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Ads went from a minor annoyance to breaking every community guideline youtube built to prevent sponsors from shying away from KZfaq

Flying Gorilla's marketing is actually genius. They know how crappy the quality of the game is, so they market it as low quality like every meme in the last year has been.

I'm glad Evertale is on this list. I'm pretty sure their false ads are actually illegal since the app costs money.

I made a joke about these terrible ads to my sister once. I told her that all the ads I’ve seen have a woman who finds her boyfriend/husband cheating on her and then moves out to the middle of nowhere in a broken down house during a blizzard. And now you have to fix her house because apparently she’s too stupid to find a better place to live. Also, bonus points if she’s pregnant or has a baby/child with her.

Flying Gorilla's ad is so genuine about what it's selling that it almost becomes somewhat heartwarming.

It seems that Poor Saberspark just can't escape these wretched advertisements.

I think all of those "demoted to concubine/commoner" apps deserve a dishonorable mention. I actually played one of those, it was fun for some time, but the adv is sooo different from the gameplay

I do love how Saber adresses all the problems of KZfaq. Remember the Elsagate Scandal? It was such a massive problem on KZfaq with many small Mom and Pop channels attempting to attract children for their content only to showcase their creepy themes to the poor children. I'm not exactly sure why KZfaq was okay with any of it for a while but maybe because ads were placed in to make money and every company loves ads. Some people say Elsagate isn't dead as it evolved into what people have called "Sonicgate", videos that were identical to Elsagate ones with video game franchise characters being made with the same Flash animation software as the Elsagate but these videos were few and far between on KZfaq. Anyway, I'm glad you address current problems that haven't been fixed yet. Mobile game ads today are very unhinged and even when you're vising another site, they don't go away and even one game that kept being advertised as I was on the internet was Hero Wars, a mobile rpg with the absolute worst ads I've ever seen. From anime girls in rique scenarios to toliet humor, I'm not sure why this company makes these ads to begin with.

Fun fact: Gardenscapes is so old that the Google Play Store itself is only older by one year.

MatPat actually did a theory on the Evertale ads. Not the game itself, just the ads. The ads have an ENTIRE different story than the game.

I used to play Homescapes and it was actually a decent game- a Candy Crush copy for sure but it had a storyline that you could follow. Basically, we watch the main character move back to his parent’s old house and fix what was broken, while also making new friends and seeing what made his old house so special. It focused on remembering the past while also looking forward to the future. There was even a love story between the protagonist and the girl with the red braid (the one that always freezes to death in the ads). But their ads! I was pretty sheltered when I started playing this game. I was still watching G-PG rated movies and was easily upset over stupid things. One day, I finished a level and… I guess you get rewarded with an ad or something? Anyway I was forced to watch a Homescapes advertisement while playing the literal game it was advertising for. It showed the cute little cat, the gray Garfield of the Homsecapes universe getting run over multiple times and the main character crying at the side of the road. I still shudder at the memory, despite all the years that had passed. I deleted that app and never looked back.

Minor prop to Merge Mansion, they at least added a narrative that reflects parts of the ads. It's not compelling or anything, but I appreciate that they leaned into it

it’ll be insane if youtube demonetises this for the provocative ads, but not stop the ads themselves…

I still remember the era when mobile games used to rule the internet and were actually worth to play.

4:20 merge mansion ads get even wilder when matpat did 2 whole videos dedicated to the ads lore

I feel like the fact that Matpat himself made a lore video on the Evertale ads shows how deep into this lie Evertale is.

The weird thing is I distinctly remember Gardenscape advertising more honestly a few years ago and it just backslid more and more as time went on

As a voice actor myself who’s applied and auditioned for some of these ads the reason for the poor quality control is mainly due to the companies seeking talent typically are non native English speakers (Chinese most of the time). Lots of things lost in translation and even getting scripts can be a pain when the format is jumbled up or in a format you can’t normally open, it’s very sloppy and messy and I’m honestly impressed with some of the shit they can get away with and being able to pump out these ads

2:55 lmao Penny and Flo was the perfect names for those sorta games

The Gardenscapes one makes me sad sometimes cause I got the game when they advertised it as it is. Then they hopped on the wagon of bad ads 💔

You know what's sad? Evertale used to feature non-horny bait characters. Like the knight-captain character used to wear an honest-to-God plate armor until they went the Easter-MMO style of just making the female armor be lingerie.

Every time I see an Evony ad, I feel like I'm losing my mind. "I want that treasure! First I'll get rid of the lava! Now the water! Oh, no! I did it wrong!"

