Other commercials suck, too. And yes, I know there's ways around most of those commercials, but for those of us that have to stand in line at banks, have no say in what the gym has on its screens everywhere, have to sit in dentist or doctor offices well past the appointment time, or maybe just want to watch a show that isn't available anywhere else (yo ho ho pending).
With that aside, really sucks having to sit through car commercials in particular. They're extraordinarily pretentious. Relatively speaking, I actually miss the 80s-90s loud car salesman antics on TV about how many horses are under the hood and how much cash back if you jump through some hoops. Now, it's some pretentious speech about what kind of consumer drives the car, about how dynamic and free thinking and primordially in tune and rugged and sophisticated and otherwise amazing they are.
And it's always some long stretch of empty road. I sometimes wonder if some of road rage mentality is partially a subconscious response to other cars existing on the road, a sort of "this is supposed to be my life changing epiphany! My epic adventure! Get off my road of dreams!" :frothingfash: thing.
Most commercials are anxiety-inducing, grating, obnoxious, but car commercials are the worst of them all.
Deliver us, o train, for we are in need. :train-shining:
The most dystopian ones for me are the ones that are just for a company, not for any specific product. You see that sometimes for companies like Raytheon that don't sell stuff to the general public but still need PR so people don't automatically associate them with drone strikes and shit.
Oil giants making ads about how environmentally friendly they is beyond disgusting, it is straight up a taunt to the people. Those motherfuckers know exactly what they're doing to the planet, the literally the first institution to receive researches on climate collapse years before it became public knowledge. An ad where they just show their executives living in opulence while calling us stupid powerless proles would be less insulting in my opinion.
There's another factor to those ads. The new oil and gas sector talking point is "we need a certain amount of oil, would you rather us buy it from our GREEN, AMERICAN refineries or from DIRTY, OPPRESSIVE countries like Saudi Arabia/Venezuela/Iran/Russia/etcetc".
Amazon does that now. It's creepy.
It isn't new, though. The 90s had a lot of "the internet will break down all the barriers and humans will be interconnected in a human network of information superhighway web surfing humans that will be better humans tomorrow for better humans. Humans." All to laughing children sounds. :cringe:
I love trains, but I remember the Warren buffet owned BNSF sponsoring the news program on PBS.
Why? nobody gets to decide which tracks their freight travels on, even if they're a decision-maker at a large freight company.