i remember when those anti-vaping "depression stick" ads came out and there were loads of teens posting about how they were going to vape even more out of spite

this video deserves attention so I try to interact with it every time I see it

Bro I've been thinking this everytime I see an 'Anti-Vaping' ad. Before I got ad blocks for literally everything, and have no cable. I'd always mention after seeing them that 'These make me want to vape more than wanting not to." (I don't vape/smoke, watched Aunt die miserably from smoking) I think advertisements that are disguised and meant to trick you should be outlawed... Congradulations to drugs for winning the war on drugs.

In middle school my school treated energy drinks like black tar heroine. Lo and behold, everyone drank tons of energy drinks. I still admittedly drink way too much Monster zero

You think being an investor, wise with money, supposedly would make him have the obvious wisdom to get insurance the place he was going to be using for people to randomly use on Airbnb

what's with the constant use of "white male" as an incriminatory descriptor against the programs she's complaining about? it has nothing to do with any points she discusses, the only thing it could relate to is putting crack into black neighborhoods but at 8 minutes she's mentioned "white men" twice already without even a passing acknowledgement of that event (even skipping over it as Clint Eastwood literally mentions crack by name, just calling him an "old white man" and moving on)

The second one has always been pretty transparent

When I was a child + teenager, I saw the "just say no" ads and my initial reaction to them was, "Are they stupid? Of course I'm going to say no to drugs, because I don't want to do drugs." Did the ads do anything to change my impression of drugs? Not remotely. But the ads didn't stop. They kept reminding me about drugs. A topic I would not have thought about otherwise. Increasingly, the impression I got was that the intended message was "only people who care about what others think do drugs". You know who cares a lot about what others think? Teenagers. The ad campaign that did work, the one that was memorable to me, though: "Pedestrians don't come with airbags." It's a simple image of an unhappy looking person with tire tracks on their face, with a color filter to make the image look more dramatic. And the goal is to make drivers think about pedestrians so that they don't accidentally hit them.

Wonderful video. I love the counterpoint between the casual delivery of your brilliant insights and your meticulous editing of these clips. And I agree that Kubrick’s filmography is largely phallocentric, but that’s why it’s sublime when Alice gets the last word in Eyes Wide Shut. (And then there’s the yonic connotation of those signature one-point perspective shots …)

Such a great video !

Kids get sick of being spoken down to. If you just speak with them and make your case as to why doing drugs is a bad idea and be as honest as possible in the process, then you'll have better success than demanding that they stay away from them. I think things like "just say no" caught on among advertises because it's catchy, even if it's completely ineffective as a persuasion technique. Other than addiction being a thing marketing firms like to milk for money.

So you're making money off of these people? A sort of bottom feeder?

dystopian as af

this vid sat forever in my watch later, but i finally got around to watching it. honestly agree, ever since i started seeing the wacky, colorful anti vape ads, i had a sneaking suspicion they were stealth pro-vape ads pushed by the corrupt. when i frequented tiktok, i would constantly get them and would think how bizarre they were compared to the anti smoking ads of our youth, how those stick with me even today. i think a good chunk of people in my age range are anti smoking because of both those ads and seeing the reality around us as we grew up, i remember hearing about how smoking was down in youth and then it felt like candy colored vapes with flavors to match came out and kids were being encouraged to use them. i know it's shitty of me, but if a friend picks up vaping i can't help feeling judgemental. they're the same age as me, saw all those ads growing up and seeing people we love getting cancer and having health issues from it, only to start vaping even after the info coming out about how toxic those same vapes are. i don't openly give them shit for it, but i do quietly judge them despite knowing it's more complicated than that. idk, growing up with a grandad who died from cigarette caused lung cancer right before i was born, both my siblings being born with asthma because my mom chain-smoked with them, and then seeing the very strong anti smoking ads and being shown the gory results in school made me jaded on the topic. my mom even tried to get my brother to smoke her vape when she started and both he and i spoke later about how ridiculous and stupid it felt.

