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Formerly @levyafan, but the blog got autobanned with no restoration. Just your average russian dude smashing that reblog button. Nice to meet you too!

[starcrier]

and you know what? i am REALLY sick of these ads that are openly mocking people for being concerned about the products they’re selling.

Amazon’s super bowl ad where the Alexa mocks Chris Hemsworth for being worried about giving spy software control over his entire life. Waymo’s ad with the intro “the robots are coming!” mocking people who are rightfully extremely concerned about sharing the road with, or riding in, self-driving cars.

i don’t know, it’s just genuinely insane to me. “Oh, you have legitimate concerns about our shitty product? sounds like you’re just lame!!!” like what kind of “quiet part out loud” marketing is that?

[starcrier]

so this post blew the hell up — which is i’m sure a sign that things are very normal and fine and none of us are remotely frustrated by this kind of thing — but it’s given me time to think about how to articulate the SECOND thing that pisses me off about these ads, which is that they don’t even bother to address the concerns.

i feel like any normal ad would go, for example, “i know you’ve heard that this shaving cream might give you cancer. but it doesn’t! and also it smells nice!”

but THESE ads mock you, and then go “anyway, your concerns are invalid because our self-driving cars that run over children at crosswalks have heated seats!”

it reminds me, in a much less comical way, of that scene from Emperors New Groove when the angel and devil on Kronk’s shoulders are having a debate, and the devil goes “don’t listen to that guy, because look what i can do” and then does a handstand. Only these are real-life commercials. That they expect you to take seriously.

[whumpster-fire]

#saw a handful of article headlines (that i did not have time to read) earlier about a waymo delivering some misbehaving teens#doing some basic bullshit right to the cops instead of taking them to their destination#and all of the headlines were smug 'HA! look at the comeuppance! kids got what they deserved!' typa shit#meanwhile i'm like EXCUSE ME???? YOU MEAN YOUR WAYMO IS SPYING ON YOU#IT'S SPYING ON YOU APPARENTLY IT'S ALLOWED TO TAKE YOU#SOMEWHERE OTHER THAN YOUR SELECTED DESTINATION???#why is this a funny 'bad kids got caught!' news item and not a horror story about intrusive tech that can demonstrably#do whatever it wants or rather has been programmed to determine is best with you?#that's so fucking creepy and alarming it's not funny or 'ooh this self-driving vehicle helped Law Enforcement!!'#like are you for real??? I DO NOT WANT TO EVER BE IN A CAR THAT CAN DECIDE TO CALL LAW ENFORCEMENT ON ME AND DROP ME OFF IN A GROUP OF COPS#the RIPENESS for wild and insane abuse#smdh

"Look! Our Panopticar(TM)" can just decide to kidnap you! Isn't that great?

[starcrier]

and you know what? i am REALLY sick of these ads that are openly mocking people for being concerned about the products they’re selling.

Amazon’s super bowl ad where the Alexa mocks Chris Hemsworth for being worried about giving spy software control over his entire life. Waymo’s ad with the intro “the robots are coming!” mocking people who are rightfully extremely concerned about sharing the road with, or riding in, self-driving cars.

i don’t know, it’s just genuinely insane to me. “Oh, you have legitimate concerns about our shitty product? sounds like you’re just lame!!!” like what kind of “quiet part out loud” marketing is that?

[2mercia2furious]

it's called "narrative pre-bunking" and it's what brands do after researching consumer sentiment for audience segmentation. a messaging pivot designed to separate out buyers from the audience of viewers.

if the ad makes you angry, good, it should. but know that it wasn't designed to market product to you. it was designed to prod you into talking about it tho. that, after all, is the best kind of marketing.

instead it reflects the attitudes of the executives who aspire to the gated-bunker-community lifestyle Zuck has. they scoff at autonomy.

[starcrier]

and you know what? i am REALLY sick of these ads that are openly mocking people for being concerned about the products they’re selling.

Amazon’s super bowl ad where the Alexa mocks Chris Hemsworth for being worried about giving spy software control over his entire life. Waymo’s ad with the intro “the robots are coming!” mocking people who are rightfully extremely concerned about sharing the road with, or riding in, self-driving cars.

i don’t know, it’s just genuinely insane to me. “Oh, you have legitimate concerns about our shitty product? sounds like you’re just lame!!!” like what kind of “quiet part out loud” marketing is that?

[spiribia]

do you want a warm, weighted, vibrating plushie that acts like a heat seeking missile and intermittently stabs you? What I have just described to you is Felis catus and there is a dark secret to it

[worsecats]

Come closer... learn my secret...

[heckling-hydrena]

being mutuals with really skilled artists is so funny. van gogh & monet are in the tags of my shitposts telling me they love my sense of humor. I feel like roger rabbit

[annabelle--cane]

hi guys. I'm evil.

[wizardarchetypes]

hmmm i’m gonna make longform posts about you where i project nuance onto your actions

[annabelle--cane]

nooo my evil qwailties

[monochrome-stars]

big fan of telling people "have fun" when they say theyre going to the restroom

[contemptible-scoundrel]

THE FRENCH FUJOSHI: and you will put ze tips of your penise togezher, oui? and you will insert yourself into 'iz boyhole, oui?

[contemptible-scoundrel]

[spaghettiwoman46]

Ugh they are always doing this

[keepcalmandcarriefischer]

Little freaks

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

not to be a joyless hag but I've started seeing genderbent "yuri" shipping Markiplier and Ryan Gosling and I can't help but think of someone I recently I unfollowed for posting that they have an easier time caring about genderbent versions of boy characters than regular fictional women

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

and I'm also building some connections to that post I made about reading books by Black women (you know the one) and the people who would respond by saying something akin to "joke's on you, I only read fanfic 😜" as if that were some kind of clever loophole and not a demonstration of the exact thing I was talking about

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

like yes fandom is about fun or whatever but idk man at what point has your desire for no thoughts head empty uncritical consumption left you splashing around in something that's been blended down to an indistinguishable goo for the sake of avoiding anything remotely challenging. with the thing that's "challenging" here being. you know. giving a shit about women and Black people and like frankly anyone but your shippable white men (and honorary Markiplier).

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

don't make me tap the five year old teen vogue article, etc

Who Actually Gets to “Escape” Into Fandom?

All experiences of escapism are not created equally.

[cannibalchicken]

[piesollo]

I love this creature so much

[lavenderfoxboy-deactivated20240]

i wish there was more it/its positivity that wasn't just "hell yeah look at you go funky little goblins/otherwordly beings/freaks/objects"

[oupydogcity]

this is really important actually i wanted to link one of my fav tweets on this subject :>

[zizelle]

ilove homosexuals i  love bisexuals  i love trans !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yayy ayyayy ayy Weare all sooo ocool

[plum-soup]

your silence on fresh basil pesto is deafening.

[beemovieerotica]

please vote for tylenol to have her face on a beer can $1 for 1 vote and the donation goes to the baltimore animal rescue and care shelter

[cyphir-spacerobot]

Victor Frankenstein after achieving the impossible and building a fucking person from scraps of the dead: Oh god, ew, ew it's ugly! Yucky! Yucky! Gross! Ew! Ew! Yucky! Yucky! Gross! Ew!

[koiagain]

[luminouslumity]

[donkeydickjess]

That fucking chair probably chocolate too