If you see a bunch of otherwise normal people with the same odd behavior then you are probably seeing the effects of a marketing campign. The effects can last for years, even decades.

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• Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I (straight male) think a woman smoking a cigarette is really really hot. Like it turns me feral when I see it.

  I have to constantly remind myself that is just marketing from cigarette companies haha

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  • Irelephant@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Motorbikes are only considered cool because of propaganda marketing.

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    • Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Motorbikes are considered cool cause they’re fun as fuck to ride

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That sounds pretty disgusting honestly

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    • Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah, but it’s really hot ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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    • chuymatt@startrek.website ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It is.

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  • fujiwara@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Based

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• I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  About a century, actually. Marketing began in the US after WWII when we suddenly had the ability to create more products than people needed. People needed to be convinced to buy shit they didn’t need, and thus marketing was invented.

  The first notable marketing campaign was cigarettes for ladies in 1929. Cigarette companies were missing a whole section of consumers because women weren’t supposed to smoke, especially in public. A group of beautiful young models were hired to smoke cigarettes at a big important parade that was going to get lots of coverage in the newspaper. A reporter was paid to “report” on their “carefree” and “liberated” manner as they smoked “torches of freedom” out at the festivities. Equality, feminism, yay!

  Associating male virility with vehicle choice was next. Both were brain children of Sigmund Freud’s nephew, Edward Bernays, who was very interested in his uncle’s ideas about people’s actions being influenced by their subconscious mind, before it was popular in America.

  This is a four hour documentary about the social manipulation of the last century, including the above, getting young progressives to vote for Regan in the 80s and much more. Century of the Self (BBC 2002)

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  • victorz@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Marketing began in the US after WWII […].The first notable marketing campaign was […] in 1929.

    🤔

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    • Viskio_Neta_Kafo@lemm.ee ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Obviously B.S.

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    • I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      😂 fixed

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    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Damn. I was just about to reply the same thing. But instead of an emoji, I was going to say “Pick one!”

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• Archangel1313@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  “WHATZAAAAAAAAAP!!!”

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  • Atherel@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I brought fish 🐟

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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    AND A 3D BY THOSE DAMN DUDDLEYS!!!

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It could also just be the beginning of a fad.

  Fidget spinners were uncommon and kinda weird before they really took off.

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  • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    A lot of ‘word of mouth’ fads are initiated by clever marketing pretending to be word of mouth or something other than marketing.

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    • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I really should have used a better example like a tiktok dance/challenge instead of a physical product.

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    • partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I don’t think the “Harlem Shake” had commercial interests. Whole was making money off of that?

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  • orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    You think fidget spinners apparated from thin air?

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    • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Obviously not.

      They’re created through alchemy.

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• DrBob@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Or theatre students. They used to send them out to act weird in public to get over feeling self conscious.

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  • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Are you sure that’s not just the innate weirdness of theatre students you’re seeing?

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    • DrBob@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Midday on the subway. I knew someone who attended that school and it was literally part of intro performance.

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• Irelephant@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Motorbikes are only considered cool because of propaganda marketing.

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  • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Nothing is cooler than getting rid of cars in favor of more efficient transportation.

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    • Irelephant@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I like bikes in general, but motorbikes wouldn’t be half as popular if they weren’t marketed the way they are.

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• rainrain@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  In all likelihood some of your own ideas were put there by a marketing department. Not because it’s good or right or useful but because they were hired to do it.

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  • NOT_RICK@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Looks at Pokemon

    You can take pikachu from my cold dead hands

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    • Ledericas@lemm.ee ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Scalpers and “investors” are starting to fight people for the product, and they will probably pry it out of your dead hands.

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  • JustAThought@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I’m looking at you, Santa.

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    • Quill7513@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Manipulates you into going to the toy store and seeing that there is a boy’s section and girl’s section. And they are separate. Because there are two genders and they are in binary opposition to each other.

      Marketing, propaganda, and politics is everything that you engage with all of the time. Any time you are in a group of three friends and you have to make a decision, the process by which you do it will be political in nature. The conclusion you reach will be based on the cultural context of the propaganda you were steeped in.

      With this knowledge you can analyze the everyday politics and propaganda you encounter that you never even think about. You can make small changes to the politics you present and the propaganda you spread in the world. Every decision and action you take influences the people around you and all of that ripples out into the world. Something you do can inspire another person to act in a way that you would be inspired by. You may take an action and someone sees you and says “Yeah I’ve been feeling that, too! I was just too alone to say it, but now I know other people are out there”

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• gencha@lemm.ee ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Social Media, just like all media, does not exist to “earn money with ads”, or even profile you. It is about being able to influence you through controlling the availability of content you don’t even realize. It doesn’t matter if you interact. All the other bullshit is intentionally published to distract, on media. Chat bots have a bias. They don’t exist to help you. They exist to control the responses.

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  • rainrain@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What percentage of the chatters here are bots? Reddit? Facebook?

    Just out of yr ass guess.

    I’ve come up against some strong dominant - paradigm - preserving responses a lot. So I wonder bot or just normal people.

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• Dagwood222@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  [off topic?]

  “The Source Of The Nile” by Avram Davidson. Science fiction short story.

  Ad man is always looking for the next big thing. One day he notices some kids wearing their sneakers cut up. A few days later he realizes that the fad has exploded. He patiently tracks down where the fad started. It turns out there’s one family that starts all the fads. It’s never explained why or how, just that somehow these people are the ones who decide what’s going to be popular for the rest of the world.

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• Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Alright, boys. Hear me out. You cut a hole on the inside of your pocket, put on your pants, then pull your penis through the hole so that it is emerging and/or hanging out of your pocket.

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• WhatSay@slrpnk.net ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I like this podcast about this subject

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• rainrain@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  People who love to drive longs distances. People who love mayonnaise. People who react strongly at the mention of drugs.

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  • Lodespawn@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Wait, what’s wrong with mayonnaise?

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    • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Don’t get me fucking started

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    • rainrain@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Nothing. But there’s this segment of the boomer generation that’s notoriously obsessed with it. They put it on everything.

      No doubt they all got exposed to the same tv commercial and it took.

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  • CosmoNova@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I was scrolling down to actually read some examples and those are it? Seriously?

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    • rainrain@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      A little help would be nice.

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