Advertising Baaackfires.
So there are new ads running talking about how easy it is for kids to get pharmies from their parents, and they are kindof backfiring for me. The ads are focusing on how Pharmie's are the new 'in' drug, and it's what kids are most responsible for taking now, and they're way easier to get then pot/ex/etc. I like the concept and the execution of them are all pretty well done. The drug dealer one in particular is pretty quirky. Yet when I watch them... all it tells me is how easy it'd be to get high.
It makes me feel like I should be getting high, since the kids depicted in these ads are all middle class whitebread. AKA, me. Really, these ads make it seem like all HS kids are doing this. That it's what's cool, it's what's natural. I've always wanted to be normal, it really bothers me how much I hang on the straight-as-an-arrow fringe, so is this what "normal kids" are doing these days? "Legal" drugs? Shit, if I can get drugs from my parents' medicine cabinets that easily, why the hell not? I know that my parents don't monitor their drugs like that. I have absolutely no doubt that I could steal from them if I were so inclined. And even if they noticed something was missing, I have 3 highschool age brothers. 1 of which they know is drinking/partying/whiny emo bitch.
Let's be completely honest. I HAVE some of these drugs with me, right now. In my room. And the thing is, they're in my name. I have prescription amounts of Percoset and Zoloft, both legally given to me for various reasons. So what's preventing me from taking those?
An incredibly strong conscious and desire to be a goody-two-shoes. And that I know how easy it is to have really bad side effects from drugs not prescripted to you. But otherwise? Nothing. Especially when I could be getting these things from my mum, who has almost exactly the same genetic makeup as I do, so chances of something going wrong with me when it didn't with her are incredibly low.
Yeah, I'm admittedly susceptible to advertising. It's not hard to persuade me to buy something from an ad. But since that's the case, shouldn't that be a sign against these ads? That even though I'm an Ad Minor, so I know how all of this WORKS, this ad still makes me want to go out and get the drugs myself? Not, "be a Good Responsible Person" and prevent my siblings from doing so? Yeeah.
I think something went wrong in the Copy room. Actually no, something went wrong in the Media Placement room. They know that the target audience is parents, so they want to show it mostly to parents on a parents-watched-network. That I'll buy, and USA is a good place to do so. THAT BEING SAID, Parents have kids. And lots of kids watch Law and Order and NCIS with their parents. Lord knows I did! Which means that this ad is also being shown to exactly the wrong audience at the same time.
Remind me not to work on not-for-profit ads in the future, ok? Stuff like this goes wrong too easily.
(Don't worry, I'm not going to do drugs. I've not completely lost it, I know how bad of an idea drugs are.)
It makes me feel like I should be getting high, since the kids depicted in these ads are all middle class whitebread. AKA, me. Really, these ads make it seem like all HS kids are doing this. That it's what's cool, it's what's natural. I've always wanted to be normal, it really bothers me how much I hang on the straight-as-an-arrow fringe, so is this what "normal kids" are doing these days? "Legal" drugs? Shit, if I can get drugs from my parents' medicine cabinets that easily, why the hell not? I know that my parents don't monitor their drugs like that. I have absolutely no doubt that I could steal from them if I were so inclined. And even if they noticed something was missing, I have 3 highschool age brothers. 1 of which they know is drinking/partying/whiny emo bitch.
Let's be completely honest. I HAVE some of these drugs with me, right now. In my room. And the thing is, they're in my name. I have prescription amounts of Percoset and Zoloft, both legally given to me for various reasons. So what's preventing me from taking those?
An incredibly strong conscious and desire to be a goody-two-shoes. And that I know how easy it is to have really bad side effects from drugs not prescripted to you. But otherwise? Nothing. Especially when I could be getting these things from my mum, who has almost exactly the same genetic makeup as I do, so chances of something going wrong with me when it didn't with her are incredibly low.
Yeah, I'm admittedly susceptible to advertising. It's not hard to persuade me to buy something from an ad. But since that's the case, shouldn't that be a sign against these ads? That even though I'm an Ad Minor, so I know how all of this WORKS, this ad still makes me want to go out and get the drugs myself? Not, "be a Good Responsible Person" and prevent my siblings from doing so? Yeeah.
I think something went wrong in the Copy room. Actually no, something went wrong in the Media Placement room. They know that the target audience is parents, so they want to show it mostly to parents on a parents-watched-network. That I'll buy, and USA is a good place to do so. THAT BEING SAID, Parents have kids. And lots of kids watch Law and Order and NCIS with their parents. Lord knows I did! Which means that this ad is also being shown to exactly the wrong audience at the same time.
Remind me not to work on not-for-profit ads in the future, ok? Stuff like this goes wrong too easily.
(Don't worry, I'm not going to do drugs. I've not completely lost it, I know how bad of an idea drugs are.)