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I wonder if TV commercials have a similar effect, which are filled with images of good looking people having a way better time than you are.
by francisofascii 4y ago
I wonder if TV commercials have a similar effect, which are filled with images of good looking people having a way better time than you are.
- throwaheyy 4y agoDoubt it. TV commercials encourage you to relate to or see yourself as the person in the commercial. The advertisers want to invoke a positive feeling and identification in hopes you’ll buy the product. The message is “you can have this life too”. Social media is just pure individualistic ego-stroking by comparison. The message is “my life is better than yours”.