When living in a foreign country (and not caring very much about learning the language, as learning Korean long term is pretty much worthless), you become accustomed to tuning that language out in your every day life. I didn't watch broadcast/cable TV in Korea for almost 2 and a half years, and couldn't read most advertising in public. Also didn't listen to radio. So the minute amount of advertising I had came to me through watching TV online (minimal as I often torrented) or what I could understand while out and about.
I didn't actually notice this fact until I came home and was/am barraged by ridiculous, annoying-as-fuck advertisements almost CONSTANTLY when watching TV or radio. It's crazy how accustomed people (myself before Korea, many people now) get accustomed to hearing this, or perhaps tuning it out (something I'm trying to do). Advertisments almost make me
angry when I hear them now because of their relentless, pseudo-brainwashing effects they have whenever I'm trying to enjoy some media; I usually end up just turning the radio/TV off, preferring silence over my brain being told what "is" by ads.
So I guess this thread is to post advertising you think is ANNOYING AS FUCK or show ways that marketing will screw with people's heads. I really think advertising dulls a lot of people's critical thinking skills, because the perceived "authority" that being on TV/radio gives.
For example, a craze that is important to note is the whole "organic" and "healthy" food craze that's been going on the past 5-10 years. "Organic" is a very flexible term; I mean hell, technically EVERYTHING that grows in the wild can be labeled organic. The push for anti-oxidants being some kind of super molecule that will make you live forever is what made me think of this thread:
Why doctors don't like to talk about antioxidants. - Slate Magazine