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At first, cable TV had no ads because it was funded by subscriptions. Then most cable channels slowly started adding more and more ads and demanding higher and higher rates from cable operators to carry their channels. Then the local channels started demanding rates from cable operators to carry their channels that are otherwise available for free over the air. Then eventually they even started showing ads at the mov…
I am from Eastern Europe, so I have missed the "cable used to be subscription based without ads" time, so thank you for showing me how history rhymes and that ads in subscription based medium are inevitable.
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Should we all just tell all platforms that we are under 13? Is that a new iOS setting to stop Meta and Google?
My simple solution I’m a 99 year old male. Good luck advertising to me.
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Disney: “Gendered stereotypes are harmful — be more inclusive!” Also Disney: “Tell us your gender so we can target ads based on that!” I would take DIE advocates more seriously if they reformed themselves — rather than lecturing the rest of us while engaging in such blatant hypocrisy.
I have dim memories of lego positioning their stuff as gender-neutral when I was a kid. That went comprehensively out the window in the mid-90s or so, presumably when some lego marketer discovered the (dubious) joys of market segmentation.
Marketing is what killed it. Boys followed “He-Man” and girls “She-Ra”.
Come to think of it, those are the most heavily gendered characters in existence. Look at their freaking names!
- Doesn't show ads, or steal your personal information.
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- Is scalable and efficient without a centralized single point of failure.
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If only there were a service that: - Doesn't show ads, or steal your personal information. - Has all the content from every major streaming service. - Is scalable and efficient without a centralized single point of failure. - Can be used with 100% free and open source software. - Lets you keep your favorite shows forever without being subject to the whims of corporate licensing.
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Disney: “Gendered stereotypes are harmful — be more inclusive!” Also Disney: “Tell us your gender so we can target ads based on that!” I would take DIE advocates more seriously if they reformed themselves — rather than lecturing the rest of us while engaging in such blatant hypocrisy.
I have dim memories of lego positioning their stuff as gender-neutral when I was a kid. That went comprehensively out the window in the mid-90s or so, presumably when some lego marketer discovered the (dubious) joys of market segmentation.
Just say you’re 6
You have to mentally be 6 if you’re enjoying the garbage they’re chucking onto Disney+.
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I recently did a month of Disney+ when they sent me promo for first month for $2.99. During that month I watched the Pixar movies Soul, Luca, and Turning Red (and rewatched Onward). I also watched the Disney movies Raya and the Last Dragon and Encanto. And Wes Anderson's Isle of Dogs. Oh, and also the latest Dr. Strange and Thor Marvel movies, plus the Loki series. Are you seriously claiming that all that was garbage…
Isle of Dogs is great! Disney+ is hardly the only place you can watch it though, and a lot of the other original Disney programming feels like Marvel-driven padding. The latest Pixar stuff is pretty mediocre relative to what they were making a decade ago, and Disney's modern films are... sketchy. If you get a kick out of it, then more power to ya. Disney even gives you a place to put your money where your mouth is. F…
What they were making a decade ago was Cars 2 and Brave.
Brave was pretty good, but I'm having a hard time seeing it as better than Soul, Luca, or Turning Red. And I'm having an even harder time seeing that for Cars 2.
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I have dim memories of lego positioning their stuff as gender-neutral when I was a kid. That went comprehensively out the window in the mid-90s or so, presumably when some lego marketer discovered the (dubious) joys of market segmentation.
Yeah I was raised during the first (second?) gender neutral parenting fad. Marketing is what killed it. Boys followed “He-Man” and girls “She-Ra”. Come to think of it, those are the most heavily gendered characters in existence. Look at their freaking names!
Marketing was responding to toy stores gendering the aisles; can't get on the shelf if the store doesn't know where to put your product.
I'm not sure what stores were responding to. Possibly the public.