Honestly. I used to watch my dad have like 4 channels he could switch between so he didn’t have to do commercials. I used to think that was weird, and indicative of some poor character traits. I was a judgemental little shit.
Now this meme is me. I have become my father.
Used to have it down to a science. 03 Global > 25 YTV > 28 Fox > 32 Spike TV > 44 Comedy Network > 45 Teletoon > 47 TBS > 50 Space
I never had to see a commercial
I did the same thing and I thought it’s pretty normal. You can tell your 90s self that if it makes them feel good
I sometimes attempt to do that with Pluto TV, but they really enforce putting ads at the same time in almost all the channels.
All ⚠️ advertising ⚠️ is ⚠️ theft ⚠️ of ⚠️ time
that is a great marketing angle.
If companies want me to watch them while they pee they can fucking pay me for it.
one could argue that you are being paid in free content
There is a limited amount of tolerance for ads, and I had that all used up by the time I was 25. Now they can all go fuck themselves and I’ll read a book or build an end table before I watch another ad.
90’s me had a lot more free time, since he was a child being carried by my parents. So, my free time is waaaaay more valuable now.
Ads are a way for corporations to steal your life from you, 2-3 minutes at a time.
Brave has a counter for how much time you’ve saved by blocking ads. I have many days of my life saved.
I’ve recently gotten hit by the 3-strike adblocker blocker. Had to download a Tampermonkey script to get around that shit.
YouTube makes enough money off selling my browsing history and stats, I don’t need to waste my time watching 3 unskippable ads.
I feel less like we have lost patience so much as gained a respect for our own time and autonomy in being relegated to being nothing more than a product. At least that is what it is for me.
One of the very few benefits of cable was that you could be watching one channel, then when the commercials come on, you could switch to another channel and watch that until the commercials come on. Then you could just keep pressing the “Back” or “Previous” button to switch between the two.
Had this mastered back in the late 2000s, rarely had to sit through a commercial break if you knew the channel schedules.
I don’t know, something about seeing the same diarrhea pills ad over and over doesn’t exactly spark joy for me.
I remember forgetting what I was watching because of the length of commercial breaks back then. There is a good reason to hate ads.
It could be nostalgia, but I feel like commercials used to be a lot better. Well produced jingles, kinda funny characters, etc. In the 90’s, everything on MTV was designed to make you feel cool for watching it, even the commercials.
Now there are just too many ads for medications. Oh, and those ads that pretend to be the lowest quality twitch streams with no production at all.
They weren’t
The 90s ads gave me time to use the bathroom and get snacks in an era where shows could not be paused. I took advantage of that time.
Now it’s too short to do anything, or I need to press a button to end the commercial after 5 seconds, requiring my attention.
ublock n sponsorblock
At least in the 90’s ads were interesting
Billy Mays here!
I’ll admit it does feel like someone killed my dog when it’s the SAME ad over and over.
