Advertising is a company laundering technique for wealth transfer, they use speculative projections to sell your eye space alone, give the pass for the image, and profiteer internally instead of contributing to the economy outside of the bubble, it's been the case on the Internet for years and years
this post was submitted on 13 Dec 2025
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Fuck. Now there's an ad on my Lemmy
yeah blur that fucking shit out before posting. there are kids on here.
That's kind of amazing that this ad campaign got off the ground.
Someone in marketing had to have that idea (it's an apple for the teacher, right? So we tie it to a show about a school, see?), then sell it through the entire corporate chain for approval from the top. Then someone in graphics had to design the prototype sticker. Then someone in sales had to identify who to sell it to, make the pitch, and close the deal.
So how much new viewership can ABC hope to get from this? How much money does the apple distributor get for this? The answer to both gas to be "Not much." It seems like a lot of effort for not a lot of gain for anyone involved, except maybe the sale guy who gets a nice commission.
It just occurred to me that I probably have it backwards. ABC thought of the apple tie-in for their popular school show, and pitched apple companies until one agreed.
Welcome to my thought process.
I'm almost positive those apples would be cheaper because they are ad supported. Right?
The revenue was pocketed because the cost of printing a bigger sticker and in color was passed on to you.
Lol, never enough ads...
Is it a show that streams on Apple TV?
No those are only advertised on Macintosh
Considering it's just taking up space on a normal sticker, and it doesn't track you, this isn't that bad honestly. I wish this was the worst.
It's a very low bar to set for yourself.
Abbot Elementary apple sticker ads are clever, minimally invasive and I argue that this is what advertising should be.
This is a creative, tongue in cheek ad for a comedy about school teachers. Teachers stereotypically are given apples so its related.
You cannot compare this to the Pluribus fridge ads or car infotainment ads which make no sense other than "get more eyes on it".
An ad being clever doesn’t make it okay. And it’s not even clever, it’s just a basic reference. Ads being more pervasive are disgusting. This is disgusting. Is it okay for ads to be on literally every single surface in existence as long as it’s “clever” and “not too big”? Because the scum fucks in advertising firms will literally do whatever they can to cover every surface in garbage and this is just another step in that direction.
Fuck all advertising and destroy all advertisers. They will destroy everything in their path otherwise
Subaru is selling cars during the holiday season by telling a totally unrelated story about teens with cancer who are going to die before their prom. Easily the most exploitive commercial on TV.
Why is it not ok?
it probably would be fine in a time were advertisements weren't tied with cancer in favorability polls. nevertheless here we are and it is NOT ok.
Kind of a philosophical question from your response: is any type of advertising OK? I don't doubt that advertisers can and will continue to pollute every inch of our lives, but in a vacuum this is basically an ideal ad. Its minimal, clever, untargeted, temporary, for a decent show, and not massively over produced or jarring. To me, those aspects make it OK and I won't complain.
However, there's simply not enough opportunities like this for advertising to exist as an ethical profession. There's no point cheering it on or "voting with your wallet", it's not possible for 90% of products to have this serendipity. But I can't say "fuck all advertising" when it does technically serve a purpose and can very occasionally be done in an ethical and interesting way. I'd rather see this specific post than the majority of banal memes on my feed.
Consensual advertising is ok. You make a website for your business that I visit because I search for or advertise in the yellow pages or whatever it is fine. I sought out information and you are listed in a directory.
The problem of course is gaming these systems. SEO and shit. Some people will pay a great deal of money to be listed first. What’s fair? Is alphabetical fair? Does that give an advantage to “Aaron”? I don’t know. But we aren’t even at the point where this is a real discussion so it doesn’t matter I guess.
Otherwise the advertising profession has consistently shown that they have no ethics whatsoever and if you give them an inroad into your thing they will overtake and destroy it. The radio, newspaper, tv, internet, outdoors, literally everything. All the privacy concerns we have online tie back to advertising fucks and government overreach.
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I've never seen an apple with a best buy/expiration date on it.
Give it some time and that sticker will be a detachable user manual.
Do not buy those apples.
Vote with your wallet and be loud as fuck about it
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I'd rather have this than the unskippable & unmutable commercials yelling at me at the gas pumps. I'm just trying to get gas.
Look at how you've been conditioned... "I'd rather be slapped in the face than kicked in the balls!"
ow, my balls!
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One more reason I'm happy EVs exist. No ads at my home charger.
Yet
Only my smart fridge, vacuum cleaner, phone, A/C control panel, front door smart lock, and reclining bed. But not in my dreams!
Stellantis just got in hot water for pushing ads to the screens in Jeep and Chrysler cars. So... Just you wait. Even if it doesn't show you ads now, they can always update it.
Define "define got water" here because all I recall is people complaining. I have not heard that they faced and consequences.
Only brand loyal customers are buying those teash brands. Ads isn't going to effect sales.
not limited to EVs though
but yes, this is one reason I won't buy a car with tech like that
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Is that a thing? Why don't you just not ever use that brand of station again?
That’s half of all stations in my neck of the US. It’s hard to escape
Same, so I go to the other half. They tend to be the smaller owner-operated ones, so if I go inside to buy something, I mention how much I appreciate the lack of ads and that that’s why I go there.
If it's only half, then you have a choice.
If i have to stop unexpectedly and it's one with ads, I'm putting $5 and bouncing to another one i prefer.
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If an ad doesn't track me, I am not going to let it annoy me. There are so many worse methods of advertising.
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Not much different than the bananas with Disney characters on them. This has been a thing for a long time now. It just happens to be a Hulu ad and not Disney specific.
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And now you're showing it to us instead of chucking it at the nearest physicist.
Do you mean physician like the "an apple a day keeps the doctor away" thing?
Or do you just harbor animosity towards people who study physics?
I meant like Alec Newtons.
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Hopefully Apple doesn’t put Pluribus ads on fruit. That one lady named Carol would lose her poor mind.
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Huh pink lady's i thought that they were only grown in western australia.
We def have them in Washington state USA. Also, might I introduce you to Frange's 100 Point Apple Ranking Scale, a great way to waste some time if you care too much about apples like we Washingtonians do.
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