Would You Rather #52
by DaebakGrits
In dramaland, leading ladies often find themselves torn between the love of two equally attractive men — a choice none of us would want to make! But what if you did have to pick between the frustrating lawyer and the adorkable police officer? In this feature, we ask you to make the difficult decisions — and we aren’t limiting our options to dreamy oppas.
Vote via the poll and feel free to use the comments to explain exactly how you were able to choose! So, Beanies:
WOULD YOU RATHER #51 RESULTS
If I had to make a guess based on these poll results, I’d say quite a few of you have dated someone who has snapped a picture of you just as you opened your mouth to take a big bite of your panini sandwich. @bomibeans certainly knows the pain of being on the other side of inept photographer’s camera, enough that she’d be set for life if she received a penny for every bad photo — which is why she was among the majority of those who picked the option of having a significant other who knows all your best angles.
Cameras can be quite unforgiving, and if you’re anything like @darkcc, simply being in front of them can cause your face to freeze in “abject horror” — an expression that doesn’t make for the best headshots. But, like @asianromance mentioned, the awkwardness of being in front of a camera can be alleviated by a trusted individual who can remind you to straighten your spine and angle your face towards the light in a flattering manner. Plus, if your S.O. possess the attentiveness required to find your best angles, then that means that they are either a really good photographer, or, as @mreverything suggested, someone who really cares about you to notice and appreciate when you look the most attractive.
As for the whole being serenaded option? Well, a few Beanies, like @gikata and @ahjummaaa, really loved the idea of having someone — ideally musically gifted, of course — sing to them. However, in the comments section, they were decidedly in the minority because an overwhelming number of Beanies found the idea of being serenaded by their significant other downright cringe. @enriquequierecagar and @vienibenmio, I’m right there with you in feeling extremely awkward while waiting on people to wrap up the Happy Birthday song.
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1 jerrykuvira
October 16, 2024 at 1:46 PM
I'd rather sell those toys please.
Looking at the bright side of it, I'll be making buyers happy either way - both will be happy and inclined to whip out thier cards. So why not the happiness that's intrinsically essential🤷🏽.
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2 welh
October 16, 2024 at 2:35 PM
Both are sales jobs, one direct the other indirect.
I once heard this: a good salesman can sell anything. There was a guy I knew who started off selling radio ads, then sold cars, then industrial chemicals, all very successfully.
In this poll, I went with being responsible for placing PPL in dramas which I presume is creatively helping incorporate the product into the story.
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3 Lord Cobol (Kdramas, like water, flow downhill)
October 16, 2024 at 3:14 PM
My Y chromosome probably makes me unsuitable for one of those jobs.
But if I'm responsible for PPL, do I have some freedom to pick which interesting products we try to make deals with? Any possibilities for subtle revenge against the idiots who assigned me that job? Sex-toy PPL on a children's show? Happy children's toy PPL before an after the funeral scene? Auto PPL showing white trucks in almost any show? Etc. What other possibilities can anyone think of?
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4 Mr Everything
October 16, 2024 at 3:29 PM
Does placing ppl mean I get to fight with PDs who take good actors and a good script and ruin it by putting a serial killer in at the end? Does it mean I get to make actors do funny and cringe stuff like drive a vw bug into the ocean? Hmm... this is making me seem like a bad person.
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redfox
October 19, 2024 at 2:29 AM
I would give the PPL TO the serial killer. at least some use. also ToD could advertise anger management treatment or something
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5 ar_arguably romantic
October 16, 2024 at 3:43 PM
I've seen Be Melodramatic and the first episode of Because This Is My First Life - getting PPL into a drama is harder and I don't think I can handle being side-eyed and yelled at from all sides because we need to get some product onto the screen before the drama ends - from the writers, the directors, the actors, the audience, supervisors/managers from the production offices, the product vendors, etc. And of course, bloggers, blog commenters...beanies!... who will also side-eye my work of inserting yet another Kahi stick moment.
With the pandemic and into post-pandemic - sex toys have gained more acceptance - I'd rather sell sex toys and lingerie. In the last few weeks, we've had a kdrama featuring a guy using dildos as weapons and a drama about selling lingerie and sex toys. It'll be nice to help women feel beautiful and take their own pleasure into their own hands. Also, not all sex toys are 7-inch dildos, handcuffs, and collars. There is a lot of cute, discreet stuff out there.
