15 karma · joined September 25, 2025
I love this response. for what its worth there is some thought here on this app.
When you scroll, the content is directly in front of you and you're actively controlling the flow (you decide whether to keep scrolling or stop).
With tv, the input is removed from you (you'd have to reach for the remote to change the channel) also channel flipping during ads isn't really a thing anymore.
So while the "dog in the ad" principle might work for tv where people are more passive and less likely to change the channel...i'm not sure it directly translates to phone scrolling, where you have more immediate control and are actively making micro-decisions about whether to keep scrolling or engage.
I think I'm one of those people who worries that if i understand the math of it all, it'll lose some of the magic that made me keep my raticate for no other reason than because it was the first pokemon that accepted me without me dealing any damage to it.
I wish there were public studies like, 'We ran an experiment where young, attractive women wearing Polish clothing caused people who would naturally express these ideologies to stop scrolling more often than young, attractive women not wearing Polish clothing, for x demographic"