Hellooo fellow consumers! This time I am excited to have the opportunity to talk to you about corporate sponsorships, and how they seem to be everywhere, which is GREAAAAAT.
And now we all know Georg is a huge hypocrite. His Hiptang adverts got me hooked on the stuff. If I don’t have my Hiptang daily I get the shits and he’s here acting like he doesn’t support corporate sponsorships
(5:01) Ah, the Lovecraftian horror of advertising. Thanks, Georg. Now the next time I see a RU-vid ad for washes/soaps specifically designed for each orifice and dangley bit on my body or how any and all of the reasons/causes for any of my physical ailments can be found in my "poop", I'll see the creeping tentacley appendage of Yog-Sothoth behind it all. 😀
"Did you know that the Big Government Agency classifies soap as a CLEANING PRODUCT! And you're going to put it on your pee pee? Use our soap that smells like a yeti's butthole! If you don't, you're not a REAL man!"
@@BigJay039 the guy in that commercial does comedy and all he could talk about was sex. No joke, just sex. What's funny is, my manager at the club said he's been joking about threesome's and promiscuity for years and his bits haven't changed much at all xD
Even Yog-Sothoth had, umm, boundaries? However these sponsorships make Yog-Sothoth look like a gender-questioning youth at a boy scout jamboree circa 1977... or so.
Im glad that george has been able to sync his brand with media friendly next generation talent from synergetic green eco diversity organisations, sponsored by your friends at raytheon
"Our missile emits 80kg of CO₂e during its lifetime but with an average of 3.14 civilian casualties per strike we save dozens more kilos in foreign emissions."
I hope you keep making films like this. Lately i feel like i'm the only one who is cynical about things that are blatantly obvious and it doesn't seem to bother anyone else. Glad to know I'm not alone in my cynicism at least.
"...we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." -A certain black cat enthusiast
I've spent the last few months trying to get the most out of my back garden. I don't have a huge amount of space, but I've got enough to have a few broadbean and courgette and butternut squash plants, plus a few pots with herbs in. Keeping them alive is a pain in the arse sometimes. I have to ask friends and family to come round and water them when I'm on holiday, and if it rains I have to stumble about in the dark with a torch to locate the legion of slugs that inevitably finds its way to my lovingly cultivated plants. The yield from all this effort is far from spectacular. Sometimes I think I just can't be fucked with the whole endeavour. And then I watch a video from George. And I'm reminded that if I can, in some small way, divorce myself from total reliance on the utterly amoral companies that have monopolised the provision of the basic needs of survival for human beings, then it's probably worth it. Because, for at least one meal, I'm not funding the activities of people who I'd go out of my way to avoid pissing on if they were on fire
Doing a bit of gardening can make one appreciate the people that really make our food for us. If I had to grow everything I ate I'd damn well starve. So far this year I've been able to grow a couple pounds of peas and a dozen or so tomatoes. But my green beans are just about to start yielding something.
@@1pcfred If i had to rely on what I can cultivate myself I'd undoubtedly have starved to death several decades ago. If foraging and homebrewing was allowed I'd have lived the same amount of time, but I might have at least managed to go out hammered
@@DemstarAus I've got two pots with cherry tomatoes on the go that have yet to produce any fruit. I'm still grimly determined to at some point make a spaghetti Bolognese using homegrown tomatoes, garlic, onions, carrots and oregano, and venison mince sourced from someone who actually hunted a deer in the relatively local area. Which is a roundabout way of saying that the cherry tomatoes would be lovely, and I'd probably benefit from the hug too
@@isaacstoker3832 back in the day they worked sun up to sun down 6 days a week. On the Sabbath you begged God to get you through the next week. Pretty much all you did was geared towards survival. Because starvation sucks. And if you weren't working on getting food then you worked on clothes or shelter. But at least you had the hours of darkness to yourself. Then you just huddled in fear.