That lady smokin from her throat is the most metal thing ever

Nice video until you went all communist.

Definitely my favorite lynch movie

mean NPDs/mo? yeah ya got me bud

why is the color of the old man emphasized so much? seems like youre tryna push an agenda.

That's metal...especially the millions of cars spewing metal into the air already.

I don’t know why, but the emotional gut punch ads like the animals looking sad up in cages playing a song like “In the arms of the angels” or something like that. I’m desensitized to it. But when two people in a show have a genuine human moment like “A Life Well-Lived” from Hunter: The Parenting it hits different. It causes me to pause my life whenever I see just to appreciate it

can someone tell me how many years Brent spent up there?

Dude Tim heidecker is not funny. What is this blasphemy

Summary of this video, Rob Schneider isn’t funny and a mean racist conservative. While Tim Hendecker is a legendary genius comedian

This chick seems like a crazier lamer Halsey

First time? I always felt like the anti smoking commercials just made me wanna light up sold I was quitting.

You have the best audio voice! If you don’t read audiobooks it’s worth a look into. 💜

My grandparents lived through a economic depression. My mother was a young child. They had nothing and never threw anything away that did not break. Odd thing is the save and never want mind set followed my parents through raising 4 of us kids. Off grid today is very expensive. It would cost you less to rent a house in the suburbs. And grow a vegetable garden. You must have electricity, internet, indoor plumbing, and a kick ass 4x4. A tractor and other farm equipment. Real off grid means that you start with nothing but do not starve and you have a dry place to sleep. My grandparents did not have electricity until 1962. They never had a phone. They never had a pump put into the well. I spend hours daily pumping the water up my hand during canning season. They farmed 20 acres and their house was on an additional 1/2 acre. With 5 kids the 20 acers in crops was just about all they needed. Once the kids were grown grandpa sold much of the crop at the farmers market. He made so much that he bought a new used pickup. Up into the late 1960s he had a used 1947 Ford car that doubled as his truck, and car to give grandma a ride to church. He still plowed his fields with a mule into 1970. You want real off grid? Look at what your grandparents or their parents did. I will never forget the summers my parents sent me to be free labor to the grandparents. They were off grid before it was fashionable. My grandparents lived off grid. My parents were raised off grid. I have a house with lights that turn on with a switch. TVs and internet. Yes I pay a company to deliver electricity. Trash pickup. And taxes to keep the road maintained. Which they seem not to be doing. But I have for a residential area a large garden. And a small green house. If they turned off my electricity I would still survive. If grocery stores went belly up, I would still eat. But late at night, I would miss those odd weird free movies that are on the internet. My cell phone sits in a holder that I made and it is mounted on my kitchen wall. Just like the phone my parents had when I was growing up. But that phone had no message service. Want to be off grid in 2024? Think long and hard about it. Do you really want to go off grid? No such thing as free. Want electricity? That is going to cost you rather you have a generator powered by solar, wind, or water. Might be cheaper to stay connected to power company. Want free water? A well is expensive and a maintenance issue. Food? Live stock and vegetable garden require an investment and maintenance. You might be a master at carving up a holiday turkey. Can you take a live one, kill it, make it ready for cooking?

"thats metal" means "that is like the material metal" not "metal" as in badass

I was in Just say no and Dare and have done nicotine, weed, and drank before I've turned 21. These programs dont do shit

Most anti-vaping ads increase curiosity among teens who don't vape (which is 92% of them), inform them of all vaping options including 'flavors,' and convince them "all your friends are doing it." Monstrously stupid. But just FYI: JUUL launched in 2015, and US teen nicotine vaping dropped 30% the next year. Stayed relatively low in 2016. And it's even lower now.

