#advertising provides

[elftwink]

to preface this post i am anti-advertising i think we should explode the entire industry but it's sooo funny when you people make posts like "and they don't even work!!" like. sorry to be the bearer of bad news but yes they do. that's why we have to put up with so many despite everyone hating them and thinking its annoying. because they actually work really well and make a shit load of money

#it actually would be way better if they didnt work and made no money bc businesses would abandon them #this isnt like stocks where everythings abstract and is essentially gambling (i dont understand stocks) #like ppl in the ad industry create things. that make a tangible and quantifiable impact on the business #which is then used in further ad planning. it is NOT all smoke and mirrors #like its fake in that the industry is not providing a necessary service the way like. grocery stores are #but its not the level of fake where everything is abstract like theres deliverables #moreover there is an extensive body of academic work specifically on how to make ads more effective #ALSO i think some of u views ads like. as if they have a win condition. which is you buy product #but in current advertising this is pretty rare and comparatively ineffective #which is why you see MANY ads which dont seem to be selling anything in particular. or which have nothing all to do with the product #the 'win' condition for THAT kind of ad is something more like 'viewers remember our name' #like. ex i would say ads for temu have not been effective on me bc i havent bought anything from them #but temu probably thinks they were SUPER effective on me because i talked abt them like 5 different times at work #and i do in fact know exactly what the company does and what they sell #and they were able to capitalize on the reputations of existing companies (wish shein etc) to build their own brand #good idea generator

[bleue-flora]

if a therapist came to the dsmp to treat the characthers they would need therapy after doing it probably

[context]

You and @piscespixiewastaken think alike it seems.

Indeed they would. In fact, this point actually pushed me to ask my sister-in-law, who is a therapist/counselor about it just out of curiosity. 

Here’s what I learned:

Despite what my counselor said, not all therapists were required in school to do counseling themselves to get certified. Some counselors have actually never even been to therapy themselves (not sure how I feel about that to be honest… not to deter people from going to therapy - please do if you are able) something my sister-in-law didn’t seem to be a big fan of.

When asked if she felt like she needed counseling after/because of a specific client she said that yes that can definitely be the case. She noted that empathy fatigue is often common after listening to people all day, which makes sense and that would be a common reason for some needed personal counseling. As expected, while she hasn’t had to deal with a lot of it, she did note that dealing with people with antisocial behavior disorders (ie narcissistic, histrionic… think sociopath disorders) can be especially taxing.

Given that the dsmp is a group of povs of the same story and events, I was curious on whether she often found herself taking sides when she does couples counseling. She said that there can be an initial bias at first when the base facts are presented to her, which is something she often has to check herself on, but that actually she finds that usually there is truth and wrongdoing on both sides and there is no true ‘bad guy.’ Though she did add that she has not dealt with any relationships involving more intense abuse especially relating to antisocial behavior disorders. In other words, the couples she sees likely came willingly and are sound enough in mind on both sides to want to fix the problems, if that makes sense.

So in other words, there are, much to my surprise, counselors who do not go (may not have gone) to therapy themselves, but that doesn’t make it healthy and considering the characters in the dsmp it would likely be recommended that this counselor also see someone. I will say though the implication that people in the dsmp are more problematic then real world people are is perhaps an underestimation of irl mental illness. Just because the dsmp members wear armor and carry around weapons doesn't make them more troublesome than people irl, though perhaps that is me viewing it from their world standards which I assume the therapist would be from. In either case, whether the therapist was from the realm of Minecraft world circumstances or more irl, I do imagine they being either inhumanly sane and not need a therapist of their own, or they get together with another therapist and perhaps drink over all the dsmp insanity. And whether they would be inclined to take sides I think is hard to say since there are definitely some characters who need a psych ward. Anyways… hope you enjoyed my info dump. :)

#lol I really can't help myself can I. I just have to provide way more detail and info on stuff XD... #well you learn things... might be the best convo I've had with my sister-in-law as an aside :D #also again please go to therapy if you can I have been seeing someone for over 5 years now and I can say I both wouldn't be here if I hadn' #and that it has really helped me grown as a person and form more healthy relationships. #having a professional. who isn't a friend or family member with bias. can be really great to help you heal and navigate life #please also remember that it may take a little to find a therapist who you connect with so don’t just give up <3 #oops sorry for the therapy advertisement... I'm just passionate about it ;) <3 <3 #fanfiction #hello there #dsmp analysis #dsmpblr #dsmp fanfic #dsmp #dream smp

[mlpoutofcontext]

