What fake humor are you talking about? There was a snickers commercial last year that made me laugh. It wasn't fake - it was hilarious. Had a pretty raunchy joke in it too.
cubedsteaks
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Everyone here is so passionately hating ad's. I haven't felt that upset about ad's since I was a teenager back in like 2004.
I use adblocker for my browser cause I don't want spyware/malware. But watching TV ad's is interesting to me. I keep seeing comments about people being complete idiots who just settled and they just take it from the advertisers...
That couldn't be farther from the truth for someone like me. I enjoy nostalgia a lot. So I got a live tv package with regular cable tv channels and there are ad's. I did this on purpose though. I am not some idiot who has been brainwashed. I just find advertising interesting in general.
Seems like a lot of commenters here would think of me as some kind of monster. Why, I'm not sure. I guess cause ad's are some kind of big bad we all have to fight against?
Someone here mentioned that people work on those ad's and I think that's part of why I enjoy them. Because technically, that's often someone's artwork. I'm in favor of more animated commercials too.
But I get it. Consumerism = bad.
Just feels like more like "no fun allowed"
so you've never heard "It makes me feel nostalgic and I enjoy it"?
FA as in.. Fur Affinity?
I want to agree but I live in a place with a popular local newspaper that moved online and it's still corrupt as ever here.
Enough to pay for it … if it’s good enough to be worth paying for.
I'll give you an example. I use a site called lacemarket which is a buying/selling site for a niche hobby of Japanese street fashion. It will never be popular enough that enough people would be using the site in order for them to make enough to pay for hosting the site.
So they're forced to run ad's cause they have no other way to keep the site up. The owners are also not taking a percentage of people's sales so they can continue to bring in people who want to use the site. But in order to not take money from the sellers, the only other option they have to keep the site running is ad funding.
It sucks but its too niche to do it any other way.
I just bought a shirt that has the Hotdog and Soda pic from the menu with the quote under it.
Fancy cheese shop.
Where the hell do you get food at that price? 2002?
Costco is great like that.
hmmm.. has a square but doesn't have a 24 hour Wal Mart.... Portland?
Nope I work in customer service.