YouTube ads be getting on nerves these days

How long have big oil and gas companies been villains? That didn’t really stop people from buying their products- the biggest hits to their business came when people could t afford their products or found ways to not pay them directly. Amazon- the place where people pee in bottles and the internet goes into hysterics when a guy has a heart attack Un noticed on duty.... order anything from them lately? Stream them lately? Walmart was the big bad guy before Amazon. Muscling suppliers for cheaper products and cutting wages and using any trick they could to hire workers for literally below standard minimum wage... while driving small businesses into bankruptcy. Walmart is still doing fine. Some people went to Costco or whatever... because that’s so much better for small businesses and living wages and supplier ethics...

The consumer is a whore, but it isn’t all their fault. Most of the time you only have one choice, or your choices are just bad and worse. I mean- Microsoft was the devil of the early 2000’s- their DRM -and planned obsolescence and their bid for total control of the market. Then apple cake out and now many of the same people who joined in to complain about Microsoft buy Microsoft products to avoid apple. And most people complaining still have apple and Microsoft products they use regularly anyway.

If a company is being likable, if they are seeming ethical- this is almost always marketing. It’s a way for a company to gain market share in saturated business spaces, a way for upstart new comers to break through and compete against giants who they couldn’t go toe to toe throwing money around to take the market, so they use grass roots and word of mouth and some version of “disrupting the paradigm” to gain customers and get big... and at a certain point they throw the ethics away or become a villain regardless. Napster, YouTube, Apple, Facebook, Google, Amazon, blah blah. Herpes at one point. Up and comers with high values mission statements who got big enough to only have to hold on to the narrowest pretense of not being willing to sell your organs if it was legal.

So boo hoo. Stock prices and bonuses and profit statements aren’t made by how much you say you hate something. You’ll hate it with a passion and still give them money- and that’s what they are after. How many movies get panned by critics and audiences but make huge returns? Does the studio give a crap that you and everyone else hate Die Hard 7: “Please let it Die Already” if you all buy tickets and pay to stream it and give them money? Are the Transformers films beloved cinema that are generally highly regarded? They kept making them. They’ll keep making them until they think the well is dry and needs to recharge. Then they’ll sell reboots to the next generation off the nostalgia of these films the same way they sold us the M. Bay reboots off the nostalgia of the classics. And on it will go so long as we sell out.