Maybe statistically even a bad ad skews the population on average? I wouldn't say the examples you've provided would work on me, or anyone conscious of advertising in general. Unless that can be proven in some way, I refuse to believe that the excuses advertisers tell to justify their existence are true.

The only advertising that I know for sure works on me is SEO and search result manipulation. If I need a suit, I'll search for places and usually will end up with whatever's closest or in my price range. The power Google has over that decision is significant.

But let's be real, seeing and making fun of some awkward store window decals on lemmy is not a significant deciding factor for anything.

And there's me actively avoiding any company that markets too much and every company that pisses me off with forced marketing.

Unlikely, they're one of like 5 shoe stores in the local mall. This goofy ass picture isn't going to make me go there any more or less likely than before.

I can't speak for anyone else, but if a company has ads that annoy me I will purposefully go out of my way not to shop there. It won't make me think of them when I go to buy shoes, and when the brand comes up in conversation my first though will be a negative one associated with their annoying ads because that's literally the only thing I know about them. Really can't see how that's a winning marketing strategy but I'm not gonna stop them from wasting billions on ads I'm just gonna block anyway 🤷‍♂️