I thought I was losing my mind when I heard Run The Jewels in a fucking SUV commercial (sans lyrics though).
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I went to a hotel and watched cable recently and it's, no joke, 85%+ drug commercials. Just endless ads with disgusting side effects read over happy images.
There's basically two side effect profiles:
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It makes you fat, sleepy, confused, constipated / diarrhea / both, and your genitals stop working, but possibly in a different way than your usual everyday hell so maybe it'll be a little better?
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It only has one side effect that only happens 0.00001% of the time: instant horrifyingly painful death.
Even living in the US (but being on Lemmy and therefore knowing computers and hating advertising) getting stuck watching cable TV at a relative's house can be a real "boring dystopia" experience.
It can be genuinely disturbing when you realize the majority of the ads you've seen were for ONLY medication and gambling.
It's fucking wild that seeing a car commercial is refreshing in that it's just an actual product.
Apparently car commercials aren't even really meant to sell cars. Their main purpose is to make people feel good about the car they just bought (and are making enormous monthly payments on) so that they buy the same make of car next time.
Who do you even advertise to in the UK if you want to sell your new med? 🤔 Is there like a specific person sitting in the NHS whose job it is to scout for new drugs?
There are radio ads too. Every single one is either "buy a car", "You have low-T and need to come get shots to be a Real Man™", or "Buy these boner pills for your sad limp dick"
You mean prescription medication? I saw in Europe they still have tons of advertisements for OTC medication and a lot of them are snake oil.
I saw Tony Hawk in an ad for arthritis medication a while back. I turned to my dad and said "I cannot overstate how cool this guy used to be."
Imagine Dragons - Radioactive playing in an ad for an X-ray clinic
When your favorite club song happens to be by Partiboi69

Technotronic got their name by combining the word “techno” meaning a sort of dance music, and “tronic” meaning “tronic”.
"Hearing a beloved song used in a late stage capitalism commercial for prescription drugs may cause moderate to severe emotional damage. If ear bleeding continues, call your doctor."
I like it when those commercials says to tell your doctor if you have a parasitic infection. Pretty sure the ones who have it don't know it lol.
You never know. I knew a dude who kept a tick on him to see how big it got. Folks fuck animals. Wouldn't surprise me if someone has parasite and kept it for some looney toons reason.
I'm waiting for Firestarter to be used to sell me a cremation in 12 easy installments.
Diamonds and Guns by the Transplants became the "woohoo" shampoo song and went downhill from there 😭

Wait till you see one of those silent auctions for a shadowbox of a record from your favourite band at the grocery store
What song is this?
Oh, you know it:
Doodle doodle do.
Do, doodle doodle do.
Doodle doodle do do.
Do-do, doodle doodle do do!
Whoosh
DoodledoodledoDoodledoodledoDoodledoodledoDoodledoodledoDoodledoodledoDoodledoodledo DoodledoodledoDoodledoodledoDoodledoodledo...
You've got to lick it before you stick it might work well for diabetic testing strips
Hearing a song in a car commercial is what does it for me.
What frustrates me is that it doesn't have to be this way. They could just start using better original music. Consider what Game Grumps and Sbassbear did for Lipitor.
Meanwhile, they're also responsible for the best cover of Sandstorm.
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