Yes. I know that people tend to think “if you think they don’t affect you, they do”, but I don’t even see almost any ads anywhere (blocked everywhere), and if I do, I either actively turn them off or tune out.
So I’m just not used to the experience and find it actively hostile. I see some people watch regular TV and start singing to ad tunes or try to point out to me how something is funny and I’m like WTF? Why do you engage with that shit?
Plus I don’t even buy much of anything at all anyway
Now obviously, occasionally I may choose to get into it like if I choose to watch a sponsored clip of somebody I know, or if going to the mall, or to look at a flyer. I may also have a bias for certain brands, but that’s mostly due to personal experience.
So I don’t think it’s impossible and it’s not just marketers affecting me sneakily.
I find it incredibly upsetting when an ad campaign catches on with such vitality that people start quoting it.
Ads are invasive as is, so we really need to become personal shills for the companies that showed us something “funny”?
There is so much humor all around us — especially online. Why do so many people chose to embrace the shitty, forced humor of advertisements to the point where they deliberately regurgitate the ad, using it as an office joke or ice breaker?
Yes. I know that people tend to think “if you think they don’t affect you, they do”, but I don’t even see almost any ads anywhere (blocked everywhere), and if I do, I either actively turn them off or tune out.
So I’m just not used to the experience and find it actively hostile. I see some people watch regular TV and start singing to ad tunes or try to point out to me how something is funny and I’m like WTF? Why do you engage with that shit?
Plus I don’t even buy much of anything at all anyway
Now obviously, occasionally I may choose to get into it like if I choose to watch a sponsored clip of somebody I know, or if going to the mall, or to look at a flyer. I may also have a bias for certain brands, but that’s mostly due to personal experience.
So I don’t think it’s impossible and it’s not just marketers affecting me sneakily.
I find it incredibly upsetting when an ad campaign catches on with such vitality that people start quoting it.
Ads are invasive as is, so we really need to become personal shills for the companies that showed us something “funny”?
There is so much humor all around us — especially online. Why do so many people chose to embrace the shitty, forced humor of advertisements to the point where they deliberately regurgitate the ad, using it as an office joke or ice breaker?