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6 Gikata
October 16, 2024 at 3:48 PM
I'd rather never work in sales/advertising again altogether, tyvm. See ya in the next poll.
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7 DK-Drama 🫘 Giffing n Space Cadetting🍉🌱
October 16, 2024 at 4:08 PM
I could imagine I would have fun finding absurd reasons why everybody would want to suck a little plastic bag and cry out: "MMh! I feel so energized now!!!"
BUT
I would be sad to do that to any drama that I actually liked.
And even without that, selling stuff openly aligns better with my personal moral principles than sneaking in products in cultural products.
So I'd go with the underwear and toy thing.
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8 Nessa (Bebe) 🌹
October 16, 2024 at 4:35 PM
My education is a degree in Communications (focusing on Marketing), so I can think of ways to market and sell the things, but not actually be in customer service to sell the thing. Nope lol 😂
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9 abalyn
October 16, 2024 at 5:25 PM
I think the best ppl is placed creatively or makes me laugh out loud when I see it. I think that aspect of it could be fun, to subtly involve it or make a laugh about it. As long as I don’t have to do Subway or that coffee candy. I wouldn’t mind doing massage chairs; I feel like they are used more creatively or hilariously. You also would hopefully get to sit in them.
Be melodramatic had the most ridiculous massage chair scene on purpose. Due to the fact that the show had a character that did ppl placement and its tongue-in-cheek self-awareness, the show had hilarious ppl scenes.
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Elinor, Team Glasses team co-captain
October 17, 2024 at 9:00 AM
Claudia Kim's Kopiko PPL scene in The Atypical Family is so funny it almost justifies the existence of that stuff. But then again, she could have sold anything with her reaction, including sex toys.
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10 aicaramba
October 16, 2024 at 5:31 PM
I can imagine all the fun and laughter on set while doing PPLs! It's always so cheeky and a little bit awkward, like a joke everybody's in on.
It's a creative challenge I'd love to take on, so PPLs it is for me.
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11 jillian
October 16, 2024 at 9:46 PM
I know I will do better in incorporating PPL in dramas than sell the first option.
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12 Britney
October 16, 2024 at 9:59 PM
This is tricky because both require some level of persuasion.
I feel like selling sex toys and lingerie could be done almost like a hobby. It's a bit risque and you wouldn't necessarily want certain folks but know but that's part of the thrill.
Being responsible for PPL seems like a headache. There are higher ups berating and pressuring you about getting a certain brand or amount by a certain time or EVERYONE is screwed and it's because if you.
Then I imagine there's legalese and negotiations about the specifics of how the PPL is done.
While I understand selling sex toys and lingerie would also be considered work and it would/could be hard to do, I think there's a skotch more freedom to it and if you're a charismatic person, this could be easy. That's why I would choose that option.
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13 Isa is always time travelling
October 16, 2024 at 10:39 PM
I choose being responsible for product placement in dramas.
Firstly, because I have a bachelor's degree in Advertising, so that's my thing, I guess. I think I would be able to find less annoying ways to insert PPL in dramas.
Secondly, because I'm too shy to sell sex toys and lingerie and I have no idea about that kind of things. I would have to act as if I were another person to sell them.
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14 sonai
October 16, 2024 at 11:25 PM
😂 I just realized how very bad I’d be at both of these jobs! Anything sales related is definitely not my thing (though I had a side job in retail aeons ago - but since it was a specialized shop, I didn’t have to do anything to sell other than ring the till... 🤔 Anyways!). I guess I’d be forcefully removed from drama sets because I’d just be creeping about uncertainly while looking suspicious, not knowing who to talk to to get the better angled shot of that Avolon Pizza. Though thinking of scenes to place products unexpectedly would be so much fun!!!
Selling sex toys would be worse though. Must pull a Darcy there: „I don’t have this talent which some people possess of conversing easily with strangers.“ It would be an epic fail. 😂
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Midnight
October 16, 2024 at 11:32 PM
LOLOL at every word!! 🤣🤣🤣
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15 Cecee is done DramaQueening
October 17, 2024 at 4:51 AM
It comes as a surprise to no-one really: We, Beanies, don't fancy the idea of selling toys and lingerie.
