by pinback » Wed May 14, 2025 1:53 pm
Things have gotten so bad that there's no way I can keep up here. Subhuman sacks of garbage in "marketing" used to be a little subtle about "if you make the ad a little annoying, it'll gain more traction" but now it's clear that every ad is intentionally crafted to be as annoying as possible in every way, so picking one or two things out is pointless anymore. Using nouns as verbs, for instance, used to sneak in occasionally as a micro-aggression, but now it is rare that an ad does NOT use a noun as a verb. Etc.
But there is one really subtle one that has popped up and taken over that I bet most people don't notice. But I'm LASER-FOCUSED on ad annoyances, so here's #1 on my current hit list. Listen for it:
Women doing the voiceover, talking through smiles. You can tell these broads are smiling in real life when they spout the pointless blathering nonsense they're reading off the script. Nobody should be that excited about some off-brand half-priced purse or whatever the fuck.
It's outrageous and it needs to stop now. (It will not stop, ever.)
Things have gotten so bad that there's no way I can keep up here. Subhuman sacks of garbage in "marketing" used to be a little subtle about "if you make the ad a little annoying, it'll gain more traction" but now it's clear that every ad is intentionally crafted to be as annoying as possible in every way, so picking one or two things out is pointless anymore. Using nouns as verbs, for instance, used to sneak in occasionally as a micro-aggression, but now it is rare that an ad does NOT use a noun as a verb. Etc.
But there is one really subtle one that has popped up and taken over that I bet most people don't notice. But I'm LASER-FOCUSED on ad annoyances, so here's #1 on my current hit list. Listen for it:
Women doing the voiceover, [i]talking through smiles[/i]. You can tell these broads are smiling in real life when they spout the pointless blathering nonsense they're reading off the script. Nobody should be that excited about some off-brand half-priced purse or whatever the fuck.
It's outrageous and it needs to stop now. (It will not stop, ever.)