Do not buy those apples.
Vote with your wallet and be loud as fuck about it
There's ads on an apple
Submitted 3 weeks ago by bytesonbike@discuss.online to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
https://discuss.online/pictrs/image/034df642-4f5d-458c-ae41-470ca98ccc15.png
Comments
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
AlphaOmega@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I don’t like Abbott Elementary Apples anyway.
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
I’m not even mad at this, it’s creative and not intrusive.
ohulancutash@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Or you could decide as a nation not to bend over and accept the insistent thrusts of commerce at every opportunity.
SportsRulesOpinions@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Imagine how much more peaceful life would be if we banned advertising.
TheTetrapod@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Is it exhausting to be outraged by everything?
starik@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Yeah, at least you can ignore this. It’s not some unskippable demand for money screaming into you brain.
otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
No, it’s an unskippable demand for money insinuating itself into your brain…
Completely different, agreed.
ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Not much different than the bananas with Disney characters on them. This has been a thing for a long time now. It just happens to be a Hulu ad and not Disney specific.
Davel23@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
There were Star Wars branded oranges in supermarkets back when
the prequelsThe Force Awakens was coming out.Edit: Got my timeline wrong. Still, it's been a while.
grue@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
They have Bluey branded apples now.
Empricorn@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
FYI, when using Markdown formatting here and on Reddit, you have to use two tildes:
~~the prequels~~ becomes
the prequels.
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Literally in the middle of the Beverly hillbillies they would run ads for Winston cigarettes, and it was a LONG ad meant to look like part of the show.
Nothing has changed at all. Tech allowed it to be even more in our face though.
Best to destroy screens at gas stations, and make it a point to not use anything you see advertised in an idiotic way.
Jollyllama@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Abbot Elementary apple sticker ads are clever, minimally invasive and I argue that this is what advertising should be.
This is a creative, tongue in cheek ad for a comedy about school teachers. Teachers stereotypically are given apples so its related.
You cannot compare this to the Pluribus fridge ads or car infotainment ads which make no sense other than “get more eyes on it”.
ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
An ad being clever doesn’t make it okay. And it’s not even clever, it’s just a basic reference. Ads being more pervasive are disgusting. This is disgusting. Is it okay for ads to be on literally every single surface in existence as long as it’s “clever” and “not too big”? Because the scum fucks in advertising firms will literally do whatever they can to cover every surface in garbage and this is just another step in that direction.
Fuck all advertising and destroy all advertisers
stickly@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Kind of a philosophical question from your response: is any type of advertising OK? I don’t doubt that advertisers can and will continue to pollute every inch of our lives, but in a vacuum this is basically an ideal ad. Its minimal, clever, untargeted, temporary, for a decent show, and not massively over produced or jarring. To me, those aspects make it OK and I won’t complain.
However, there’s simply not enough opportunities like this for advertising to exist as an ethical profession. There’s no point cheering it on or “voting with your wallet”, it’s not possible for 90% of products to have this serendipity. But I can’t say “fuck all advertising” when it does technically serve a purpose and can very occasionally be done in an ethical and interesting way. I’d rather see this specific post than the majority of banal memes on my feed.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Subaru is selling cars by telling a totally unrelated story about teens with cancer who are going to die before their prom. Easily the most exploitive commercial on TV.
Sand3rs@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I agree. And I fucking hate ads as well as never seen that show
Jollyllama@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s a fun show and even more fun if you’ve ever worked in education.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Considering it’s just taking up space on a normal sticker, and it doesn’t track you, this isn’t that bad honestly. I wish this was the worst.
Rothe@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
It’s a very low bar to set for yourself.
tym@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Apples; they’ve got what plants crave!
gndagreborn@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
But what exactly are apples?
Lemminary@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Um… berries? *laughs nervously in botanical confusion*
tym@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
YES!
Sand3rs@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
But… What are frogs?
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
Is it a show that streams on Apple TV?
axexrx@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
No those are only advertised on Macintosh
notgivingmynametoamachine@lemmy.world 4 days ago
But never in dreams.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Fuck. Now there’s an ad on my Lemmy
bold_atlas@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
yeah blur that shit out before posting. there are kids on here.
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I suddenly have an overwhelming subconscious desire to subscribe to Hulu.
Tikiporch@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
And now you’re showing it to us instead of chucking it at the nearest physicist.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Do you mean physician like the “an apple a day keeps the doctor away” thing?
Or do you just harbor animosity towards people who study physics?
Tikiporch@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I meant like Alec Newtons.
jj4211@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
How else will another physicist discover gravity?
Thoath@leminal.space 3 weeks ago
Advertising is a company laundering technique for wealth transfer, they use speculative projections to sell your eye space alone, give the pass for the image, and profiteer internally instead of contributing to the economy outside of the bubble, it’s been the case on the Internet for years and years
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
That’s kind of amazing that this ad campaign got off the ground.
Someone in marketing had to have that idea (it’s an apple for the teacher, right? So we tie it to a show about a school, see?), then sell it through the entire corporate chain for approval from the top. Then someone in graphics had to design the prototype sticker. Then someone in sales had to identify who to sell it to, make the pitch, and close the deal.
So how much new viewership can ABC hope to get from this? How much money does the apple distributor get for this? The answer to both gas to be “Not much.” It seems like a lot of effort for not a lot of gain for anyone involved, except maybe the sale guy who gets a nice commission.
