• magic_lobster_party
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    501 month ago

    I’m sure most kids know about Skibidi Toilet, the Paul brothers and Mr Beast.

    What’s worse, is that the Paul brothers and Mr Beast use their influence to promote products directly to the children. Like Prime.

    • @[email protected]
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      331 month ago

      Many shows when we were kids were just drivers for toy sales though. Product placement was also huge and unregulated.

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        131 month ago

        I don’t remember the people behind Power Rangers using their influence to get me to agree to being put through what amounts to torture for the hope of getting enough money to pay my bills though.

        • @[email protected]
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          151 month ago

          That’s odd, because I seem remember lots of pro-capitalist messaging on TV when I was growing up.

          • @[email protected]
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            51 month ago

            We were pressured to buy the toys, but we didn’t have anything on the order of IRL Squid Game.

            • @[email protected]
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              41 month ago

              I was playing with your idea of getting put through torture to get money to pay the bills - if you interpret that as encouraging us to get a job under capitalism, it’s basically what that amounts to!