I know several people who only watched the Superbowl for the advertisments / halftime show.
Regardless of how shitty it is, one of the big cultural touchstones is also the advertisements they played on tv when someone was growing up. A lot of people use ads as another way to connect with a new person; meeting a other local to your area means you can mention a particularly overplayed ad from childhood and likely be able to find another person who saw it growing up too.
A lot of people use ads as another way to connect with a new person; meeting a other local to your area means you can mention a particularly overplayed ad from childhood and likely be able to find another person who saw it growing up too.
Do you think this is true for younger generations than millennials? Obviously ads with high production value like matt damon’s fortune favors the brave gets talked about, but I don’t know anyone who makes cultural references to a generic ad on TV or YouTube with average production value. I think for the average advertisement nowadays, there’s too much saturation of content and not everyone watching ads, that you couldn’t have a normal ad like this mundane Sears Air Conditioner commercial be ingrained in kids memories.
You know, I expect that the generational divide will change which ads people connect over, but I don’t think that the majority of people will stop using them as a way of connection.
The new hotness is making fun of raid shadow legends, and I expect there’s several others I just don’t know about as well.
I think you’re just used to the lemmy(/reddit) crowd. Pretty much everyone I casually know has ads when they show me something on youtube. Every time I ask “Why not use an adblocker?” they reply either “The ads don’t bother me” or “I want to support the content creators”.
Doesn’t make sense to me. I’ll buy some swag or donate to creators I like, but I am not voluntarily watching ads.
This seems flipped, there’s no way a majority of people like ads.
Honestly from some of the interactions I’ve had with my peers I didn’t even think of the meme as strange.
Like one time I saw my roommate running Opera GX of all browsers without any adblockers and I asked him “don’t these ads bother you?” and he responded, I shit you not, “no, quite the opposite! they’re really helpful!”. I didn’t say anything because at that moment I was genuinely stunlocked.
That’s such a weird thing to say. Ads don’t show you things that are good, if they were better products they wouldn’t need to press you over it. I can’t think of a time where I found something cool I didn’t know about through an ad, short of movie trailers that I actively sought out.
For example, a few years back I found out that safety razors shave closer, give me less razor burn, and cost 100x less than cartridge razors. Which one of the two gets ads?
Fun fact: not where I live. Billboards are not allowed within 18 metres of a road, and any business signage has to be both on the property of the business and at least 4 metres away from the road. You can easily walk around down town and see exactly 0 ads and it is bliss.
I also said walk through. Doesn’t matter where you are, walking or driving, you will not see ads for things unless you are actively looking at a business advertising itself.
This seems flipped, there’s no way a majority of people like ads.
Maybe it should be Low IQ are people who don’t know what an ad blocker is, and High IQ are people who say ad blocking is unethical.
I know several people who only watched the Superbowl for the advertisments / halftime show.
Regardless of how shitty it is, one of the big cultural touchstones is also the advertisements they played on tv when someone was growing up. A lot of people use ads as another way to connect with a new person; meeting a other local to your area means you can mention a particularly overplayed ad from childhood and likely be able to find another person who saw it growing up too.
Do you think this is true for younger generations than millennials? Obviously ads with high production value like matt damon’s fortune favors the brave gets talked about, but I don’t know anyone who makes cultural references to a generic ad on TV or YouTube with average production value. I think for the average advertisement nowadays, there’s too much saturation of content and not everyone watching ads, that you couldn’t have a normal ad like this mundane Sears Air Conditioner commercial be ingrained in kids memories.
You know, I expect that the generational divide will change which ads people connect over, but I don’t think that the majority of people will stop using them as a way of connection.
The new hotness is making fun of raid shadow legends, and I expect there’s several others I just don’t know about as well.
The majority of people just aren’t bothered by them.
I think you’re just used to the lemmy(/reddit) crowd. Pretty much everyone I casually know has ads when they show me something on youtube. Every time I ask “Why not use an adblocker?” they reply either “The ads don’t bother me” or “I want to support the content creators”.
Doesn’t make sense to me. I’ll buy some swag or donate to creators I like, but I am not voluntarily watching ads.
Honestly from some of the interactions I’ve had with my peers I didn’t even think of the meme as strange.
Like one time I saw my roommate running Opera GX of all browsers without any adblockers and I asked him “don’t these ads bother you?” and he responded, I shit you not, “no, quite the opposite! they’re really helpful!”. I didn’t say anything because at that moment I was genuinely stunlocked.
I had a similar experience with a work colleague. His response? “They are helpful. They tell me what to buy”. I guess some people are just like that.
How do you guys learn about the newest products and services available?
That’s such a weird thing to say. Ads don’t show you things that are good, if they were better products they wouldn’t need to press you over it. I can’t think of a time where I found something cool I didn’t know about through an ad, short of movie trailers that I actively sought out.
For example, a few years back I found out that safety razors shave closer, give me less razor burn, and cost 100x less than cartridge razors. Which one of the two gets ads?
i do not need that information
i know, crazy, but humans basically just need food and shelter to live
“newest products and services” is not in the hierarchy of needs
If there’s something I want I’ll search for that product category myself, and read reviews and comparisons from entities that aren’t sponsored.
This might surprise you, but if you walk around town you get bombarded with ads actually.
Fun fact: not where I live. Billboards are not allowed within 18 metres of a road, and any business signage has to be both on the property of the business and at least 4 metres away from the road. You can easily walk around down town and see exactly 0 ads and it is bliss.
I said walk though, not drive.
Funny that you have better laws than we do though…
I also said walk through. Doesn’t matter where you are, walking or driving, you will not see ads for things unless you are actively looking at a business advertising itself.
I was confused because you were talking about roads, sorry. That sounds awesome…
No worries there! And it is quite nice, I must say.
Your adblocker doesn’t protect you outside?
No, I didn’t get the monthly subscription :(
Turns out when I need a thing I can look for it without a company trying to prey on my insecurities
I don’t.
I’d say you just need to swap the label for adblock unethical and adblock smart.