Yeah, I’ve not liked most youtubers, streamers, and influencers and talking to you made me realize its probably because they feel so much like living ads. These ads as people even if they get hooked up with a $60 million contract are still trying to squeeze every last penny from their viewers who need the money more than their millionaire idol. All for the rush of thank you username for your donation.

Its like the whole past celebrity endorsement on steroids with people seeming to be more emotionally attached to what are really sales people with the perceived greater access to their idols so they “know them”.

New generations and older lonely generation is very susceptible to this type of marketing scheme, since it does a good job of not seeming like the entire product is itself an ad and more personal.

It seems like the next generation is being trained to find ads endearing with sponsored ad segments delivered by content creators who can have a very big emotional attachment to. And is delivered by the people they may look up to or obssess over. And thats the new generation of finding ads fun.

In some ways I wonder if ads are even worse now with them now having a bigger capacity for stronger emotional manipulation with it not being a random segment, but being even more targetted than before.

And even people who use adblock defend sponsored segments, so its like the ad machine is finding ways to train and adjust their perception of ads by playing to emotional attachments of those they have a fondness for. It’s like no matter what its finding a way to worm its way back in through new tactics.

Seeing if they use adblock is a big tell of whether someone is even meets the bare minimum of being tech literate from what I’ve seen. If they use internet without protection their minds are already mush after being bombarded with ads and being trained to tolerate it and even want it.

And people thought it being from China would mean their data would only be held by China when Google sharing data with China to be able to keep making money showed corporations don’t care and will sell out everyone to be able to keep raking in money.

Lot of naive people not realizing corporations whether it is west, east, or the upside down are in the business of data collection and sharing with no care for protecting domestic or international users.

Yeah there was privacy concerns when it first launched. People didn’t care or thought it wouldn’t matter because China owned it not realizing that corporations comply with countries they are operating in just like Google does in China. Just showing how ignorant people chose to be despite headlines of how companies operate.

When it comes to corporate spyware chasing after billions of dollars whether it is the west, east, or the upside down capitalist companies will sell you out to any country domestic or abroad.

Its like the movie Big Short where despite news of bankruptcies stocks kept going up for a long time. It was when the banks shored up their own shorts that they actually let the market crash.