Hey everyone long time no see! If you haven't seen my epic music video you should watch it. It's at this link. Anydangway it's time for todays topic. Advertisements. I've been running into a lot of references to them lately, and of course...a lot of themlately.

Let's start by explaining how all this began. Me and twilight were talking on messenger when I come upon a disgusting ad. I'm sure you've all seen it. It's got someone who is obviously photoshopped to be extremely fat, then they mystically transform into a normal person. A line of text reads, "One rule to a Flat Stomach: OBEY" Then it'll have some story under that like "I lost blah blah blah pounds in blah blah blah days!" I wrote to twilight, "Ugg! I hate these ads!" Eventually I say, "Advertisements suck. (That's the moral of the day!)" Which twilight then convinces me to put as my facebook status. ;) Another irritating one is the one where people are trying to get white teeth or huge muscles. These ads only send you to ridiculous articles that tell you to mix drugs together. Great. Ad. Vice. *no pun intended* I cannot imagine who would want to advertise this unless they were making money off it right? I can only assume that this is an ad made by the makers of the drugs to get people to buy more. I can only imagine someone in the office going, "HEY BOSS! LET'S MAKE ADS THAT TELL PEOPLE BUY TWOOF OUR PRODUCTS AND BUY THEM AT THE SAME TIME!! HUR HUR HUR! THAT WON'T CAUSE DANGEROUS SIDEEFFECTS WILL IT!?" Anyways, ads are stupid.

The next place I ran into Ads was my US History AP **** We were learning about the '20s. Guess what was invented then? Ads. It wasn't necessarily invented, but it definitely became a new profession. New products were being made like cars, vacuums, and radios and advertising became the way to put them threw. Of course television and radio created new ways to advertise. Soon advertising...advertised everything, from buying bonds to the new ankle watch. (All a lady has to do is raise her leg really high to read the time - Actual slogan for ankle watch :lol: ) Anyways my history teacher Mr. Hadley said that mass advertising was the worst thing that America ever invented. He is very patriotic so this was quite surprising to hear. Advertising is designed to make you feel bad about yourself because you don't have a certain thing is a basic synopsis of what he said. Advertising also made people begin to buy things on credit, which was only used to buy homes before this. America was put into a perpetual debt.

I've received a cell phone and an ipod just because "everyone else had one." "Everyone has one" is indeed a form of advertisement. It's like someone holding a drink or eating in front of you. The first thing you say is "Oh that looks good." You mumble about how you wish you had one. You then, most likely, buy one. The same goes with advertising. That cool lady driving in that new shiny black car? You might not find yourself going out and buying one, but you probably will say to yourself, "That's cool, wish I had one." You have to wonder how many people went out and got a beer because of that hilarious Budweiser commercial. Children are especially impressionable to these ads. It's not like they're spending the money. Anything on the television that's FAST AND COOL AND SHINY is automatically on the Christmas list or the "whine about it until I get it" list. Thanks god they banned cigarette commercials, I wonder how many people would smoke if they still had those on.

Internet advertising is probably the worst though. It isn't even advertising for a legitimate product half the time, usually it's for some stupid website with a virus on it. I know that the people at the website have to be paid but doesn't Gamespot get money from subscribers and selling games? One of the perks of being a subscriber is not having to see ads. Anyone remember those ads where you had to "click the duck to win an ipod!" or "catch the criminal to win a trip to Miami!" or "YOU'RE THE 1,000,000 PERSON! CLICK TO CLAIM PRIZE!" I remember when I actually used to click these. It was a bunch of stupid offers where you had to at least fill like 7 of them. By then the offers you filled add up to more than the actual product.

The subconscious effects of advertising are terrible. Ladies find themselves unfit and fat from society showing off a bunch of skinny blondes advertising a product. (This technique is called the "Sex Sell") Then the weight loss ad comes on and the same lady who feels much too large to be loved will quickly buy this product. Hooray for weight loss smoothies! (A change in diet and exercise might be necessary for any change to occur.) All those skinny guys who don't feel muscular enough will be all over that boflex that they'll use once. It collects dust very nicely though. Hey kids! Still have that last product we made? We have a new one! It's the same thing...but better! (*cough DSi XL*) Drinking tap? You'll die! Tap is bad! Drink our bottled water. Ads use our concern for our own wellbeing to sell a million products we never needed in the first place. Diet and exercise do work. You're genetics may be terrible, but they still work. Even if you're genetics are that bad, as soon as you're off that diet pill you're gonna gain it all back unless you use diet and exercise.

Some of the worst advertising is unconscious advertising. Remember the part on Superman with the Marlboro truck? Advertising. Sporting events have tons of advertising. The olympics has them along boundaries for ice rinks and skiing tracks. Nascar drivers advertise individual products right on their vehicles. I wonder how many of that product their fans have bought. The winner of the Super Bowl says the famous line, "I'm going to Disney Land!" If Payton Manning said it, we should all do it right? Apollo Ohno uses Dayquil? Quick! Someone go buy me some! I know I don't have a cold, but it's Apollo Friggen' Ohno.

I'm sorry if this was an absolute bore but ads really do bug me. Especially those pointless ads on the internet. If you agree please sign this petition. :P

Petition
I ____________ hearby hate internet ads.

Thanks for reading...if you did. Oh yeah, almost forgot! I'm starting The National AntiAd Party! We'll win the presidency, then the world!! Vote me in 2012! :P