Every time I see a channel shill raid shadow legends, I die a little inside. Every time I see them read a script and like oh yes I love this product. Even if I wasn't advertising it, I cringe so hard. And I have massive respect for this channel not giving into that crap.
Yeah, I guess the War on Terror was not really able to address these issues... I suppose when I look back and ask myself how I hope things might have changed, I'm not really able to imagine what it might have been, beyond a moral reckoning where the worst excesses of corporate capitalism are deemed beyond the pale. However, they simply told us it was our demands that were beyond the pale. From this vantage point, it seems like it's intractable to have one of more marginalised groups screaming for justice while another group that holds the power insists that justice is served by the status quo. We scream, "It can't go on!"; They scream, "It can't not go on!"
@@ivorydungeon909 BAE Systems sponsored maths and science equipment at my primary school. Those free stickers, posters and colouring sheets of all their different flying (and killing) machines had zero impact on me... Until in 1999 at the tender age of 19 having decided I was bored of part time hours pulling pints in the local boozer, I suddenly found myself in the RAF... Nope, colouring in that Hawk T2 trainer, and swapping my Panavia Tornado F3 sticker for my mate Daz's BAE Harrier II, had little to no impact on the rest of my life...
Love the diversion about working conditions across the globe. Consumerism is not all that it's cracked up to be. There is a high cost to artificially low prices.
Fun fact: the team behind the George Foreman grill first called Hulk Hogan, But Hogan didn't call back in time. It could have been the Hulk Hogan grill.
Sometimes i watch UFC fights on youtube and I like to think that the corporate logos are there for a ritual and whichever brand gets the most blood splattered over it recieves higher profits for the next quarter
It used to be a medium level fighter could earn up to 70k-100k from sponsorships for just one fight. And then Dana & the Fertittas became greedier and sold out to Reebok & monster energy (among others), and the fighters get 💩 (2-3k per fight) instead of a good payday from sponsors. Remember the fake tattoo condom ads on fighter's backs? Way better & more moral than anything they have to do today. Workers/fighters are just cattle.
I've hated advertising ever since I was a teenager because for a short while I was in a situation where all advertising was absent. When I came back to the rest of society smartphones had taken over and everything was covered in advertisements. I never saw that shift from the era I grew up in into the current ultra-monetized era that started in 2010, so for me the difference has been all the more stark and made me much more aware of it. Plus working with marketers and advertisers. I hated when I had to do that as part of my job. I swear some of those people don't even see others as human. Merely resources. I once overheard a conversation about how they were going to put the layout I'd designed on the backs of wheelchairs at hospitals to advertise potato chips. It was hard not to unmute my mic and say something about that.
Aaaahahaha LMFAO 😂 please, PLEASE.. Never sell out or I will lose faith in humanity and cry for days. The spirit of Bill Hicks is alive and well.. Love you man 😁
Really great video... just super. By the way, I represent a group of discerning investors with an interest in monetizing disinterest... Have your people call my people.
I’m watching The Wire currently. First season was heavily sponsored by Verizon. Like glaringly obvious, not only do you see it everywhere but characters would constantly name drop. But the premise, at least in 1st season, heavily revolves around cops tapping phones. Which I’m not sure why Verizon would want to be associated with that. ‘Ah man these cops are secretly listening in and arresting people, I should switch to Verizon so I too can get secretly recorded and arrested?’
I wonder if David Simon took that sponsorship specfically so he could shit on Verizon. Considering what a huge motiff surveillance is in that show, and considering how many unprofitable creative choices went into The Wire I find it hard to believe he'd cede creative control to a telecommunications corporation.
How bloody depressing (and true). The economy is the definition of "unnatural", if we define "natural" in opposition to "man-made". Whenever people use the word "sustainable" in relation to whatever large business they're running, I can't help rolling my eyes
I can at least believe that online advertising doesn't work as well as people/corporations believe. The entire internet ecosystem is built on deriving money from advertising , so it's a truth that can never be brought to life.
