YouTube’s been doing this thing lately where their ad algorithm tries to time automatically inserted ad breaks to fall on black frames in the video, on the theory that a pure black frame is likely to form part of a transition between scenes, and the ad is thus less likely to cut a line of dialogue in half or whatever.
Unfortunately, the algorithm cannot distinguish between black frames that form part of scene transitions and black frames inserted for other dramatic purposes, with the result that I’ve watched videos whose ad breaks are perfectly timed to match, among other things:
Entering a dark room
The trigger of a gun being pulled
The beat between the setup and the punchline of a visual pun
A PoV shot in which the viewpoint character blinks
The protagonist getting punched in the face
If their goal was to make the timing of automatically inserted ad breaks feel less random, well, they succeeded!
The protagonist getting punched in the face then blacking out and having a dream about raid: shadow legends is pretty funny, actually
Dude got hit so hard he saw God, and God wants him to save 15% on car insurance.
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#advertising #juxtaposition #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #violence mention
I’ve got to say, it was a pretty funny joke by the government to let people advertise drugs, as long as they fill the whole ad with everything that could possibly go wrong.
those ads where an announced reads a rapidfire list of horrifying side-effects in a soothing drone while the tv shows a happy telegenic family playing are one of America’s most important cultural artifacts and it’s so crucial that they be preserved for future civilizations
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#medical cw #advertising #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #this probably deserves some other warning tag but I am not sure what
I’ve mostly become inured to No Name graphic design after 12 years in Canada, but I still managed to find this image (from their email newsletter) endearing:
I am on the No Frills newsletter! I don’t remember whether I *deliberately* signed up as part of getting a loyalty account, or if it was an accident that I then decided to keep. I figured it might have some handy coupons or some such.
Mostly it’s just flyer notifications, and since I already get (and use) paper flyers from them that’s not really useful for me. I’m currently still skimming each one to see if there’s anything useful or interesting, but I might unsubscribe.
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#reply via reblog #advertising #our home and cherished land #food #adventures in human capitalism
I’ve mostly become inured to No Name graphic design after 12 years in Canada, but I still managed to find this image (from their email newsletter) endearing:
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#I was actually already considering making a post about this #advertising #our home and cherished land #food #reply via reblog
A cleverly thought recruitment ad by Bergge Tattoos[605×849]
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#advertising #tattoo #neat #(yeah it’s a stunt but it’s a neat stunt) #((I got curious and looked them up)) #((this ad is from 2013 and is by far the biggest part of their Internet footprint)) #((they used to have a website but it’s rotten)) #((on Google Maps they have no reviews but neither are they marked as permanently closed))
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#I didn’t actually laugh aloud but it still amused me enough to reblog #illness tw #poison cw #history #clothing #advertising
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