Tired Moritz posted:

oh man I sure don't get affected by advertisement. *strokes neckbeard*

Someone Awful! posted:

what the gently caress is this post

Bast Relief posted:

So I went out to the movies for the first time in years and immediately regretted it until the smuggled booze started kicking in and the movie started. The advertisements before the movie just about did me in and made me realize just how much I shelter myself from mass marketing what with not having a TV or shopping at regular stores. I thought the ads on the internet were bad enough.

Anyway, what I was exposed to probably isn't a dumb move for advertisers at all. I'm just complaining because I was bothered and saddened that this poo poo works on people or is actually appealing in the first place. So, here's what I recall:

Youtube Red: A bunch of obnoxious stereotypical millennials having a good time getting noticed on the internet. Included Pewdiepie and that Indian broad and a lot of messaging that what's being done here is important and you can be a part of it. To me it looks like the suits are trying again to harness the slippery phenomena that is viral and user-created content, then putting that professional gloss on it, slipping in messaging, and then turning it around and selling it at a premium. No thanks, I'll stick to my free lovely cat vines and old movies that no one cares about the rights to. However, I suspect those days are about over.

M&Ms: There were several M&M adds, or maybe M&Ms were surreptitiously embedded in every add, I don't know, but some dude who may have been Pharrel or had the same shtick sung a Very Meaningful song while the numerous renderings of the M&M characters from past to present were shown as if I had died and my life was flashing before my eyes, except I was an M&M.

Sprite: Fat Asian man labeled as "Entrepreneur" talked about how important the thing he was doing was, though I'm not sure what he was entrpeneuring. Sprite was poured with a cringe-inducing ASMR that no soda or any beverage has ever made. He was in a bar at one point, where a crowd of underage girls and were cheering at him, but they were pretty wholesome looking kids, I guess drinking Sprite and partying with some 30 something at a dimly lit bar.

Coke: They have designer bottles now. I saw them at the grocery store when I was buying single serving wine to sneak into the theater. The ad had a blank white background with one of these designer bottles flying through the air from the left and a blonde white woman in a pencil skirt and suit jacket flying towards the bottle with an outstretched arm. The narrator was saying something about the importance of image. I'm like, oh please, it's a bottle that you are going to throw away, and when you bought it you probably didn't really spend any time selecting the one with the most appealing design.

Disney: A seemingly gay white man and his Filipino wife talk about their blended family of eleven kids and how they have all of these challenges including renting a big van to get to Disneyland, and how hard it is to get so many people in the photo in front of the Disney castle. Family values are implied harder than the fun had at Disneyland. These people mostly just talked vaguely about how wonderful their family was golly-gosh there's so many of us! All I can think of is why the gently caress do you people have so many goddamn kids on this planet of 7 billion people.

A Car Brand that I Can't Remember: A business man has been flying around for a long time, and oh! How good does it feel the Be in Control again in your own car driving around! gently caress no! Driving is a pain in the rear end and if I could get by without ever driving again I would gently caress you.

The thing that I do appreciate about the advertisements is the diversity.

The thing that disturbs me the most is the message of Deep Meaning and Importance. It's vague what exactly is meaningful or important, but something is meaningful and important, you are connected to it, and so is *product*.

I'm not even trying to be one of "those people" who doesn't own a TV to score smug points or anything, I just literally can't handle this poo poo. I don't like what advertisers are telling me. They're telling me that there's something wrong with my image, that I should care about my image, that I should be involved in what everyone else is doing, that the things I have are inadequate, the hobbies I engage in are unimportant and I should be doing something that will get noticed and be important. Holy poo poo it's just too much. I mean, the Charmin bears are kinda gross and precious, but at least they aren't trying to tell me how to be...or are they? It's like at a certain point advertisers aren't even trying to figure out who I am so they can get me to spend a buck, they're trying to make me into someone who they are already advertising to.

tl;dr Weirdo shut in goes to a picture show and was broken by the advertising.

