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At my work, the marketing department churns out content that might be best described as pandering to the "'white Instagram woman" audience

Each advert always showcases a 20 something woman, dressed colorfully and chattily making things go brrrrrr around her in a vaguely professionally office that seems to be powered solely by her dynamism, and then cut to the obligatory shot of her walking her pet doggy and biting into something gooey and inhaling a coffee.

I have a theory though, nobody enjoys this kind of advertising at all, not even the target audience. My gut feel of the whole "I just happened to look effortlessly fantastic for this selfie in my perfect house" persona is everyone knows it's a vacuous ditzy stereotype, but the flex is being able to pull off the image. To "sell" the image back to the audience is eye-rollingly insulting. The people who are playing that game know it's a game, it's like trying to bullshit a bullshitter
CrazyMusicLover · 31-35
It's aimed at "basic nervous system" where it works even when the person consciously knows it's a lie. And then, I guess you also overestimate thinking abilities of a large part of population. 😬
SW-User
Does it work though? Does it increase revenue?
(although I cringe at such adverts, but then why do they make them if not for increased revenue?)
plungesponge · 41-45, M
@SW-User I think it gets clicks, but sales are down. But we have no idea if that's pandemic related, honestly I think most companies are just flying blind atm
SW-User
@plungesponge Hmm. There must be some strategy behind such visuals then and if you're in the field you know those. If you feel they don't work, what do you think works instead?
And is it not something you can put forward to the company advertising?
(too many qns, lol).
Longpatrol · 31-35, M
Advertisements are to sell dreams. We all wish we could be 5"10 powerful pantsuit wearing office domme

 
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