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.
That they exist and force the rampant consumerism of dying Capitalism
I don’t like listening to lies, and that’s what marketing often is. Lies poisons your mind, specially if repeated often so the brain starts to get used to them.
I mostly hate that they take us for absolute dimwits devoid of any kind of reflection or without a faint flimmer of intelligence.
Just pisses me off. If i happen to see an ad unwillingly, I’ll try to boycott the product. I know i don’t matter, but it’s for me.
Oh yeah I’ve noticed this tone too with them. Like with one ad, one of the Mountain Dew ones, they tell you to ‘get off your ass’ and stop putting your playlist on repeat with party remixes. Their entire message is your life and lifestyle is nothing unless you drink their shitty product. Like fucking hell I’m going to now that you’re going to assume what my life is about and that I’m not smart enough to do anything else.
It’s that kind of attitude that won’t make me boycott the product, but directly go to any marketer to personally tell them off.
Their existence is a waste of time. If I wanted to but a Big Mac, I’ll go and fucking buy one. No ad is going to make me do that.
During the pandemic I was trying to buy a new car since I’d moved further away from my job and needed one for the first tune in years. So many car ads, but every dealership I called “oh, we won’t have stock for another 6-8 months”. Well then stop advertising your cars!
And just generally; I know products exist. I’m aware that I can but a product to clean windows. Seeing your ad isn’t making me go “wow, clean windows, there’s a thought!” For fucks sake.
Ads are one thing that really pisses me off.
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.
So beyond the fact that they are everywhere and the mass data harvesting that they incentivise I hate particular types of adverts, particularly in TV
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There’s the type that tries to connect their product to something you care deeply about, like family. A common one is the scene of a family reunion, sons and daughters coming home for Christmas, everyone is happy and indeed I connect with that deeply. Then comes the reveal, its fucking oven chips, or candles or some other inane shit. I know why they do this, but I find it deeply insulting, trying to tag their product to my fondest memories, fuck off.
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Second there’s the Freaky/edgy/bizarre ones. As desperarly as it can the advert will try to be as novel, crazy and outright surreal as to force its way into your head. They try to make the action on screen so crazy that you cant help but pay attention. This is a more brute force approach and tries to burn itseld into your memory, until you need a chocolate bar or some shit. There’s one I remember where a woman was on screen with another mouth on her forehead talking, its a memory I don’t want, again, fuck off
I hate ads because fundamentally they don’t respect you, or anything you care about, its just about the money in your wallet.
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I hate how commercials always seem to interrupt right when things are getting good.
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.
I never watch TV anymore, but commercials still find a way to get at me. If I want to watch an older series, I have to consciously avoid certain regional releases because they might have scenes removed to cram in an extra five minutes of ads. The fade-outs and immediate recaps that would’ve surrounded the commercial blocks are also annoying.
It’s so wasteful. It costs paper, electricity, bandwidth, and mostly, my time. I don’t have money. If you advertise something that costs money, I’m not interested.
I heard one I thought was ridiculous. You can pay a company because you spend so much you don’t even know where your money is going, because don’t we all have so many subscriptions nowadays?
I have a no spam sticker on my mailbox but brokers don’t care. No, I don’t want to sell my home so you can drive up the rent. If I’d own the place, I could do that myself.
I already go to the supermarket every day. Why do they need to shout at me telling me what they’re selling? Stop wasting money and make stuff cheaper instead
- Men are incompetent and stupid
- Same ad over and over for stuff I don’t want or need
- The offensive ads that assume I’m a boomer with too much money:
- I can’t afford to buy a single house, why would I want landlord’s insurance on my holiday house?
- I’m barely keeping my head above water, why do you think I want to refinance my house?
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.
Everything. They’re always terrible.
But the worst thing is when they are UNREASONABLY LOUD.
You’re watching whatever. Equalized commercial comes on its not a big deal. Maybe you go take a leak or get a drink.
But when a loud one comes on it just upends everything. It sucks.
- Some places show me the same ads over and over, sometimes even back to back. No, Super Car Insurance 2000, I wasn’t interested the first time and I’m not interested the tenth time. I don’t even have a car and showing me your ad again won’t make me buy one just so I can get your insurance.
- Telling me what I can save without telling me what it costs. Number 1 offender is Hello Fresh on German podcasts. Apparently I can save 150€ on my first three boxes… which makes me wonder in what world the regular price can still be a good deal. Groceries are expensive but sure as hell I don’t spend that much on dinner alone.
Telling me what I can save without telling me what it costs
ad: “Save $3000 this month on European cruises!”
me: How can they make money selling cruises for $15 each?
ad: “Popular soft drink $1.90 off per litre this week!”
me: That’s the normal price!
I hate ads in apps with a little cross…
