I am surprised by just how many ads for drugs I get.
They know their audience.
But still. Lots of ads for testosterone, growth hormone, and now ketamine.
It kinda is for steroids. (Hold on, don’t downvote me yet, I’m going somewhere.)
I am a 30-something gay male. Here’s my Recommendations view:
Hot dudes, dogs, and one computer setup that’s either based off my search for standing desks or mechanical keyboards.
Instagram is a body dysmorphia engine. If you are in a certain demographic, it is so easy to drink from a constant firehose of thirst traps of men with very suspiciously large traps. You get that every time you open Instagram? It does start to warp your brain, and make you consider trying pharmaceutical interventions.
Conflict of interest: I am absolutely one of those monsters posting thirst traps: https://imgur.com/a/2JGOYwL
100%
Oh.
(Like I said. They know their audience.)
I’ve only had one ad that was “eerie.” Coworkers were talking about a kind of beverage I’d never heard of (talking over zoom, on a work-only machine), got an ad for the product later that day. Could be that I just recognized the name from our convo which caused me to scroll back up...
My mom bought a vacuum online after our phone call, and one way advertisers choose an audience is “all the friends of someone who searched for the product”
My roommate and I confirmed this by getting ads for something the other just googled.
What I’m trying to say is, targeted ads ruin Christmas, but no one will hear me out :’(