In the Cheesecake Factory

Where your fears and horrors come true

In the Cheesecake Factory

Where not a single soul gets through

In the Cheesecake Factory

Where your fears and horrors come true

#I've had this post floating in my head for a while #but I never made it #because I didn't want to provide free advertising to a restaurant #(on my blog based on a franchise that's basically advertising anyways for toys) #but Cheesecake Factory seems to have become a meme #(source: I saw two (2) funnyposts mentioning it) #so I figured I'd post this now #Letter to Celestia in the tags #mlp #my little pony #mlp fim #my little pony friendship is magic #rainbow factory #wooden toaster #cheesecake factory #original content

[theriverbeyond]

my fav thing to do is lean down and get real close to my cat's head but not quite touching so he has to bump up into me for a kiss

#THE BUMP!!!!! i love him so much #trb.txt #cat #i also do this reaching out to pet him but not quite so he has to scoot over and bump into me for petting #this is why i think we have such a good relationship #at the shelter he was advertised as 'independant' and 'likes his own space' and 'good at boundary setting' #and i think i have over the last 5 years gained his trust and affection so well because im like #ok buddy I HAVE PETS AND LOVE AVALIBLE. IF YOU WANT #and then if he wants i provide #the adversized as not a lap cat -> he wants to crawl inside my ribcage pipeline of love

[the-owl-tree]

on that note, if you were going to rewrite the sisters/write a similar group, what sort of approach would you take? ( planning on doing something like that if the motivation gods bless me)

i've made some big changes for the sisters for my beanie blog (pspspsps @askwcbean) but I think it really depends on the group you're trying to create. I wanted to keep the Sisters as a sustainable, self-growing group but keep some of the flaws (their strong sense of a gender binary). I don't want to make a utopian society out of spite, but I do want to make a society that could reasonably survive. Soooo (a combo of my ideas & stealing from others):

my collection of bullet point ramblings under the cut

The Sisters are very open to those willing to join and learn. They are a collection of loners, rogues, and kittypets. Not only does this keep our bloodlines less janked up, but it makes sense as to why the group can keep a reasonable amount of cats - they aren't closed off like the clans.

They'll often adopt abandoned kits, cats who are in bad situations, and generally anyone who is willing to learn and work with the group. This is a group that relies on diplomacy and good relations with others, they should be very open to outsiders.

Get rid of the super special bloodline thing. It's both a personal and practical thing, it doesn't work for a group like this. Have being able to see spirits be something you can be taught

I'm not giving Tree super special ghost powers. Sorry, I'm going to forever make fun of his novella it's so fucking stupid. He can see ghosts and has a heightened sensitivity to them, but it takes multiple Sisters and Brothers to be able to summon ghosts into views.

Keep the "Mother" kittypet origin story.

But how do they function? Well, the Sisters seem to operate a fairly small group, it doesn't really make sense to me for them to need a centralized structure. So, going for a decentralized system in the Sisters, power is distributed across the group and there is an emphasis on teamwork and decision making on all parts.

Choosing representatives for when meeting new groups tends to fall on reputation, charisma, and experience. Moonlight was chosen for these reasons, but she does not control the entirety of the group, though cats will lean on her words when she gives advice. She doesn't have legitimate power like a Clan leader, she relies on social influence and respect. Her word isn't law, but she does carry some weight due to her experience.

The Sisters have a fairly strong gender binary: Brothers, Sisters, Mothers, Fathers. You can be one or the other, they'll try to work around those who feel they don't fit for either role....but it doesn't always work out. I lean towards this not being decided by agab, you can shift from Brother to Sister and vice versa, it's those cats that don't exist in that binary who may feel out of place (but this is a wip idea and I want to tweak it more before i commit. i know for sure that Bean is one of those cats who doesn't want to fit this binary and is why she left to take up a "Brother" role despite not seeing herself as a Brother. I don't want them to treat them poorly, though it can happen, but that there's a lot of...reluctance to try and expand their ideas for these cats).

Toms don't get kicked out as babies. It's dumb, sorry everyone who likes that. There's no real logic to it besides a very half-assed attempt at trying to expand on the Sisters beliefs and even then, a kid with no training would get the shit kicked out of him by the wilderness lol

So, Brothers are socialized and trained on how to survive on their own. They're given information on medical herbs, hunting and gathering skills, best material to build dens and where to find a makeshift one in case of an emergency. Once again, this is not suddenly thrust upon them, they are socialized, this is something that they are believed to be as completely natural and an expectation for them.

When they are sufficiently deemed to be ready, the Brother is sent out to find a territory. They just don't just wander around (because I mean...the Sisters fill that role. They're nomadic). This is where I am yoinking a bit from others (notably bonefall's take on them), these territories act as base camps for the Sisters during their travels when they need to restock on herb supplies, have an injured or pregnant member, young kits, etc. That's why it's so important to them to have as many wide varieties of camps across their travels, and it's why Tree and Moonlight have some tension upon their meeting.

