I’ll start:
Idaho - when people think “racism in the United States” their minds go to the Deep South. The Deep South is absolutely pretty bad, and there’s of course the whole history with the confederacy so it makes sense that’s what we think of, but Idaho is let off the hook way too much given that it’s a hotbed of Nazis and Christian nationalists trying to form a white ethnostate. Idaho needs to be more closely linked to virulent racism like the Deep South currently is. And tbh I’ve been to the Deep South, I like it down there, it’s actually pretty diverse in many areas, if I had to live there it wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world. You couldn’t pay me to set foot in Idaho.
Gen X - look, if we’re gonna do generational warfare gen x needs a lot more hate. Sorry to any xers out there but boomers have been punching bags for a while, millenials are starting to get a good amount of hate, and they’ve always been made fun of for their Harry Potter and office love, tbh a lot of millennial shit is just considered cringe these days, gen z obviously gets all the “ugh what’s wrong with the youth” hate and this new media cycle has them being portrayed as pretty much the new hitler youth. Gen x needs to start getting some more hate, especially now with all these weird gen x venture capitalists influencing the trump admin trying to realize their vision of a neo fascist network state
Ads. They’re everywhere and they’re all awful. Google deserves even more hate for doing that spat last year to try and prevent ad blockers. Don’t invest 500 billion into streaming video over the internet if you don’t want people to block your shit ass ads for Alex Jones pills and quacky pseudoscience, idiots.
I seriously a culture of ad destruction should be created.
There are millions of people with anticapitalist leanings now. Yeah they might not be full blown communists but they’re against this shit enough to take small actions they know they won’t be caught for. Get millions of people actively destroying ads whenever they have the opportunity to and it’ll form a small stepping stone to doing more radical things.
It’s so unbelievably egregious. I remember hanging out at my dad’s and he was watchin’ some football game, and I was aghast at how much time was taken up by ads. I remember asking him “How do people stand having so much of what they’re trying to watch pushed aside for ads?” Not to mention how many ads there are on the screen all over the stadium, the graphics, the announcers’ scripts, etc.
FUCK ADS ALL MY HOMIES HATE ADS
Especially on phones. On desktop with large monitor and adblock i barely register them if i see them at all, but when i try to tap anything internety on my phone every fucking sentence or picture of content is gated behind at least one swipe of ads. Like how do people even tolerate that shit.
the sheer number of people I know that still use chrome despite me telling them that chrome is the reason their adblocker doesn’t work as well and doesn’t work at all on youtube blows my mind. They care enough to use an adblocker but then the most intrusive ads (long video ads, midrolls, etc.) they just shrug.
And thats not to mention the huge number of people that just don’t block any ads. Ads are literally spyware in addition to being annoying, but apparently that’s fine
My version of ublocker still works on my Chromebook so I fly with it.
that I for sure understand, it ain’t broke… (although chromebooks are just google data harvesters through and through, I personally would run linux on it and ditch chromeos, but thats just me)
Any entertainment I watch online with ad-blockers, so whenever I visit my family and they have the TV on I’m blown away by how constant the ads have gotten, like how short the segments of the actual shows are relative to the frequency and length of the ad-breaks between them. I don’t know how they put up with it in general.
If I could even be bothered to remember what was advertised I would go out of my way not to buy it.
Ads aren’t there to convince you to buy something. Ads are meant to place subconscious familiarity with a brand so the next time you’re shopping for a product you haven’t bought before, you’re subconsciously biased towards the brand that wormed into your brain through ads.
I remember learning that Disney Channel used to push specials about fish and ocean life before Finding Nemo was revealed so that potential viewers would already have a more positive reception to the film when it was released.
Creating an advertisement aimed at children should be punishable by death and I’m not joking