I was just thinking about how I own a lava lamp because Georg always has one in his videos, and it reminded me how I've always wanted one, and I told my daughter so that she'd get me one for Xmas, and OMG THAT'S HOW THEY GET YOU
I knew a national RU-vidrs who calls other RU-vidrs doing sponsorship "Sandwich-men". He argued that they essentially make their content dishonest and bound to be censored and retooled if corporate entities desired it. So they are encouraged to make the least provocative content possible. Not art, nothing insightful, just content. And even those who are "exceptions" to the rule would essentially suffer from that censorship at some point.
I wrote my master's thesis on RU-vid video essayists and I argued basically the same thing. They're working with academic ideas and methods, but they're doing it in a profit-driven environment where they're beholden to the tastes and preferences of algorithms, massive audiences of laypeople, and potential corporate sponsors.
if i'd be a tuber, i would do sponsorships as I would need to make a living off of it but i'd try to do it smart - never do a sponsorship from a company that is even remotely connected to your content or at the very least to the videos topic. so making a video about black holes and having it sponsored by dollar shave club - yeah, it's stupid but it would still be somewhat legitimate. Also, I would state that there are no rules of what i am allowed or not to say of course. I think you are pretty safe with those requirements
Yeah, I'd rather stick with patreon or a merch store. "Here you go, fans. Have some tat. Or some extra videos that aren't good enough to go on the main channel. Parasites."
I mean this when I say that you are far and away my favorite RU-vidr. You have the same taste in films as I do and have recommended numerous ones I'd yet to see but would come to absolutely love.Your humor, the way you express your righteous indignation -- I love all of it. You've inspired me and my partner to start a channel; I can only hope to have half the quality of your content. I've been eagerly awaiting your film since you first began fundraising and donated what I could.
George, I end up unsubscribing to channels once they become uninspired and try to peddle the same old bs to turn a view/dollar. With you, I enjoy your content the longer you bother to produce it. Whatever your self abusive muse is, be it alcohol or cheap women, keep riding that horse please. Thank you.
We will actually be fucked if working people don't realize themselves as a class that does not need corporate leadership to furnish society with what it needs, be it means of subsistence, means of production, means of communication or means of self-realization. The proletariat cannot stand up without upturning the world that sits on its shoulders!
This video was just as cruel and unforgiving as the advertising industry itself... And I LOVE it! Great job, good sir. You nailed it to the wall. Bless up!
Ah yes, my bi-monthly dose of 'Angry English man yells at me from his couch about the state of the world.' It really is my favourite thing to consume. A bit disappointed that I didn't see a Hiptang sponsorship on this one though. Is everything ok Georg?
When people say capitalism is the most efficient allocation of scarce resources I always think about the billions of man hours constantly spent making adverts, which provide no value apart from by looking at it entirely circularly (which a lot of people do, ie thy say yeah adverts are good because they make the advertiser money)
If you're cleaning the toilets in a hospital, you're operating on a completely different level regarding usefulness than if you're cleaning toilets in an ad agency. Less directly, if you push a button to fill cleaning detergent bottles that are then used by people cleaning the toilets in a hospital, you're also working on a completely different level regarding usefulness than if you push a button to fill cleaning detergent bottles that are then used by people cleaning the toilets in an ad agency. In the second case, you may not know who is going to use the cleaning detergent bottles you're filling up, but you might be aware that mathematically speaking, your job serves no actual purpose. Either with some probability or even definitely, but only some percentage of it. Depending on whether you say one out of ten people does a useless job or that all ten people do a useless job ten percent of the time.
Almost as if there is no ethical consumption under capitalism, or something... (Which is not a hand-wave permission to consume, but an indictment of a system that makes it impossible to ethically do so.)
