• underscores@lemmy.zip
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    3 days ago

    I have met multiple people who I have witnessed look at an ad on tiktok and immediately tell me “we need to do x” to which I ask “did you just get an ad for that?” and they say yes.

    advertisement works, and really well

    seriously if you have doom scroller friends and they pull a “lets checkout this thing” on you as they’re doom scrolling, chances are they just saw an ad for it

    • Zarobi@aussie.zone
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      2 days ago

      Ads aren’t mind control though. Usually they are just triggers for an already existing desire. Unfortunately, a lot of people suffer from rampant consumerism, and want to buy anything and everything.