I hate knowing how much money is spent on them so that they can annoy us with every attempted second of our lives. What, you can’t use that money to better pay your workers? You can’t use that money to improve aspects of your company, so you’re going to pay these groups of obnoxious pricks whose entire existence is to annoy people with your ads?
The ads themselves are too theatric for me to care, I can’t tell you the amount of ads I’ve had to stomach hearing through Spotify that makes me care even less about a product. They just take turns outdoing themselves as to which ad is the dumber of the bunch that night. Even worse are the ads that try too hard to reach for something that was ‘hip’ to do like 5 or 10 years ago.
The lying in commercials. I’ve learned in life that some brands that aren’t even the brand of choice, the best option available. I’ve been surprised on some of the things I’ve acquired from even dollar stores that somehow are better than the name brands.
And even then, there’s still lies projected from commercials that attempt to snag you in for money.
I hate the psychology. Those ads are designed by experts to make you less happy than you were before you saw the ad. Yes, even the ads full of happy people bouncing around. The ads full of moving life events set to piano music. The ads about “that … feeling”. They’re designed to make you dissatisfied and depressed. Fuck ads.
That they exist and force the rampant consumerism of dying Capitalism
I don’t like listening to lies, and that’s what marketing often is. Lies poisons your mind, specially if repeated often so the brain starts to get used to them.
I hate commercials that have NO connection to the product they’re selling. At all. Like, somebody literally wasted your company’s money to make a video about nothing.
Showing the benefits of your product is step 1 of advertising. Creativity is dead.
I mostly hate that they take us for absolute dimwits devoid of any kind of reflection or without a faint flimmer of intelligence.
Just pisses me off. If i happen to see an ad unwillingly, I’ll try to boycott the product. I know i don’t matter, but it’s for me.
Oh yeah I’ve noticed this tone too with them. Like with one ad, one of the Mountain Dew ones, they tell you to ‘get off your ass’ and stop putting your playlist on repeat with party remixes. Their entire message is your life and lifestyle is nothing unless you drink their shitty product. Like fucking hell I’m going to now that you’re going to assume what my life is about and that I’m not smart enough to do anything else.
It’s that kind of attitude that won’t make me boycott the product, but directly go to any marketer to personally tell them off.
Guess that’s a very overlapping part of our culture. Fucking stupid ads for fucking stupid products.
I’d personally love for the assnugget responsible for the ad to have to watch it on repeat for a whole day. Everyone should be forced to watch their own shit for some hours nonstop prior to airing. I bet we’d have way fewer bullcrap-ads.
I hate the interruption. The fake enthusiasm. The inane narratives - using the right toilet paper will change the weather from stormy to sunny? Fuck off, marketers.
I can’t be the only person who instinctively trusts a product/brand less the more I see ads for it.
The biggest example is alcohol brands. It’s almost guaranteed that the more advertising a brand does, the more middle-low quality is. (There will always be the ultra-cheap option with no marketing of course.)
It’s mind boggling to me that in this modern interconnected era that this isn’t obvious to everybody.
That they influence my kid. Or even when I was a kid I was influenced by them.
That they’re everywhere. I have uBO on my browser and actively choose against places and experiences with advertising whenever I can, but it still feels like it’s everywhere. Hey, that’s a nice mountain. Can you not with the billboard? It’s like sponsored vandalism.
Everything about marketing I absolutely despise. It’s all lies sowing a hunger within that their product will satisfy a need.
A bullet is too good for them!
I’d have to say it’s the mind control that bothers me the most. When I cut the cord to my TV way back when, it really felt like most people lived in an ersatz reality where people only did things they saw in TV commercials. Whatever they see on TV is “real” and anything that capital doesn’t have an interest in promoting to them is “weird.”
I hate that commercials are manipulative, they exploit us with clever tricks.
That they exist. I’ve lived without cable or over-air television for more than two decades. Before streaming, I pirated low-quality tv show rips. I haven’t been exposed to tv commercials unless visiting family or friends for years.
TV commercials are so loud and obnoxious and treat the viewers as morons and I can’t stand them. But people who are used to them tune them out as background noise. I can’t tune them out. I need them to be muted or I can’t think. I also shun internet commercials. If I can’t watch content without the ad, I just don’t watch.
About 20 years I went on a vacation to southern Spain … during the point when Spain was just fully transitioning into the European Union.
I remember trying to watch some TV programs (there wasn’t much to watch) … but the funny thing that struck me was the commercials. They’d play an hour and half long movie for about an hour … then stop and play non stop commercials for about 15 minutes. It was normal for everyone because they used the time to just get up, bathroom break, kitchen duty, clean the house, go grab some groceries, etc … then return to the living room in time to watch the rest of the movie. No one watched commercials because they all hated them as much as anyone else.
I don’t think they do that any more but I thought I wouldn’t mind that myself … instead of breaking my show every ten / fifteen minutes with a minute of commercials … just show them all to me in ten minutes at the end of an hour.
I hate buying something online then I begin seeing ads for it
I hate thinking about something and getting ads for it.
The trick is to not think out loud