If not ca$h, what did all his fans expect for all their 'free' work? Free stays at the hotel, IF it's ever completed?

challenge: watch tv for like 30 min - 1 hr and take a vape hit every time you see one of these ads, i guarantee that you'll be nic sick by 15 minutes

There was fire insurance. He probably overvalued his property for insurance. No one has EVER done anything like that before, right? /sarcasm

was put through the tourture of having to 'promise/pledge not to do ANY drugs' I was considering the logistics of that and I thought of my entirely legal perscriptions, and future potential for drug use and I said..."I can't promise anything"

You're not wrong. And using a homemade composting toilet for a year for five people is a pain in the butt lol. The one I built was basically 5 gallon bucket and then a funnel going to a gallon jug. And if you really want to know how much your kids and your wife pee, then I recommend this system... Lol

First time viewer. Love the enthusiasm and the edits. You have such a fun and welcoming personality. Might just stick around….

Wow, how did i not see this....its like the veil has been lifted... THANKs i guess,,, another "Santas not real" experience for me,,,kinda like my divorce... Really i was, totally bright eyed and bushy tailed with these off grid self sufficient van life stylers....it just goes to show that at one point it really was real and ment something,,,, then good ol marketing comes along to brainwash the collective and feed off their creativity and hard work,,,cuz if it were easy you be a banker,,, jesus is born and then you have the Vadican. Cheers!

fantastic video, no idea who you are but I'm sub'd now! some of your pixelated visuals gave me anxiety bc I thought my monitor suddenly died 10/10 would stress again

Nothing on earth can make me smoke. I don't understand how other people do it. You guys aren't bothered by the smell? Cigarette smokers make me want to commit assault just so I don't have to smell that shit. Vape smells like poison, and I have never come that close to throwing up just from smelling something. And weed smokers make me suicidal.

2:52 The "emotionally evocative" part reminds me of the spanish government's road safety ads (I think they should be illegal, they put that shit on kid's channels, you can search "anuncio dgt 2022", they probably have subtitles)

Fresh! 😄😄😄

Where were all those cool drug dealers offering free drugs when I was a kid?

American homesteading is wild. Y'all just skipped over having 'farming villages' and any sort of agrarian/pastoral phase, so I think Americans yearn to have a true rural lifestyle that doesn't really exist in North America. A European that is sick of the big city can just move to a small town or village and experience that life, whereas an American small town is...unpleasant comparatively.

Good information, decent minidoc, terrible editorialization. The more opinions you put in the harder it was to take your side

Why is Tyler Durden Meggie so hot? 🥺

My brother is a regenerative farmer, my other brother owns a house in the woods, my god-sister is homesteading with her gf, and I obsessively cultivate wild birds and own a scruffy pony. I love all these people and think they are genuinely lovely humans. Except my brothers who are evil because of that one thing from when I was six and they were three. They know what they did. You know how we all can do this? Our family is rich. That’s it. Full stop. Every homesteader or back woods people I know (which is a fair number as you can see, these are just the ones in my immediate family) are either funded by their parents or work way, way too hard to ever open up social media to sell themselves. Or get 400 dollar haircuts. We try to do what we can to donate a lot of our money and time to good causes, but we are still rich, mostly because my grandfather was an obsessive saver and my genius dad was a genius and also got very lucky in the eighties. Those are not replicable strategies. I have never tried to obfuscate our financial safety net, but because I live in these communities, I know what they are like. They wear Casios to seem humble, while funding wars and police raids on encampments. They install solar panels but own five gas guzzling cars and charter jets. They donate a couple hundred dollars to brag about it, while moving their millions into tax havens. And I in no way should be let off the hook. I know I can always buy my way out of an emergency. I know what these people look like, because I look like them. So do the people in this video.

I'm convinced that the purpose of those ads is to push people battling nicotine addiction to relapse. I'd have relapsed in a second watching this video, if I wasn't wearing a patch.

Oh my god they got Jerry Russo 4:45😭😭😭😭

Completely disagree on your political takes, but definitely an interesting vid