rant · moment 10 of 16

What Do the Advertisers Think of This Audience

from Episode 152 - Feral · #152

2 min

Tim riffs on the parade of degrading products (dick sprays, CBD, online therapy) sponsoring the show and speculates about how pathetic the ad targeting implies the audience is.

In this bit5 moments
  • Tim marvels at the parade of spray-on products and erectile dysfunction aids advertised on the show, expressing disbelief that they can't secure mainstream advertisers like Blue Apron or QuickBooks.
  • What do the advertisers think this audience is — what demographic profile are they targeting with these products?
  • Tim catalogs the assumed pathologies: the audience is anxious, suicidal, housebound, unable to afford in-person therapy, and sexually dysfunctional.
  • The ad strategy emerges as a cynical feedback loop: people need websites because they have nothing else going on, not because they actually need websites.
  • He delivers the delay spray promo code mid-rant, segueing from mockery of his own ads directly into reading them.
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Delay SprayCBDWicksBlue ApronQuickBooks

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