"CORPORATIONS! What's the deal with THOSE?" -Jerry Seinfeld (prior to NBC buyout which may or may not have contained blackmail, extortion, strong-arming...if you experience any of these side-effects, please call Hamill, Hammill & McGills to start your class aciton now!)
I’m happy to learn that the voices in my head have created a RU-vid channel and made this video about the exact shit that keeps me up at night. Great work!
the pursuit of exponentially increasing profit is at the bottom of every hole I look down. every single one. we behave as if this pursuit is a law of nature, but it isn't. it doesn't have to be this way.
As a teenager I thought my George Foreman grill was the greatest thing around. Now I think it's the most garbage panini press I've ever owned. Advertising deprives us of far superior options sometimes. Most of the time.
funny thing about that local american school from the clip. that's bayshore high school from my hometown of Bradenton, Florida. a very sad fact about it was that it was built on a toxic site, and for years the first students who went there had to fight in the courts to get compensation for all the exotic cancers they got.
This is just the current year version of what was happening in the last 1800's and early 1900's. people don't learn from history they don't know, or even the history they do, because it looks vaguely different.
Georg really is a breath of fresh air. I hate how we are constantly manipulated at every turn to buy shit we do not want or need, and how so much of humanity is based around producing more and more of said shit. I boycotted dominos pizza the other day for sending me texts every few days, I wonder how long Georg's boycott list is
I think this might of been his best video yet. Couldnt agree more. Not that the Beatles were saints or anything but the fact that they turned down huge money from pepsi and coke, because "we didn't want to sell out", is something I always respected them for. Bands of my generation couldn't wait to take money to appear in Apple commercials. It always put me off them and I stopped buying their albums. Selling out to big corporations used to be seen as a shitty thing to do. Now it seems like no one gives the slightest fuck. Which sucks big hairy ass.
@@nobody8717 oh I'm sorry. I didn't realise the Beatles music was used in a bunch of ads in the 60s and 70s. I forgot that John Lennon was always draped in Adidas and drinking a coke. I must of missed all those times Ringo appeared at the super bowl. And of course who could forget all of George Harrisons gigs in Abu Dhabi for all that lovely money. Honestly. They slapped the beatles logo on a bunch of lunch boxes and made dolls of the boys to sell. If you think musicians from the 60s and 70s were in the pockets of corporations like today then you are very mistaken.
Indie and underground music for the win. Obviously I'd like for a lot of these unknown bands to be able to make a better living (Can't tell you how many talented bands I have loved over the past decade or so just go AWOL or defunct because they weren't very commercially successful), but at least they stay creative and original and are a nice haven for fresh auditory experiences.
There was also a hell of a lot less competition back then and less need to "sell out" to even get heard or even maybe break even, let alone sound unique and different.
I’ve been subscribed for like a year, but completely forgot about this great channel because I never see it in my feed until today. RU-vid needs to be better
Comrade Georg, we are ready to follow you into battle against any soda and/or food company. We will glagly give our goddamn lives to fight Disney(+), Amazon Prime & Googly Eyes! Fast food workers of the world, unite! Seriousness aside, Georg makes me feel sane in such a mad world.
Ever since he moved out of that townhouse and into where John Doe from Seven lived...things have gotten...bleaker..... with a splash of paranoia. Love it! 4 out of 5 stars.
I imagine that regularly ad people show up at Georg‘s trying to recruit him only to find themselves in a Kevin McCallister nightmare. „Hello, sir, we saw that your 25.37 unique subscribers per week qualify you for our brand recognition club. We‘d be happy to…“ - WHOOOOOOSH - brick.
I don’t know how you do it… yet you do lol. I love your content. It’s lofi and simple. You talk openly and honestly (and funnily) about simple topics we all understand and relate to. Love love love it 😍
Thank you so much for telling VPN companies to shove it. VPN shilling is one of the worst things on RU-vid (even worse than Raid: Shadow Legends) and I am glad that someone is standing up to them. When they make all sorts of outlandish claims about being "safe and secure on the internet", it's good for someone to stand up against their lies.
