When your advertising ~~interrupts my video~~
It just makes me hate your product.
this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2026
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I double this with sponsoring.
they don’t care about you or what you think. The whole point is to get you familiar with the product. Familiarity drives shopping. You’re not gonna remember 6 months ago when that detergent ad ruined your 3rd blindfolded Dark Souls 3 run with a taser for a controller, but tide WILL feel familiar, and therefore a safe option. People love to feel like they’re that one wolf among sheep when they get annoyed by an ad, but in the end the rich corps still win.
but on a positive note I love the memes you’ve posted
Autistic people who need multiple weeks of scientific research into a new product to convince themselves to try it present!
Of course were not immune to all advertisement, especially others suggesting/recommending a product but everything i buy are the same products/brands i did 15 years ago. Or a researched alternative. Trying something new is the opposite of safe.
I just buy whatever is cheapest. I have no brand loyalty or familiarity.
I’m with webghost. I have brand loyalty and brand hatred lists. Marketing people might generalize to oh you don’t know yourself, but there are lines I do not cross. Verizon is dead to me for example. I don’t care if no other providers are available I will never give them money again.
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It’s fun mixed with ADD.
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Hyper research
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Pause, put in to-do pile
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…Repeat
Bonus if it’s something I don’t actually need the product immediately. Like, if you want to talk about every single mirrorless camera on the market and what will come out within a year, with reasonably probability, well. It’s on the top of my head now. And it’s definitely not researched at cost of other stuff I need to do, nope.
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Yeah, true! For example, I saw heavy ads and 12 years later bought the product! (Because it still existed. In my mind, it had to do something right xD)
You’re not gonna remember 6 months ago when that detergent ad ruined your 3rd blindfolded Dark Souls 3 run with a taser for a controller
When it comes to ads being forced on me, I do not forget and I do not forgive.
Also, the taser controller would probably make the whole thing more vividly memorable 😄
People love to feel like they’re that one wolf among sheep when they get annoyed by an ad, but in the end the rich corps still win.
I'm not "one wolf among sheep" or any such self-aggrandizing bullshit.
I'm just a neuroatypical dude who has a low tolerance for annoying things interrupting my self-care entertainment/buffer against sensory overload.
When ads are repeatedly forced on me despite my efforts to do everything short of spending money I don't have to avoid them, I consider it abuse and take it personally that the greedy bastards would insist on repeatedly ruining my mental equilibrium like that.
Unsurprising that the first comment is a "mind control" comment.
The ad companies all want you to believe that advertising is really powerful, and comments like this just emphasize that.
The reality is that we don't know. It might be a "mind control" ray, or it might be that people hate certain things specifically because of the advertising, and will never buy them.
If you actually believe that advertising is so powerful, maybe you should consider that the greatest power advertising has is convincing gullible people that it actually works.
but OP is built different though
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and if your audio isn't properly equalized to whatever I was watching then I will actively go out of my way to rate your product negatively. It's not much, but I am that kind of petty.
ITT: I'm smarter than billion dollar marketing departments!
I've never bought tampons or pads, with wings, super absorbancy or that leaves me feeling fresh.
I must be at least partly immune.
(FYI a man who has seen way to many commercials for feminine hygiene)
Indeed, but the theory of advertising is not to get you to buy a product that you weren't otherwise going to. The point is that, if at some point in the future you needed to buy tampons, and were standing in the store, wondering which ones to get, well, the advertised brand would stand out as familiar and safe, even if you've long forgot the ad. Across a huge population, every day a few people are buying hygiene products for the first time, and the company wants their product to be the one those people choose.
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There's a theory that targeted ads are severely less effective than assumed amongst advertisers, and that traditional "spray and pray" advertisement is just as effective, but a whole lot cheaper. Essentially, targeted ads frequently target people who are already aware of the product, have already decided to buy it, or have already bought it. So, basically, company's are overpaying for ads, and if they ever stop, the advertisement based internet is in trouble.
and if they ever stop, the advertisement based internet is in trouble.
That's a good thing.
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The more you see their ads, the larger portion of their income they spend on it, the worse is the product or service.
This is especially true for really expensive ads: ads during the superbowl, or during the world cup, or F1 races or something. If a company has that much cash to spend on advertising, they're overcharging their customers.
When you buy a name brand product, you are paying them to advertise more to you.
Support brands that don't waste your time.
this should be common knowledge
should
Podcasts, but same thing:
I wasn't "ready to start up my business" anyway, but if I ever am, you can bet your bottom that I still won't have anything to do with fucking Shopify! 🖕🏼🤬🖕🏼
When I download podcasts I turn a VPN on my phone to get ads in a language I don't understand.
But fuck, there was a while where it was Swedish Chef style "vendi vundi vundi vu Shopify vendi vu" 3 times in a row every ad insert. Especially for NL.
So I started doing Ireland now because there least offensive accent to hear, and half the ads are for government services.
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Best advertisement in the world for me is having a solution to a problem I'm trying to solve... but being so good at it that I find you and not the other way around.
There used to be a brand that advertised on Channel 4, and when you clicked a “Skip Advert” button it switched to the same advert but all the people were jumping rope. I hate that brand.
First time you saw it, though...
Clever bit
Why is this a screenshot of a meme? The darkening gradient in the bottom is annoying as hell
This is why I block ads everywhere I can.
Adguard on my laptop and phone.
TizenTubeCobalt on my Nvidia Shield.
Morphe on my phone to modify the YouTube app to block ads and integrate Sponsorblock.
Their ad revenue is not my concern.
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I cannot tell you anything about any ads I have seen in the last few years online. If they pop up and I can't shut them off, the single thing I am paying attention to is when the skip now button shows up. I literally cannot tell you anything about any of the ads, neither company nor product. Back in the day, you'd run to the other room and do things while the ads came on in TV shows but you were still hooked in because of the jingles. To this day I can remember many of the jingles from the 70s. New online ads, absolutely no idea.
However in the car I listen to radio and have recently started listening to a new station. I am starting to recognize some of the higher rotation ads. The ones I like, I might eventually try the business if it offers a product I need, but the much longer list is the one of companies that I will never do business with since their ads annoy me so much. Name recognition isn't great if all it promotes is loathing.
Either Google doesn't have much information on my interests or their personalized ads suck ass. The only ads I care about are the ones in the pamphlet with this week's discounts at the local convenience store, I always read those.
Google et. al. can't even decide what language to use in ads for me. If they can't get that pretty important detail right, the rest of their information on me must be worthless.
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