Google's new Valentine's Day vid melts hearts while making subtle statement

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VALENTINE’S DAY GOOGLE DOODLE: Today’s charming musical animation makes for one sweet giftBy Michael Cavna

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[lizzy_someone]

I am genuinely overjoyed that they included a gay couple, but...

In the animation’s sweet story, a boy seeks the best way to show his affection for a girl adept at skipping rope and rebuffing amorous advances. The lad taps Google in his quest to woo her, but his online searches for flowers and chocolates and colorful balloons - all the ol’ trite-and-true go-to gifts for Valentine’s Day - prove fruitless in real time. The girl is unmoved.

idk, man, really? Will storytellers never tire of the Boy Cannot Respect Girl's Boundaries And Back The Fuck Off Already, But It Is Actually Super Romantic Because When She Repeatedly Said No She Actually Meant Yes trope?

[illuminaris]

Remember when they had an ad like this for Google+?

[lizzy_someone]

O_o That actually managed to be even worse than I was expecting.

[maladaptive]

Oh good, it WASN'T just me that saw that. I was like, ffs, let her jump rope!

Also the lyrics were weird. "Her doubtful mind." Dude, she's not doubting anything. She is jumping rope. Also women aren't obligated to change our minds.

[popehippo]

Yeah, I kinda saw it both ways, maybe as a message of "don't try to be what everyone says you should be like as a person and in a romance, do what feels right for the both of you", but I can see how it came off as "boy kept pushing until girl gave in!" as well.

[ceilidh]

This.

[simplefaith08]

That's what I thought too. That so much about how guys are told to "get the girl" is to treat women like they all have a formula: give her x chocolate and y diamonds and she's yours! But in reality you have to treat people like individuals, and take interest in who they are as a person.

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[mollywobbles867]

MTE.

[rimpala]

I think this might have been the intended message, that people aren't always about things.

[eyetosky]

Yeah, that's more how I saw it, too. Google doesn't give you all the answers. See the people around you as people and pay attention. The fact that Google is happy to assert that as a company is endearing on a meta level as well. <3

[stormqueen280]

Exactly!

[lizzy_someone]

To be perfectly honest I have not actually watched the video yet, so I am glad to hear it may be better than the description led me to believe.

[mirhanda]

That's exactly my reaction to it. The boy seemed stalkerish to me. I know everyone here found it so adorable, but I found it kind of disturbing in the same way Twilight is disturbing.

[mirhanda]

I probably am. It just made me flash back to college and that guy who wouldn't take no for an answer and said he could "Make me love him". *shudder*