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Spidow man rule (lemmy.world)

submitted 19 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I’m sure most kids know about Skibidi Toilet, the Paul brothers and Mr Beast.

What’s worse, is that the Paul brothers and Mr Beast use their influence to promote products directly to the children. Like Prime.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Many shows when we were kids were just drivers for toy sales though. Product placement was also huge and unregulated.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

I don't remember the people behind Power Rangers using their influence to get me to agree to being put through what amounts to torture for the hope of getting enough money to pay my bills though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago

There were a good few game shows with that theme.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

That’s odd, because I seem remember lots of pro-capitalist messaging on TV when I was growing up.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

We were pressured to buy the toys, but we didn't have anything on the order of IRL Squid Game.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 12 hours ago

I was playing with your idea of getting put through torture to get money to pay the bills - if you interpret that as encouraging us to get a job under capitalism, it’s basically what that amounts to!

[–] [email protected] 20 points 14 hours ago

True, but I like Transformers so it’s ok