Tag: targeted advertising

This is a two-panel meme using the 'Mr. Incredible Becoming Uncanny' format. The left panel features a normal, pleasantly amused version of Mr. Incredible paired with the text 'You get ads about something you talked about', representing the relatively expected and widely known practice of devices listening to user conversations to serve targeted ads. The right panel features the unsettling, dark, black and white uncanny version of Mr. Incredible paired with text 'You get ads about something you thought about', satirizing the common paranoia and concerns that tech platforms are able to track even users' unspoken thoughts to deliver targeted advertising, which is a far more disturbing and invasive prospect.

Mr Incredible Meme Mocks Creepy Overreach of Targeted Ad Tracking

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This is a relatable satirical meme using the popular three dogs peeking around a door template. Three dogs peek sequentially from top to bottom through a gap beside a door, labeled Google, Amazon, and Facebook respectively. Text at the top of the meme reads 'When you say you want to buy something in front of your phone'. The joke references the widely discussed anecdotal experience of large tech platforms listening to users' unprompted spoken conversations to serve hyper-relevant targeted ads for products users mentioned, which often leads to impulse purchases that drain the user's bank account, matching the core sentiment of the original title stating the user's bank account is begging the platforms to stop this practice.

My bank account is begging them to stop listening

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This is an ironic relatable meme. The top of the image features black text reading 'How I feel when YouTube shows me ads for accounting services and business loans (I am unemployed)'. Below the text is a widely used stock photograph of a confident smiling man in a grey business suit sitting at a modern office desk, holding a corded landline phone to his ear while using a desktop computer, appearing as a successful professional business owner. The humor comes from the stark contrast between YouTube's algorithm incorrectly targeting an unemployed user with ads meant for established business owners, and the user playfully leaning into the absurdly mismatched impression the algorithm has of them by using the successful businessman photo to represent their feelings in this scenario.

I am flattered YouTube has such hopes for me

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