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There's ads on an apple

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I'd rather have this than the unskippable & unmutable commercials yelling at me at the gas pumps. I'm just trying to get gas.
- Look at how you've been conditioned... "I'd rather be slapped in the face than kicked in the balls!"
  
  ow, my balls!
  
  Well, I would. 🤷🏻‍♂️
  
  Well said!
- Is that a thing? Why don't you just not ever use that brand of station again?
  
  That’s half of all stations in my neck of the US. It’s hard to escape
  
  They sadly have become far more uncommon, at least in the US. I can maybe only recollect a handful of gas stations that dont have them anymore...
  
  It's a thing, and it's a thing at most corporate gas stations in my area. And most corporate stations have the cheapest gas prices - which I guess explains why they run ads.
  
  Unfortunately, the one near me is the only source I know that supplies EtOH free gas (the blue handle).
  
  It's going to be much worse very soon.
  There are new parents superimpose ads on existing video streams.
- One more reason I'm happy EVs exist. No ads at my home charger.
  
  Stellantis just got in hot water for pushing ads to the screens in Jeep and Chrysler cars. So... Just you wait. Even if it doesn't show you ads now, they can always update it.
- I've run into this a couple times and there's usually a mute button. The ones I've seen have two columns of 4 buttons and is usually column 2 button 3. It shouldn't be a thing but I make it a point to mute it every time
  
  Yeah, that used to be the thing, but now in my area most of them have done away with the mute button. I've also tried pushing all of the buttons down both sides, but it still blares me. If there weren't cameras at the pumps, I'd pull out my pocket knife and stab the speakers.
- yeah I don't buy gas at those places. if I pull up and there's an annoying ad on screen, I just get back in my car and keep driving (after I give the location a one star review and note the ads)
  
  2 problems - 1) The ads don’t usually start until after I’ve started pumping gas, and 2) the locally owned stations that don’t have these ads (and those are getting fewer and farther between) are more expensive by a good bit.
- None of the EV chargers have ads, how long do you think that will last?
  
  I saw one last Friday
- Right column, second row.
  Press that to mute the ad.
  
  A lot of gas stations have disabled the mute button now, but it's still worth a shot
- The US: Truly the land of the free, and the home of the brave.
- The one near me that I use is kind of weird. If you pay at the pump before fueling up it gives you an ad but if you prepay inside and then fuel up it doesn't give you an ad. I guess because if you go inside you're seeing ads or are tempted to buy something? Much nicer to not have to listen to the ad though.
- mute = second button down on the right
  
  As others have noted, that doesn’t work anymore at most stations. Muting has been disabled.

Do not buy those apples.
Vote with your wallet and be loud as fuck about it
- I don't like Abbott Elementary Apples anyway.

Not much different than the bananas with Disney characters on them. This has been a thing for a long time now. It just happens to be a Hulu ad and not Disney specific.
- There were Star Wars branded oranges in supermarkets back when ~~the prequels~~ The Force Awakens was coming out.
  Edit: Got my timeline wrong. Still, it's been a while.
  
  They have Bluey branded apples now.
  
  FYI, when using Markdown formatting here and on Reddit, you have to use two tildes:
  the prequels becomes ~~the prequels~~.
- Literally in the middle of the Beverly hillbillies they would run ads for Winston cigarettes, and it was a LONG ad meant to look like part of the show.
  Nothing has changed at all. Tech allowed it to be even more in our face though.
  Best to destroy screens at gas stations, and make it a point to not use anything you see advertised in an idiotic way.

Abbot Elementary apple sticker ads are clever, minimally invasive and I argue that this is what advertising should be.
This is a creative, tongue in cheek ad for a comedy about school teachers. Teachers stereotypically are given apples so its related.
You cannot compare this to the Pluribus fridge ads or car infotainment ads which make no sense other than "get more eyes on it".
- An ad being clever doesn’t make it okay. And it’s not even clever, it’s just a basic reference. Ads being more pervasive are disgusting. This is disgusting. Is it okay for ads to be on literally every single surface in existence as long as it’s “clever” and “not too big”? Because the scum fucks in advertising firms will literally do whatever they can to cover every surface in garbage and this is just another step in that direction.
  Fuck all advertising and destroy all advertisers. They will destroy everything in their path otherwise
  
  Kind of a philosophical question from your response: is any type of advertising OK? I don't doubt that advertisers can and will continue to pollute every inch of our lives, but in a vacuum this is basically an ideal ad. Its minimal, clever, untargeted, temporary, for a decent show, and not massively over produced or jarring. To me, those aspects make it OK and I won't complain.
  However, there's simply not enough opportunities like this for advertising to exist as an ethical profession. There's no point cheering it on or "voting with your wallet", it's not possible for 90% of products to have this serendipity. But I can't say "fuck all advertising" when it does technically serve a purpose and can very occasionally be done in an ethical and interesting way. I'd rather see this specific post than the majority of banal memes on my feed.
  
  Subaru is selling cars during the holiday season by telling a totally unrelated story about teens with cancer who are going to die before their prom. Easily the most exploitive commercial on TV.
  
  Why is it not ok?
- I agree. And I fucking hate ads as well as never seen that show
  
  It's a fun show and even more fun if you've ever worked in education.

Apples; they've got what plants crave!
- But what exactly are apples?
  
  Um... berries? laughs nervously in botanical confusion
  
  YES!
  
  But... What are frogs?

