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Mother Jones: these ads are killing people
Also Mother Jones: please disable your adblocker
"One example cited in the report is a January 2020 Instagram post from gun manufacturer Daniel Defense that features a photo of music star Post Malone showing off one of its AR-15-style rifles, the MK18, while standing in front of a bar stocked with liquor."
Post Malone, guns, and liquor... what about that says "advertising to kids"? p.s. Forget the AR, check out that Thompson over the bar...
The liquor and tobacco industries have been targeting children for decades. I'm surprised this is even something people aren't aware of. Yes, showing kids a big music star with guns and liquor works on them.
More lies
Complete bullshit. Just because they make the politically driven accusations and affix a "science" brand on it doesn't make it any less of an agenda driven lie.
Now go back to eating your bland, textureless soylant like an adult. Nobody likes flavors except kids, and I'm glad for them to have been banned across the board to protect us from those evil corporations
I have no idea why you think tobacco companies don't advertise to kids when they've literally been found guilty in court of doing so. But I guess the tobacco industry only has our best interests at heart.
Hell, my father received a pack of Camels in the mail on his 16th birthday directly from the company (mid-70s). He wound up smoking camels for roughly 20 years before finally kicking the addiction.
A Businesses will do all they can to expand their consumer base and find new ways to get existing consumers to spend more money on their products. If the fines are less than the increased sales, it's just the cost of accessing that market.
I really doubt kids are listening to Post Malone.
hate your teacher? Glock understands.
It's noticeable to the point of being annoying in the general YouTube shorts algorithm.
Every once in a while I'll flip through a few YouTube shorts and every time I eventually get frustrated by how much gun content I'm served. I've never willingly clicked on a YouTube video about guns but Google seems to think that is all I want to see. Most of what I watch is about old computers, engineering and gardening.
I'll never figure my YouTube selections. The vast majority of my YouTube use is gun related. Maybe looking at tutorials for gunsmithing a particular thing, or just to hear Gun Jesus school me on history, or maybe Paul Harrell has a cool looking new demonstration.
Any yet I get about zero right-wing, nutcase conspiracy bullshit. Not even right leaning guntubers. And the videos that aren't about guns, and there are plenty, speak to my interests. I can go all night hoping from one suggestion to the other.
Given what everyone else has said, it's really weird it works for me.
Realistically, "the algorithm" is just an elaborate "people who like A also like B so here is a video popular with B watchers", so it can't be too difficult to manipulate.
Ad funded mobile games are fucking stuffed with gun based shitty games. I’ve gotten quite good at counting to 30 seconds in my head without having to watch they garbage.
See, violent video games DO affect children negatively. It's incredibly obvious that this is true, i don't care that people can cite studies that say otherwise.