The fact that McDonald’s exists is proof that advertising works.
Because you saved that money so that you could buy their product!
Because you might have money someday
I mean, I’m too stingy to pay for premium but I do buy detergent.
I don’t know what to buy till I got to the store and see the prices.
And if the prices are similar, you’re more likely to buy the brand you’ve seen advertised more often. Maybe even if you have to pay more. Or even if you won’t, most other people would.
I buy the one that I liked the most.
Yeah good point. Subconscious influence isn’t real /s
Not to sound like your mum but that may be why you don’t have money.
Shouldn’t this save money?
How would that SAVE money? Buying groceries without knowing what you have at home and what you need?
I interpreted it as meaning they decide on the specific brand when they’re at the grocery store and are able to compare prices. They’ve already decided beforehand that they needed detergent.
Huh. Okay, even then, prices don’t fluctuate so wildly you’d have to make that decision every time.
But sales man
The platform owner gets paid for letting the advertiser run the ads regardless of what you do.
They don’t care about you. They care about the people that do have the money.
Those people would pay for ad-free.
No they wouldn’t. I’m of those people. I don’t pay for ad free.
Some would, but it always surprises me to see how many people don’t appear to be bothered by ads.
people have the ability to tune things out. ads never bother me.
The thing with ads is, even if they dont consciously bother you, they still rot your brain.
Exactly.
Annoy you into paying.
It would be funny if all of the ads are for fake products, and just meant to be as annoying as possible to push people into subscriptions. That would explain all the poorly-acted piano lesson app ads.
Because while a lot of ads that we see are targeted in some fashion to us specifically most are just sprayed out into the world relatively haphazardly. They know that 99% of people who see that specific ad aren’t going to go and buy their product right then but if you see that ad over and over its the first thing you’ll think of when you think about any given good or sevice
What scares me is the political and military ads I see every so often. Along with other fud type things. Its nuts and kind of a relief to actually see an ad selling a physical product.
Oh, how about the ads for that insurance company that’s just for military families? Way to bark up the wrong tree. Even if the point is to subtly convince me to join the United States military, that’s still hilariously off-target. Never. gonna. happen.
those and even the charity ones kinda grate on me. We need to do stuff for americans who when young nonchalantly signed off on being willing to kill when told to but fuck other americans.
It’s not about buying, it’s about staying in your head, even if you don’t remember it explicitly.
This kinda boring, menial, repetitive propaganda doesn’t try to make you buy something straight away, it’s to make you numb to it, to know it, to receive it without thinking, so then it tries to affect you. It tries to turn nothing into anything resembling truth, it turns advertisement and news, into an endless cycle of boring things that get hammered by the “a lie told 1000 times turns into truth” line.
It doesn’t affect you when you’re watching it, it affects you when you see or do anything relating to it.
When you need to buy new tires, you know what to buy, you don’t buy based on technical sheets, you buy it knowing it, even not explicitly.
(A take from Adorno and Horkheimers “Dialectic of Enlightenment”, the part where they talk about the media, culture, art, etc)
Exactly this, its the main reason people around this corner of the internet push ad-blocking software so much. Its a slow toxin that warps your subjective processing.
Everyone is vulnerable to it, those that claim otherwise are deluded, and the only way to be free of it is to cut advertisment from your life in as many places as possible.
May I introduce you to neurodiversity.
You say everyone is vulnerable to it, I’d like to change your view into: everyone is affected by it.
I am not saying I am deluded or immune but it affects me in quite opposite ways. You see, autists are known to be quite stubborn (in general or places). So there’s this behavior that the more you push the more distance and negativity you’ll receive.
That’s how eg. Radio ads affect me. I can hardly endure listening to it (even passively) but the more I hear the repetition of one ad the more I will actively work against that product or company.
(there’s also research into this counter forceyit just doesn’t work and erode that way)
And to add to that, it worsens mental health issues - at least for me it does. The subconscious “you are not good enough” doesn’t do anything good for anyone.
I do not do ad-supported, ever - they are aggravating, i start grinding my teeth and would rather listen to a construction site than to ads.
Only being half serious here, but I wonder if people in prison ever have to watch or listen to advertisements? Just curious.
I believe i heard of a case where there was a children’s song used as a torture method somewhere in the us, which might be a similar experience…
Found it, it was Baby Shark and in Oklahoma: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/nov/05/oklahoma-county-jail-baby-shark-torture-tactics-lawsuit
Futurama and the ads broadcast into your dreams.
All I ever see are political ads and geriatric pharmaceutical ads.
You’re not the target audience.
They don’t need you to buy anything right now. They want you to see the ads, remember them. Think of them when you hear the brand name. Know that their products exist. Maybe even mention one of those products to your friends in conversation some day, or just nod in recognition if someone else mentions it. They’re buying space in your mind.
Ads from giant corporations aren’t just about selling something to you, but to keep the brand’s name in your head and influence you into having a good psychological image of it. it’s also used as a form of influencing the culture of a population. They do a lot of research into how to more efficiently affect your mind, even if you don’t notice it.
That’s why I recommend blocking ads and/or moving away from those services (the high seas welcome you)
The sad reality: All that means is that the corporations don’t care about you. But the ad sellers can still use you to pad views.
The advertisers are doing the same math as the spam calls and emails. Basically, if one in 10,000 bite, that’s all they need to stay in business. Ads, and spam both target stupid desperate easily manipulated people. The fact that you also see it, and show distain, in no way affects their business model.
