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Local Brand Realizes Customers Hate Its AI Ads, Switches to Charming Homemade Ones Instead (www.yahoo.com)
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[–] 7 points 3 months ago* (10 children)

"charming" ads

"We thought building a cardboard airline in a treehouse sounded more honest."

I don't think they know what "honest" means

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (7 children)

    It's a small snack company stranger, not fuckin Palantir. I reflexively hate advertisements too, but given that I am occasionally forced to overhear them or god forbid witness them with my own eyes, I would take something human over something slop-generated any day.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago* (6 children)

    I don't enjoy every company pretending to be super cute and trigger our buttons to sell its most likely bullshit ass product which is "honestly" most likely totally unrelated to the advertisement they are pushing in our face

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    THEY'RE COOKIES FFS

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    Exactly. Every company is utterly bullshitting us, even the "mom n pop cookie companies"

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Not necessarily, and even if so, there are so many more important things to be angry about

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Maybe most people are not angry enough (or aware enough) about how deceptive, manipulative, continuously invasive, and disturbing to our daily lives advertisements are. Don't let off some business because their advertisement is "cute." They just want you to buy their shit.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah... I know. I adblock everything, I would never see it to begin with lol, unless it's somewhere public and unavoidable. But I'm not really bothered about buying cookies from some small business. So long as capitalism exists (and I'm eager for it to not exist, but for now it does), I have to eat and regular people need to earn money.

    You can't exist in a solely ideological paradigm. You have to be pragmatic while working towards bending the world towards something better.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago*

    You can’t exist in a solely ideological paradigm. You have to be pragmatic while working towards bending the world towards something better.

    I am simply arguing that advertisements have a bad effect on society and our everyday lives. If more people cared, more could be done about it, instead of most people being unaware and/or delusional of its subconcious effects, and doing nothing about it.

    You think the cookie business advertisements are no problem. I disagree, even though I ultimately believe there are much bigger problems (of course...) - This advertisement is manipulative nonsense, like the vast majority of them, and the business or the product etc. is not a cute little innocent thing.

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