This is a very softball question, it is not being asked for some legitimate purpose.

It’s mainly asked as a platform of sorts that serves by being asked so people can answer in the form of reasons for why we loathe advertisements and commercials in general.

My answer is that we don’t like to be marketed to, especially from companies of which we don’t have a single ounce of interest of doing business with. “BUY! SUBSCRIBE! BUY! SUBSCRIBE!” is regularly chanted loudly from any company that pours millions down the drain to make 10 second ~ 1 minute ads of dramatic theatrics of a product we can live without.

And a lot of their ‘research’ or lack thereof, of their product is obviously fabricated to get people to buy. That’s the primary goal, is to get people to buy or subscribe by any means necessary.

Makes me wonder a lot of the time, why we aren’t attacking marketers and salespeople more often. I swear if we all focused on a week or a month by breaking the kneecaps of any salesperson or marketing agent while tormenting their families through harassment because of all of the years they’ve harassed us and fucked with us by relentless advertising.

I bet this shit would slow the fuck down.

  • bionicjoey
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    7 months ago

    I took some marketing classes in university, and from my perspective the biggest issue is that the entire concept of marketing is based on lies. At no point were we taught that you should be trying to reach people who would benefit the most from your product, nor should you be trying to inform people what your product is or does. The sole purpose of marketing is to ensure that people buy your thing for the highest profit possible, whether that means convincing them the product is more valuable to them than it actually is, or that they need it more than they actually do.

    Your goal as a marketer is to exploit every dark psychological trick that the field of psychology has ever discovered, all of the horrible quirks in human nature that cause us to do things that don’t make sense. All of the logical fallacies that constrain people’s thinking are the tools in your toolbox. Xenophobia, outrage, escapism, false dichotomies, etc. are the bread and butter of the marketer. There is fundamentally no difference between marketers and con artists.