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3 months ago Damn, I actually thought the Audio Technica one was real. As someone who owns/has owned quite a bit of their stuff, it felt like a real statement to me, haha. I didn't think the law was in place, but I knew that at least Facebook had the archive available. Was surprised to learn about Google doing so too. That does seem to point toward some external pressure, or possibly just an open-source-style improvement mechanism on the average ad?
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> The first ad with positive externalities 🎥 the skin cream ad is real. I saw it in a subway in NYC. Here's an article on it: [https://www.thedrum.com/news/2024/05/10/ad-the-day-the-ordinary-s-stripped-back-ooh-prioritizes-science-over-celebrity](https://www.thedrum.com/news/2024/05/10/ad-the-day-the-ordinary-s-stripped-back-ooh-prioritizes-science-over-celebrity) > The ad that taught consumers to detect paid-for reviews 🔮 the audio techinca ad that says "google site:reddit.com" is NOT real, as far as I'm aware no company has ever pulled a stunt like this. But if one does, it'll be really cool. Open challenge! > The public archival of ads began 🌀 this exists!! I predicted this and someone pointed out it already exists. I don't know if there is a law that forced companies to do this, or when this happened, but you can search ads here: - https://www.facebook.com/ads/library/ - https://adstransparency.google.com/ The part about, communities to critique ads or elevate ads we like etc still does not exist. But `@happysmash27` announced they're building something for this! A community archive of ads, especially for ones that are still not publicly available > I bought a domain for this last night and am going to work on making an MVP of this super super quickly. https://x.com/happysmash27/status/1825203912858866129 > “The day humanity watched itself” - a short film 🔮 not real, but the washing machine ad is real! > One day people realized: literally anyone can sign up for and get a message across to any other sub group on the planet, for as little as $20. 🎥 this is real, the screenshot is from amazon mechanical turk. Someone sent out surveys to people across the political spectrum & various cultural groups, and wrote a whole book about it! It's called [Who Are We Now](https://whoarewenow.net/) the "naive person asking political questions" is going to be me unless someone beats me to it.Appendix