Parasocial Marketing 

jokes on you, I'm drinking milk 😎

@@longdogman can’t wait for your lactose intolerance arc, I’m here for it

no!!!!!!! i hate hydration!!!!!!!!!

thanks pinely, ive been drinking bleach for about 6 - 7 months now and i had to rush to the hospital every time i felt thirsty, now i can drink in the ease of my own home and its been very refreshing

Fun fact: Milk keeps you hydrated longer than water.

Perfect comparison lolol

I can’t 😂

on his mountain is buried a treasure chest

literally the kind of shit the outer worlds is about

Anything you try will be better than doing nothing, kids should be taught to think for themselves and solve problems themselves, and this is probably one of the most difficult problems a person can encounter. I fully get how difficult this may be. 🫤

Gotta love being able to advertise to kids, nothing quite rots the brain like exploitation at a young age

This is the first thing that came to my mind seeing all the clips with the kids. I think a lot of this is parents not being able to keep up with teaching their kids about the exploitative nature of media nowadays. It's going to be more and more important to find ways to teach and explain to children about how these media systems more and more try to get their hooks in them. Then again, that sorta goes back as far as one can look. There's always some sort of medium that becomes an aggressive capitalism machine marketing to children with precision.

Implore them to try and think about what actually makes prime valuable, and if they say anything related to status, ask them why that matters too. You can essentially just keep asking them to think about it until they hit the point where they can't throw out one word answers like "because it's cool" anymore ("what makes it cool?"), if needed you can even go into depth about it

Ban prime from the class lol

Wait till you see his new video about blind people

@@epiceeveelicious I can’t even tell if this is a joke or not, that’s how ridiculous he has gotten

@@Lucaz99 oh no it's real. I refuse to watch so idk how it is

@@Lucaz99 bro cures blind people and you got a problem with that lolwot

@@Blorp_ I didn’t even watch the video, I was just going off of what I was told. If Mr. Beast helps people with disabilities that’s great but you can agree with me that having a Mountain in Antártica being called “Shopify Mountain” feels wrong? Imagine if Mt. Everest was called “Coca Cola Mountain” lol If everyone in RU-vid operated like Mr. Beast, everything would be advertisement. Maybe that’s not Jimmy’s fault, maybe that’s a problem with capitalism but I don’t like it. Is that cool to you?

the scam drama made some people realize he never had redemption.

Me when i murder grumbo on camera

@@Pinely relatable!

I believe in redemption and all and was willing to forgive him for it and was under the impression he had changed, but after his recent controversies I'm heavily doubting that

I mean, I guess it worked… (I hate the guy tho)

Been using ablocks from the moment they were a thing, and then seeing just the youtube front page on someone else's computer makes you feel woozy

@@Kuroo39 oh for real, I'm infuriated when I have to use chromebooks.

Any good recomendations on add blockers?

Yeah as someone who also uses Tumblr as their main source of social media consumption this is so fucking true 🤣😭

@scardycat4462 ublock origin is pretty good

Yeah I stumbled on that video by accident weeks ago and Did Not Like It

Not just a mountain, one of the few untouched mountains left on earth

@@scourgehh714 that’s just sad.

Nah people have always been naming things after the person or entity that sponsored the expedition

@@EKIANandWolvesGaming naming it after a person is better than idk, a random corporation.

lol true! i am so glad i grew up watching stuff like how its made on discovery channel, its kinda pointless but i learnt something adn my brain didnt rot and i watched a lot of documentaries on nat geo about some african lions and elephants etc, thank got i was born before the rotten mrbeast era.

This generation is going to experience a hell of a ride when they're older. Off topic but imagine a penguin sliding down Mount Vinson (the tallest mountain in Antarctica). That'd be cute

​@@Snow_SailorMaybe that was where the 'penguin on a mission' was going. The one that just suddenly snapped and walked away from his colony, onward into the whiteout.

I climbed it and called it Walmart peak anyways

Late reply but mt.Everest being used as an example is really funny considering it’s name was changed from its original native name without asking

His fake earnesty only works on kids though.

He's in the WWE so he has to be able to tell a bullshit story and make people believe it

You're giving him too much credit so I doubt you have seen him act. It wasn't anything good (just like the movies he starred in)... I'm sure he never did acting classes. Maybe just one.

Fr I last watched during the cardboard days 😭

cardboard pinely died and mr youtuber took over

It used to be worse?

I fully agree

Yeah I was gonna say I don't think y'all have a mountain

@@G_FRE we have volcanoes so maybe that counts?

"Listen, they're not your friend, they don't even know your name, they'd sell you and your grandma to Satan for one NordVPN sponsorship."

Agree

Yeah but there also isn't really a easy way to explain parasocial relationships to children. Espically since often times it's partially the parents faults, letting their kids spend all their time on RU-vid and lettihg that RU-vidrs become their primary source of comfort.

Maybe RU-vid should be less worried about swearing and more worried about marketing to children

@@jebbush4godemperor285 but that'll never happen as long as it makes them money

if you type up "prime" amazons one even comes up first lmao

That might be part of why they named it that tbh. To be associated with a word that people already think of as a product. Possible

It’s same old toxic masculinity red pill alpha male 🐂💩. Prime stands for Primal. All that nonsense which liver king spews etc. It’s a marketing ploy and I doubt that they thought of Amazon when coming up with the name. It’s just one if those toxic masculinity buzz words they and their gym bros use so often that it was the first thing to come to their minds. Then again, googling amazon prime and getting the link to the drink Prime sold on amazon app etc works in their favor, still I doubt that’s what they had in mind at first, at early stages of creating that overpriced gatorade knock-off marketed for children.

