Shbobdb posted:

Decrepus posted:

This commercial is great.

dpbjinc posted:

At this point, Budweiser could put out the funniest Superbowl ad ever and no one would laugh because no one would be paying attention. They'd get a lot more sales by not running an ad.

Barudak posted:

Decrepus posted:

Bud

The Devil Tesla posted:

Here's an actual millennial thing: being less likely to stand commercials.

Tiny Brontosaurus posted:

This is huge and corporations are just now learning the hard way what it means to economically stunt an entire generation. Lower wages/less reliable employment means smaller living spaces, living with roommates until later in life, delaying marriage and child-having, fewer hobbies, fewer vacations. Think how many life events trigger a purchasing spree that just isn't happening anymore. No point in buying a washer/dryer set if you can't afford to live somewhere with hookups. You'll never buy a fridge if you only live in apartments that come with them. No cars if you can't afford to move out of that major urban center with its public transit and lack of parking. Pretty much the only things it makes sense for millennials to buy are food, clothing, and personal electronics, which coincidentally are the only sectors doing reliably well with that age group.

What's going to be really interesting is how this effect amplifies through the following generations. Buying a car or a house isn't going to feel like an unmissable hallmark of adulthood if your parents never owned one until they were finally able to afford to move out to the suburbs in their forties.

GOTTA STAY FAI posted:

Nah, you're not broken. I keep my drives quiet, too, though I work in radio and the last thing I want to do after a long day is listen to more goddamn radio.

fleshy echidna posted:

So someone was recently talking about how add companies really need to realize that the first five seconds of a YouTube add are all of the add that anyone is going right? Well thanks to an add from the Superbowl advertising who the gently caress knows, I now have to sit through a woman screaming through her birthing pains anytime I want to watch a YouTube video with add block down. Jeez guys, that is a really great way of making me hammer the poo poo out of the skip button.

Rexicon1 posted:

What kind of person characterizes themself as "a resident of PYF"

I bet a millennial would, that's who.

Picnic Princess posted:

Some of us are pretty proud of that fact, actually.

Ignite Memories posted:

Life hack: go into a cold stone, walk directly to the tip jar. Put a dollar or two in the jar while telling them "please do not sing while I am here."

Enjoy being their favorite customer forever and ever.

Big Grunty Secret posted:

I get that that if you're the Coyote Ugly the hook is that you have hot bartenders and girls dancing on the bar, but what's the point if there's nobody in the bar?

Bobby Digital posted:

This is what happens when you fly with a stranger in the Alps.

Zaphod42 posted:

GoGoGadgetChris posted:

The plight of the alcoholic, black Irish-Jew has been common knowledge for some time. Shame on Guinness for exploiting it.

Pick posted:

They wanted something a little more sinister than "piss goes in, piss comes out."

Len posted:

Dude won't even give me a watermark free version for my Facebook.

Xibanya posted:

Eh, when I lived in Madrid there were people who'd always go to busy discotheques and clubs and take pictures and give people cards so that people could buy the pics later if they wanted to. They're sort of providing a service I guess.

Jaramin posted:

One of the requirements I had for my wedding photographer was that he had to give me full rights to ownership and distribution of the photos in the contract, and absolutely no watermarks.

El Estrago Bonito posted:

Having known a few photography students who did side work as wedding photographers, usually if they are withholding your photos it's because of a good reason. People at weddings have 0 chill, and my friend once had to deal with a family who wouldn't let her eat food (despite the fact that it was in the contract they signed) or let her sit down because she "might miss something". This was for an 8 and a half hour long wedding. She was going to withhold the photos from them because they also tried to dick her over when paying her but then the grooms uncle came up to her when she was leaving and was just like "look I'm really sorry my nephew is such a tremendous cockface." and gave her 300 dollars in 20's.

I've been told it's waaaaay worse for wedding DJs too.

cheerfullydrab posted:

They're worried about their jobs? "Wear all the Spuds MacKenzie t-shirts you want!" is a more dangerous proposition than "ban Spuds MacKenzie t-shirts", because one of those definitely pisses off powerless students who can't do anything, but the other option might possibly piss off parents, administrators, voters in school board elections, school board members themselves, etc. Causing trouble for the one group has way less risk than possibly being hassled by the other group. Even kids have to make decisions like this, everyone does.

Bluemillion posted:

The promised land...
I would gain like 50 pounds in a month if I lived anywhere near there.

The White Dragon posted:

If you think that's bad...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beKVrPW0LLQ


also I keep reading that hashtag as Man DP

ToxicSlurpee posted:

Granted I'm really shocked that more advertising companies haven't been just doing the "hey this product exists, here is how much it costs, here is what it does" type of advertising. The sensationalist stuff, the "everything is now premium luxury top grade A best poo poo ever!!!!!!!" crap, and the preying on insecurities ultimately went as far as it could. Of course thanks to internet searches I imagine the smart marketing departments are going to shift away from traditional advertising and toward making sure the information is out there in internet land to be had.

Crow Jane posted:

I work at an art museum that specializes in the very ancient through 1850 or so. Because most of our long-standing members and general clientele have been dying off lately, we have also been faced with the problem of courting millenials. Someone was paid a lot of money to come up with the idea of a selfie contest, where people take their pictures in front of a work of art and tag the museum when they post it. Tons of people did, because it's kind of a fun idea. No one under the age of 60 is actually signing up for membership, of course, but we have duckfaces in front of Roman sculptures for days

Crow Jane posted:

Yeah, we do something similar, and it is great. The problem is, the museum is already free to the public, mainly due to a combination of a grant from the city and proceeds from memberships. The city isn't exactly in the best place right now, and with the older generations dying off, the marketing team is essentially tasked with trying to convince broke young people to pay for what has more or less been a free service for years. No one wants to go the PBS/NPR annoy-people-til-they-throw-their-wallets-at-us route, of course, but the lack of new blood has begun to have serious repercussions and there have been a lot of scary cutbacks recently. It's a tricky situation, and one that's sadly becoming a problem with a lot of non-profits.

ToxicSlurpee posted:

That's a systemic problem, really; the reason millenials care less about that than their parents/grandparents is because of the same stuff I was talking about before. They're loving broke. Who cares if I can go see some Roman statues? I'm out of food, rent is due, and I haven't paid anything on my student loans in four months. I have other poo poo to worry about.

Booze helps sure but one very real problem is that millenials are in the situation where a lot of them are worried about just not starving to death. It's also kind of hard to be motivated to leave the house if you graduated two years ago and literally nobody has a job for you.

Zaphod42 posted:

Reminds me of desperate Colorado classical symphonies doing 'Classically Cannabis' shows, letting people get high as gently caress in the audience.

Honestly that makes a night at the ole opry sound much more attractive

AKA Pseudonym posted:

Here's an ad from Thailand for an herbal laxative tea

Huntersoninski posted:

I don't love it, but it's not the clerk's fault they're pressured to make sales or else, so I just say, "no thanks" until they stop. I don't shout at them and berate them about tech poo poo that's totally out of their control. That's what people with anger issues do.

If it's that bad I just stop going, or, in the bank's case, go through the drives.