Ads are subliminal and you are kidding yourself if you think you are immune.
Edit - except for perfume ads, those are pointless.
Ads can only do so much subliminally. The biggest thing is getting you to know about the brand for when you want to buy that type of product. You’re more primed to think of their products first. Second is triggering insecurities that make you want to buy that type of product more. In that case, you can train to resist by paying specific attention to the ad and what it’s trying to do.
At this point, ads do more to make me dislike a product than make me want to use it. If it’s something I found early and actually like, I know that its days are numbered and it’ll go downhill thanks to corporate rot. If it’s something I know nothing about, I want to avoid it and look for alternatives if I ever need that type of product. If it’s something that preys on the vulnerable or is morally repugnant or is just flat out annoying, it only reinvigorates my hatred for capitalism.
Look at this sexy woman. Look at this cool refreshing air conditioner she’s next to. Isn’t she sexy? Isn’t it nice stepping in from the heat to stand next to an air conditioner? So anyway. Associate coca cola with all the feelings you’re feeling
Look at this sexy woman. So anyway. Associate coca cola with all the feelings you’re feeling
Any ace person: So, complete apathy at best?
I am not immune they are distracting my thoughts and stirring my deep hate for them.
Ads are assault. Adblock is accessibility.
Ethical advertisements can exist, its super rare.
With all the information that Google knows about us and everything, they could in theory be doing a great job suggesting things that would be great for us - for example showing me a product or service I don’t know exists which would help me with some problem I may be having.
Google pretends that it’s what they do - showing the best possible ads for us. But what they do is the complete opposite, they find the best possible users to show their ads to. They have a responsibility to the ad, not to the user.
Arguably for a lot of stuff that folk encounter that some count as “subliminal” just means they don’t understand the language and employ of framing devices, juxtaposition, abstraction or rhetoric. We need to start teaching that shit as basic literacy in schools because once you understand them it’s not “subliminal” anymore as it becomes readable text.
The simple presence of an ad in your peripheral vision definitely counts as properly subliminal though and it’s still a menace.
I can remember exactly one ad from when i was like 7. If i see an ad i just zone out. And everything i buy is because i researched it, it’s the only thing of that type in store, or i tested it and decided i liked it.
I don’t think the majority of people are as vulnerable to ads as you think
You don’t need remember ads. You see ads, then you notice the item in the store. Remembering the ad is not the point. the point of the ad is to keep you reminded that the item/service exists. You are not immune. Sorry.
I have yet to buy a thing that i randomly saw in store. I go to the store cause i need something and i leave with what i needed, and only that.
