196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone brbposting @sh.itjust.works 2 wk. ago

meme lord rule

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Micah

@rincewind.run

the six year old, watching basketball: "is this live?"

"yes"

"aw, I was hoping it wasn't so we can skip the commercials"

something interesting about raising kids whose main experience of TV is streaming is that they have absolutely no patience for ads

May 17, 2024 at 6:22 PM

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oak @mattoak.bsky.social • 2h

amazing this shit. that concept did not exist in my brain as a kid and now it's like hey man fast forward I'm bored.

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Rhinan Laville @rhinanlaville.bsky... • 8m

Humans adapt very quickly to comfort, safety, and convenience.

I'm convinced that any human who could time travel from before, say, 1900 AD to today would, inside of two weeks, be a Starbucks-ordering YouTube-addicted meme lord.

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I'm raised in an era full of ads, from tv to radio to cinema to street, and i still have absolutely no patient for ads. Streaming and sailin really helps with cutting unnecessary time spend in ads. On the other hand my nephew and niece wouldn't mind the ads.
- Oh that’s fun, you made me realize there’s potentially somewhat of a class divide when it comes to advertising exposure.
  
  Budget TV w/built in Roku & OTA but no subscriptions = 100% ads
  
  Paid subscriptions or the tech knowledge to block ads / sail = no ads except billboards and limited other sources
  
  There's more ads now than back in the day too. Used to be like one ad break per show. Now it seems like it's 50% show 50% ads with banner ads on the bottom of the screen and pop up shit and all kinds of garbage. I can't stand watching actual TV.
  
  I grew up in the days of network television and local stations. Never had cable or those fancy DVR boxes (or teevo for those who remember). When we wanted to record something we had to know when it was going to be on, then program the VCR, slap a tape in and hope for the best.
  
  I have no patience for ads whatsoever.
  
  When they'd come on back in the day (me being the youngest) I'd be told to holler when the show cam back on.
  
  I block every single ad network wide at home. And now I only watch content without ads via any means I can.
  
  I hate ads with a burning fiery passion.
  
  I think class divide surely exists, but from my experience, it's really about whether people are bothered by it. For me i based my living on ad-free mindset so i set my priorities on getting rid of ads and focus a bit more on privacy. My siblings and friends on the other hand, don't mind any of those, so they continue using reddit/facebook and youtube(with ads), all with pay grade higher than me.
  
  I don't really know, that might be true in some places but not here in Sweden. We have public service TV and radio that's free and add free. OFC the don't have everything and you'll probably end up watching things from other places anyways but it at least decreases the class divide.
  
  However things on the internet are still as true. Not because it's that hard to use a add blocker but it's still mostly tech sawy people that do.
I remember we'd tape shows on the VCR when gone and it was so nice to fast forward through the ads.

Going back to live shows I found myself reaching for the VCR remote until I remembered.
- Taping a movies on VHS and trying to not record the commercials so you end up with a few seconds of old commercials and a few seconds missing from the start of each segment :)
  
  I became a god with the pause button and managed to record programs without any ads, and missing none of the program, as if you had bought the show on VHS, only with the station logo in the corner sometimes
- I know, why do people act like recording shows and skipping ads is at all a new thing. If anything it's harder to avoid ads on streaming platforms then broadcast TV because you can still record broadcast TV and skip ads.
Install a pi.hole and you won’t have any patience for ads anymore either.
If I can't watch it without ads (be it adblocker or otherwise), I'm not watching it

I won't waste my time with senseless clips trying to psychologically manipulate me into buying things I don't need
You can actually kinda test things like the timetravel. There are lots of people that have been in jail since before widespread computer usage. I saw a dude talk about his experience once and i think he got used to the conveniences pretty quick, but took a long time to get used to the social behaviour differences.
- Super interesting (if sad) kinda control group, glad you mentioned that
I have patience for disruptions that have valid reasons. Advertising is not a valid reason.
I skimmed over the top post and at first thought that this conversation happened as the kid walked into a post-game interview at a stadium
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