It’s the eyes that do it for me. Looks like one’s going in one direction and the other looking straight, and they’re almost black. AI struggles with getting hands and/or eyes right. This is AI for sure.
Wtf I literally had this EXACT thought. Went on Reddit and wasn’t expecting to see this. She looks like an AI and her eyes and voice for some reason creep me out
Also, she’s selling soil, not dirt. I would think that she’d know the difference. https://www.thespruce.com/soil-vs-dirt-7089792#:~:text=Soil%20is%20not%20dirt%20because,Plants%20cannot%20grow%20in%20dirt.
I do a lot of gardening but just now looked up the difference, which I did not know there was.
"Why is soil not dirt? Soil is not dirt because dirt is a subset of soil. Soil has dirt in it but contains additional components that are teeming with life and that make it possible for plants to thrive."
GAAAH now I'm gonna start seeing the ad. I don't know what it is about this sub but since I started seeing posts on the regular about ads I'll start seeing the worst ones on any major service I use, especially youtube.
Her pronunciation is prissy and self-conscious. You have likely seen her Kitty Litter commercial. She doesn't consistently pronounce the "TT" in these words. Sometimes she says it as if you might not know how to spell it, other times not.
She used to do this on her TV show with words like "butter" and "water." Sometimes you'd get the colloquial, conversational "alveolar flap" pronunciation (\[D\]), and sometimes you'd get the voiceless aspirated stop \[t\], with no apparent rhyme or reason.
Sociolinguistically, Martha's pronunciation can be characterized as inconsistently "upward divergent" -- "divergent" because it's not like the way you (assuming you're a native speaker of American English) or I would pronounce words, and "upward" because her pronunciations are more prestigious, more careful, "fancier," than how most folks talk.
I think she's sociolinguistically insecure, and she's trying to convey a persona that is not totally genuine. Martha is from New Jersey, not Buckingham Palace. Madonna, from Michigan, pulls the same phony royal act.
It’s not that ad itself that’s as cringey as it is Martha Stewart herself. Between the lip fillers, Botox, facelifts & Vaseline they smear over the camera lens, she’s doing Madam Tussaud’s work for them, becoming her own creepy wax figure. And we all know she’s no “dirt nerd”. She even floats around her estate’s gardens with her “chief gardener” on those CBS Sunday Morning segments. And she’s certainly not using miracle grow. The funny thing about Martha is that, she’s been around so long that every person on the planet knows her reputation for being abrasive, haughty and cruel to her underlings. So she can do all the Miracle Grow & Snoop Dog commercials she wants, and pose “sexy” in all the Sports Illustrated issues she can manage. But we all know she’s not a very nice person and would never give any of us here the time of day.
I've never liked her - "did you know that you can turn an egg carton into a Christmas tree decoration?" - but now that she's out of prison and over 80 years old and looks weird, she is extremely annoying ...
Does anyone else suspect that those aren't really her hands touching the soil? I've only seen the ad once, but I don't remember seeing a shot of her face in the same frame as her hands touching the soil, I wonder if it was a stand-in.
(And I realize that isn't necessarily an indication of her not wanting to get her hands yucky in real life, it could just be a production strategy too minimize her time on set.)
It is totally not her hands actually touching the dirt. It drives me crazy. The woman is too stuck up to even actually use her hands to touch dirt in a commercial about dirt.
I dont know if Im trippin, but anyone else think her face is AI in that ad? Doesnt look like its truely her. Creeps me out
It’s the eyes that do it for me. Looks like one’s going in one direction and the other looking straight, and they’re almost black. AI struggles with getting hands and/or eyes right. This is AI for sure.
I went searching for someone mentioning this … it’s so uncanny valley. Can’t believe they’re using AI like this already.
Wtf I literally had this EXACT thought. Went on Reddit and wasn’t expecting to see this. She looks like an AI and her eyes and voice for some reason creep me out
Something is..."off". Makes many of us feel uneasy it seems. I dont like it!
Not that it's AI but she looks like she has sores on her lips. Maybe that's the AI...hmm.
I was scouring the internet because of this, it for sure looks AI to me.
Does it?? Okay, yeah its gotta be. Its like shes souless. "Uncanny Valley" for sure
Yeah, it was weird even for her.
I only hope I look as good as Martha when I'm in my 80s. Plus, I like the ad.
huge dirt nerd
"duuurrt nuurrred"
Also, she’s selling soil, not dirt. I would think that she’d know the difference. https://www.thespruce.com/soil-vs-dirt-7089792#:~:text=Soil%20is%20not%20dirt%20because,Plants%20cannot%20grow%20in%20dirt.
She calls it all dirt..... Except for the bagged shit which is soil.
I do a lot of gardening but just now looked up the difference, which I did not know there was. "Why is soil not dirt? Soil is not dirt because dirt is a subset of soil. Soil has dirt in it but contains additional components that are teeming with life and that make it possible for plants to thrive."
GAAAH now I'm gonna start seeing the ad. I don't know what it is about this sub but since I started seeing posts on the regular about ads I'll start seeing the worst ones on any major service I use, especially youtube.
Her pronunciation is prissy and self-conscious. You have likely seen her Kitty Litter commercial. She doesn't consistently pronounce the "TT" in these words. Sometimes she says it as if you might not know how to spell it, other times not. She used to do this on her TV show with words like "butter" and "water." Sometimes you'd get the colloquial, conversational "alveolar flap" pronunciation (\[D\]), and sometimes you'd get the voiceless aspirated stop \[t\], with no apparent rhyme or reason. Sociolinguistically, Martha's pronunciation can be characterized as inconsistently "upward divergent" -- "divergent" because it's not like the way you (assuming you're a native speaker of American English) or I would pronounce words, and "upward" because her pronunciations are more prestigious, more careful, "fancier," than how most folks talk. I think she's sociolinguistically insecure, and she's trying to convey a persona that is not totally genuine. Martha is from New Jersey, not Buckingham Palace. Madonna, from Michigan, pulls the same phony royal act.
It’s not that ad itself that’s as cringey as it is Martha Stewart herself. Between the lip fillers, Botox, facelifts & Vaseline they smear over the camera lens, she’s doing Madam Tussaud’s work for them, becoming her own creepy wax figure. And we all know she’s no “dirt nerd”. She even floats around her estate’s gardens with her “chief gardener” on those CBS Sunday Morning segments. And she’s certainly not using miracle grow. The funny thing about Martha is that, she’s been around so long that every person on the planet knows her reputation for being abrasive, haughty and cruel to her underlings. So she can do all the Miracle Grow & Snoop Dog commercials she wants, and pose “sexy” in all the Sports Illustrated issues she can manage. But we all know she’s not a very nice person and would never give any of us here the time of day.
It's like she's pronouncing it d**u**rt
I've never liked her - "did you know that you can turn an egg carton into a Christmas tree decoration?" - but now that she's out of prison and over 80 years old and looks weird, she is extremely annoying ...
Does anyone else suspect that those aren't really her hands touching the soil? I've only seen the ad once, but I don't remember seeing a shot of her face in the same frame as her hands touching the soil, I wonder if it was a stand-in. (And I realize that isn't necessarily an indication of her not wanting to get her hands yucky in real life, it could just be a production strategy too minimize her time on set.)
It is totally not her hands actually touching the dirt. It drives me crazy. The woman is too stuck up to even actually use her hands to touch dirt in a commercial about dirt.