Bast Relief posted:

I'm not even trying to be one of "those people" who doesn't own a TV to score smug points or anything

Last Chance posted:

RagnarokAngel posted:

Get therapy

Someone Awful! posted:

what the gently caress is this post

bunnyofdoom posted:

Also take showers,z get laid, and shave

doodlebugs posted:

Tired Moritz posted:

won't lie, thought Sprite was a phone company until I remembered I just drank a can of it yesterday.

doodlebugs posted:

Full Battle Rattle posted:

I still remember when my dad could pump his gas and then pay inside after. It's amazing gas stations did that for as long as they did. Shortly after I started driving gas hit $3 a gallon and every station became pay before you pump within a few weeks of reports of people driving off after filling up an SUV to the tune of 80 bucks or something like that.

Silent Linguist posted:

I don't understand Spotify ads that are partly or mostly video. Do people actually sit there in front of their computer/phone staring at the Spotify window?

Screaming Idiot posted:

Land kittens eat sea kittens, just like land monkeys eat sea monkeys.

Mierenneuker posted:

I think they don't show up on desktop unless the Spotify window is in focus. On mobile/tablet they frequently have this thing where you don't get ads for the next half hour if you actually tap the ad and let it play out.

Bast Relief posted:

So I went out to the movies for the first time in years and immediately regretted it

porkswordonboard posted:

Also, I was wondering if anyone who reads webcomics EVER clicks the ads for other webcomics on the site. It always seems like they're some teenager's OC/manga garbage, although to be honest I kind of stopped noticing them after a while. Has anyone ever been introduced to a new comic/artist this way?

porkswordonboard posted:

Hey Bast Relief, I feel your pain. I don't have cable and watch everything either through Netflix or simply the bowels of the internet, so I hardly ever see ads. I find it super grating and annoying when I can't avoid them, to the point of going out of my way to find links elsewhere even when, say, AMC has the episode I want on their website but with an ad every 5 goddamn minutes. I'll literally take a step down in video/audio quality for the simple pleasure of watching what I want straight through without being bombarded by bullshit.

Oxyclean posted:

Same-ish. Only time I really see cable is when I visit my folks at the holidays. It always feels stunning just how lame some advertising comes off, or seeing the same ad multiple times in a single break, or the commercial for some medication that spends more then half of the commercial with a narrator voice over talking about side effects or consulting a doctor first. Or those times where you get a commercial break, 2 minutes of the movie, and then another full commercial break.

Netflix has really spoiled me.

Someone Awful! posted:

i wish advertising prescription medication were illegal, it seems like a hosed up practice

insufficient guns posted:

One of the small pleasures of moving to the UK is that I don't have to see old dudes strutting about with their "I just banged" smug grin at every commercial break.

Bast Relief posted:

Youtube Red: A bunch of obnoxious stereotypical millennials having a good time getting noticed on the internet. Included Pewdiepie and that Indian broad and a lot of messaging that what's being done here is important and you can be a part of it. To me it looks like the suits are trying again to harness the slippery phenomena that is viral and user-created content, then putting that professional gloss on it, slipping in messaging, and then turning it around and selling it at a premium. No thanks, I'll stick to my free lovely cat vines and old movies that no one cares about the rights to. However, I suspect those days are about over.

Decrepus posted:

The amount of erectile dysfunction pill commercials that run during a NASCAR race is

sweeperbravo posted:

Gotta git that engine runnin'!!!!!

Someone Awful! posted:

i wish advertising prescription medication were illegal, it seems like a hosed up practice

porkswordonboard posted:

Also, I was wondering if anyone who reads webcomics EVER clicks the ads for other webcomics on the site. It always seems like they're some teenager's OC/manga garbage, although to be honest I kind of stopped noticing them after a while. Has anyone ever been introduced to a new comic/artist this way?

GOTTA STAY FAI posted:

Three easy steps will solve this problem next time:

1. Start drinking at least an hour before showtime

2. Pack on headphones and listen to your favorite Rob Zombie album during the ads

3. Don't stop drinking

Crow Jane posted:

I feel bad for you folks who don't have theaters with bars, they're the best thing ever. The Landmark chain even makes a silly special cocktail list "inspired" by whatever the big movie is at the time (the best was "The Comedian" when Watchmen was out, it was just a double shot of whiskey). And they sell pitchers of beer and sangria you can take in with you, plus they have a lounge area for pre-movie drinks. It's seriously great.