NOT. HAPPY. JAN.

Though, admittedly, I think that was early 2000s.

I hated ads back then already.

tbh it’s just nostalgia, they’re as annoying as ads now (maybe much less than ai slop ads or www/youtube ads but still)

I agree with other posters that nostalgia and survivorship bias paint these older commercials in a rosy light, but I also believe commercials now are worse. They are less often fun and creative.

Here’s a nostalgic look at old commercials: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZIvCmvZdLY

Ads these days are just a celebrity, playing themselves, consuming the product and being like, “lol isn’t this funny that I’m a celebrity you recognize and I’m in this commercial? Lol!”

I hate it all so much

the Coca-Cola “Hilltop” ad

That was 1971.

Your memory is just nostalgia. They weren’t better. I’m partial to 1970’s commercials “Let’s get Mikey!, He’ll eat anything! He likes it!”

But they don’t hold a candle to the past 20 years of Superbowl ads.

2006 GEICO cavemen was so big they got a TV show!

They had to actually come up with proper advertising to grab attention. Now, they just hit you with ads all over and track your phone to see it they work.

I also feel like ads today are more common/more types. Yeah there are TV and radio still. Maybe newspaper… but you’ve got phone app ads, which are so invasive and highly trackable. Same with internet ads too. Before, there was limited proof anything worked outside of mailed coupons.

I know this isn’t the privacy group, but wait until the regular people learn about how companies track you and your location without Bluetooth, GPS, or WiFi scanning! They play high frequency tones over the speakers (usually with music going) that act like barcodes so your mic picks it up and sends data while we’re none the wiser. Something like reporting this IMSI, IMEI, or user has arrived at this location at this timestamp. But they’ll be able to look up who owns that device if they don’t know already, because there are HUNDREDS of data brokers managing, trading, selling your data.

Lesson: disable mic and camera access when you’re not talking con the phone!

I hated ads then and I hate them now.

I actually think we are living in a golden age where between ad blockers and premium subscriptions/ arr stacks you can largely dodge ads, but I doubt it lasts

Your parents put it together. Batteries not included.

Sadly its all nostalgia. I really do think they’re better though hahha

Winston tastes good, like a cigarrette should !

At the least they were human made. Commercials are ai slop now. Cringe.

Woof woof, zoopals!

There’s a certain nostalgia for me. I watch some on youtube every now and again just to be reminded of the fashion and even just things I had that I’ve forgotten about.

There have been many occasions where I’ll have the TV playing YouTube videos of old commercials.

Not so much because they are “entertaining”, but I find the differences from today’s commercials interesting. Also, every now and then I get a “I forgot all about that” which is fun.

i sometimes go back to this ad when im feeling overwhelmed. its not from 90s and even though at the time this ad aired the world not really in a good place, my head space was. its just nostalgia to a time where i genuinely look at the world inmore positive light.

the commercials themselves predate me, but you seem like you might enjoy Nostalgia Critic’s series on old commercials if you haven’t seen it already.

Also, holy shit, there were only five episodes of this last I checked, there’s like twenty of them now.

The Chinpokomon episode of South Park aired in 1999, and that had the commercials Alabama Man and Wild Wacky Action Bike and those satire commercials are the best ever. So I agree.