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There's also the possibility that the author is trying to sound natural, as we do mention products/brands regularly in everyday conversations.

by htk 3y ago

dalbasal 3y ago
Yes... Books, & TV shows are often brandless. We're used to that. It's how story land looks, but our world is full of brands. How many brand names do we say per day?
dylan604 3y ago
From someone that occasionally visits YouTube, hearing people talk about YouTube this and YouTube that numerous times in one conversation let alone in a day is very noticeable. Same thing goes for Reddit. Or TikTok. Or any $socialMediaPlatform. If you're someone that visits and talks about any of those sites, it probably doesn't seem out of place to you. You probably don't even realize you're doing it. It's just something that is a natural thing to be discussed since that's where you spend your time.
TrueGeek 3y ago
And the author going the other way can sound very odd. In the Brady Bunch there is a scene where one of the kids asks a friend “hey, are you going to the rock concert this weekend?” The friend replies “yes, I can’t wait to see the rock concert, I’m so excited”. They sound like absolute robots.
- waveBidder 3y ago
  only place I've seen that work is podcasts which don't have sponsorships leaning into it and turning it into a quasi-ad for " fizzy beverage".
- ilyt 3y ago
  They can just invent brand or band name instead.
matheusmoreira 3y ago
People generally don't mention products at all unless they're specifically talking about the products. The only excepion is generic trademarks: product names which have become so common they entered the vernacular language. In my country, WhatsApp is synonymous with phone number. People don't ask what my number is, they ask for my WhatsApp. Eventually they got sick of it and shortened it to "zap".
Ajay-p 3y ago
What piqued my curiosity was that multiple and diverse characters were learning something on YouTube. A video how to use a Glock hand gun for one character, and their nemesis whom they want to kill, ALSO happened to watch a YouTube video on handling a gun. Everyone is learning so much with YouTube! It felt strange. I recall the discussion about the aggressive advertising on YT so.. maybe I was primed to think this in reading.

There's also the possibility that the author is trying to sound natural, as we do mention products/brands regularly in everyday conversations.

by htk 3y ago

There's also the possibility that the author is trying to sound natural, as we do mention products/brands regularly in everyday conversations.

dalbasal 3y ago

Yes... Books, & TV shows are often brandless. We're used to that. It's how story land looks, but our world is full of brands. How many brand names do we say per day?

dylan604 3y ago

From someone that occasionally visits YouTube, hearing people talk about YouTube this and YouTube that numerous times in one conversation let alone in a day is very noticeable. Same thing goes for Reddit. Or TikTok. Or any $socialMediaPlatform. If you're someone that visits and talks about any of those sites, it probably doesn't seem out of place to you. You probably don't even realize you're doing it. It's just something that is a natural thing to be discussed since that's where you spend your time.

TrueGeek 3y ago

And the author going the other way can sound very odd. In the Brady Bunch there is a scene where one of the kids asks a friend “hey, are you going to the rock concert this weekend?” The friend replies “yes, I can’t wait to see the rock concert, I’m so excited”. They sound like absolute robots.

waveBidder 3y ago
only place I've seen that work is podcasts which don't have sponsorships leaning into it and turning it into a quasi-ad for " fizzy beverage".
ilyt 3y ago
They can just invent brand or band name instead.

matheusmoreira 3y ago

People generally don't mention products at all unless they're specifically talking about the products. The only excepion is generic trademarks: product names which have become so common they entered the vernacular language. In my country, WhatsApp is synonymous with phone number. People don't ask what my number is, they ask for my WhatsApp. Eventually they got sick of it and shortened it to "zap".

Ajay-p 3y ago

What piqued my curiosity was that multiple and diverse characters were learning something on YouTube. A video how to use a Glock hand gun for one character, and their nemesis whom they want to kill, ALSO happened to watch a YouTube video on handling a gun. Everyone is learning so much with YouTube! It felt strange. I recall the discussion about the aggressive advertising on YT so.. maybe I was primed to think this in reading.