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There's one form of prank advertisement that will surely survive long after all the telekinetic coffee-shop surprises and sentient vending machines have faded away. And that is the celebrity-surprising-the-superfan video.
It's irresistible. We've written about so many of them over the years—our favorite is probably the one David Beckham did for Adidas around the London Olympics in 2012. They just never get old. Fans are shuttled someplace, blatantly lied to about what's going on, and then get shocked, in a good way, when the celeb—their favorite celeb, of course—suddenly appears out of nowhere.
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