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[โ€“] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee -1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

for some reason only things already ubiquitous get marketed these days

the reason you're looking for is capitalism. why would I bet marketing money on anything but the most likely big return? this is also why such a huge portion of movies are either reboots, sequels, prequels or "homages".

[โ€“] HawlSera@lemm.ee 0 points 8 months ago

Yes, but the point of adveritsing is to convince someone to buy a product.... if I already consume and know about said product, then what does advertising do besides waste money?

Fuck the Dorito's "Anti-Ad" was as close as these corpos got to figuring it out