The guy you mentioned that did that fatal test off The Eiffel Tower was named Franz Reichelt (1878-1912).

Incredibly, I'll sort of defend Project Makeover for what it is. The ads for it are completely unbelievable and I was only tempted to download it AFTER someone told me what it's really about. And... It's possibly the best bejeweled /candy crush clone out there. The puzzle is kinda fun, the characters are someowhat charming, the mini-storylines of the makeovers are compelling enough, the art of it all feels generic by today's standards but it isn't half assed in the slightest. And the localization for my language (Brazilian Portuguese) was excellently done. The only bad things about it are the ones that are universal to this kind of game that offers way too many microtransactions for people who get addicted to it. All in all, it's... the best possible version of a general bad idea. With the worst ad campaign.

For me the worst ones are the "play this game and get paid" ads. I typically see them when playing ad supported mobile games, but it's basically "they never pay out."

12:00 The sad/funny thing about Gardenscape is that they DID use to advertise the ACTUAL game.

The Greg Universe voice KILLED ME

If anyone is curious, there is one game, suggested by game theory itself when they went over the ads, that is along the lines of Evertales ARG like ads, it's called Beasts of Burden and its free on Steam

oh wow that greg universe impression was spot on, props for that

The saddest thing about Evertale's ads is there's totally a market for retro arg games thanks to the sudden appearance and rise of the genre itself paired with the sudden nostalgia for games from the 90's and early 2000's with various indie horror games being styled after the N64 and Playstation era of graphics. An arg where you can live out your wildest dreams of becoming a monster tamer with a dark twist would definitely make bank and get tons of downloads if made real.

The girl from the Hero Wars ad you showed was Celeste from in the game. In the game, all these characters have really fleshed-out backstories, and lore, and many other things. But in the ads, the company just copies all the other mobile game ads. I used to play Hero Wars, and it's a very unique game, with I think around 9 or 10 different game modes when I left it, about 6 months ago. With how big the game is compared to the ads, it shows that the company doesn't really care about the game, and it only exists to make them money. This is also shown with the unreal amount of in-app purchases. There was someone on my old guild (guilds are teams that you fight together with) who purchased a few purchases each week, with the purchases being the highest kind you can get, costing $225 US dollars each. I counted at least $2k amount spent on the game, just for that one person. It's very addicting too, which is why not many people stop playing the game. If the company actually used the gameplay from the game in their ads and toned down the in-app purchases, they may get more downloads then they're currently getting. I got to say though, the web version is way better then the mobile.

13:43 Ah! Women having body hair it’s so scary! Like Sasquatch! Because when men have leg hair it’s totally fine, be women are supposed to be feminine! Noooooooo!

"I haven't seen every mobile game ad or I'd be dead" I'm dead from that compliment to mobile game ads.

These types of mobile game ad were banned in the UK for one reason. They lied in their marketing and the game you got wasn't what was advertised. They later changed their adverts to show what the game actually was, or just had an animated segment and were allowed to be advertised on TV and online again. However the newer advertising campaigns didn't work and so these "game companies" have mostly stopped advertising here. We get the occasional one, but having to create a completely new advert for just the UK is expensive.

Here is what I find frustrating about these kinds of ads: 1. The "people" playing these games in the ads couldn't seem to play the games right to save their lives and thus the characters are trapped in a bad ending. 2. Some of the games presented in the ads honestly look like something I would play or at least watch a let's play on. Honestly, a Pokemon-style horror game sounds sick to me as long as it's not some cheap creepypasta game. The trouble is, they're not real, so I can't even save the fish girl in distress or help the sad little girl or do whatever it was the "people" in the ads failed to do.

One thing I will say, Lily’s garden lore goes hard with the live action!

Concerning Homescape, I don't know what's worse: The fact that they made these terrible ads with mini-games that had nothing to do with the actual game ... or the fact that after a while, they decided to actually add these mini-games inside the actual game.

5:30 Surprisingly accurate Greg voice, which makes it ten times funnier the dialogue he gave Greg.

I love how talking about these ads i got one of those Gardenscapes ad at the start

Homescape really does have those puzzles, but it's not the main game. The main game is just a match 3, 4 or 5 game, but every other turn, you get one of those puzzles.

I used to play this strategy dress up game called Love Nikki that actually had an interesting involved plot about like… political turmoil between several nations and the idea of morality and free will and there’s actually a bunch of lore about why fashion is such a big thing in their world and one major character straight up murders another main character several story arcs in. (Also the art is *gorgeous.* ) Its not a weird rushed slapped-together game, there’s a lot going for it, but for several months the KZfaq ads were like this - weird cheap skits about relationship drama and weirdly photoshopped versions of the characters with random assets. I think they even made a short-haired tomboyish character into another character’s shallow boyfriend at some point? Idk. Super weird.

