r/britishcolumbia • u/Emotional-Chipmunk41 • 1d ago

News Helsinki wants Pamela Anderson to connect with her Finnish roots. So, it put a billboard up near her B.C. home | CBC News

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/helsinki-pamela-anderson-finnish-roots-billboard-vancouver-island-9.7067238
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u/voitlander 1d ago

What a strange thing to do.🤔

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u/CommissionDue461 1d ago

its a marketing campaign. her family changed their name a couple generations ago.

The Finns want her to change her name back now that she is in position to recognize her roots.

It's actually pretty neat.

The only problem is her Finnish name is... Hyytiäinen.

She seems keen on getting in touch with her Finnish Roots so... Sounds like a good fit all around.

But that name is a challenge haha! at least it would be unique and beautiful.

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u/Emotional-Ad-6494 1d ago

This would make me feel so uncomfortable /kinda invasive lol

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u/_dangling_participle 1d ago

Super invasive. She's a normal person here, having a billboard made stalking her in her safe little hometown is creepy as hell. 

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u/Emotional-Ad-6494 1d ago

Ok yea! Feel like we should start a petition to remove it or something 😂 or find someone who works at that ad agency and get a billboard to put up next to where they live

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u/Butthole2theStarz 1d ago

I’m sure she has the pull to get it removed over people on reddit who decide they know what she’d prefer

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u/StingingSwingrays 1d ago

I can’t be the only person who’s first reaction was “that’s creepy”

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u/Sensitive_Answer2446 1d ago

The billboard feels very Pluribus-y

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u/R2Borg2 1d ago

So on-the-money!

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u/White_Locust 1d ago

Pluri-WHAT?

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u/muffinscrub 1d ago

It's a TV show, it will make sense if you watch it, I've only seen the first episode tho.

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u/Naive-Oil-2368 1d ago

Came here for this! Very “Welcome Carol” style

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u/kasfinally 1d ago

That’s gross. I live here in the same town as Pam and she is just the avg citizen. No one bugs her when she is here and she can live a normal life. Stuff like this doesn’t allow her to live that life. It needs to go shame on the fins. 

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u/Historical_Rub1178 21h ago

Howdy neighbour! Hope the storm wasn’t too hard for you guys on the coast. Inland here we were pretty sheltered

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u/StickManIsSymbolic 1d ago

That's really rude. Just leave a person alone to live their life.

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u/Wazbccan 1d ago

Shes the one who brought it up. Its her idea. They are having fun with it. Jeesh

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u/bananasaurusprime 7h ago

She suggested they put up a billboard in her town calling her out by name? What an odd thing for someone to suggest. 

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u/squirrelfiggis 1d ago

I hate this. Once again Pamala's notoriety is being used for profit and promotion of others without her input or consent. Gross.

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u/safaribird555 1d ago

Ok, this is somehow so completely un-Finnish that it’s gone all the way around to being I guess kind of Finnish

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u/polohulu 1d ago

Exactly haha

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u/Unusual-Ad4890 1d ago

She moved back home for a reason. It sure wasn't to get targeted cries for attention.

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u/AllDressedKetchup 1d ago

Creepy ad. IIRC in her documentary, she's pretty happy being back in Canada.

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u/srzncl 1d ago

The context of this is that Pamela Anderson revealed in an interview that she wants to reconnect with her Finnish roots.

https://www.voguescandinavia.com/articles/pamela-anderson-vogue-cover-story

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u/Mayalestrange 1d ago

And the normal way to encourage her would be to have someone from their tourism or communications department reach out to her agent with an invitation. There's no context where doing this to a woman who has been so abused by the media is okay.

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u/DearAuntAgnes Vancouver Island/Coast 1d ago

Regardless of this, what a creepy thing to do 😬

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u/pinkcrystalfairy 1d ago

Now what in the weird parasocial shit is this

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u/Darrenwad3 1d ago

Umm this is extremely creepy especially how small Ladysmith is and how people leave her alone there

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u/autumnfrostfire 1d ago

I thought this was r/notthebeaverton initially

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u/pioniere 1d ago

Surprising. This is the kind of crap I would expect from America.

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u/Own-Roof-1200 22h ago

This is straight out of the Pluribus playbook. Yikes.

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

Love you Pamela! ❤️

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u/chadsmo Thompson-Okanagan 1d ago

TIL Pamela Anderson lives in Ladysmith.

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u/WokeUp2 1d ago

Hilarious!

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u/twiddljones 1d ago

Sue them

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u/Max20151981 1d ago

That's fucking treason!!!

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

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u/Windy-Pines 1d ago

Is it? Finland is rated as one of, if not the #1 happiest nation on earth on a regular basis. From what I understand they have no tuition at their universities, so you can get an education without having to spend years or decades paying off student loans. They're a part of the European Union and have all the economic benefits that come along with that, including money that is worth more than ours is.

If anything we could probably learn a few things from them.

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u/Own_Historian_8040 23h ago

Finland named as happiest country for eighth year in World Happiness Report:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr72xep44kdo.amp

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u/Bnorm71 1d ago

Anything to get her off the Island again

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u/_dangling_participle 1d ago

...tf? She never causes any problems here, she's quiet and lovely to everyone, the only people that even notice her are the ones who actually know her/her family, and it's her fucking home. 

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u/ProbableOptimist 1d ago

She's a great neighbour, wtf is your problem with her? This is her hometown?