27 Companies Who Need To Reevaluate Their Advertising Strategy

Corporations and their advertisers are desperate to connect with a young audience. The younger generations are chronically online, and they're pretty susceptible to the sponsored content they see online, but sometimes, if a company tries too hard, they can succeed in completely disgusting kids and teens. In doing so, they wind up making fools of themselves and alienating their entire young audience. The best way to ruin an advertisement is by adding a poorly-used meme.

While younger online users tend to connect with memes, they don't connect with memes that feel forced, or memes that feel like they're directly trying to manipulate them. And it's pretty obvious when this is what's happening. The following memes deserved better than this. Our favorite meme formats are something to be cherished, not something to be exploited for the advertisement of numerous irrelevant products. Financially abusing memes is only acceptable at Know Your Meme. These are 27 memes that met unfortunate ends due to their incredible misuse.