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Advertising always shows an exaggerated presence of young children. People like things that are cute and associate positive attitudes with them. I've seen real estate stock photos of offices with people holding toddlers and sometimes businesses like local insurance companies will advertise with just a giant picture of a baby's face; it's the kind of thing you see on bus benches and billboards.

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For the millennial generation, dogs are actually the new kids in advertising - but you can't strap a VR headset onto a dog

> but you can't strap a VR headset onto a dog

I think that means you just haven't tried hard enough. I know for a fact an advert of a dog with a vr set strapped on would get my attention

It would be a humourous / memorable advertisement of done well. I can even imagine the tagline: "So easy everyone in the family can use it".

Sez you...

https://youtu.be/ZqCOeECBfR8

The landing page has an illustration of the Firefox fox with a VR headset on, which is almost there

I was going to say, kids are a huge turn off. I run the hell away from any products with kids in their advertisements.

Meanwhile I pay for a membership to a dog park with alcohol and social events : https://fetchparkatl.com

My attitude towards having children may change one day, but it's just not the world we're living in right now.

Having (and loving) kids counts as default and when you don’t, you’re at least strange or your social integrity can be denied. Sadly, people went a long road to accept all sorts of sexualities, race equality, et cetera (minorities never were a trigger for me from the start), but still put ‘defaultness’ on pedestal. One with no kids can more likely get fired, their desires sacrificed, and so on in otherwise equal conditions. It feels like people did not just erase the border, but drew yet another which now encompasses a slightly bigger circle. We are still outside and this is barely going to change, since those who have kids seem to change on a psychological level and cannot think the other way.

> ... those who have kids seem to change on a psychological level and cannot think the other way.

They do. It's like a switch gets flipped. Or like an ~instant ~unkickable addiction.

Well, it's how our species survive the 2 millions years so far.

You can't quite transcend biology just yet...

Well, you can just not have kids. Then you don't flip into parenting mode. That was largely intentional for me. Although a couple wives were pretty persuasive. And I've been propositioned for sperm a few times. By women who liked my style, but could see that I'd make a shitty parent.

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