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I hate knowing how much money is spent on them so that they can annoy us with every attempted second of our lives. What, you can't use that money to better pay your workers? You can't use that money to improve aspects of your company, so you're going to pay these groups of obnoxious pricks whose entire existence is to annoy people with your ads?

The ads themselves are too theatric for me to care, I can't tell you the amount of ads I've had to stomach hearing through Spotify that makes me care even less about a product. They just take turns outdoing themselves as to which ad is the dumber of the bunch that night. Even worse are the ads that try too hard to reach for something that was 'hip' to do like 5 or 10 years ago.

The lying in commercials. I've learned in life that some brands that aren't even the brand of choice, the best option available. I've been surprised on some of the things I've acquired from even dollar stores that somehow are better than the name brands.

And even then, there's still lies projected from commercials that attempt to snag you in for money.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

It's the smarmy, overly excited, commercial voices for me. And I'm saying that as a VO artist who's produced HUNDREDS of smarmy, overly excited commercials over the years. I'm so sick of it. I've taken drastic steps to try and block all ads from my life. Somehow it's never enough.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago

An underused word to be sure

[โ€“] [email protected] -1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Downvoting because you're one of them and you chose to earn a living doing something that you & everyone else despises.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago

I did what I could to earn enough money to pay my rent, support my pets, and put food on my table.

Also, my current views on ads have been largely formed in a gradual process over the last 5-7 years, while I've been working in VO long before then.

If it's any consolation to you, AI has devoured most of my market in the last 3 years and left me with maybe 5-10% of the work I used to get.

you're one of them

More accurately I WAS one of them, but people change ๐Ÿ˜Š