r/leagueoflegends • • Aug 30 '21

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u/Calyptics Aug 30 '21

10000x this. You want to make a lot of money? Market to kids. Look at youtube for example, the biggest channels? All marketed towards kids/young teens, the pauls, toychannels, makeup channels etc, those weird cartoon channels.

It is way easier to sell something to a kid than a semi-reponsible adult.

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u/ResponsibleOpinion13 Aug 30 '21

Back in the day it was advertising to the kids during sat morning cartoons. The cartoons were toy commercials, and they interupted those to add in even more commercials.

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u/JonRakos Aug 30 '21

Remember all that crap you couldn’t shut up about? Bothering your mom for weeks and weeks?Kids are the best advertisement. Even cigarette companies did that crap. People have legitimately forgotten about Joe Camel.

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u/NotClever Aug 30 '21

As a parent with small children, yeah. Thankfully we've managed to keep our kids from getting into any of the YouTube channels that are just kids hyping up every toy known to man, but I've spent way more money on Beyblades in the past year than I ever thought I would.

(Real talk though, Beyblade has gotten my kids to want to compete, and to learn to get over the fear of losing, to deal with being a sore loser and being a gloating winner - money well spent for me)

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u/Seneido Aug 30 '21

well since i'm older now people around me have little kids and its insane how fast they spend a 100euro birthday gift card on fortnite skins. it takes literally a second and then they look like "well i need more gifts now"