Boy picked a bad territory in their opinion, but in his defense, he didn't pick it for the Sisters. My base idea for these is Tree had a bad bad outing, but it needs work. I'll keep their strained relationship, but I'd like a little more depth to it just than the Erins beloved eeeeevvuuuulll mommmmyyyy (sooo scary!).

The Sisters believe they have a duty to help put spirits to rest, as well as help more malevolent ones find peace in the afterlife. They help with hauntings, lingering spirits, malicious spirits, etc.

They work in groups! The more malicious the spirit, the more Sisters it will take to pacify them and eventually release them from whatever is trapping them to the mortal plane.

Annnd so far that's what I've got! I have some more spirit lore over on my Bean blog, but this has been my working ideas for the Sisters themselves. Hope it helps :D

#deer rambles #new lore just dropped on the beanie blog :3c #okay i'll stop advertising it i prommy #but yeah! i feel like the sisters are fairly easy to fix #and i don't mind keeping their flawed sense of gender #it makes them interesting and it provides good conflict when focusing on them #besides. if ur gonna criticize them how about we criticize how the books keep positing motherhood as every she-cat's destiny

[grapejuicegay]

Alright so I got a bit curious... just how much of Vice Versa was ads? So I went in and cut out all the intros and up next screens and previews to get the total run time of the actual show, and also isolated the product placement segments.

I was generous with the product placement. I didn’t count the entire segments that were clearly based around the product, just the points where they actually interacted with the products.

Here’s my calculations (unless I’ve got the math entirely wrong)

The total run time was 11:32:11, which comes 692.18 minutes

The ad segments were 1:51:17, which comes to 111.28 minutes

Approximately 16% of Vice Versa was purely product placement

Basically, what I’m getting at is

#this includes the lays ads #i've said it before and i'll say it again #vice versa sacrificed itself on the altar of 6 minute lays ads... among some choice pickings by minor advertising gods #so that we could get the eclipse #say thank you vice versa #vice versa #vice versa series #the eclipse #the eclipse series #this is proof that i should not have free time #i'm sorry #i also didn't count all the times they just sat in cars and on scooters provided by yamaha or went to the sf cinema #just because they didn't talk about them directly #this would be a LOT worse if i started counting all of that #like i said i was being GENEROUS

[fangirlinginleatherboots]

Part of boycotting is not helping it trend, children. It's time to shut the fuck up and keep its name out of your mouth.

#as stupid as it sounds making something trend on social media is a strategy #deplatorming also only works if you dont provide them a platform for them to spread their ideology. #so if you keep talking about it instead of what people shoild be talking about #and make it trend #then you still helped them reach more people #its why hate watching a show results in more seasons even if you yourseld pirate it #because your talking about it even negatively is free advertisement #bootsie's adventures

[cyphyra]

May or may not be working on making a public Discord server again...

#cyspeaks #i tried it a long time ago but it ended up dying pretty quickly after i didnt advertise it #it'd be nice to have tho since it provides a very simple way to get in contact with me

[itstimetodrew]

It's wild how companies keep copying each other's methods for short-term financial gain even when they've seen it bring financial ruin in the long-term. Just right now they're watching media companies invest billions in new streaming platforms that offer less content in order to get subscribers, but not even knowing if it's a profitable pursuit (it isn't). They're watching movie studios devote almost their entire upcoming film slate and excessive budgets to cinematic universes and sequels, assuming audiences will rush for tickets every time (they aren't).

And their huge brain business strategy with this information is to just keep putting all their half-rotten eggs in one shabbily-woven basket. Instead of you know, developing a product that can stand on its own and won't get dragged down on a sinking ship because it's become nothing else but clone #17 of That Other Popular Thing.

#i really hope reports about these tumblr changes being a ceo-led thing only are true. #remember when it was revealed facebook video views were inflated to appeal to advertisers and weren't actually very profitable? #AFTER every platform started hyping up video based on those fake numbers? #and more recently how twitter also made public and overinflated view counts? but still has nowhere near enough advertiser support? #its almost like you need to appeal to what potential buyers already desire and what they DON'T have #instead of making up in your mind what they want and then providing a shittier copy of what already exists. #the gap between what is pushed vs what people want is a canyon and for some reason they can't figure out why they aren't making money hmmm

[dbssh]

"lore enthusiasts" buddy you have 300 followers you arent creating any freaking content nobody is flying you to blizzcon. "lore enthusiasts" you are a fan. youre a fan.

#THE STREAMERS GET TO APROOVE OF THINGS BECAUSE THE STREAMERS #PROVIDE THE BULK OF THE FREE ADVERTISING FOR THE GAME. WHAT DO YOU DO. MAKE TWEETS?

