.
Ya think?
Unless they want to go bankrupt
What was your first clue?
They should air this during the super bowl
I thought they did last year ....might be wrong though. I'm sure someone will call me out on it
There’s this movie called Elephant by Gus Van Sant which is a bit of a non-linear multiple perspective take on a mass school shooting and it is disturbingly realistic. Loosely based on Columbine.
Love that film. About 2 hours of watching people walk from behind.
The last girl deserves an oscar
Can't argue that this is wrong; great use of comfort and grief to create a juxtaposition of tension.
Jesus fucking Christ. Fuck living in the USA.
Wow, that is actually fantastically well done and incredibly eye opening to sheep who don't think about stuff like this. If I was Elon Musk I would just form an Anti-Ad agency and make shit like this and push it far and wide on twitter instead of making stupid meme jokes.
This ad is fucked up but lets be real folks, it is our reality here in the states.. Sad fucking fact.
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This isn’t a joke target commercial it’s a edited PSA
Sad but true
Actually op is full of shit this isn't a target ad they just edited it to make it look that way
As a student/ educator in America the fear of a school shooting happening while I’m at work is a real fear of mine that is in my head every time I clock into work. Just because there is not a school shooting every day doesn’t make it any less terrifying.. there is so much other violence such as bomb threats and stabbings that go on daily that the media doesn’t report. My kids are my first priority and knowing in an emergency situation that I will be putting my life before my kids is not something I want to be thinking about everyday. The parents of these kids send them to school to learn, not to be killed.
A relatively small percentage of our country has made this happen. The trouble is I don't know if we can ever get back from where at right now.
How did I know this was gonna be about a school shooting, that’s fucking scary dude
Clearly not by target but holy shit that made me uncomfortable. More people need to see this, more people need to be uncomfortable.
Holy Fucken shit. What the actual fuck did I just watch.
What the hell happened here?
School shooting
Savings.
Dont like it? Makes you uncomfortable??? This is whats happening in schools these days. Its uniquely American by scale.
I used to work at an amusement park when I was 19-21 (I’m only 22), but one night when I was working an active shooter was at the park. All the employees were unaware so we only found out by the screaming and running crowd. I remember the restaurant I worked at inside the park got flooded with guests, and since I was standing by the doors to the back of the restaurant, I got pushed with the rushing crowd. Once we stopped at a corner, I turned around and realized all the parents had pushed their children to the front of the crowd. So it was me, a freshly 21yo, standing in a sea of 2-14yo. I’ll never forget their crying faces, and the way this one girl was panicking. Oh my goodness I remember her trying to crawl under the grease trap because she was that scared. I saw this PSA not too long after the whole ordeal, and it’s quite realistic to the panic these poor babies feel. I’m glad this PSA was made because it felt like it was the perfect way for it to click in peoples heads that this is exactly what children feel everyday when they simply attend school. Very tragic.
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Imagine being a child actor in this commercial.
Imagine being a child getting shot at school in real life.
That actually made me sad by the end and I have a pretty sick sense of humour. It’s just really hard to watch.
The hardest part was knowing so many kids have actually gone through this.
What the dystopian Christ did I just see
Finally some realness
This is a sandy hook promise psa, not a target ad. Still terrifying though.
Not even a target ad? Okay tho lol.
This isn't a target ad, someone slapped the logo on for satire's sake.
That was depressing…
This was originally release by the Lincoln Project not target
As a father of 4 school aged kids I never like seeing this whenever it’s posted but we’ll aware that this is just part of our society now. How fucked is that?
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God this made me feel icky😣
This should be shown constantly on TV, you tube, etc. This is horrifying.
So was the first kid the shooter?😧 This ad is so disturbing and I hate that it’s a reality.
Is this real or satire?
No way this is real
You do realise that to non Americans we have to check if this is actually satire.
Glad we fucked this place up so bad that at least we can have a chuckle at the expense of growingly-deprived generation of kids
Dayum
Fucking America. This only can happen in the US and A
My husband and I were just talking about this PSA! It’s funded by Sandy Hook if I’m not mistaken
Oh yeah that reminds me FUCK THE GUN LOBBY
You know what? If this was a for-real Target ad, I’d march my butt down to the nearest Target and buy all kinds of crap.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2019/09/18/this-back-to-school-psa-sandy-hook-promise-is-punch-gut/
Let me guess America
Mostly marketed to Americans
Seems like a great advert for the target country
Well, this was heartbreaking.
Holy shit, I teared up at that last part with the girl with the phone.
Missing the text notification noise at the end!
You'd think this was satire
MURICA! LAND OF THE FIRING RANGE
This is a sandy hook ad, not a target ad, this video is 3 years old. Either you lied or Target stole the ad.
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Minors are more likely to die in a car accident than at school. School is one of the safest places a kid will be in their lives.
