Aggravating Ads (RCL React 5)

In reaction to the video segment, “The Times They Are A-Changin’” I violently disagree with the ideas set forth by the majority of the interviewees. For instance, the idea of a group of friends meeting in a Starbucks instead of just meeting in a generic coffee shop makes me angry… it makes me not want to watch the show at all.

We already have to deal with ads being shoved down our throats literally everywhere we look. We hear them on the radio, on Spotify, and even in song lyrics. When we try to watch a video on youtube, we are forced to watch an advertisement before we can get on with our lives. They pop up all over webpages, especially some news sites, sometimes to the point that you can hardly see what you are trying to read or view because there are so many!

Ads rule our society and our culture as it is. So the last thing I want is for more of them to be screaming at me “subtly” from within something I am trying to use as a means of enjoyment or escape. If a show is trying to unwittingly sell me a product while I am innocently and unknowingly taking part in it, I feel cheated and hurt. I don’t want to watch that show again. Programming that takes this form is a sell-out – money hungry enough to mangle the creative process and cram it to the brim with unnecessary product placement. I avoid these types of things like the plague.

I feel as if the advertising industry views our society as very stupid if they think that they can seamlessly integrate this product pitching into the things that we view. We know what you’re doing! The only way that they can accomplish this feat is if life reaches that point where ads are so prevalent that we don’t even think twice when we see or hear them. As terrifying as this seems, we already aren’t so far from reaching that point. And that sickens me.

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4 Responses to Aggravating Ads (RCL React 5)

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  3. Seth says:

    I agree with you that to much advertising in media will defiantly hurt society in the long run. You say that the media think we are stupid and thinks we don’t know what they are doing. I don’t know what they think but they have been doing this product placement for years now and they are still doing it so it must be working. What I am trying to say is that even though it is not beneficial to society, I think it will continue to happen until business don’t make money from it anymore.

  4. Kyle John Starzynski says:

    I definitely agree with you on the major points. Ads are most obviously everywhere, and they are unavoidable. TV programs that sell subtle advertising such as sitting in a Starbucks is wrong, but how can we tell when it’s incidental or purposeful? Obviously, if something is really flashy and out there, we can tell that an advertiser paid for it. But, if someone has something as common as a bottle of coke sitting on a table in the middle of a scene, how do we know it wasn’t just incidental to make the scene feel more connected with a typical audience?

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