It just occurred to me that I probably have it backwards. ABC thought of the apple tie-in for their popular school show, and pitched apple companies until one agreed.
Welcome to my thought process.
bilb@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
It just occurred to me that I probably have it backwards. ABC thought of the apple tie-in for their popular school show, and pitched apple companies until one agreed.
And then after just a couple of viral internet posts about it, it is a complete success.
SiblingNoah@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Hopefully Apple doesn’t put Pluribus ads on fruit. That one lady named Carol would lose her poor mind.
kindred@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
grue@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Sometimes they really are out to get you!
taiyang@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
My pizza box had one too. Crazy thing is I get it fucking works on some people.
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Well we’re all here talking about it, ain’t we?
PixelatedSaturn@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Marketing works. So many people think it doesn’t work on them, but it does.
Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Obnoxious ads work to make me put a company on my “shit list” so I never buy from them. I’ve already got loads of places I refuse to shop from, so it’s nothing to me to add another.
BilSabab@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
i used to slap my crew’s tags and qrs on random fruits and vegetable in the supermarkets all the time. the trick is to keep it low and have someone to divert attention while you dance around the section trying to appear merely clueless and not mischievous.
jaschen306@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I used to put QR code stickers on random things that points to the lemon party website. Which was 3 old guys sucking each other off on the home screen.
BilSabab@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
now that’s a correct use of QR code stickers!
glitch1985@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’ve never seen an apple with a best buy/expiration date on it.
drasglaf@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Give it some time and that sticker will be a detachable user manual.
melsaskca@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I’m almost positive those apples would be cheaper because they are ad supported. Right?
roofuskit@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The revenue was pocketed because the cost of printing a bigger sticker and in color was passed on to you.
Phegan@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
If an ad doesn’t track me, I am not going to let it annoy me. There are so many worse methods of advertising.
gamis44@lemmy.myserv.one 3 weeks ago
did you know those stickers are edible. eat the ads
VitoRobles@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Do not let them win. Eat the ad
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
1984@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Lol, never enough ads…
Funky_Beak@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
Huh pink lady’s i thought that they were only grown in western australia.
Jason2357@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Curious, they have been putting ads on the sticker on bananas like this since the 90s ish.
friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Fucking ridiculous.
W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
At least this advertising makes sense…if it was someone like Pluribus, I wouldn’t trust those apples.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Nothing new, I remember ads on banana stickers 15 years ago
SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
And there are ads on my TV for apples. I guess that’s only fair.
calisti@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
And it’s not even AppleTV.
Whelks_chance@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Unfortunately it’s not either/or, it’s both.
Nusm@peachpie.theatl.social 3 weeks ago
I’d rather have this than the unskippable & unmutable commercials yelling at me at the gas pumps. I’m just trying to get gas.
the_q@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Look at how you’ve been conditioned… “I’d rather be slapped in the face than kicked in the balls!”
tym@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
ow, my balls!
Nusm@peachpie.theatl.social 3 weeks ago
Well, I would. 🤷🏻♂️
waxy@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Well said!
TheJesusaurus@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Is that a thing? Why don’t you just not ever use that brand of station again?
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
That’s half of all stations in the US. It’s hard to escape
NavySqueal@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
They sadly have become far more uncommon, at least in the US. I can maybe only recollect a handful of gas stations that dont have them anymore…
Nusm@peachpie.theatl.social 3 weeks ago
It’s a thing, and it’s a thing at most corporate gas stations in my area. And most corporate stations have the cheapest gas prices - which I guess explains why they run ads.
Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Unfortunately, the one near me is the only source I know that supplies EtOH free gas (the blue handle).
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s going to be much worse very soon.
There are new parents superimpose ads on existing video streams.
wetsoggybread@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’ve run into this a couple times and there’s usually a mute button. The ones I’ve seen have two columns of 4 buttons and is usually column 2 button 3. It shouldn’t be a thing but I make it a point to mute it every time
Nusm@peachpie.theatl.social 3 weeks ago
Yeah, that used to be the thing, but now in my area most of them have done away with the mute button. I’ve also tried pushing all of the buttons down both sides, but it still blares me. If there weren’t cameras at the pumps, I’d pull out my pocket knife and stab the speakers.
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
yeah I don’t buy gas at those places. if I pull up and there’s an annoying ad on screen, I just get back in my car and keep driving (after I give the location a one star review and note the ads)
Nusm@peachpie.theatl.social 3 weeks ago
2 problems - 1) The ads don’t usually start until after I’ve started pumping gas, and 2) the locally owned stations that don’t have these ads (and those are getting fewer and farther between) are more expensive by a good bit.
djdarren@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
The US: Truly the land of the free, and the home of the brave.
ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Right column, second row.
Press that to mute the ad.
Blackfeathr@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
A lot of gas stations have disabled the mute button now, but it’s still worth a shot
AlphaOmega@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
None of the EV chargers have ads, how long do you think that will last?
snugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I saw one last Friday
feddylemmy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The one near me that I use is kind of weird. If you pay at the pump before fueling up it gives you an ad but if you prepay inside and then fuel up it doesn’t give you an ad. I guess because if you go inside you’re seeing ads or are tempted to buy something? Much nicer to not have to listen to the ad though.
myrrh@ttrpg.network 3 weeks ago
mute = second button down on the right
Nusm@peachpie.theatl.social 3 weeks ago
As others have noted, that doesn’t work anymore at most stations. Muting has been disabled.