But no, I can’t be bothered to put down my phone when I’m driving. /s
I mean last I checked I can’t drive inside a hall and into a classroom and rapidly mow through a classroom full of small children with sedan.
Was half expecting the shooter to say how great his 9mm was for back to school 😂
Normal American school day
99.999% of American schools have never, and will never experience something like this. Far from normal.
Don't forget to thank your local Republicans that keep this stuff happening.
Yeah they keep striking down that law that makes murder illegal!
I tear up at the end every time this is posted.
Not target and many years old.
'Murica
OP is an intermittently-active repost bot who titled this incorrectly. What a fucking moron.
This legit gave me full body chills. Fuck
This makes me incredibly sad.
Meanwhile all the Americans are like “Huehuehue, yup, it do be like that, huehuehue”
What the hell is wrong with America???
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I tutor, and yesterday after school, we kept the doors locked because at a HS a couple blocks away there was a shooting.
We need to start with cars. They kill far more people.
Traumatizing as fuck. I hate that this is our reality.
The land of the free alright
If the founding fathers could see what the incels of the NRA have done to their second amendment attempt to create local militias, they would nuke the far right from orbit.
I don't think the founding fathers would be surprised that evil people are doing evil things. And I doubt they would change their mind about the second amendment.
They were probably too busy thinking about which slave servant they were going to rape that night to have that kind of foresight
You being downvoted is true representation of USA
What a great country America is 🙂
I’ll be home schooling my kids 😬
Your poor kids.
This is an edit, this is originally a gun control ad
Too many freedom bullets and too many idiots with access to them
This is why your vote matters
WOW.....just WOW! I don't even have words for this! It's sick, but sadly a real problem in America.
Oh shit this is so American
This is as American as Apple Pie!
Apple pie is english…
Please, corporations, keep shoving our noses in it. Maybe then the general public’s outrage will reach a level where we actually fucking do something about it. These ‘thoughts & prayers’ politicians really need something to directly effect them and I’m past the point of thinking I’m wrong for hoping their families get caught up in a mass shooting.
Wow, I'm so glad to not live in the one country where this seems to be a running issue which they can't fix even though the rest of the globe fixed it...
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Dafuq
Holy fuck. This made me cry. I have kids and I worry every day. Kids shouldn't have to go through this. You know this won't be aired on any major networks. Which is sad because this is reality.
I cried too. Come here, I think we both need a hug. :(
terrifying as fuck
Land of the free.
Because of the brave. Every school faculty member (who can) should carry and regularly train. The only problem is so many people working in education are wokesters.
I actually watched this video not too long ago and seeing it again always reminds me I might not even graduate because of this :/
Sorry to say this was not made by target
This isn't a Target ad
ONLY americans can make something like this and show it to the world with a full grin. Its sad, honestly. That they had to have a lot of shootings in schools every year. And their politicians are masking it to be the cause of video games and such and not mental disorders or bullying or lacking in social experience leading to depression then to hasty dangerous decisions.
What the duck have we devolved into? This is funny? I mean it would be, if people weren’t actively being targeted for torture and terror and murdered in mass. I’m all for satire… once there is some effort , at least discussing possible solutions. Otherwise this is just psychopathic.
Wouldn't this be considered a "shit post" lol totally fabricated
This sums of America . “Land of the free” Can’t even send your kids to school without them getting there brains blasted out. Shithole country
Seriously what in the hell this just seems wrong. Sure xid use scissors to stab a shooter if he was close enough and I guess it's better than nothing there showing us examples, but there example might get a child killed, just like it could save a child I guess.
Say it with me... H o m e s c h o o l
Shouldn’t be hard to identify the shooter that way
Cringe
It’s a Target ad, as in: US school children are often a target for gun violence (hello from Canada). Pretty much on the nose there.
It's a target ad because it's targeted towards pathetically susceptible people like you
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Funny?
seems legit
Wait this was an ad? I thought it was a PSA
It is. The logo was edited in.
"I support this ad"
Fucking americans think school shooting is the worst while countless childeren died in iraq just because america. Iconic
Target definitely didn’t make this, it’s actually from a YouTube channel called sandy hook promise. Who ever added that logo is sick.
This was not a target ad, someone added that in post
Oooh! Do St Jude’s now! (Cancer kills too)
Is that supposed to be funny!?? BECAUSE IT ISNT! In fact it’s so poor taste I’d goddamn make a complaint if I lived in the US!
Amazingly powerful and so on point in our fucked up gun crazed country.
2022 Biden campaing ad be like
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The cops would just stand around scratching their asses and making sure no one tried to stop the shooter.
Yeah. What a stupid idiot.
This gets reposted so often. It is a pretty accurate reminder of the state the entirety of America is in. Land of the free boys
Hardly accurate, and hardly the state of America. Go touch some grass.
The vast majority of people have never and will never be involved in any kind of shooting, let alone at school. Most people don't even know anybody that has been involved in a school shooting. So to say this is the state of America is pretty silly.