this ignores the fact that people tend to complain to those around them, and especially if they hear a friend is gonna buy a new car they’ll say “hey Bob do me a favour and buy anything other than a yaris, their ads gave me bowel cancer. If you show up with a yaris on my driveway next month i’m calling the fucking cops i swear to god”
what i’ll never understand is why companies try to shoot for annoying people, rather than making them happy. Sure maybe something annoying with lodge itself in your mind, but something nice might also lodge itself in your mind in a good way, and you might share the ad with your friends because it’s actually nice.
I can’t recall any bad ads off the top of my head, but the good ones? Those are something that literally become a part of culture, something people 10 years later share with each other.
Here in sweden the largest grocery store chain has been running a series of ads that straight up have seasons, the same format has been going ever since i was a kid and if you say “ICA-Stig” EVERYONE knows what you’re talking about. I personally find it cringy, especially the modern versions, but even i feel some sort of comfort from the fact that it’s been going for so long and has a sort of familial vibe to it.
i have only a single kind of youtube ad that doesn’t go immediately into the mental trashcan, and that’s in-video advertisements that are short and chill and to the point, and contextually relevant.
Like a retro gaming channel that ends videos with a clearly stated ad for some reasonably priced NES controller replica that they actually hold in their hands and say “been using it for a few weeks, it’s nice, check it out, bye”.
It’s not pushy, it’s something people might actually want to buy before seeing it, and maybe most importantly it should be a physical product.
as time goes on i’m becoming increasingly convinced that this argument only exists to convince people who pay for advertisements
at this point i barely even register anything published by larger companies, every now and then i catch a brief glimpse of some new big release that is apparently being played by literally 3% of the entire global population, and that is the ONLY time i ever hear about it, never to be seen again.
It’s kind of bizarre
this kind of thing applies to so much these days, another notable example being “oh social media sucks, oh i constantly get annoying notifications”
holy fucking shit just stop using the bad social media platforms, turn off your notifications, this is an extremely easily solved problem that can be tackled in an afternoon!
which is why you’re able to downvote those segments
people always say this, but at the same time everyone i talk to goes out of their way to avoid companies with annoying ads It really starts to just feel like propaganda at this point
literally the only ad i can think of off the top of my head is that airline booking site with adorable kittens in stitched airplane suits, because obviously that occupies a significant part of my brain at all times
And i don’t understand how companies fail to realize that cute animals make ads infinitely more appealing, that gives me a reason to maybe actually continue watching it, because i gain something from doing so
it utterly baffles me why ads for context-relevant things are so uncommon, the only places i really see them are woodworking channels…
Yeah you get less money from those ads, but it also means your channel won’t implode in 3 years when you accidentally advertise a company that drives customers to suicide…
It also means you build a reputation as trustworthy, which especially these days is pretty valuable and will drive viewership.
it should also be noted that modern “IQ” tests are much more detailed than just identifying patterns, it includes stuff like testing how well you can recount numbers forwards and backwards and whatnot.
You get scores for multiple different areas of cognition, like verbal comprehension, perceptual reasoning, working memory, and processing Speed.
For example i test highly in everything but working memory, where i got a hilariously low score of 80 which rather reflects how i feel when i forget food in the microwave oven…
it’s neither bad nor good, it’s just a relative score. If everyone except you was einstein then your IQ would be 1, but that doesn’t magically make you dumber than you are now.
Basically everyone is constantly getting smarter (due to stuff like education and better access to food), so you can’t even compare IQ scores over time
just play a snippet of that “what’s 9+10?” vine
“ya stupid”
but then the things added by tubular are so vital that i just switch to newpipe while things are broken
see, what you did here by explaining your sexuality, is how you should approach it in general.
Pick whatever label gets the basic point across (sounds like demisexual is the most apt, but since it’s quite niche to know what it means “ace” might be more useful), and then if anyone actually needs to know the precise details you simply explain it to them like you did here.
The label doesn’t define you, it’s just there to summarize your unique experience.
i was gonna say “what about pineapple leather” but yeah nope, it’s got PLA in it…
correct, iirc it’s from absurd quantities of cyanobacteria in the oceans around when life got started.
Trees turned into coal, specifically trees from before fungi had evolved to decompose the wood, so it was able to just accumulate.
are you taking the piss or being serious?
i just want to point out that “threadiverse” made me flinch like an abused dog, that’s associated with facebook and thus tainted by original sin.
The proper term is “fediverse” which just means “anything that uses the ActivityPub protocol”, which yes means it includes things like mastodon, but that’s because despite their differences you can in fact interact with lemmy stuff from mastodon, so it makes sense!
Well, first of all “intelligence” is an incredibly broad concept which is better described as “cognition”, and second: Yes that’s precisely the point, these days they test multiple things so the result is actually fairly useful.
I’m not sure how testing your ability to memorize things is supposed to be crock? Are you saying that memorization isn’t useful, that it doesn’t affect your ability to do mental tasks?
Because i’d certainly disagree with that claim. Having a poor working memory suck big fat donkey balls, it makes life incredibly annoying and basic tasks can be extremely difficult because i literally just fucking forget to do them. Without my phone to write reminders on and set alarms i would need daily assistence just to function at a level that most people take completely for granted.