My highschool built a nice new tennis court right in front of the school for everyone to see, only to cover the fence in huge corporate sponsers and ads for lawyers not even a year after. It's such an eyesore in an already depressing town. Glad I moved away.
My high school was offered a rooftop pool by a business, as long as that business could put their logo at the bottom. That corporation? Budweiser. In a high school. The cynical part of me is a little surprised the school didn't leap at the chance to accept it.
Evil owns the world, let us not surrender what little we have, let's not burn ourselves in pity and sadness when it won't impact anything but ourselves
The Vodafone thing hits close to home. Our local rugby league team is technically the New Zealand warriors (once Auckland warriors) but is now ubiquitously called the “Vodafone warriors”. I’m constantly wondering in New Zealand Vodafone is. It’s no town or city I’ve ever heard of.
Completely on board with all the criticism in this video. Stopped drinking soda years ago because of the health risks of drinking it, on top of the plethora of cancerous activities that Coke commits themselves to abroad.
That was awesome. Like a modern day Bill Hicks, especially the Atlas VPN shot. "Oh George is going for the anti-marketing market. That's a huge market. We definitely need to get him!"
I loved this! And I'd love to hear your take on David Graeber. I think his book 'dept' is amazing, really helped me wrap my head around why we're in this whole mess. There's a audiobook version on RU-vid 👀
I'm a novelist. I haven't published anything professionally (E.G., for money) but I've written two full-length novels, a handful of short stories, a novelette or two. I'm working on a big project now that is intended to be my first published work. I'll die having added value to the world, and to myself. You can't see the world's "progress" as the combination of all of the corporations and big tech companies and the like. The progress is in each individual and their development as people. In other words, there is no "progress." It's all just ways we hurt ourselves under the guise of convenience. Look at this wonderful chair. you'll sit for hours and hours and hours. Lower back problems? Here's your lumbar support. Oh, research suggests that'll exacerbate it? We have surgeries, and if that doesn't work long-term, there's the pills. Progress indeed.
Imagine a building with four floors: On the first floor, there's a couple of "healthcare" workers who perform procedures proven to be useless. On the second floor, there's a group of people offering fortune teller services. Reading tea leaves, tarot cards, people's palm etc. On the third floor, there are a couple of social workers telling people about to reach retirement age and living off of their pensions or, if necessary, welfare, who are the absolutely least likely to ever get a job again after being unemployed for three decades currently living through an economy where next no-one finds work how they can be more active and creative about finding a job in fields where creative applications leave a bad impression. On the fourth floor, there are people doing a ton of bureaucratic work to assess if someone is really eligible to receive free food of a quality no-one would ever voluntarily eat to save a buck, and this all in a system where it's next to impossible to find out if anyone is cheating the system. There are lamps and electrical outlets and computers and sinks and toilets and radiators and carpets and office chairs and staircases and an elevator and water coolers and so many more things in use there. Things that need to be produced and fixed and replaced. The people working there use up paper and printer ink and electricity and much more. It is all a giant waste of resources of all kinds, everything negatively affects the environment and climate, and nobody is being helped. Yes, the people working there make money that way. Which allows them to pay rent and buy food and such. But it's not like reading tarot cards makes carrots magically appear, right? It's not like printing out a bill for pseudoscientific medicine makes flats to live in magically appear.
That Pepsi and Coke part doesn't surprise me one bit. What a savagely brainwashing monopoly they are. And the people who are basically addicted to their filth just don't see how much they are bent over their barrels 🥴 And the worst thing about those products is the fact that they're allowed to get away with saying that the diet variants are less bad, when in actuality, they're bloody worse. Sure, no sugar, but what about all those different artificial sweeteners and flavours, still toying with peoples' guts and brains 🤢🤮 That ending is beastly, telling the VPN company to stop pestering you in the most sincere way possible 🤭😂🤣
