“ … just completely boring and lazy and unimaginative, which is particularly terrible in advertising because however insidious or malevolent the practice of trying to convince people to purchase things they don’t need in order to fulfill existential gaps in their self-worth, the fact of the matter is that it has at least been INTERESTING to see them try and do this over the past 20 years as consumers have gotten more savvy and less easy to please/convince.
