Finally someone said it. The psychological manipulation behind marketing goes extremely deep. Billions of dollars spent on research to find the most effective ways to influence someone psychologically. A lot of the methods are really messed up and showing them to kids is even worse.
As a GenXer, I remember finding out certain ads were not allowed until after 9pm something like that. Growing up in the 80s and 90s the commercials were as popular and memorable as the shows we watched. Nickelodeon never aired pg13 to R rated movie trailers, ever. The Disney Channel didn’t have commercials at all for about a decade I believe. I get what this guy is saying, my kids are adults, 26,24,18. But I remember covering their eyes on certain things, especially our youngest, she got nightmares very easily.
It's been one of the core things I've taught my kid to question and reject being advertised to. Could they still be a victim? Absolutely, but we talk about it often. At a 6 year old, they would quote commercials on the radio and make fun of all of them. I wish I could do this with every child.
I've introduced them to what the current scams are, door to door salesmen goals, AI images that try to look real, and although they aren't on social media, I'm prepping them to understand that almost everything they watch COULD be a subtle advertisement.
As an adult, there are some commercials that are too much for me, the Sarah McLachlan animal ones... children shouldn't be subjected to any of this shit. 💙
100% there should not be commercials for prescribed medications. You shouldn’t be asking your doctor if you can take something. Your doctor should be doing what is best
I would say they shouldn’t be targeted. You can’t just say they can’t be exposed to it because there is literally no way to enforce that without just say no more ads ever.
Yeah I don't think it's immediately practical or anything, but I do think on more of a broad social level we should limit ads generally and of course ban targeting children and advertising drugs. As a parent right now how it is, yes, it's definitely just not possible to control that beyond a certain point.
But if everyone has to teach their children to be wary of advertising, why not regulate it a little more tightly? It's not exactly a force of nature or just a fella making his way about. It's a behemoth industry that has grown to the point of being able to influence its regulation independent of the interest of the public. And I don't like them.
Lol. Yeah now imagine if the people who stood to profit the most controlled the creation and enforcement of the laws that protect society from their influence. There would be crazy stuff like commercials for pharmaceuticals instead of your doctor just prescribing what you need. There'd be intentional subliminal messaging aimed at the developing minds of children. We would have services that we already pay for be inundated with ads after we've been coaxed into a subscription. Every single place you looked would be an ad. Millions of gallons of water and KWh of power would just go to showing us ads for things we don't need...
We don't have a free market. The invisible hand thing is a lie sold to goobers who think that capitalism is the most natural state of humanity. The invisible hand is the whims of like 10 people and they don't give a fuck about anyone else. They would burn us all alive for a dollar and you think freedom is letting them brainwash children to buy plastic shit. Great work.
There’s a reason you don’t see uncensored sex or drug use in commercials do you think that would be okay? What if a company used real photos of crime scenes or torture to grab your attention? Their is a line to be drawn somewhere and regulation is completely necessary.
So with targeted ads, known gamblers or people with lower credit scores getting targeted with ads for gambling would be government overreach if that was restricted or stopped. Something that would actively help society and the economy and the people involved is considered overreach is crazy.
But in a society where it's getting to be the majority(if nothing changes in the next 15-30 years) that are financially illiterate because there isn't mandatory education on that front, it will eventually become that most people get fucked. Money won't be put into meaningful avenues that can be put back into society. This then affects people that didn't irresponsibly spend their money.
That's also like saying that people can bust monopolies. The government can, but as individuals almost nobody can stop the only company that gives out a necessity.
So you suggest government intervention to protect low-IQ adults from advertisements. If you’re an adult and you let an advertisement influence you to the point of action, you deserve it. Also, there’s more resources available than ever for people to learn about finances. Financial illiteracy is no longer an excuse past the age of 18. You can learn about finances if you want to.
I suggest government intervention from targeted, predatory, and immoral ads. To ignore that people have different intelligence levels is extremely ignorant. But if they start all spending their money on tiktok shop and nobody addresses where wealth goes, it diminishes circulation of money within the US for example. Just because there is more resources about financial literacy, doesn't mean they're appealing. The most appealing ways(which are scams) are targeting people who don't know better. This per person does not affect you, but when it affects 100,000's of thousands, it does affect you. I prefer to have more wealth within the country I reside, is it selfish or wrong to want that? It would affect my way of living(not by a ton, but some) if more people could be spending their money in which it will circulate to local or domestic markets.
So are food safety regulations, which is why there are so many recalls happening rn. But at least that way the government isn't helping.Thanks to conservatives across the nation for the diarrhea parasite btw. Not the one in the Oval Office, the other one.
When are y'all gonna realize that the government is so shitty because you vote for the people who make it that way on purpose. They undermine and underfund and then point to how bad it is like they didn't directly vote against it working properly. They make you a shit sandwich, blame it having shit in it on the overworked server, you say thanks and take a bite and then start shitbreath complaining to the server who's just trying to keep things rolling. Stop gladly swallowing shit and blaming the wrong people like an absolute rube so we can move on with our lives and stop wondering stupidly aloud why people aren't having kids and doewannawerkenymor.
It's not about being dumb. Ads are intentionally manipulative. We regulate what can be advertised and how honest companies can be in certain ways already, it just hasn't really been updated for the current era of technology and wasn't sufficient to begin with.
They aren't really informing the consumer in a way that matters to them. They are a form of mental, sonic and visual brain pollution that has become a multi-billion dollar waste of resources just to annoy ourselves into gambling, or buying and wasting more plastic crap and pharmaceuticals. It's disgusting and we should tolerate being advertised to at the absolute bare minimum.
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u/AstronautExcellent17 1d ago
Children shouldn't be exposed to advertisements at all, and many advertising techniques aimed at adults shouldn't be legal either.