I remember this one ad I saw in a kid's game. It featured a demon and a naked guy. The demon had a weapon which looked like a certain piece of anatomy.. but like, with spikes.. and he started.. inserting.. it into the moral from behind, and the mortal was definitely in pain and not wanting this to happen to them... so... g-less grape. Something which should be not in a kid's game, but here we are. I don't remember the name of the game it was advertising, or the game it was in. I remember seeing another version of the ad around the same time with a cucumber instead the weapon... still not appropriate =/

I can remember when some of those adds would use youtube videos of gameplay from other games that were modded. the one I remember was battlestations pacific with a modded in A10 Warthog and that was 5 YEARS ago!

Honorable mentions: I've seen one where there was a running theme of a pregnant woman coming home to find her husband cheating on her 😆 There is a newer one I've seen where the game is you remove the pens and a bunch of marbles fall. In this one, the marbles represented food and it was like a 5 minute ad of a poor hungry single mother trying to be fed and they couldn't get anything. It kept going to the point where they were left out in the cold!

That Greg voice impersonation was actually pretty good

It’s also common in puzzle game ads that there is a hand with red nail polish who is a moron. Moving stuff the wrong way. This so someone thinks “I can do that” and downloads the game.

These ads are just another reason I haven't played mobile games since 2015 when I got my first smartphone, LMAO. And even then, it was only those dumb free anime/cartoon trivia ones that I quickly deleted once I beat them, lol. Also, that Greg Universe impression was AWESOME! SCARY accurate! lol.

whats funny is that homescapes actually used to have normal ads with the in game characters and the actual plot

I'm so thankful for Saberspark calling out these ads on youtube, I've seen many of these and I remember disgust and outrage they caused but youtube will keep on promoting them.

Thank you for talking about flying gorilla at the beginning! I wouldn't stop laughing with their ad.

There was actually an update for Garden scapes and the puzzles that are in the ads are in the game now as mini games, but now it says that there's no internet iven if there is so I deleted it 😐

I got one of those “Game of Sultan” ads, or something of the sort, where there was a crying baby in a basket on a stormy body of water, crying “Help me, daddy!” To which I pressed the “No” option, thinking it’d just automatically select “Yes” The baby stopped crying and scowled at me, saying “I hope you can live with yourself, asshole” 😂 Mobile game ads are garbage, but sometimes there’s a cool looking rock in the rough

I love it when they have the "Don't you hate those fake game ads? Well this game is the real thing." and in tiny, tiny print it says "Not actual gameplay".

I actually played Evony: The kings return, and I can confirm. The puzzles are not like the ads and aren't even really the main focus of the game itself. The main focus at least when I played is more so building up troops/upgrading buildings then using said troops to attack NPC or other players. Only way to do much of anything at all is to join a large/successful clan/alliance, otherwise you're pretty much SOL. Only stayed for the community I got in lol, then left after that burned down.

i have actually played hero wars and they do have puzzles like that BUT they only have 4 or 5 and you have to beat the hole map with 3 stars to unlock it but it does unlock some lore

That Greg Universe impression was actually quite good!

Not only is the ad for Flying Gorilla the only good mobile game ad, it is genuinely amazing to me.

I'm glad someone finally recognizes evertale and how it sucks I wanted to show this game to my sister but it was nothing like the creepy ad she would like!

I remember Project Makeover wasn't like that. I downloaded a game before they start putting out those weird ads and honestly? I enjoy that game quite a lot. But when they start making those ads I was like.."why?..." Like, they didn't start out like that if I remember correctly.

Here’s the thing about Homescapes and Gardenscapes - their developer, Playrix, used to make decent mobile games. And by decent, I really meant it. I loved playing Playrix games as a kid - their Four Elements game was my first exposure and it was a puzzle mixed with a hidden objects game. That game garnered a sequel (Four Elements 2). Gardenscapes is probably their most famous IP and before it became this with bad advertising, it was a hidden objects game where it was just you and Austin selling stuff in your mansion to restore it (at least that’s what it was in the demo - I never got to play the full version of OG Gardenscapes). Farmscapes and its sequel Barn Yarn (which was published shortly before New Gardenscapes so I only played like, a little bit of it and I think that one was a hidden objects game) was Gardenscapes but better. Oh yeah, before Homescapes, there was Farmscapes, and that one didn’t even involve Austin. Fishdom was probably their second most famous IP. Before, it was discount Insaniquarium with Candy Crush. Today, it’s still discount Insaniquarium with Candy Crush… with bad advertising. Honestly, Fishdom had the least amount of changes from its original form if you ask me. Oh, and notice how I said Gardenscapes had a demo? Because you paid for it once and then never again. No micro transactions or anything. Same goes for all their other games. Maybe I’m misremembering things and everything I just said was a fever dream because I never see anyone talk about the OG Gardenscapes. Today, you won’t find Four Elements and Farmscapes (and their other games I don’t remember but the general gist is that the main levels would be these match 3, hidden object or linking game with cool visuals - Four Elements’ visuals blew me away as a kid with it’s medieval fantasy stuff while OG Gardenscapes and Farmscapes had visuals similar to modern Gardenscapes but smoother and overall looked more professional) in the App Store or Google Play Store and honestly I wish Playrix would actually focus on making games like those, but I digress.

