kain_kusanagi said:
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It was arguably a perfect storm of annoyance with me:
* The spot was the ONLY ad I was getting when I was going on YouTube. And it was unskippable. Well, it stands out with me as the only ad. So, the repetition was beyond annoying. Put it this way, it was refreshing to see the Clay Matthews "discount doublecheck" ad for an insurance company, which I have seen a number of times before because awesome because at least it was different, and had a bit of humor.
* The spot, after seeing it so many times, is not fun. Maybe once or twice, it is a bit touching, but it goes downhill through repeated viewing.
* The political views are overly simplistic and rides on a slippery slope of reasoning. Reality is that people working for survival, trying to stay ahead and hope they get a next meal are NOT thinking of creating jobs and are entrepreneur, despite what the guy is saying. People who are entrepreneurial and will create jobs, do not care what the environment and culture around them say. Anyone, who ends up losing a drive to succeed before people "bash success", is weak willed and won't succeed. No matter where you are, as you do some success, people will take shots at you. Lastly, you also become poorer if the environment around you becomes poorer and people don't have the means to lift themselves up by their bootstraps.
* The full spot had the simplistic, "Vote Republican, because we will become a socialistic hellhole if you don't" view. It ends up partisan, in an absurd way.
Let's just say a perfect storm. It was such a perfect storm, on the plus side, it ended up making me get Adblock plus. And that then leads to some philsophizing about things. Yes, we need to have more take care of your own stuff, and I will do this. And that is the better way to do things. Get my own chit together, and now I don't have to vent about this guy. People probably didn't see it, because everyone is ahead of me on this. I happened to go with the assumption that the ads were way paid for content, so I wasn't trying to block it. But, now I felt compelled to do such, for my own sanity. But, it was mentioned that there will then be super ads that will try to stop this. And that leads me to there being a need to not have an arms race, but community standards of expectations which make things coexist. The arms race approach of trying to outsmart your audience, and wear them out, just doesn't cut it. Too bad a lot of sales is based around this, from spam to telemarkters, to a billionaire who feels a need to pump millions into ads to get a message across to people to people who may disagree. And end result is that I end up blocking everything, and not see anything. It worked so well it stripped off ads on Boardgamegeek.com, so I unblocked that site (I like seeing the ads for the games there).
Pretty much now, my bit of anarcho-capitalist streak in me is going, "See what works?", in contrast with my desire for community side, which is thinking about things.
