this post was submitted on 27 Apr 2025
78 points (98.8% liked)
askchapo
22969 readers
478 users here now
Ask Hexbear is the place to ask and answer ~~thought-provoking~~ questions.
Rules:
-
Posts must ask a question.
-
If the question asked is serious, answer seriously.
-
Questions where you want to learn more about socialism are allowed, but questions in bad faith are not.
-
Try [email protected] if you're having questions about regarding moderation, site policy, the site itself, development, volunteering or the mod team.
founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Any entertainment I watch online with ad-blockers, so whenever I visit my family and they have the TV on I'm blown away by how constant the ads have gotten, like how short the segments of the actual shows are relative to the frequency and length of the ad-breaks between them. I don't know how they put up with it in general.
If I could even be bothered to remember what was advertised I would go out of my way not to buy it.
Ads aren't there to convince you to buy something. Ads are meant to place subconscious familiarity with a brand so the next time you're shopping for a product you haven't bought before, you're subconsciously biased towards the brand that wormed into your brain through ads.
I remember learning that Disney Channel used to push specials about fish and ocean life before Finding Nemo was revealed so that potential viewers would already have a more positive reception to the film when it was released.