i unironically had a crippling obsession with flying gorrila. i played it everyday, every waking moment. i even paid for no ads, and i unlocked all the skins and wings. its a miracle i was able to get the help i needed to put it down and move on with my life

Remember the age of Jetpack Joyride, Subway Surfers, and Fruit Ninja? I miss those days…

4:30 I remember this creeping the crap outta me but in a funny way.

Garden-Scapes and Home-Scapes actually used to use proper ads for the games. Those are the ads that got me into them. My friends and I used to have little competitions, seeing who could get to a certain level the fastest. I guess over time they saw other games getting more success based on fake ads, and started using those instead to gain more traction. Which, funnily enough, is what drove me and my friends away from the games.

Gardenscape actually didnt use to be this bad. I remember when I got its ads that were genuine, showing its candy crush gameplay and garden editing. Then once the more crass or deceitful ads became popular, gardenscapades joined the gang with its current ad runs

I have Homescape and have played very far, and originally their ads made sense, you get stars then use them to fix up a house, and as you complete rooms, you unlock more of the house. I don't understand why they put the character Katherine and a random child in such horrible conditions, when that has nothing to do with the game at all

Got an ad for evony while watching this, and it is funny because I actually play it. They have puzzles in the game, though not nearly as cool as the ads. The game isn't too bad, and if you get a good server there are good communities. I honestly toss them a $5 or $10 every once in a while, like every couple months, because I do actually enjoy it and want to do my part to keep the servers up and running. I played hero wars years ago, and can't remember exactly how the gameplay worked. Never gave them money, but the ads crack me up because I remember the characters from the game. Surprised you didn't include the save the animals games.

The Evertale ad should absolutely be an actual horror game. And if someone else makes it, they can't be sued because it's nothing like Evertale's actual game.

Truthfully the ads that make me angriest are the one where the person solving the puzzle (whatever it is) keeps making obvious mistakes and fails. Like. I get that it’s baiting people to be like “oh I can do that” but it’s so infuriating that it makes me hate whatever app it’s advertising on principle.

There was this one time I saw an ad from a game (I forgot what it was called) but it was like one of those royal emperor games where you have to look pretty to become the queen or smth. So the ad was basically about a girl trying to look pretty right? Well, not only that, she put on foundation to make her look “darker”, and guess what? She said “ew”. That made me furious. I couldn’t get the footage, but that will forever scare me.

You know how KZfaq will call things "Advertiser friendly" or not? Can we declare ads as "Creator unfriendly" and decline to have them featured on our channels? Why shouldn't creators have control over the first thing that comes up when someone wants to watch their videos?

*_Fun fact: Garden and Home-scapes weren't like that BEFORE, along with Fishdom. As a former Playrix player, it was restricted as payed (You need to buy the games, but you can have 1 hour of gameplay time as a trial)._* *_Heck, with the ads incoming, I can only reminisce the glory days where Playrix was not like that._*

That greg universe impression was so fucking spot on it was scary

I can't remember the last time I watched an ad for Figure Fantasy, but I got it on a whim, and kinda like it. Sorta surprised it got mentioned.

That Greg voice was hilarious, props to you for that!!

I'm so pissed a monster catching horror game doesn't exist.

Fun fact: on instagram these people pay to advertise their game/apps and when someone clicks on their link to the installation page, no matter if you install it or not. So do that or not! Have a good day. :)

I love the Flying Gorilla ad and just that one. Next to the Dancing Mr Krabs ad.

