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.
That they seem to be treated as if they’re more important than the content they’re advertising on.
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 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 influence my kid. Or even when I was a kid I was influenced by them.
Gah, everything. Interrupting my shows. Ruining the vibe before they even start. Destroying the time I’d use to contemplate the ending.
Nowadays, ads are just… everywhere. None of them are relevant because I don’t have the disposable income to buy superfluous things. They obstruct the view of the short-form videos I watch, they interrupt them, they clutter up webpages and make them load much slower than they should, they get in the way of my feed and the content I actually want to see.
They’re a nuisance, one that no online company seeks to minimize or control. It’s always just money money money. How can we make more money? I know, let’s make our pages and services so inconvenient to use that our users can’t help but accidentally click on every ad they see, or they pay us through the nose to get an experience that’s worse than what we used to offer for free.
Advertising is considered “free” but our constant bombardment with it is draining our energy and ability to engage and focus on genuine interactions.
Advertising is destroying our ability to be productive especially for those of us who are ADHD.
That they exist and force the rampant consumerism of dying Capitalism
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 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.
- Men are incompetent and stupid
- Same ad over and over for stuff I don’t want or need
- The offensive ads that assume I’m a boomer with too much money:
- I can’t afford to buy a single house, why would I want landlord’s insurance on my holiday house?
- I’m barely keeping my head above water, why do you think I want to refinance my house?
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
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 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.
My ex liked to sing jingles and quote adverts to me when we went on long road trip somewhere as a joke, and I guess hearing those same jingles/adverts now makes me miss her terribly.
Also this lives rent free in my head:
If you don’t want your summer to be lame and icky
Pick up the phone and call me
(I’m Vicky!)
