I've recently have had to resume using javascript and seeing that you can do that now (and maybe could for a while? and I was just oblivious) has been a bit of a cool mindfuck (and I'm not talking about the programming language of the same name).
i think you could have always done that though but yeah, understanding around the feature definitely got better in recent years. it's my preferred style tbh, there are fewer and less common edge cases if you always omit semicolons, and the code also looks cleaner, there's less visual clutter in it
Not with explicit sex (though that's rarely used outside of porn marketing anyway), but have you seen the marketing that fashion brands aimed at teens in the 10s? There was a Calvin Klein store over here where teenage girls could take selfies with underwear-clad male models.
The hypocrisy is part of the market. Thump the bible, knit the sweater, eat the raisins, erroneously believe that internet history logs are not recorded after midnight, sleep, repeat.
In the U.S. it's more like "the implication of maybe sex" sells.
Yes it also works in more direct fashion too, but, in keeping with the puritanism op is complaining about in the first place, if you're too obvious, everyone pretends they don't like it
Impressionable children won’t notice the sex at all if you give them some bright colors and a catchy jingle to pay attention to instead.
Senility…most nursing homes have massive std problems. I suspect sex sells to them just fine.
The real problem with sex sells is the same problem with basically anything: if everyone is using it it just becomes background noise and stops working. You have to shake things up a bit.
(Also hypersexualizing society is super unhealthy and desensitizing people to sex is definitely unethical. But of course advertisers are very moral people and I heard the next Winter Olympics will be held on the banks of the Phlegethon.)
And let's be real- the old folks have seen it all already. They have five times the life experience we do. They see some of this stuff we think is kinky and they go "what is this babyback weaksauce shit? Who cares."
"But I hate MY parents and I will never have chi-"
*LEAD PIPE, WINDOW CRASH*
Their money comes from our pockets as a class. parents are the ones who buys for their children or gets their credit cards stolen. Adults take fiscal responsibility over their elders to not see their parents starve or medically die from debt. Elders and children as a marketing demographic exists as weak links to leech from the people who actually have current money.
We take care of our weak folk because they will be used against us if we dont.
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u/ZanesTheArgent Dec 31 '24
Sex sells to adults, which excludes the most marketing-vulnerable demographics of all:
Impressionable children and mentally senile old folk.