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the six year old, watching basketball: "is this live?"
"yes"
"aw, I was hoping it wasn't so we can skip the commercials"
something interesting about raising kids whose main experience of TV is streaming is that they have absolutely no patience for ads
May 17, 2024 at 6:22 PM
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oak @mattoak.bsky.social • 2h
amazing this shit. that concept did not exist in my brain as a kid and now it's like hey man fast forward I'm bored.
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Rhinan Laville @rhinanlaville.bsky... • 8m
Humans adapt very quickly to comfort, safety, and convenience.
I'm convinced that any human who could time travel from before, say, 1900 AD to today would, inside of two weeks, be a Starbucks-ordering YouTube-addicted meme lord.
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Oh that’s fun, you made me realize there’s potentially somewhat of a class divide when it comes to advertising exposure.
Budget TV w/built in Roku & OTA but no subscriptions = 100% ads
Paid subscriptions or the tech knowledge to block ads / sail = no ads except billboards and limited other sources
I bet it's the other way around. Rich people have money and time to spend, so having their time wasted with ads that compel them to spend more money is fine. Poor people need to make the most of their time, can't afford to be distracted by shiny consumerism, and they're more likely to be people with attention disabilities which ads are hostile to.
Are there enough Ferrari and caviar ads? No TV ambulance chasers, mass-market lagers, or annuity plans needed.
Weight loss drugs though, Political Action Committee ads… those would be relevant.
I think you're defining class inconsistently. A premium Netflix subscription isn't really on the same level as a ferrari.