Ads can't work on you if you never see them

"These don't work on me because I don't have any friends, connections, or value!"

They don't work on me because I'm actually just a highly condensed ball of plasma and rage in a trenchcoat.

My preferred curse for journalism is that every time they announce the statement of someone totally unqualified, like Trump, they must also announce the statement of someone equally unqualified, like a drunkard on the street who believes they’re all lizard people that were sent by the Egyptian pharoahs.

This assumes you're in the market for the product / can boycott it.

For example the biggest culprit of this in my area are ads saying "stop hiring humans" for some AI company. I may hate the company, but my opinion doesn't matter. The only people that would be in the market for something like that are ghoulish CEOs who just view employees as a cost on their balance sheet. If that ad can make them laugh and look into your product, it doesn't matter if the other 99% if people hate your company.

I boycotted Canadian tire for years because of their annoying commercials with that guy they tried to write as a normal guy that would talk about Canadian tire products in natural situations... that felt so contrived and fake he just came off as some loser corporate shrill. I remember the first ad was actually for some windshield wipers that looked pretty good but the ads were so off putting I not only didn't buy those wipers but didn't step foot in their stores at all until a while after they got rid of that guy (which also sucked for him because he was just some actor doing what some dumbass marketing writers and directors told him to and it did hurt his career because a lot of people hated those ads).

Wait what did a shoe company do?

That was genuinely an embarrassment for him, and probably hurt cyber truck sales. More like, sharing his vile racist tweets or video of him performing a Nazi salute

i hate to be the person giving them exposure, but at the point where they went through bbc and nyt, i don't think that few people on lemmy make a difference...

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crwyzj53pl1lo

Converse pulls 'deeply upsetting' advert after backlash

American footwear brand Converse has pulled an advert that social media users said evoked Ku Klux Klan imagery, saying it recognised "that we got this wrong".

The photo, posted to the company's Instagram account, received backlash online after critics described lighting in the image as looking like a white pointed hood.

A pair of shoes, dangling in the picture, were also likened to an image of a lynching victim by social media users.

I assumed it was about that recent Converse ad that looked like a KKK hood with someone hanging. When I read the headline about that I thought ‘that has to be an exaggeration or a reach’, but then I searched for it and went oh naw, the people that saw that at first glance weren’t reaching. I can see how an office full of marketing people with zero perspective could miss it, but I feel like most normal people would go ‘damn bro that kinda looks like a KKK hood’.

My first thought was the recent Sydney Sweeney sport betting ad. The fact that we're having a thread like this, I feel seems to highlight the witty-ness of this comic lol.

Oh... I though the ad was the Roach Poison.

It's controversial because roaches don't share the food, they die and the other roaches cannibalizes each other.

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Um... I might be reading too much in to this. I am probably completely wrong.

Last time I remember this happening is fake ads for 'the boys' Amazon series.

You're probably over 40? There used to be a lot fewer channels, and less things to buy (less ads total) so more people would see an individual ad.

The amount of right wing men who pretend that a big number of women is outraged about her is way, way larger. To the point that I can safely call it astroturfed campaign.