i’m not gonna finish reading this post because nothing it could possibly say is going to top this analogy 

okay i just had a bad epiphany but corporate interest’s influence on the internet is going to become so much stronger now that generations that are internet naturalized have grown up and starting working as “social media consultants”. advertising is going to become so much more subtle, manipulate your behavior to a greater extent, and completely pervade every aspect of our lives the more we rely on the internet for everything from entertainment to social validation. 

what im saying is its scary that corporate twitter accounts are getting good at twitter. to have the same avenue a human would to express themself. its like, an extreme anthromorphism of a brand, and that brand representing a corporate interest, and successfully passing itself off as a sentient entity on twitter, thats really weird to me.

like this is so fucked up. it doesnt immediately read as an advertisement, conceptually it executes the levels of irony and deconstruction that usually make for successful memes in this genre or whatever. its almost subverting itself, but ultimately it still succeeds as an advertisement. it makes me sick. for every misfire of corporations trying to relate (pepsi protest commercial), theres another company getting better at it

okay but like my thing about this is… who is actually eating at these places because shit like this? yeah it’s funny but i never go to wendy’s because a meme, if i go to wendy’s it’s because i want a gross burger and a frosty, same with taco bell and mcdonald’s and wherever the fuck.

i really think that you’re blowing this out of proportion and having very little faith in people’s ability to decide what they want for themselves. it’s just not that deep.

It’s not about the effectiveness of the ads in question, but their complete omnipresence in every aspect and moment of life, and how bizarre and sophisticated the mechanations of advertising have become. If people don’t call attention to these things, they become normal.

The effectiveness of marketing isnt one-to-one, like, “ad says burger is good, I think burger is good, I eat burger.” That was 50 years ago. Y'all, since then these multi-million dollar corporations have been hiring psychologists and sociologists and anthropologists to study how best to get under consumer skin and theyve figured out it’s not about making you WANT a burger,

It’s about creating a Brand Identity - an anthropomorphized personality that your brain fits into an established schema (system of thought) so it’s easier to just drop into the background of your everyday life. It’s not about making you want a burger, it’s about making it so, when you DO want a burger, the first place you think of is Wendy’s, because their ads have made you think about them five time already that day. And most importantly, it’s about making sure you dont realize how often they make you think about them, so you don’t resent how pervasive they’ve become. They do that by tricking your brain into thinking of them as just another human-like personality. Your Funny Meme Friend Wendy’s. Wine Aunt World Market. Woke Jock Nike. Even your Endearingly Unhip Uncle Geico.

(hey also if you want dozens of terrifying examples of what I mean, just type ‘brand identity schema’ into Google like I just did and take a gander at all those scholarly articles discussing how best to acquire consumers, like we’re a fucking commodity)

one time i said i didn’t like the wendys twitter and got called classist for hating retail employees 

this shit works. it makes people like Brands. gets under their skin and in to their minds. when i said i didnt like the wendys twitter i personally offended people that viewed wendys as a friend, that viewed the wendys social media manager as a friendly individual that they respected.

the wendys social media manager is not your friend. they don’t even really exist. there’s no one person that writes the tweets for wendys. there’s a team of 20 something year olds that casually observe the latest meme trends and crank out mspaint memes because they know they’ll get retweeted if the memes are relevant.

they trick you in to thinking that Wendys is a hip friendly young person, and they manipulate you in to thinking that disliking marketing is somehow a “problematic” “un-woke” thing to do. 

and it works. 

install ublock origin. on mobile, block every promoted tweet you see. don’t let them convince you that this shit is normal.

I just wanna say, not only was I extremely correct in my paranoid regarding these posts, but it’s actually gotten way fucking worse already

I’m just going to be blunt about it; America’s depression epidemic is a direct result of the all-encompassing alienation we experience under late stage capitalism, and now private interests are attempting to recuperate the general public’s feelings of hopelessness and despair into marketing material, the spectacle in effect recuperating our despair and making it appear that the powers that be are on our side. That we are being watched over by boardrooms with loving grace, despite the fact that they are part and parcel with the forces of economy that has driven so many people to not see any hope in their lives. By recuperating the public discourse about the root of endemic depression, the status quo is able to trivialize it and sterilize it before before safely incorporating it back into mainstream society. Not only are we unable to strike against our enemy, most of us can’t even see them for what they are, and the rest of us can’t even speak to the truth of what they are capable of.

