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applegrove

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5. Ad firms do suss out controvercy in their ads these
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 02:12 PM
6 hrs ago

days. If you pay attention to the ads on the TV they often try and put negative emotions in the TV viewers these days too. Seems manipulating negative emotions are more fertile grounds that ads that inspire happiness. It started with creepy Burger King King. It continues with Skittles ads and the like today. Seems positive emotion ads have been seen to run out of power after 70 years of TV advertising. No doubt the people who made this ad were counting on a big fuss over it. We're they MAGA? Or MAGA sympathetic? I don't know. But the added exposure of doing a controversial ad seems to be worth it. Once the ad came out MAGA seemed to want it to piss off libs more than it did. And here we are. The word genes is political.

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