I cannot wrap my head around the economics of the ad industry. They work to make your life worse in the most obnoxious and disgusting ways possible, and they - and any brand that works with then by association - are hated and reviled by that. Yet, it makes BILLIONS and companies spend billions on it, even if you seriously piss off your potential clients doing that (BMW’s Spiderman ads, for example).

I don’t get it.

EDIT: just to clarify, I don’t think I’m a special snowflake immune to ads ffs. I’m talking about the ads in the enshittification spectrum, like the ones that blare inside the media center of your brand new car, the ones that makes sites unreadable, the ones shoved every minute in your 10 minute videos, things like that. But I understand that I may be inside my own ad hate bubble, I really dislike ads in general and I try to avoid them them best I can.

  • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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    because people are morons and ads work.

    You can take a small box of cat shit and in the right ad campaign, people will buy it. Catshit has electrolytes.

    • Cherry@piefed.social
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      People would probably sponsor it or rent it these days. Buying was 5 years ago.

      Subscribe to watch a cat shit in a box, also give me your ID to qualify for the chance.