John Lewis Christmas ad.

seth plum said:

Addickted said:

seth plum said:

Addickted said:

So what have you purchased from the John Lewis Partnership over the past five years @seth plum.

About time your political rants were removed from every thread you post on. No one's listening and you're just making your self look like a killjoy idiot.

You've just given three good reasons why JL should continue with their Christmas campaign - nowhere does it suggest you should actually purchase something from them - yet they provide an incredibly high customer service and for a lot of people a once a year high quality shopping experience..

Go and stop some traffic somewhere if you want to 'be useful'.

In what way is my personal anti advertising stance political?

Of course it's not political.

I mean bringing the arms trade into a thread about one store's Christmas TV advert, that millions look forward to each year and ranting about "corrupting my ability to make an objective decision" is nothing but anti free market posturing.

Why John Lewis as your target? Why not all the perfume companies with their Christmas campaigns? There's enough of them at every ad break to sink a battleship. But then you probably never watch capitalist TV with 'sponsorship'. Or are swayed anyway whatsoever to try a new product. Or wear any clothing with a manufacturers brand on it.

Hypocrite.

My criticism of advertising has resonance elsewhere.
There is an advertising standards watchdog for a reason.
Advertising promotes many unhelpful tropes, like a constant focus on unattainable body images which can undermine, ones that perpetuate sexist and racial stereotypes, ones that give a false image for example alcohol, gambling ads, and fast food (MacDonalds sell ‘meals’? Ever watched supersize me.) Misleading political advertising.
Certain ‘free’ internet services enrich individuals hugely because adverts are shoved unwillingly down the throats of people, ‘targeted’ adverts apparently. Indeed in some areas of life adverts are disliked so much people operate adblockers, or even pay to not see adverts. Netflix trades on being ad free. Indeed the good old BBC is under threat because it is not fuelled by advertising.
There are groups such as ‘adfree cities’, complaining about billboards, especially digital ones where there is visual pollution in too many places.
The creative skill and cleverness involved in the advertising industry is undeniable, but it is not a benevolent phenomena looking after your interests, or simple providers of information.
If adverts are inconsequential how come so much money is spent on what feels like a very pervasive and dishonest enterprise?
You may well see me as a hypocrite, but there are others who feel the same way.
The John Lewis Christmas advertising is getting to be an institution like the Morecambe and Wise show, but to my mind it is not wholesome fare, but a sophisticated exercise in manipulation.

Addickted said:

seth plum said:

If you think my post today has no valid points, and they are ones you choose not to engage with, then of course you feel compelled to post your meaningless graphic.

Some valid points, but once again you completely ignore the key questions asked of you and politically manipulate each and every post to suit your own narrative which is miles away from the original post.

Once again, I ask you, what was the last thing that John Lewis persuaded you to purchase from their store as a result of their Christmas advertisement?

Addickted said:

seth plum said:

If you think my post today has no valid points, and they are ones you choose not to engage with, then of course you feel compelled to post your meaningless graphic.

Some valid points, but once again you completely ignore the key questions asked of you and politically manipulate each and every post to suit your own narrative which is miles away from the original post.

Once again, I ask you, what was the last thing that John Lewis persuaded you to purchase from their store as a result of their Christmas advertisement?