Pay attention to little bizarre happenings like these, they betray the rest of the iceberg

They really let Freud say any dumbass shit he wanted, huh

No, sadly they didn’t if you look at any of his initial drafts, papers or lectures his theory was that sexual abuse and rape amongst family members or bosses or other authority figures was super common and the main source of trauma or anxiety amongst marginalised persons. When he published everyone told him that such people of good breeding couldn’t possibly be doing *that* and so he’d better recant and find some other theory that fits the evidence like the episodes being dreams or hallucinations or worse the victims being subconsciously willing. He was threatened with jail or worse so he recanted and re worked his theories. Freud said wacky shit because they would NOT let him say any old thing. He could say any old thing but the truth.

He was a coward and his willingness to recant on the truth has been making life difficult for women ever since.

One of the things that often gets overlooked when talking about Freud and his theories is that he was a Jewish man living in Vienna at a time when there were pogroms springing up all over Eastern Europe, when there were political tracts flooding the streets of Vienna alleging that the Jews were in a grand conspiracy to infiltrate and corrupt Christian society, and yes this corruption was often framed as sexual and frequently portrayed as coming at the hands of intellectuals. Vienna had an overtly antisemitic mayor at the time, Karl Lueger, who used his antisemitism as a political platform, and who was in fact elected right between Freud’s initial publication and his sudden turnaround.

It’s important to remember that Freud was living and working in the Vienna that gave rise to Hitler. The threat of antisemitic violence was everywhere, and Freud must have been well aware of this. At the time, the Jewish people already had millennia of experience in what happened when a Jew maligned the Gentile establishment, and Freud must have known he risked igniting a pogrom, endangering every Jewish person in Vienna, including his own children. These are all factors that should be taken into account when viewing his choice to change his theories to make them more palatable to the Gentile establishment of the time.

#posts i added to#this tag is jewish and so am i#the world is horrible#none of this means his theories aren’t terrible and haven’t done tremendous harm tags via @attackfish

This is some important information to include, and it’s stuff I hadn’t known before!

Granny: No printer, just fax!

I know this is for a kdrama show but like fuck this speaks to the patient population I care for and my frustration with the US right now. 

The Evolution of Douchebag Style [full video]

Oh, he’s good.

I don’t know whether he deserves an Oscar or a restraining order.

I die laughing at this every god damn time. The prayer hands are so fucking funny

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an easy to understand metaphor about why the scumbos should be driven out of communities of all kinds.

from IMAGINING A SAFER SPACE: BUILDING COMMUNITY & ENDING HARASSMENT IN PUNK by Lorena Cupcake

(via christophersebela)

Anti-colonial graffiti painted around Sydney in the lead-up to Invasion Day 2017

my mom, turning up “we will rock you”: football babey!

me, internally: straight people think they understand queen which is cute

it’s gay pride darling

i hate how they market alexa as a ‘member of the family’ like that’s SO fucking blatantly insidious and terrifying also if i wanted an untrustworthy/cold/emotionless machine in my life i’d just talk to my fuckin father 

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rosencrantz and guildenstern played by eric andre and hannibal buress

Telling children that you won’t get mad if they tell the truth and then getting mad about it will turn them into massive liars in the future

Something else that is very important to realize is that, even if you’re not angry, being upset with them and denying that you’re be upset is almost as bad. You can say that you’re not angry all you want, but the second you act anything other than calm and understanding, kids will pick up on it. And then, if they love, respect, or are scared of you, they’ll learn to lie so they don’t upset you, and then they learn to lie to avoid conflicts.

In short - if you promise not to get mad about something, and then find yourself getting upset over it anyway, explain that to the the kid. Let them know “Alright, I promised not to get angry with you. However, I am getting upset for X, Y, and Z reasons because I trust/care about/am concerned for you/other reason. But I am very, very happy and proud that you are telling me the truth, and I will do my best to focus on that, okay?”

Because guess what? Adults aren’t perfect. They never will be. Don’t pretend to be otherwise. Kids will know when you’re being honest with them, and (for the most part) they’ll respect it.

Don’t lie to your kids when you’re upset with them. They’re not dumb - they’ll figure out that they’re connected somehow, and then they’ll try to avoid that trigger again.

You ever see something that explains like 70% of why you are the way that you are?