Ads in the 2000s: Folgers Coffee will make your brother want to fuck you
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Fun fact if you're into Star Trek: The sister is Jeffrey Combs' daughter.
As much as I hate advertisements and avoid them as much as possible, watching the evolution is somewhat fascinating in an anthropological sense. It's like an arms race between companies and consumers, accelerated by consumer adaptation to previous ad strategies.
You've got the old days, when ads mostly seemed to be about describing the features of products in a relatively factual manner.
Then when most products have the same basic features you start focusing on single metric comparisons to competitors.
Then when all the competitors are finding metrics where they're the best you start leaning into mascots and brand loyalty and slogans.
Then when everyone has branding and mascots you focus on how all the Cool People prefer your brand because it makes them Cool and Sexy
Then when everyone assumes the content of ads can't really be trusted as a useful metric you enter the fever-dream era where you shift to memorable skits about the product.
Then when everyone gets used to memorable depictions of your product you enter the surrealist fever-dream era where the skits aren't even really about the product anymore.
Now it seems like we're in the brainrot "flash your logo in the midst of visual overstimulation" era, but that's about where I only see ads by accident anymore.
I'd love to hear about how advertisements have evolved in recent years if anyone can fill me in, but not enough to watch them
Coca-Cola advertises as the official sponsor of SUMMER. Terrestrial radio while driving clued me into that development.
Going back though, I distinctly remember 'Ford Trucks help Drive America!' YeeYee ads rolling out days after the September 11th attacks.
There's one from doordash right now. A big family is sitting at the dinner table. The only person under 60 stands up, humbly, and starts to apologize to the familyfor somthing, paraphrased, "and I promise you, I will.." and the old people interrupt him, chiming in, "have $0 delivery fees on doordash?" and all the old people wont let him finish, they keep chirping like birds, "doordash had $0 delivery fees". The guy looks defeated. I hate it.
Like, my expierence with my family of boomers, they "sweep everything under the rug". They don't talk about bad things, therefore no growth ever happens, and trauma continues.
Here was an earnest man trying to make right, and the old folks basically make fun of it as not important as their consumerism.
ugh. fuck doordash
You are providing them with free advertisment. If you dislike them, maybe it would be an idea to excise the company name from the story.
eh. Nah, fuck doordash, clearly. Don't be a lazy fatass. You wanna pay twice the amount for garbage, do it. But Im calling it out here in name (&shame)
There's no such thing as bad publicity. "Naming and shaming" leads to brand recognition leads to availability heuristic leads to more profits for the company being shamed. Many ads are intentionally grating to bait people into complaining about them.
7up was for babies
Growing up in the 70s, whenever I was sick, I'd get 7-up and saltines.
lol same (2000s) and over time I’ve heard many variations. Some kids were given “Vernors” which at least had some actual ginger. The rest were at best sugar bribes to hydrate.
We used to be a proper country.
Beer for babies vibes
🤢 mix it 50/50 with milk??? 🤮🤮🤮
Of course companies didn't have to publish their list of ingredients on their packaging not long ago.
is that an actual turbotax ad
The fact that we can even ask...