This is how you end up with that scene in Demolition Man where they’re singing commercials.
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lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
This seems to follow a progression
- No ads
- Non-intrusive ads
- Intrusive ads, but you can pay to make them go away
- Intrusive ads, but you can pay to make them less intrusive
- Intrusive ads and you have to pay just to see the content
- Content becomes ads
- Ads pretend to be content (see Dr. Pepper’s “Fansville”)
- Award categories for ads are featured in major award ceremonies
- Award ceremonies just for ads go mainstream
Actually not sure what’s real vs hypothetical at this point.
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bratosch@lemm.ee 7 months ago
(see Dr. Pepper’s “Fansville”)
Nice try, Dr. Pepper. If that is even your real name!
lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
Oh gosh. Did my critique of ads just become an ad?
BURN@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’m gonna be real, I prefer fansville style ads over traditional TV commercials.
dustyData@lemmy.world 7 months ago
We’ve been through this before. FFS, the US has a whole event whose entire point for like 99% of the population is to see which ads will be shown during the half time break. Cable still has 24h advertisement channels.