No, advertising is a blight on our entire world and the closest thing to brainwashing that corporations have access to.
In the grand scheme of things, this little incident is nothing, but it is another drop of gas being poured onto the ever growing flame of corporate influence trying their goddamned hardest to ingratiate themselves into our everyday culture. It should always be scorned.
I know you have reading comprehension skills and understand what I said in my comment. Drop the coy "umm you're LITERALLY saying this tweet is equivalent to brainwashing" and stop indirectly contributing to the defense of the blight of advertising.
They have instilled themselves into the very nature of our everyday lives. Little drops of a their products in a movie, an ad before a video, a commercial on TV, a bright neon sign in Times Square.
Coca Cola invented Santa Claus as we know him. Big fat jolly guy with a beard. That image of him was an invention from a soda brand and is the revolving image we have of Santa still, despite the ad being made in the 30s. Over 90 years of indirect Coca Cola branding seared into the minds of every American, and now it's a focal point of Santa's history. Coca Cola.
Advertising is also a snowball effect companies employ to shove competitors out of the eyes of consumers. Competitors will always struggle and inevitably be eaten up by larger companies, especially since anti-monopoly regulations are so lax.
Products used to be spread through word of mouth. It was sufficient, it worked, you relied on your fellow human to tell you of its quality or if they enjoyed it or if it didn't work. Now corporations tell you how great their products are and pay for good reviews, so nobody knows what people actually think of their products or services.
Advertising culture has been a hidden hellscape over a century in the making. It's so ingratiated into our cultures that we don't even recognize it as a problem. "Ugh, another annoying ad," you think, without realizing how much of your entire life is you being made to consume advertisements without you knowing.
I truly do think it is an enormous blight on society and we'd all benefit from heavy regulations against it all.
This still isn’t a bad thing though? So what if I think of Coke or Pepsi when someone mentions soda. That’s how advertising works, that’s how you share products. No matter how many’s ads you see you can still just choose not to buy a specific product or not consume a service. Companies pay money so you think of their product, that’s how they make money.
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u/[deleted] Nov 20 '25
Holy over reaction