Yeah these ads are the reason why I didn't play Genshin Impact for awhile. It was because when I saw a Genshin ad for the first time, I thought it was going to be like these games. I didn't play until I saw my fiancé who was my boyfriend at the time playing it and when Emirichu uploaded her video about the game around the same time. (When you get to fight La Signora and Raiden Shogun.) I COULD'VE BEEN PLAYING THIS GORGEOUS GAME SOONER IF IT WEREN'T FOR THOSE ADS!!!! (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻

I played Project Makeover, before encountering the infamous ads... the only thing those ads do is tarnishing the game, it's not even about drama, it's about helping the clients, by not just giving makeover, but also revamping there rooms. I like that the clients are diverse, from young to old, male and female, to fit to curvy, and all from different walks of life. It's still basically Candy Crush, I prefer this, mostly it's like playing dress up. The sucky part is the puzzles get impossible and unforgiving.

Flying Gorilla is great, everyone should definitely download it, it is very high quality, trust.

Just gotta say. Your self aware tongue and cheek about these terrible ads juxtaposed with your own ad? So delightful and relatable. Thanks for this

Flying Gorilla is the new old Nintendo ad with the 3D bowser.

Some good news about the evertale ads is that apparently someone in Japan is actually trying to develop a game based on the horror adverts. Potentially we could end up with a great horror RPG all thanks to some scummy company lying to their consumers. Ill try and find again where development was being posted. Edit: heres the link to the channel ( i believe) kzfaq.info/love/za5QNESAf0Cu8VHxaJQeLA I unfortunately do not speak japanese, but for those of you that do hopefully this provides a silver lining to the evertale scam.

I've been playing Project Makeover for ages, and the ads are literally nothing like it - they aren't even in the same art style? It's bizarre!

(4:40) Can we just take a moment to appreciate the fact that Kathy Bates played the grandmother in these ads, it's part of what makes them so great.

Hmm well that's interesting that I got to see Caulifla in the thumbnail but can anyone tell me why I keep seeing my boy Jin Kazama dressed up as a Knight in those puny, goofy, wacky, and Simpish Ads in mini mobile games? It's been centuries now and they still hsow them from time to time like it's immortal now.

Evertale ads are so good, that a community formed around them and they are currently creating a game based on the Evertale ads, which I am really looking forward to

I saw one for Hustle Castle. At the end, it involved the titular character smacking the woman's butt in a sexist and gross way, then they went into a house to do... Adult stuff. Seriously, these ads need some sort of regulation. If you wouldn't show it on prime time TV, then it shouldn't be on mobile game ads!

Flying gorrilla is the only mobile game ad i can give a gangster pass to because its basically a meme and they know it

i am actually playing garden scape since some years (on and off, some months long breaks). at the start they hadnt such stupid ads. i was pissed when i saw them and i absolutely knew, they are nothing like the game. but some time later, they added this *puzzles* and switch pulling thing into it as a mini game (like he has a dream and you have to help him understand whats going on... stupid...) but after all the game is really cute, the characters are sweet and i just like to build a beautiful garden. there is even for every part of the garden some nice story to discover

I’m pretty sure I once saw a ad to appear in the envoy commercials. The thing basically said record yourself reacting to game play and follow the script. You record yourself and then send the video in

I’m so glad you mentioned evony and it’s audacity to get REAL PEOPLE to lie and say their game is what it shows it a hill to die on for me.

At least the person who jumped off the Eiffel Tower made an invention that would save lives and still to this game. Unlike uninspiring mobile game ads.

7:17 “Number seven”- *MOBILE AD JUST HAPPENS TO PLAY*

The puzzle bits do actually exist in Gardenscapes but they’re very uncommon and only happen when the butler talks to you about his dreams

Its sad about gardenscape. It usrd to be a hidden object game for pc, my mother and i played it for hours on end in the early 2010s before our pc died. It still had the building your garden, but it wasn't as horrible as it is now. And it took skill and actual puzzle skills to locate these hidden objects you required to progress the story and game. Now its a match 3, then it became a merge game. Its depressing to see such an amazing game from my childhood become what it is today. And they made homescapes even worse, and it was a similar gae to what gardenscapes used to be when it first came put. But instead of s garden, you made a mansion over time. And it was amazingly satisfying to not only find these hidden objects, but even watch as the broken old things from the place you renovate becomes amazing new objects over the course of the game. You could even spend time once it was renovated to buy the other options if you wanted to see what other options looked like for your garden/home. Then they became mobile games, and have decreased in quality of graphics and gameplay. Its sad.

Why can't we give poor Saber a break He barely got out of this video alive Poor Saberspark

I'm pretty sure the furry girl on the right was originally not made for a game ad but was a commissioned art piece they added very little motion to via a stretch tool. I.E. It's stolen artwork that was probably paid for, do contact the owner of the art piece immediately that their art has been stolen and used commercially.