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I rarely ever go on Facebook but found myself scrolling on a friends’ timeline a few days ago. One of the ads I saw, mixed among her posts as I scrolled, was for cotton candy flavored nitrous oxide delivered to your door. This isn’t just an X/Twitter problem.

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yes, a family member sent me a screenshot of a Facebook ad a few days ago for "magic mushroom gummies" that contained delta-8 THC and amanita muscaria lol O.o

I'm not sure amanita muscaria is actually psychoactive when taken orally (although delta-8 THC certainly is) but it was still wild to see that advertised so.. brazenly

Back in the day, I ordered some A. Muscaria mushrooms online and they weren't magical at all. I drooled a lot, took a strange mostly conscious nap, and my vision was a little blurry.

Just eat Cubensis or another psylocin containing strain as Muscaria contains none of it.

What's brazen about advertising legal products?

In many locations, even where it's legal, it's not actually legal to advertise, or can only advertise with restrictions.

What's the name of this company selling this cotton candy flavored nitrous oxide? Asking for a friend.

https://creamn2o.com/

That’s the one

Facebook isn’t a flattering comparable to any platform. It’s basically a zombie platform at this point with people only using it, minimally, out of inertia.

It’s not surprising Facebook also has bottom of the barrel ads. Any decent advertiser (unless they’re advertising to old people) would probably choose Instagram for their Meta ad buys instead.

Given the person-millenia years that Meta has presumably put into their ad-targeting, maybe you should give the nitrous a try; maybe they know something you don't. Or maybe they're just whores for anyone who would give them a buck, same as they ever were.

I’ve had ads for drugs, cloned credit cards and devices for stealing cars with keyless entry all in the last month on a major social network. Reported, but they don’t seem to care.

I don’t know if your experience was on a Meta property, but it is interesting to think about the amount of blowback Twitter/X has received from advertisers who supposedly don’t want their ads shown next to unpalatable user generated content. But unpalatable ads next to a users posts? Sorry, no discussion about it and no recourse. Just another effect of being the product when using a free service I guess.

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