I was under the impression that they were predominantly partisan and divisive

One day at a time, sherif. One day at a time.

@byathy think of the people that buy a garbage burger because they saw an ad on tv. Makes no sense to you maybe but they wouldn't be buying those ads if they didn't work

Its complicated tbh

I don't beleive ads effect people like that

I've never seen someone watch a coke commercial and decide to drink a coke becuase of it

Sure i dont disagree other govs are using propaganda

Yeah I realized

if people want a coke, they drink a coke. end of story.

I just dont see how to stop it on soc media

I'll say this though. I don't worry about other governments trying to alter votes because I EXPECT them to. I'd worry more if they didn't try because going down that road is scary as fuck

Without going full authoritarian

I didn't rush out and buy cup noodles because of the cup noodle quest in ff15

Ads spread awareness of a thing. The idea is you get you to think of their product before that of the competition. It's not going to compel you to buy shit though

all governments should be trying to alter the voting patterns of other nations toward their own interests. If they aren't trying to do so that means that they already got what they want

The other part is the label

@Beemann it's a kind of trigger, part of human nature, and why f2p games can be so exploitative

Everybody who criticised dems is either altright or a russian agent now

F2P games work on compulsion loops, not ads

Not healthy imo

I don't believe awareness turns into purchases.
kleenix brand tissues are so synonymous with tissues that itssues are just called kleenixes 99% of the time.
Their tissues suck. I always buy puffs

part of that compulsion loop is ads and notifications to bring back awareness of the addiction

M8
The reason why the f2p loop works is because they reward you less and less over time, forcing you to work more to get the same feeling
Like a drug
Ads don't do that

no, what ads do is find those on the edge of leaving and bring them back in

Source

Like almost every time someone tries to suggest this shit is approaching mind control tier it ends up being junk, like subliminal messaging
The fact of the matter is that ads work off of existing desire for a thing by reminding you that it exists

but political ads like the BLM troll accounts worked like that. They fed into a narrative that people wanted to beleive and their existence led people into activisim for that fake cause. That is how that fake BLM account got so many donation

So that the next time you go out to buy a GPU, you remember your old friend AMD before that Nvidia a-hole

for fast food, it's targeting kids with toys or poor people with low prices

Those people were already all-in

They just got scammed

```The fact of the matter is that ads work off of existing desire for a thing by reminding you that it exists
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Now that definition i can agree with.

this is also why there are so many hype videos for games like fallout 76

Because people want to be hyped for it

Ads have become such shit these days all about making you think about the product by presenting some absurdity that has nothing to do with the product rather than telling you what makes the product worthwhile.

I blame Skittles

i iblame the superbowl

I decided a while ago that I didn't care for release day hype, and realized that buying games on launch wasnt that great anyway. I have been more annoyed by ads than anything else for the past 5-10 years

Furthest I get is "that looks like a cool idea. I wonder how well it'll work out"

I love there's no hype for games release on linux... I buy whatever I want whenever I want and only steam store can influence my choice 😉

AAA games seem to sell almost 75% on fear of missing out with people wanting to discuss the hot new game online and feel like they're a part of the experience