• DaGeek247@fedia.io
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    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.

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      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.

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        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.