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Why do companies advertise on YouTube when their ads are only used to annoy people into paid accounts? I never see anything, I am interested in.

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[–] meco03211@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The problem is, that impression is negative. And it extends to all advertising. I've actually trimmed my Facebook feed down to not having any ads. It's kinda funny looking through my feed as opposed to my wife's that's filled with ads as every other post.

[–] voodooattack@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Even negative attention is attention. If it bothers you then you’re thinking about it. If an advert bothered you enough to complain about it online or to someone irl then even though you’re not a customer, you’re a vector of transmission increasing their organic reach.

It’s an abhorrent concept.

[–] meco03211@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

But I don't specifically discuss certain ads. My comments on this post are basically my thoughts on it. I hate the way advertising has infested every aspect of life and take active measures to avoid or ignore it.

[–] Scubus@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Yeah, like how nestle kept advertising to me so it made me look up all the dirt on their company, and now I'm a free advertisment for boycotting nestle. I pretty much bring up how dogshit and unhumane and criminally unethical they are on a daily basis.

Also, did you know that the guy Kelloggs is named for was a proponent of circumcision because it was supposed to make it to where your kids can't mastrubate?

Did you know that most chocolate and sugar are farmed using slave labor?

Did you know that asparatame, the leading artificial sweetener for diet drinks, is wayyyy worse for you than actual sugar?

Dont advertise to me or i will make it my lifes mission to sabotage your company in every way i possibly can.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

This might make you feel better, but the Kellogg's company was co-founded by two brothers, one a batshit puritan that thought masturbation, or anything that was enjoyable for that matter, was sin and one who didn't really care about that but thought easy breakfasts were a great product to sell.

The crazy one was so focused on keeping their products as bland as possible because sugar was also a sin that he vetoed adding sugar to sell more and then didn't notice his brother quietly buying shares of the company until he was able to do a hostile takeover and kick the puritan out.

So while he did start the company with the intent of making food so boring people would stop masturbating, he was relatively quickly forced out of the company for those beliefs. It's one of the few cases of capitalism fucking someone over that I don't disprove of, because fuck puritans.

Not that their cereals are particularly good. Despite not being as bland as buddy wanted them to be, frosted flakes are still pretty boring.

[–] voodooattack@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

That’s the thing though, most people don’t fall in the same demographic as you.