There is an argument that leads us to believe that we are becoming "slaves" to a advertising "culture" which I believe is absurd if you consider how easy it is to ignore a branded ad (despite my opinions on a particular ad later on). The media in today's age will always use buzzwords such as the extreme example of "slaves" which has absolutely no connotations with media advertising. In fact are you all becoming slaves to the general media with how much random stuff and insignificant issues you love to latch onto. Personally, when English Language teachers in high school told you to dig deep into texts, some people took that to literally and cant live life as normal they must talk about issues and problems, no one ever looks at things in a simplistic way like they used to its becoming a pandemic in its own right. See what I did there? I used a typical buzzword and now I've got peoples attention. The word pandemic is advertised through the media due to Covid19 which wouldn't have become a buzzword without it. Heck! I even put it in the title to get you to read this post. However despite my strong opinions, I can find one belief of mine that may correlate towards this idea and it is the fact of advertisements on YouTube. This platform is the one I am always on, yet I get very agitated at the ads scattered on almost every single video and it will always be the same cringy uninteresting and overall unimportant ads I've ever seen. I'm looking at you "Click Save Style" or should I say "Click Save Party" due to Christmas, you know who you are.
Personally, ads are a trivial thing they will appear everywhere and may be targeted at you, that I will not deny. However, we will never be "victims" unless it is a legitimate cyber crime like a scam. For people like Banksy who think ads have overstayed there welcome, how long are they welcome for? do you work for them? no? then how do you know whether they need to advertise or not? There are many more questions I could ask. My theory is that if you complain about ads it shows that you may have bad spending problems or are easily impressed. You cannot fall victim to an ad if you pay it no mind. Furthermore, advertising is common it is online and visual they can't have overstayed a welcome when they are the reason people even know of things. Tell me, would you know that coca cola existed if only Pepsi was advertised? Well, probably, but would there be reason to buy it over the cool, fresh, advertised Pepsi?
However, I will admit advertisers may overstay their welcome in my head when it comes to the holidays. Themed adverts will always stick in my head but yet I still do not agree with Banksy's views. What I've just described is the same as my ideas presented earlier. I fall for the ad because I was interested and love holidays but that doesn't lead me to think I'm victimised. I don't even buy the things anyway.
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