I hate knowing how much money is spent on them so that they can annoy us with every attempted second of our lives. What, you can’t use that money to better pay your workers? You can’t use that money to improve aspects of your company, so you’re going to pay these groups of obnoxious pricks whose entire existence is to annoy people with your ads?
The ads themselves are too theatric for me to care, I can’t tell you the amount of ads I’ve had to stomach hearing through Spotify that makes me care even less about a product. They just take turns outdoing themselves as to which ad is the dumber of the bunch that night. Even worse are the ads that try too hard to reach for something that was ‘hip’ to do like 5 or 10 years ago.
The lying in commercials. I’ve learned in life that some brands that aren’t even the brand of choice, the best option available. I’ve been surprised on some of the things I’ve acquired from even dollar stores that somehow are better than the name brands.
And even then, there’s still lies projected from commercials that attempt to snag you in for money.
Everything about marketing I absolutely despise. It’s all lies sowing a hunger within that their product will satisfy a need.
A bullet is too good for them!
I hate commercials that have NO connection to the product they’re selling. At all. Like, somebody literally wasted your company’s money to make a video about nothing.
Showing the benefits of your product is step 1 of advertising. Creativity is dead.
The sheer waste of technology and innovation used for marketing that could have been better used to the benefit of humanity.
Advertising is considered “free” but our constant bombardment with it is draining our energy and ability to engage and focus on genuine interactions.
Advertising is destroying our ability to be productive especially for those of us who are ADHD.
Gah, everything. Interrupting my shows. Ruining the vibe before they even start. Destroying the time I’d use to contemplate the ending.
Nowadays, ads are just… everywhere. None of them are relevant because I don’t have the disposable income to buy superfluous things. They obstruct the view of the short-form videos I watch, they interrupt them, they clutter up webpages and make them load much slower than they should, they get in the way of my feed and the content I actually want to see.
They’re a nuisance, one that no online company seeks to minimize or control. It’s always just money money money. How can we make more money? I know, let’s make our pages and services so inconvenient to use that our users can’t help but accidentally click on every ad they see, or they pay us through the nose to get an experience that’s worse than what we used to offer for free.
I hate the psychology. Those ads are designed by experts to make you less happy than you were before you saw the ad. Yes, even the ads full of happy people bouncing around. The ads full of moving life events set to piano music. The ads about “that … feeling”. They’re designed to make you dissatisfied and depressed. Fuck ads.
That they’re everywhere. I have uBO on my browser and actively choose against places and experiences with advertising whenever I can, but it still feels like it’s everywhere. Hey, that’s a nice mountain. Can you not with the billboard? It’s like sponsored vandalism.
I don’t hate commercials themselves, advertisement itself for me is natural, everyone advertises. My problem is when they’re unprovoked. An individual looking for a job will search for job offers, which are ads. A person who’s watching a news segment about a hurricane is not looking to also buy a smell-water-bottle.
