| You smell bad. You look terrible. Your teeth are yellow. Your hair is stringy. But you can fix everything with our Cure-All Elixir, and you will be made whole again... but you had better keep drinking every day, or..... ---------- Advertisements are no longer "we make stuff. Come here to buy stuff". It then progressed to "people who buy our stuff feel good". But that wasn't all. Then it progressed to non-spoken feelings when in proximity of thing. And it turns out, that you can manufacture want of your good or service. And if you gatekeep the emotions of good, wholesome, fresh, clean, happy behind your product, you can tell people they're horrible trolls unless you buy and consume. But even those tactics weren't enough. Now, most sales are in tech related stuff. And instead of telling people over advertisement channels, now they get pushed to your devices. And the current stage, also known as enshittification, is also cloud-tying to guarantee captive consumers, so they can't easily leave. Cloud is the ultimate hardware and data roach motel. So yeah, looking at the recent history of advertisements is just broken, unethical, shits on the environment, and assails human thoughts just to sell more garbage. |