Truth in Advertising 2 - Cleveland Tourism

This one's a little different than the last Truth in Advertising post because I'm about 99 percent positive this isn't a real commercial.  YouTuber bishopvids (according to the info) made use of a $14 million budget and eight months allotted by the Cleveland tourism board to make this video.  Brilliance?  You decide.






I already know so much about Cleveland from this 50-second video.

I've been referred to as a douchebag multiple times by many different people, so I know I need to spend some time on West Sixth Street.

I'd always been curious as to who invented Cleveland, too.  Now I know.

As if one hastily-made Cleveland tourism video wasn't enough, bishopvids does it again.  You can read all the deets in the info section on the video.  In a nutshell, though, the Tourism Board wasn't happy with the first video because three of the board members moved away.  I have to link to the second video because for whatever reason, the embedding for it was disabled by request.

I think it was just to inconvenience me.  They knew I wanted to write about these nine months after they were initially posted.

Here's the second video.

I want to go here so bad.  Their river catches on fire!  That's so badass!  I lived in a place with a polluted river once.  Our fish glowed in the dark and had three eyes, but the river was never engulfed in flames.

The second video also talks about how Cleveland has been under construction since 1868.  This can only mean that the city is an ever-changing one -- always accommodating new tourists and residents alike.  That's really swell of Cleveland to do that.

Cleveland's main export is crippling depression.  I don't know how they make any money off that, since there's so much competition between all the other cities in this country that export it as well.

The video drives the point home by proclaiming, "At least we're not Detroit."  I don't know much about Detroit, either.  I think someone needs to respond to this by hastily making a Detroit tourism video, too.

So "come on down to Clevelandtown, everyone."  I'm booking the next flight out.

At least it isn't Detroit.  Right?

We await your response, Detroit.