i used to slap my crew's tags and qrs on random fruits and vegetable in the supermarkets all the time. the trick is to keep it low and have someone to divert attention while you dance around the section trying to appear merely clueless and not mischievous.
I used to put QR code stickers on random things that points to the lemon party website. Which was 3 old guys sucking each other off on the home screen.
now that's a correct use of QR code stickers!
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
Fuck. Now there's an ad on my Lemmy
yeah blur that fucking shit out before posting. there are kids on here.
At least this advertising makes sense…if it was someone like Pluribus, I wouldn’t trust those apples.
Curious, they have been putting ads on the sticker on bananas like this since the 90s ish.
Longer ago than that. I was sticking them on the inside of my kitchen cabinet in high school in the mid-70s.
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.
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.
And then after just a couple of viral internet posts about it, it is a complete success.
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.
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!"
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!
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.
They sadly have become far more uncommon, at least in the US. I can maybe only recollect a handful of gas stations that dont have them anymore...
I've run into this a couple times and there's usually a mute button. The ones I've seen have two columns of 4 buttons and is usually column 2 button 3. It shouldn't be a thing but I make it a point to mute it every time
Yeah, that used to be the thing, but now in my area most of them have done away with the mute button. I've also tried pushing all of the buttons down both sides, but it still blares me. If there weren't cameras at the pumps, I'd pull out my pocket knife and stab the speakers.
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.
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.
Do not buy those apples.
Vote with your wallet and be loud as fuck about it
I don't like Abbott Elementary Apples anyway.
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.
There were Star Wars branded oranges in supermarkets back when ~~the prequels~~ The Force Awakens was coming out.
Edit: Got my timeline wrong. Still, it's been a while.
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.
If an ad doesn't track me, I am not going to let it annoy me. There are so many worse methods of advertising.
Hopefully Apple doesn’t put Pluribus ads on fruit. That one lady named Carol would lose her poor mind.
My pizza box had one too. Crazy thing is I bet it fucking works on some people.
Well we're all here talking about it, ain't we?
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