Advertising, marketing, propaganda. It programs people’s brains. It is extremely powerful.
There are dozens of these mass brain-programming campaigns going on right now. It’s been happening for many years … maybe centuries.
The effects can linger for many years. Even passing to the next generation.
About a century, actually. Marketing began in the US after WWII when we suddenly had the ability to create more products than people needed. People needed to be convinced to buy shit they didn’t need, and thus marketing was invented.
The first notable marketing campaign was cigarettes for ladies in 1929. Cigarette companies were missing a whole section of consumers because women weren’t supposed to smoke, especially in public. A group of beautiful young models were hired to smoke cigarettes at a big important parade that was going to get lots of coverage in the newspaper. A reporter was paid to “report” on their “carefree” and “liberated” manner as they smoked “torches of freedom” out at the festivities. Equality, feminism, yay!
Associating male virility with vehicle choice was next. Both were brain children of Sigmund Freud’s nephew, Edward Bernays, who was very interested in his uncle’s ideas about people’s actions being influenced by their subconscious mind, before it was popular in America.
This is a four hour documentary about the social manipulation of the last century, including the above, getting young progressives to vote for Regan in the 80s and much more. Century of the Self (BBC 2002)
Marketing began in the US after WWII […].The first notable marketing campaign was […] in 1929.
🤔
Damn. I was just about to reply the same thing. But instead of an emoji, I was going to say “Pick one!”
“WHATZAAAAAAAAAP!!!”
AND A 3D BY THOSE DAMN DUDDLEYS!!!
It could also just be the beginning of a new fad.
Fidget spinners were uncommon and kinda weird before they really took off.
Natural early adoption of a thing solely by word of mouth looks almost the same as marketing.
A lot of ‘word of mouth’ fads are initiated by clever marketing pretending to be word of mouth.
I really should have used a better example like a tiktok dance/challenge or a meme format instead of a physical product.
TikTok is just an endless stream of ads
Or new slang
I don’t think the “Harlem Shake” had commercial interests. Who was making money off of that?
Bauuer?
Or theatre students. They used to send them out to act weird in public to get over feeling self conscious.
Are you sure that’s not just the innate weirdness of theatre students you’re seeing? Especially late-night coming down off the high of a show, singing and dancing in the Denny’s parking lot…🎶
[off topic?]
“The Source Of The Nile” by Avram Davidson. Science fiction short story.
Ad man is always looking for the next big thing. One day he notices some kids wearing their sneakers cut up. A few days later he realizes that the fad has exploded. He patiently tracks down where the fad started. It turns out there’s one family that starts all the fads. It’s never explained why or how, just that somehow these people are the ones who decide what’s going to be popular for the rest of the world.
In all likelihood some of your own interests and habits were put there by a marketing department. Not because it’s good or right or useful but because it profited… somebody who could afford to hire a marketing department.
Looks at Pokemon
You can take pikachu from my cold dead hands
Scalpers and “investors” are starting to fight people for the product, and they will probably pry it out of your dead hands.
I’m looking at you, Santa.
Manipulates you into going to the toy store and seeing that there is a boy’s section and girl’s section. And they are separate. Because there are two genders and they are in binary opposition to each other.
Marketing, propaganda, and politics is everything that you engage with all of the time. Any time you are in a group of three friends and you have to make a decision, the process by which you do it will be political in nature. The conclusion you reach will be based on the cultural context of the propaganda you were steeped in.
With this knowledge you can analyze the everyday politics and propaganda you encounter that you never even think about. You can make small changes to the politics you present and the propaganda you spread in the world. Every decision and action you take influences the people around you and all of that ripples out into the world. Something you do can inspire another person to act in a way that you would be inspired by. You may take an action and someone sees you and says “Yeah I’ve been feeling that, too! I was just too alone to say it, but now I know other people are out there”
I don’t even get what behavior you’re referring to
And yes, USAian hollywood films are just
large marketing campaignspropaganda.Alright, boys. Hear me out. You cut a hole on the inside of your pocket, put on your pants, then pull your penis through the hole so that it is emerging and/or hanging out of your pocket.
or you’re just hanging out with your friends re-creating scenes from your favorite movies outside (or LARPing).
Social Media, just like all media, does not exist to “earn money with ads”, or even profile you. It is about being able to influence you through controlling the availability of content you don’t even realize. It doesn’t matter if you interact. All the other bullshit is intentionally published to distract, on media. Chat bots have a bias. They don’t exist to help you. They exist to control the responses.
What percentage of the chatters here are bots? Reddit? Facebook?
Just out of yr ass guess.
I’ve come up against some strongly dominant-paradigm-defending responses a lot. So I wonder bot or just normal people.
I (straight male) think a woman smoking a cigarette is really really hot. Like it turns me feral when I see it.
I have to constantly remind myself that is just marketing from cigarette companies haha
Motorbikes are only considered cool because of
propagandamarketing.Motorbikes are considered cool cause they’re fun as fuck to ride
So are normal bikes ¯\(ツ)/¯
can a normal bike go 170mph?
Maybe if its accelerated.
It is passive-aggressive testicle-biting bs like this that forms the very backbone of modern social media.
Sorry? I was just making a joke.
Hey me too. We’re twins.
Motorbikes are only considered cool because of
propagandamarketing.I was going to disagree but not sure about cool. Bikes are fun to ride though. I miss mine.
Looks like you posted this twice so I’m replying twice :)
Nothing is cooler than getting rid of cars in favor of more efficient transportation.
