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:

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
    hexagon
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    2 years ago

    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: