Ryan Seacrest Makes $15 Million A Year

 

Back off, this is my fantasy. Haha

 

And yea- commercials BRAINWASH children. They teach you that if you don't get certain things, you are going to be unhappy. Children under the age of 7 are not good at determining the difference between advertisements and real life. WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK IS CAUSING ALL THIS AUTISM AND ADD? ITS NOT THE FLOURIDE FRIGGIN TEAPARTY IDIOTS. ITS THE COMMERCIALS AND THE CONSTANT STIMULATION THROWN IN FRONT OF THE CHILDREN THAT ARE LEFT IN FRONT OF THE TV ALL DAY.

 

 

I saw this commercial the other day, and some girl walks up and asks the friend how her and her boyfriend are doing, but the boyfriend died or they broke up or something- And the commercial was aimed at teenagers. "Dont miss out on the latest updates from your friends and be left out." BALHALFBHABKLALF FRIGGIN STUPID.

 

So suddenly you're a social outcast because you didnt check twitter TEN MINUTES AGO??? What sort of culture are they attempting to create? I hate everything. I'm not even kidding this sort of stuff brings thoughts of suicide because I KNOW I WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO STOP IT. I worry about the problems of the world constantly, things I know I will never change. My mind just really really desires to escape all of it.

 

 

Wow, I'm really angry. Haha.

How the does everyone see all these issues and problems and not have frantic mental convulsions? Someone teach me to not care.

I mean if we look at Justin Bieber, what role does his actual music play in his career. Very little. Not many of his fans would be able to launch an eloquent defence of his musical output in terms of his production, songwriting, performance and lyrics etc. The whole thing is just marketing ploys used to make it seem as though products with his face on it exhibit a magical aura that will make your life more exciting. (One sees the parallell to religion.)

 

It would actually be fascinating to understand what the difference is between people who are suckers for ads and people who aren't. Being immune to advertising is invariably a good thing and a sign of intelligence.

 

Advertising is essentially an evil practice as it is literally about making people feel bad. You can't sell products by making people feel like they're good the way they are- you have to make them feel insecure and inadequate so they need to buy what you're selling so they're not lame or missing out.

 

You're totally right about reality TV.  One of my friends just wrote a 20 page paper about humiliation in reality television, and it really opened my eyes as to the way in which TV trains us to enjoy the debasement of fellow human beings.  Producers fabricate embarassing stories and drama with editing, half-truths and bribery, humiliating the contestants and driving some to breakdowns and even suicide.  If you read the waiver you have to sign for the American Idol auditions, you'll see a clause that gives the producers the right to humiliate you, as well as one that gives them the right to reveal any personal information - factual or fictional.  I don't think I'll ever watch one of those shows again (occasionally I see half of an episode).  I don't watch much reality TV (or TV in general) but the things I hear about shows like Toddlers in Tiaras makes me want to barf.

 

There is no proof that advertising works because the data is unreliable - products sell with and without advertsing and they fail with and without advertising - when the correlations are positive then madison avenue claims a victory, when they are negative they blame the product, or the market, or the recession, though I'm sure some will find reason to blame the ad-men:

(needless to say, Dasani is no longer sold in the UK)

 

Advertising is like hypnotism - it cannot coerce you into buying something you don't want, it can only influence your decision to buy something you do want ... if there is a free choice of two otherwise equal products that you have heard of (let's say Pepsi and Coca-Cola), advertising will probably not influence the decision - whatever influenced brand-loyalty with the purchaser, it is deep-seated and developed over time - advertising may have started it, but choice of brand was a free one based on experimentation (you tried both, preferred one); whereas if there is free choice between two equal products, only one of which you have heard of, then advertising will probably influence the decision to buy, but if you didn't want either it won't.

 

People don't buy Pop Idol / Your-country's Got Talent or anyother promoted 'Pop' products just because of the marketting - they buy it because they like it - whether that makes sense to people who would rather listen to 90 minutes of drone is immaterial, they are not going to buy maudlin of the Well or Delusion Squared no matter how heavily they are marketed.