Advertising, marketing, propaganda. It programs people’s brains. It is extremely powerful.
There are dozens of these mass brain-programming campaigns going on right now. It’s been happening for many years … maybe centuries.
The effects can linger for many years. Even passing to the next generation.
It could also just be the beginning of a new fad.
Fidget spinners were uncommon and kinda weird before they really took off.
Natural early adoption of a thing solely by word of mouth looks almost the same as marketing.
A lot of ‘word of mouth’ fads are initiated by clever marketing pretending to be word of mouth.
I really should have used a better example like a tiktok dance/challenge or a meme format instead of a physical product.
Tiktok dances are generally marketing to get new songs popular. They pay the biggest channels and it snowballs from there.
Or new slang
TikTok is just an endless stream of ads
I don’t think the “Harlem Shake” had commercial interests. Who was making money off of that?
Bauuer?
You think fidget spinners apparated from thin air?
Obviously not.
They’re created through alchemy.
Ah, yes. That’s Arabic for “The Chemy.”