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People used to go to great efforts to show up to a World's Fair, which is basically all advertising. Same with entertainment or tech expos or keynotes or whatn
by Waterluvian 4y ago
People used to go to great efforts to show up to a World's Fair, which is basically all advertising. Same with entertainment or tech expos or keynotes or whatnot.
I think we've kind of binned advertising into this category of "objectively bad manipulation that ideally stops existing." Probably because there is just SO MUCH JUNK ADVERTISING these days. But I think there's legitimate, win-win occasions for advertising where you get to learn about new stuff and be entertained.
- smoldesu 4y agoI would agree if everyone could just chill and present honest ads. Instead we have Google comparing their hardware against third-world manufacturers, Apple benchmarking their Macbooks against 4-year-old machines and Microsoft claiming performance improvements over Windows 8. Nobody can tell an honest narrative anymore. It's just different flavors of hustling for different people, who think their taste in advertising is exclusive or developed.
- Waterluvian 4y agoAdvertising narratives have never been honest.