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1. Weeble (weeble@bungle.online)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2024 05:21:28 JST Weeble

   Is it lame to have nostalgia for old commercials?
   
   My friend likes to watch compilations of old commercials from the 80's-2000's and I can kinda understand the fond memories or the more memorable commercials but I can't imagine enjoying them enough to watch a bunch of em.
   
   Where commercials actually better back in the day or are all advertising bad?

   • Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2024 05:21:24 JST Moon

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     @Weeble lame if you sit there and just watch them, not lame if you're delighted when you happen to see one here or there
   • Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2024 05:21:24 JST Moon

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     @Weeble also commercials were sometimes better but usually still bad. commercials now (I aggressively avoid them) are really amped compared to even the 80s
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   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2024 05:22:35 JST cool_boy_mew

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     @Moon @Weeble I feel like a lot of them are especially tired and soulless now
     
     On top of the now knowledge I have about the whole thing, doesn't help
   • Ardainian Hebrew Israelite (ardainianright@detroitriotcity.com)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2024 05:25:55 JST Ardainian Hebrew Israelite

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     @Weeble Commercials nowadays feel like they have a more homogenized badness, like they're beaten into your skull so you can't forget them even if you have no idea what they're about. Like it's easy to remember that damn singing power outlet but not what they're supposed to be advertising. Older commercials feel like they had more personality, though that might be selective memory.
   • Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2024 05:28:53 JST Moon

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     @coolboymew @Weeble I think it is worse but I'm not 100% on that. the reason I think it's worse is simply that advertising got better at manipulation and more desperate.
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   • Weeble (weeble@bungle.online)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2024 05:45:41 JST Weeble

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     @Moon@shitposter.club @coolboymew@shitposter.club I think death of tv/shorter attention spans contributed to a "decline" of "quality" commercials.
     
     Unlike TV it's easier to block ads online and they have to be shorter on average, so it means they have to try harder to garner attention.
     
     And yes ppl are more antagonist towards ads recently and that plays into that.
     
     My friend has a theory that Progressive ruined an entire generation of commercials cuz they were the first to start making these dumb skit commercials that had almsot nothing to do with what they were selling.

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   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2024 05:46:00 JST cool_boy_mew

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     @Weeble @Moon totally
   • Christi Junior (christijunior@detroitriotcity.com)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2024 05:46:09 JST Christi Junior

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     @coolboymew @Weeble @Moon Older commercials primarily sold products, newer commercials primarily sell race mixing and faggotry.
   • Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2024 05:46:18 JST Moon

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     @ChristiJunior @Weeble @coolboymew even in the 80s they played up diversity in tv
   • Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2024 05:49:16 JST Moon

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     @Weeble @coolboymew they probably basically took that from radio ads, if I'm thinking of the right thing
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   • guizzy (in exile) (guizzy@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2024 05:53:38 JST guizzy (in exile)

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     @Weeble >My friend likes to watch compilations of old commercials from the 80's-2000's and I can kinda understand the fond memories or the more memorable commercials but I can't imagine enjoying them enough to watch a bunch of em.
     
     I like doing the same (there's youtube channels of just that). It's not so much that the commercials are good, though some are, but that it's opening a portal into a different era. Not the pop culture snippets that achieved mythological success that we still remember to this day that get referenced over and over in shows like Stranger Things but the much more mundane aspects of the culture of that era.
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   • Store-Brand Pikachu (pcachu@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2024 06:08:34 JST Store-Brand Pikachu

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     @Weeble Advertising even pretending to be an art form died hard the day they discovered that Being Good is less important than Being Memorable, so that every ad suddenly became an attempt to force a meme into existence.
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