Is it a show that streams on Apple TV?
- No those are only advertised on Macintosh

Fuck. Now there's an ad on my Lemmy
- yeah blur that fucking shit out before posting. there are kids on here.
- I suddenly have an overwhelming subconscious desire to subscribe to Hulu or tune my broadcast television to ABC to watch a TV show called Abbott Elementary 🤔

I'm not even mad at this, it's creative and not intrusive. I'd assume it's a cheeky reference to the old thing about giving your teacher an apple on the first day of school.
I'd much rather see playful, physical ads like this than the targeted shit online.
- Or you could decide as a nation not to bend over and accept the insistent thrusts of commerce at every opportunity.
  
  Imagine how much more peaceful life would be if we banned advertising.
  
  Is it exhausting to be outraged by everything?
- Yeah, at least you can ignore this. It’s not some unskippable demand for money screaming into you brain.
  
  No, it's an unskippable demand for money insinuating itself into your brain...
  Completely different, agreed.

And now you're showing it to us instead of chucking it at the nearest physicist.
- Do you mean physician like the "an apple a day keeps the doctor away" thing?
  Or do you just harbor animosity towards people who study physics?
  
  I meant like Alec Newtons.
  
  How else will another physicist discover gravity?

Advertising is a company laundering technique for wealth transfer, they use speculative projections to sell your eye space alone, give the pass for the image, and profiteer internally instead of contributing to the economy outside of the bubble, it's been the case on the Internet for years and years

My pizza box had one too. Crazy thing is I bet it fucking works on some people.
- Well we're all here talking about it, ain't we?
- Marketing works. So many people think it doesn't work on them, but it does.
  
  Obnoxious ads work to make me put a company on my “shit list” so I never buy from them. I’ve already got loads of places I refuse to shop from, so it’s nothing to me to add another.

That's kind of amazing that this ad campaign got off the ground.
Someone in marketing had to have that idea (it's an apple for the teacher, right? So we tie it to a show about a school, see?), then sell it through the entire corporate chain for approval from the top. Then someone in graphics had to design the prototype sticker. Then someone in sales had to identify who to sell it to, make the pitch, and close the deal.
So how much new viewership can ABC hope to get from this? How much money does the apple distributor get for this? The answer to both gas to be "Not much." It seems like a lot of effort for not a lot of gain for anyone involved, except maybe the sale guy who gets a nice commission.
It just occurred to me that I probably have it backwards. ABC thought of the apple tie-in for their popular school show, and pitched apple companies until one agreed.
Welcome to my thought process.
- It just occurred to me that I probably have it backwards. ABC thought of the apple tie-in for their popular school show, and pitched apple companies until one agreed.
  And then after just a couple of viral internet posts about it, it is a complete success.

Hopefully Apple doesn’t put Pluribus ads on fruit. That one lady named Carol would lose her poor mind.
- Context (the original Reddit post)
  
  Sometimes they really are out to get you!

i used to slap my crew's tags and qrs on random fruits and vegetable in the supermarkets all the time. the trick is to keep it low and have someone to divert attention while you dance around the section trying to appear merely clueless and not mischievous.
- I used to put QR code stickers on random things that points to the lemon party website. Which was 3 old guys sucking each other off on the home screen.
  
  now that's a correct use of QR code stickers!

I've never seen an apple with a best buy/expiration date on it.
- Give it some time and that sticker will be a detachable user manual.

If an ad doesn't track me, I am not going to let it annoy me. There are so many worse methods of advertising.
- did you know those stickers are edible. eat the ads
  
  Do not let them win. Eat the ad
  
  Poop the ads

Lol, never enough ads...

I'm almost positive those apples would be cheaper because they are ad supported. Right?
- The revenue was pocketed because the cost of printing a bigger sticker and in color was passed on to you.

Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.

Huh pink lady's i thought that they were only grown in western australia.
- We def have them in Washington state USA. Also, might I introduce you to Frange's 100 Point Apple Ranking Scale, a great way to waste some time if you care too much about apples like we Washingtonians do.
  
  Not that big into them, I worked in an orchard during my teen years. Best skill i learnt was juggling. But pink ladies then were only grown in the south west. I feel there was a trade agreement that allowed them to be grown elsewhere. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cripps_Pink
  
  we have them in northern california. i ate some last time i was out by Placerville

Curious, they have been putting ads on the sticker on bananas like this since the 90s ish.
- Longer ago than that. I was sticking them on the inside of my kitchen cabinet in high school in the mid-70s.

Fucking ridiculous.

Nothing new, I remember ads on banana stickers 15 years ago
- I once saw an ad for a guitar that had been sticker-bombed, and the guy had stuck his banana stickers on the back of his headstock. There were dozens of them, lots of different promotional ones.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPGgTy5YJ-g

And there are ads on my TV for apples. I guess that's only fair.

At least this advertising makes sense…if it was someone like Pluribus, I wouldn’t trust those apples.

Are we looking past the trademark on the cultivar name? 🥲🤷🏼‍♂️

And it’s not even AppleTV.

“How can we compete with Apple TV’s prestige shows?”

I watched 1½ episodes of Abbott Elementary once. It wasn't very good. Not sure if I like the idea that some ad person thinks this is the sort of show for people who enjoy fresh apples.
- In my head the connection is "Abbot Elementary... teachers... maybe I should get an extra apple for my kid to give the teacher." Honestly, back when I was a teacher, I did love a nice apple for a snack. Not so much the apple-themed tchotchkes.
- Whatever platform the shoe is on kept turning Abbot on after whatever i actually wanted to watch. I don't understand why they are pushing it so hard, it's really not very good.

Abbott elementary is hilarious though

Unfortunately it's not either/or, it's both.

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Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.