But the brilliant part is that they aren’t selling this shit to kids, they are selling it to parents and there’s an extra dynamic of parent trying to make kid happy and kid probably picking up on that and acting happy to please the parent, resulting in the parent buying it more times when neither of them really care about it.
It’s insidious and reminds me of those car commercials where they are marketing “a new car will make your teenagers want to spend time with the family instead of their friends” instead of trying to sell the car itself.
No idea about these days as I don’t watch ads these days, but I do remember some minivan or SUV commercials like that back in the 00s and fresh enough off being a teenager that I knew it didn’t work like that (or for the ones that would, they were probably already still engaged with the family without needing a new car).
But the brilliant part is that they aren’t selling this shit to kids, they are selling it to parents and there’s an extra dynamic of parent trying to make kid happy and kid probably picking up on that and acting happy to please the parent, resulting in the parent buying it more times when neither of them really care about it.
It’s insidious and reminds me of those car commercials where they are marketing “a new car will make your teenagers want to spend time with the family instead of their friends” instead of trying to sell the car itself.
Is that really a plot line in car commercials these days? I’ve got to see some examples because that’s pretty crazy
No idea about these days as I don’t watch ads these days, but I do remember some minivan or SUV commercials like that back in the 00s and fresh enough off being a teenager that I knew it didn’t work like that (or for the ones that would, they were probably already still engaged with the family without needing a new car).