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’re everywhere. I have uBO on my browser and actively choose against places and experiences with advertising whenever I can, but it still feels like it’s everywhere. Hey, that’s a nice mountain. Can you not with the billboard? It’s like sponsored vandalism.
Everything about marketing I absolutely despise. It’s all lies sowing a hunger within that their product will satisfy a need.
A bullet is too good for them!
That they influence my kid. Or even when I was a kid I was influenced by them.
I hate buying something online then I begin seeing ads for it
I hate thinking about something and getting ads for it.
The trick is to not think out loud
The 100% fake enthusiasm, especially if it comes after buying a mediocre product.
The annoying corporate speak.
The bad voice over where lipsyncing is completely gone, this is mostly a thing of the past here in Sweden, but from time to time you get ads from companies launching a product across europe and only record one video to the ad and then translate and do a new voiceover for specific languages as needed, but fail to sync the audio with the video.
Annoying music, for months now a company has been pushing their financial services withe the same terrible ad that is a slideshow and an increadibly annoying music, there is no person talking, they just have a fast tempo music track. I have vowed to never buy anything from them because their ad sucks and is annoying.
Reusing ads, sometimes a company buys almost all ad slots on YT over months and reuse their one ad video so it is completely grating.
Self-righteousness, some ads go from being overly enthusiastic to being intolerably self-righteous. There was a new clinic chain of companies that started a big push a few years ago on yt and for several months you had to listen to an overly kind and happy grandmother wearing a company branded sweater, faking a hearty laugh and telling people to go to their clinic.
That they seem to be treated as if they’re more important than the content they’re advertising on.
My ex liked to sing jingles and quote adverts to me when we went on long road trip somewhere as a joke, and I guess hearing those same jingles/adverts now makes me miss her terribly.
Also this lives rent free in my head:
If you don’t want your summer to be lame and icky
Pick up the phone and call me
(I’m Vicky!)I like to watch sports and, other than soccer, the ads are relentless and so repetitive. When there’s a tournament or playoff, companies will make one annoying ad and show it seemingly every commercial break. Currently, in the U.S. we have a major election so there’s the most vile political ads shown hundreds of times. Those are definitely the worst but online sports betting also recently became legal in many states and their ads are the 2nd worst after political ones in terms of being so dishonest, they should be illegal.
In terms of other type of ads, I hate 99% of outdoor ads. Billboards are literally made to distract you while driving and now they have electronic ones that change even at busy interchanges. If they didn’t already exist and you proposed the idea of putting distracting shit next to busy highways, people would think you were a sociopath.
I relentlessly avoid ads on the web and on streaming services. If I find a service useful, I don’t mind paying to get rid of them. But you can’t really avoid the ones during live TV events or on a road to where you have to drive. (A long time ago, I had a TiVo where the remote had a skip 30 seconds button. That was amazing. Internet wasn’t ubiquitous yet so I could record something live, start watching in the middle, and skip all the ads. I was like a kung fu master with that button. I learned exactly how many times to tap for each type of commercial break.)
nothing 🫡💲
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.
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.
- 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?
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.
That they exist and force the rampant consumerism of dying Capitalism
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.
