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Irreverent ads make me want to buy things even less

Lately on YouTube I’ve been getting a few really weird ads.

The first was a 5 second spot video for Fatty brand meat sticks. They say “vegans look away” as they spin on the screen.

I’m plant-based: I don’t eat animal products 99.9% of the time. And well before I was like this I wouldn’t have eaten their product because meat sticks were just simply gross. But literally every time I see an advertisement for a food product I see something that looks more like actual meat on the screen so when I see the ad in question, it is basically the single most flaccid insult I have ever seen.

I wouldn’t even be bringing it up except for today I had a different ad show up from dbrand, this time as an image as I was looking through the recommended videos. It was a screenshot of a conversation between them and peta over some leather something or other.

I just think about what this kind of advertising is supposed to do. It’s supposed to position the product in a persons mind. It says to them “buy this to stick it to those leftist vegan cucks” while still being soft enough that a leftist vegan cuck might not be bothered by it and might still consider buying it.

But I think there is a different message we should take from these ads: these companies are run by assholes. The fact that leather and meat require animals to die is a morbid fact that our society has accepted, and rubbing that into the faces of those who disagree with it is not a good look; it just reveals them as the children that they are.

While my dietary restrictions may have prevented me from buying anything from Fatty, the only thing stopping me from buying from dbrand is their own idiotic marketing. Why on earth did they think that they think that their trolling would be effective advertising outside of the trolling website?

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  1. [3]
    stu2b50
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    Ironically reading this made me look up dbrand’s leather offerings. Ever since Apple swapped to pleather their cases have been pretty bad, so I’ve been looking for non-pleather leather cases. Just...

    Ironically reading this made me look up dbrand’s leather offerings. Ever since Apple swapped to pleather their cases have been pretty bad, so I’ve been looking for non-pleather leather cases. Just threw in an order.

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      all_summer_beauty
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      Why did you feel the need to announce this?

      Why did you feel the need to announce this?

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      1. stu2b50
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        Why not? Are anecdotes banned from the site or something?

        Why not? Are anecdotes banned from the site or something?

  2. tman99
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    Ads are very rarely about "oh I should go buy this right now" and more about awareness. For example, you might hate the dbrand ad and have zero interest in their product or company, but maybe in 6...

    Ads are very rarely about "oh I should go buy this right now" and more about awareness. For example, you might hate the dbrand ad and have zero interest in their product or company, but maybe in 6 months you'll need a new phone case, be scrolling through offerings, see dbrand and subconsciously think "oh there's a brand I've heard of before, I'll pick them over Qeesmox or Zhengzhou Dinglong Electronic Commerce Co., Ltd.".

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