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[–] Album 112 points 17 hours ago (4 children)

I can always tell when my wife is on some ad cuz it's just the idea out of no where with no context. The more distant from social media you get the more you see it influencing others.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

It's also so weird how different people react to it. I roll my eyes the whole time and skip past it, I figured that is what everyone did (except for mbmbam sometimes if they have good jokes during it. I have never even considered trying out one of the products. I always figure those who have to rely on advertising extremely heavily are shit, like Raycons and BetterHelp.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah same. My gf just out of nowhere comes and is like look at this cool thing I saw on Instagram.

Sorry darling that ia clearly a sponsored post aka an ad.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 hours ago

My wife actually buys a bunch of this shit. We've got packages arriving from China almost weekly and I hate it.

There's only been one of her influenced buys that has been any good, but I'd trade it for not having a Chinese garbage dump for a house.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 16 hours ago

My SO comes to me and literally plays the reel then says "WE NEED THIS" or "WE HAVE TO DO THIS".

[–] [email protected] 7 points 16 hours ago

Hahaha both my spouse and I are instantly dubious on anything advertised in a podcast or on YouTube. The only exception was I snagged NORB a few years back cuz I got letters from my ISP about the Linux distro I had been torrenting. I haven’t got a letter since, so I have no complaints.