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People like to say that they are immune from advertisements. I clearly am not. I like a KitKat. I saw a KitKat ad on MTV as I was bundling up to head to the sto

People like to say that they are immune from advertisements. I clearly am not. I like a KitKat. I saw a KitKat ad on MTV as I was bundling up to head to the store about a hour ago. I do like them, and it does sound good. So I went king-size. I use uBlock Origin in my browser. I run a chatroom and this afternoon a guy in the room was bitching that McDonalds fucked up the sauce he was supposed to get with his nuggets. This resulted in me wanting McDonalds chicken nuggets and explaining why and in the end led to a few other people acknowledging they are shit and still wanting them. My point is that even nuggets that were not advertised to us and just a random dude posting he had some for lunch made us want them. And he posted that getting them was a negative experience.

mtgx 9y ago
Well, for sweets there's also the sugar addiction that comes into play and causes sugar cravings. I used to buy all the sweets that I wanted to try every time I went into a store and was even somewhat hungry. If I would eat beforehand, I would hardly want to try any but I did my best to avoid the sweets aisles, too. I'm guessing you don't enter a store and can't wait to buy the detergent you saw on TV. At least, I don't do that. I tend to pick the detergent that I've seen works best from trial and error for the least amount of money. I also stock-up on plenty of it when there's a discount, and then when I'm starting to run out of it, I wait until there's another discount and get it then, even if I still have some left from before.
- dagw 9y ago
  I'm guessing you don't enter a store and can't wait to buy the detergent you saw on TV. At least, I don't do that. I buy the same detergent I bought last time, which I bought because it was what I bought the time before that...But at some point, years and years ago, I almost certainly picked up that detergent because I recognized the brand from some ad.
  - Fnoord 9y ago
    That's not how I shop. I buy what's on sale, or some luxury (such as washing powder which is less bad for environment, or a luxury grocery). Rest is what I already buy. For expensive items I read reviews first. Wanna sell to me? Get good reviews. Wanna annoy me by wasting my time about shit I do not need? Advertise
cup-of-tea 9y ago
Yeah. The junk food doesn't appeal to me, but I've certainly cooked something for dinner because I heard someone mention it during the day at work or something. Some advertising is meant to make you aware of something new but much of it is just to remind you of the existence of something you already like.
- ourmandave 9y ago
  ...remind you of the existence of something you already like. That's why they run Subway ads on TV at night. So you'll remember them the next day when thinking about where to go for lunch.
Jedi72 9y ago
Advertising attempts to influence your sub-conscious decision making, so one tactic I employ is to consciously blacklist companies whoch advertise at me. If a company is prepared to waste my timd shoving their BS ad in my face why should I give them my custom?
RobertoG 9y ago
I don't think the problem is that you see an advertisement for a KitKat and then you want one. It's more subtle than that, and something more than the familiarity the article talk about. What advertisement does is to change the associated concept in our minds. At some level I know that it's only a piece of unhealthy sweet with plenty of chemical preservatives, too much sugar and, probably, zero chocolate, but what I really perceive it's another totally different thing: It's a KitKat! It's cute! It's not just a sweet, it's a new category in my mind. What I, personally, find specially immoral is the advertisement for children.
- thisacctforreal 9y ago
  That's a good insight! Ironically however, your comment has given me a feeling of fondness for KitKats–despite not having had one in at least 2 years. Sugar + Cute is pretty crazy.

mtgx 9y ago

Well, for sweets there's also the sugar addiction that comes into play and causes sugar cravings. I used to buy all the sweets that I wanted to try every time I went into a store and was even somewhat hungry. If I would eat beforehand, I would hardly want to try any but I did my best to avoid the sweets aisles, too. I'm guessing you don't enter a store and can't wait to buy the detergent you saw on TV. At least, I don't do that. I tend to pick the detergent that I've seen works best from trial and error for the least amount of money. I also stock-up on plenty of it when there's a discount, and then when I'm starting to run out of it, I wait until there's another discount and get it then, even if I still have some left from before.

dagw 9y ago
I'm guessing you don't enter a store and can't wait to buy the detergent you saw on TV. At least, I don't do that. I buy the same detergent I bought last time, which I bought because it was what I bought the time before that...But at some point, years and years ago, I almost certainly picked up that detergent because I recognized the brand from some ad.
- Fnoord 9y ago
  That's not how I shop. I buy what's on sale, or some luxury (such as washing powder which is less bad for environment, or a luxury grocery). Rest is what I already buy. For expensive items I read reviews first. Wanna sell to me? Get good reviews. Wanna annoy me by wasting my time about shit I do not need? Advertise

cup-of-tea 9y ago

Yeah. The junk food doesn't appeal to me, but I've certainly cooked something for dinner because I heard someone mention it during the day at work or something. Some advertising is meant to make you aware of something new but much of it is just to remind you of the existence of something you already like.

ourmandave 9y ago
...remind you of the existence of something you already like. That's why they run Subway ads on TV at night. So you'll remember them the next day when thinking about where to go for lunch.

Jedi72 9y ago

Advertising attempts to influence your sub-conscious decision making, so one tactic I employ is to consciously blacklist companies whoch advertise at me. If a company is prepared to waste my timd shoving their BS ad in my face why should I give them my custom?

RobertoG 9y ago

I don't think the problem is that you see an advertisement for a KitKat and then you want one. It's more subtle than that, and something more than the familiarity the article talk about. What advertisement does is to change the associated concept in our minds. At some level I know that it's only a piece of unhealthy sweet with plenty of chemical preservatives, too much sugar and, probably, zero chocolate, but what I really perceive it's another totally different thing: It's a KitKat! It's cute! It's not just a sweet, it's a new category in my mind. What I, personally, find specially immoral is the advertisement for children.

thisacctforreal 9y ago
That's a good insight! Ironically however, your comment has given me a feeling of fondness for KitKats–despite not having had one in at least 2 years. Sugar + Cute is pretty crazy.