Published on 12, July, 2020
I have just finished reading this interesting article on the Psychology Today website.
A new study has found that people on the autism spectrum 'may be impervious to misleading marketing compared to the rest of us'.
During various discussions over the years I have noticed advertising has more of an impact on neurotypical people than myself, however, as I do not know anyone else on the spectrum I was never sure whether that accounted for the difference.
I subscribe to the Psychology Today autism RSS feed and find there are some very interesting articles posted.
One of my memes...
Love it!....I think for me as advertising represents such over exaggerated and idealistic views of human existence (sic) it just makes even more remote and alien from my own life perspective that I just switch off....can't relate to it at alll.....and it is so far away from where I sit that I chose not to even try to relate or engage with it!
For example....why would I want to buy tampons, when I don't even like roller skating! Lol
Bill Hicks has a good line on marketing men
I wonder who the bright spark was who thought a good name for pile ointment would be 'Anusol'.
I'd buy the existential mix and the re-mix on twelve inch white vinyl. Always wanted to be able to purchase gorms too.
Wow,
having just gone through this whole thread I think I need some caffeine lol. All the examples are amazing / terrible and everything in between! And loving the space / physics tangent too! I sense a touch of the Brian Cox in you Tom
I do wonder if the secret of selling something boring is to give it such a stupid name, people buy one just to show other people, though now we all have a camera in our pockets in our phones we no longer have to buy the silly named products.
Also, noticing your comment Elephant:
. said:And how do they get something with the diameter of 100,000 light years into the shop in the first place
I preferred the re-mix....,,,lol
p.s. Coffee has officially kicked in!
When I worked in wholefoods, we used to sell all sorts of bags of mixes. Trail Mix, Bombay Mix, etc. In a meeting one day, the boss was trying to think of a new mix we could make up. I suggested 'Existential Mix'. A completely empty bag! It wouldn't cost us much to produce, and I thought it would be a good seller considering some of the customers we had
Lol.....transportation costs must have been very low....can't eat warps....they give me indigestion....
Lol......it is a constant query.....oh the joys of existential doubt!
They had a 'Black Hole' bar, too. There was nothing inside. Just a warp in the time-space continuum...
Who would want to eat a whole Milky Way...? And how do they get something with the diameter of 100,000 light years into the shop in the first place?
silly name....
When I first went out to the US in 1988, I noticed that 'Marathon' was 'Snickers'. I think we took it from them.
Also, our 'Mars' was their 'Milky Way'.
No on wants to eat a sweaty trainer?....
Was that some kind of existential question Elephant, as you asked it of yourself?
Starburst sucks? Now to say something sucks is great advertising if it;s for vacuum cleaners, as after all a vacuum cleaner that doesn't suck is rather useless!!!! Speaking of confectionery when Marathon changed it's name to Snickers I was put off, don't they mean Sneakers, tho why call it after an American term for trainers. I can't help but think Snickers sounds like some disease!!!