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American prank videos11/19/2023 ![]() ![]() Loyal banking customers are given incremental gifts of increasing emotional resonance (i.e. ![]() * Sentimental - TD Bank's " Automated Thanking Machine " (22 million+ views). While many brands use this style to position themselves as "cool" in the eyes of their target market of young men, the "Stunts & Pranks" archetype can be used with different emotional tones: This tension builds as the prankees' pre-prank personalities are quickly established (cocky, timid, tense, easy going, etc.) and is released with the prankees' prank reactions (terrified looks, shouting, laughter, and freak outs) and reveal (where prankees learn they have been pranked, which is met with laughter and smiles). The seeds of curiosity and comedic tension are planted in the set-up, where viewers learn something the victims or prankees don't know. The men all laugh and smile once Persson reveals her true identity and informs them "You've just been on Ford Mustang Speed Dating". ![]() Some men terrifyingly grasp the console and wipe their brows while others revel in the adrenaline rush exclaiming "That's what I am talking about!" and "Whoa, yeah baby!". Suddenly, she speeds into a nearby empty parking lot and gives them the thrill ride of their lives with 360's, burned rubber, and tire smoke. The men spit cheesy lines ("I'm a ninja"), share mundane facts about themselves ("I like to ride my bike"), and offer driving advice as Persson struggles with the stick shift. Persson takes each of her victims, ahem, I mean dates, to her manual transmission Ford Mustang GT and pretends to barely know how to drive it. This week's branded video archetype is "Stunts & Pranks", which consists of Candid Camera style practical jokes including Twentieth Century Fox’s “ Devil Baby Attack”, impressive extreme sports feats such as Red Bull’s “ Harlem Shake (Skydive Edition )” and “ Space Jump”, and videos which combine the two Bud Light‘s “ Coin ” and Ford Mustang's “ Speed Dating Prank ” – with the effect of making the viewer go “whoa, that was awesome!”Īnd Ford Mustang's Valentine's Day " Speed Dating Prank " (12 million+ views) is awesome! Viewers are in on the joke from the get-go as the video explains the set-up: unsuspecting guys think they are on a dating reality tv show with the prank being that their date, unbeknownst to them, is professional stunt car driver Prestin Persson. ![]()
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