The radio is seriously fucking me up right now
But in these trying times, just remember we're all in this together and we want you to buy our product to fill the gaping void in your psyche. And remember, social distancing and staying home is good, unless it makes you not shop at our store. We make sure that the store is cleaned at least once a day and pretend to make sure our employees don't have the rona.
Have you heard the one for the hospice care company? Or the gig economy psychological counseling app? Capitalism has commodified our entire lives, including death and grief.
Could you give examples? It's been my great pleasure to not hear radio or tv ads in months
I'm trying to search the web for one but I've never looked for an ad before so I have no idea how to do so lol. One was about some medicine for metastatic breast cancer, and the list of potential side effects occupied most of the ad time. I know that's pretty standard for medicine ads, which is dystopian enough on its own, but there's something a bit more fucked up about trying to sell cancer patients medicine that night just kill them faster in the middle of a pandemic, lol
the npr guy who does "when we do the numbers" segment said, in the same near sing song cadence radio smooth voice said 3 thousand 6 hundred people died yesterday, and then that the line hit record go up without missing a beat or changing his tone. Cool.
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I was listening to the radio on my commute, there is no link, sorry D:
Unrelated tangent: if you don't want youtube ads on your phone, use firefox and install the ublock origin addon. You'll have to use firefox instead of the youtube app, but there you go. This has a side benefit of, if you set firefox to open youtube.com in desktop mode, youtube will continue playing when you turn your screen off.
Where I am my YouTube ads are 90% some uber competitor with an annoying catchy jingle
