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I really hated growing up with Transformers and He-Man and all of the other TV shows that were animated versions of toys I played with. Wait. I didn't hate that

by ryoshu 3y ago

I really hated growing up with Transformers and He-Man and all of the other TV shows that were animated versions of toys I played with. Wait. I didn't hate that at all.

bombcar 3y ago
I noticed a Youtube ad on a kids video was literally a 44 minute Transformer cartoon. If you didn't hit skip, it would play for 44 minutes. Not sure what I feel about it.
- jonhohle 3y ago
  In the 80s and 90s there were multi-hour long blocks of toy ads disguised as cartoons. That’s all Transformers and He-Man ever were.
  - bombcar 3y ago
    I love the Cheat Commandos parodies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hp4Od4Bl7cE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hp4Od4Bl7cE I still feel a bit different about cartoons that were toy ads vs pure toy ad, somehow.
- smolder 3y ago
  How is that possible? Don't long ads cost the advertiser more? It doesn't seem reasonable that you could launch someone into a 44 minute tangent of your choosing.
  - bombcar 3y ago
    They're skippable; I don't know the YouTube costing, but I presume they're not much more expensive (because everyone skips) - the real expensive rolls are the shorter non-skippable ones. I've mostly seen them on kids shows (kids are unlikely to skip an ad at all anyway, though they should probably be taught how to) but one or two on other shows. There was a five? ten? minute chick-fil-a ad over Christmas if I remember correctly, about a girl and her grandfather making shoes or something.