[werewolf-transgenderism]

begging everyone to learn the difference between "influencer" and "just a regular person posting on the internet" w/r/t struck work because oh my god everyone and their mother are unintentionally spreading misinfo by classifying everyone posting online as influencers

this is what classifies an influencer per SAG-AFTRA's own FAQ:

^ if this applies to you so do the strike guidelines that SAG-AFTRA has put out, if it doesn't then you are not an influencer and all that union reps have asked casual fans to do is be vocal in support of the strikes and try to weave that support into things like cosplay etc.

#seeing people arguing on one billion posts adding the influencer guidelines when the VAST majority of people posting are not influencers #influencers get paid to produce content by advertisers and sponcon etc #if you're unsure about something w/r/t the strike SAG-AFTRA has so much useful info on their website and in what the leadership has said #and they've provided an email for questions also

[chaplinfortheages]

The Sunday Tribune, Providence R.I. July 1st 1917

#charlie chaplin #“the immigrant” #advertisement #the sunday tribune #providence r.i. #july 1st 1917

[anissapierce]

.... Ok so this older people lgbt support group that i was planning on starting at the local library....im gonna transition it into being for lgbt adults but specifying that were interested in creating connections btwn ppl of all ages. Also it did initially start out as for older trans ppl and i still havent heard back from the library abt the change from that to the second thing. But i feel better abt it being for adults generally if im the one apparently facilitating it

#lol i reached out to the library w this idea n they were like 'ok sounds good we can provide the room n advertise are u gonna be there too #n like shit i hadnt thought this far ahead #xxaso

[rayo1-productions]

My deepest apologies for the absence on Tumblr. But I’m here to kick off Wave 2 of my wallpapers. Let’s start things off with a revolution!

Posts will still be irregular, but to accommodate the uncertain amount of time I may spend away from this platform, releasing the wallpapers in Waves seems like a good idea.

Background art collaged and retrieved from Generator Rex environmental art. 

Credit for White Knight and Doctor Holiday goes to Virt, whose headshots were retrieved from here: https://ffunseen.tumblr.com/post/620579479623958528/are-there-any-sketches-of-gen-rex-characters

As always, you can find the first story in this series right here: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11418172/1/Cartoon-Network-Universe-Earth-One-FusionFall

Previously on Cartoon Network... Coming up on Cartoon Network...

#cartoon network universe earth one #fanfiction wallpaper #generator rex #providence generator rex #providence #rex salazar #bobo haha #agent six #doctor holiday #white knight #cesar salazar #van kleiss #biowulf #machines #nanites #man of action #ben 10 #utah desert? #FusionFall #fanfiction advertisement

[kayayeteae]

.

#saw some posts about how basically this website is dying for one reason or another #and like usually I’m like hell yeah stick it to the corporations!!! #but one thing a lot of people don’t realize is that the amount of measures it takes to run a business in tech #is really…a lot #and to have 0 marketing involved to generate revenue is even worse #social media is a free service for the sole reason that users are technically a ploy to advertise to #what users here basically did was demand that tumblr provide to us while also remain minimal in their advertising #which basically means they aren’t generating revenue conventionally #blazing posts and purchasing check marks were a temporary problem to a long term solution #if this website requested to be ran the same way AO3 and wiki does users would immediately attack staff #it’s a really shit situation but also tumblr shouldn’t have listened so much to their users #the net worth of tumblr isn’t worth much to investors given all this unless #i should also add that gated communities (like discord) has negatively impacted the amount of users on this site #less users means less interaction with content creators (dominantly artists) #less content creators means less content #u guys get the gist #I’d like to add to question every business related explanation on this website #y’all can complain to hell and back about tumblr but it was one of the lesser evils as far as ads went

[pvffinsdaisies]

I have to be so honest I think for what Duolingo is and what it offers it’s wayyyyy overly criticised

#and I’m so sick of it!!! #considering it’s completely free and offers such a large variety of languages #languages where it could be near impossible to find any other rescource that’s even half as good as Duolingo #‘here’s why you should stop using Duolingo’ okay can you provide me any other app/website as accessible that teaches Scottish Gaelic? #and also it has to even attempt to include all aspects #speaking listening writing and reading #like Duolingo attempts to do #there are some apps out there that require a payment #only offer like spanish French and German #and are actually worse at teaching you those languages #also I’m sick of the whole ‘it will never get you fluent!!!’ #like yeah we know?? #but it’s also important to have things to teach the basics #and try and make it fun too #also I don’t think I’ve ever even seen Duolingo advertise itself as smth to get you fluent #which I’ve definitely seen other apps do #okay rant over