Here's a little nugget of boring truth: As a neurodivergent mind who's been diagnosed only during adulthood, I've struggled a lot in offices. The whole social rules of the office, the inner politics, the never-ending gossiping, the cliques that would reject you no matter what (when I say you, I mean me), etc. It was exhausting, especially because I spent most of my time masking to appear "normal" and still struggling with every non-work-related interactions. So I burned out and quit to work from home. Among the jobs I've been doing at home, one of them was SEO and one of my clients was an online toy shop. So, while I haven't physically sold said toys, I did sell them digitally. And honestly, there is only so many times you can boast about the g*rth of an object, its tantalising vibrating functions, and climaxing on cloud 9 without being bored to death... Yes, it's a stick, you put it in places. And don't get me started on lingerie that is specifically designed to hold none of your bits in place (presumably defeating the very concept of what underwear is for?). Just go au naturel (unless you're in public, then please wear clothes), it's cheaper and just as effective. So, I’m going to try my hand at PPL. I’ve always wanted to see how many Kopiko placements are too many for one single K-drama episode.
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DK-Drama 🫘 Giffing n Space Cadetting🍉🌱
October 17, 2024 at 6:28 AM
Oh yes, that feeling when everybody is angry and you don't know why.
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Cecee is done DramaQueening
October 17, 2024 at 7:24 AM
Yes... Although, I can guess. When they are angry, it's probably at me even if I don't know why.
Or when they have weird, unsaid communication paths: Like people who sat directly next to me would email me requests rather than talk to me. I raised the issue in a one-to-one once because it made me feel isolated (they were perfectly able to talk to each other, just not to me) and was told it was all in my mind. So, when I replied to one of their emails by an email instead of walking to their desk and speaking, apparently that was so terrible that the girl ran out to cry in the bathroom. (I'd like to mention that my email was not rude; I sent an entire list of work-related links for her to check). Apparently, it was common knowledge that people who had worked there for a long time would simply email their requests and new employees would walk through the office to respond in person... How am I supposed to guess that illogical path?
Or when someone says tasks need to be prioritised but every task is a high priority... but apparently there are different levels of high priority that people inherently know? (how? how do you know?)
Or refusing to hold the baby of an employee on maternity leave whom you never met is rude. Really? Do we hand babies to strangers now? More to the point do we go and disturb strangers at work to hand our babies over to them?
Or the "we're a transparent agency" but then I should lie to the client to upsell our services? Where do you draw the line between sales bullshitting and complete dishonesty?
Ah yes.. and the industry buzzwords, which I never use because the way they tend to be used in the workplace is by saying absolutely nothing of value but throwing a buzzword in the lot. But still yo are expected to join in the conversation of nothingness. It's as if they're playing a game and the one who uses the most buzzwords gets a little prize at the end of the day.
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Midnight
October 17, 2024 at 8:26 AM
I wouldn't mind the Kopiko at all if they didn't need to comment on it every single time.
I guess it's in the contract that they need to praise it, but it takes me out of the story.
In Bitter Sweet Hell the fl unwraps a chewing gum and slowly bites it whenever she is stressed. There is no name or comment but the scenes are so effective that I vividly remember them, but no Kopiko scenes has stuck with me.
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Cecee is done DramaQueening
October 17, 2024 at 9:04 AM
I was so disappointed when I tried Kopiko. It didn’t make me any less sleepy 😴
I’m half convinced they are trying to make Kopiko as over the top as possible.
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Midnight
October 17, 2024 at 9:16 AM
Kopiko has been around Asia for at least 25 years. I've had it many times, only this pill-like packaging I'm seeing in recent dramas is new.
And yes, it has no effect on my sleep either, just a sweet treat for coffee lovers.
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16 Seon-ha
October 17, 2024 at 6:40 AM
Oh, the header image isn’t two consecutive frames of a webtoon?
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17 lillamy
October 17, 2024 at 8:46 AM
What's not to love about being paid to figure out great ways to implement PPL.
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18 9TailedVixen (formerly 9TailedFox)
October 18, 2024 at 2:45 AM
My first career was in public relations and part of my training was to get media coverage for client products and services, often indirectly through everything from publicising client sponsorship of charitable events to client partnerships with other companies with complementary/adjacent/connected products or services.
So yeah, PPL would be something I can absolutely do.
Direct selling of anything for profit is not my strong suit at all. I can advocate for a cause with the best of them so I have the persuasive skills but I don't like selling anything I don't believe in just to make a buck.
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