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There's a difference between being curious about Super Bowl ads (which cost millions to air and are vetted) and the garbage that are internet ads where anyone w
by Rjevski 8y ago
There's a difference between being curious about Super Bowl ads (which cost millions to air and are vetted) and the garbage that are internet ads where anyone with a (potentially stolen) credit card can publish anything they want with no oversight.
The former can be considered a form of art; the latter is just cancer.
- lliamander 8y agoThere's also a difference between entertainment and mere engagement. Superbowl ads are entertaining. They may be trying to influence your decisions, but they ultimately leave you with the feeling that you have your own free will intact. The mere engagement of internet ads is often just a crude attempt to program peoples decisions by pressing all the right psychological buttons. Of course, Superbowl ads arguably press those same buttons, but I tend to think that typical online ads are optimized to press those buttons as hard as possible all the time. Being subjected to that is exhausting and frustrating. Incidentally, that's why I decided to quit playing MMO's (and most video games) 10 years ago.