@@26349 primal? Wow. That’s dumber than I thought.

I'm surprised daddy Bezos hasn't sued

I’ve never been to the UK, and I’m very curios so may I ask why don’t they clean the river? I mean, with filters and chemical treatments to counter the pollution etc. Would it be too expensive or something? What does make this endeavor a waste of time/resources then?

@@26349 Our useless government.

@@26349 I’m actually really happy you asked because it is a topic i’m very interested in. So the water in London goes through a cycle: from the river Thames, to filtration, to our taps, and then back to filtration and then released to the Thames again. It might seem like a waste to filter it twice but that is how it’s done and it would be hard to change it now. So then why is there chemical pollution in the River Themes? The water treatment facilities have limited space in them, and usually that is not a problem but when it gets filled it has to release at the risk of overflowing back to the houses. The main part of the problem is not that households use up too much water which causes an overflow, but the fact that our drains are also linked to this system. The drains i’m referring to are the rain water, so when it rains the clean water runs into the same sewage system as our waste and it is not divided. It would be better if the rain water was kept separate from our sewage but the system is an old one and it would take too long and cost too much to have it changed. Water security and development is actually pretty interesting and it’s a good topic to have information about. And a fun fact that totally disgusted me from my professor: there is something called ‘forever drugs’, these are found in antidepressants, and many other drugs. These forever drugs remain in the water forever because they cannot be filtered out, so when someone takes the medicine, they then pee it out, goes through filtration and back in taps, which someone might drink and then pee out again, a never ending cycle.

lots of neat info here, thanks for sharing!

The eels are good to eat though right? Right???

I saw it too (hard not to). It was also on sale for a buck or two. Hadn't heard of it at the time so I got a couple. It's no different from other electrolyte sports drinks out there.

@@shanefoster2132 idk it’s a little worse for actual sports, because it has barely any sodium which is the main electrolyte you sweat out

apparently people r only really going nuts over it in england bc the stock is so low,, not so much in the US

@@judahmoar2533 oh, I didn't know that about it. It really is just marketing popular health concepts: low sugar, low calorie, coconut water, electrolytes. It's got what plants crave.

2 pounds

Yup I'm sick of it. Everything is a scam or trying to sell me shit I don't want. Its exhausting. I wish people weren't so stupid. I don't buy shit thats constantly intruding on my personal time. If more people did, people would cut that shit out. Would still have the scammers though. Gmail recently decided to start tossing non scam emails in the same folder yet lets multiple scam emails through daily. Never used to get any and now it sucks.

I wish free speech was real and I could say what I wanted about Mr Beast.

@@supermarx you can say it only once my brother, alas

i genuinely have 0 respect for Mr. Beast because of this, he’s the definition of sell out and surrounds himself with people of a similar nature

He should've made a challenge while on top of the mountain. Something like "The last person to piss in my mouth gets a shopify discount coupon" or "The first one to jump off the mountain gets a Tesla."

That last flag reveal was devastating

its a bit of a stretch calling logan a boxer, id say "a 'boxer' and a scammer" would fit better

@@ebenezer-scrooge He didn’t even invent it either

@@ebenezer-scrooge any attempt to describe Logan's actual job just makes it depressing to type

@@nickbensema3045 he’s an overly annoying talking head. I think I nailed it.

Two boxers? How about two RU-vidrs, boxers is giving them too much credit.

Reply?

I noticed this before I started using the internet much. Everywhere I've lived, there are advertisements everywhere, cluttering up the view. It always made me feel sort of sick. At least with the internet I can utilize ad blockers 😥

My 5th grade teacher made an entire class dedicated to this topic too (including a test) I'm so grateful her after what I've seen, including this

Thanks for mentioning this, I'm a aspiring teacher so I'll search more of this 💖😊✨

I thought adam and eve was supposedto be an allegory of kids growing up and leaving the house?

@@notapplicable6985 It's several lessons at once.

Testimonial technique is double edged sword. At one side, you know some products are safe or at least enjoyable to you when you see others try it. It doesn't need to be an ads, it could be your friends or family reccomend something to you to try/buy. You subconsciously thought that these people know you and giving you a fairly reasonable reccomendation. Another example is review of the product. In this video, Pinely says that Prime taste like crap. We instantly know that Prime is crap and we shouldn't buy it, controversy aside. That's the example of review in a testimonial technique. Problem was, sometimes the "review" or "reccomendation" is pushed like crazy and not honest. That's literally what happened with Prime, or most of popular product now.

Or ads ingrained into the walls of our own homes and we must pay if we want to mute them let alone turn them off completely for an hour/a night just like in that episode of Black Mirror.

Which is already kind of happening with ad-free versions of streaming services and apps, but outside of that, on the streets and inside the media itself(videos, movies, tv-shows) we are still bombarded by ingrained ads, not ad breaks in between but those subtle pushes of clothes, make up, drinks, lifestyle, beauty procedures by actors and influencers, so it’s not an official ad with a beginning and an end but a weird subliminal one.

They both suck

Tbf prime and monster are completely different things. Monster is caffeinated and prime is a sports drink. Gatorade the better sports drink though

I got the joke. The guys is against Ads. But at the end. The comment itself is an add. Master class 😂

another 5 pound and its a full english breakfast at a decent-fancy place! 10 is ridiculous for that crap

in canada a 5 pack costs $34.99, unless theres gold flakes in it too theres no way im ever paying over 30 dollars for energy drinks

theres also a 15 pack thats NINETY DOLLARS. anyone buying this is genuinely insane

@ketaminepoptarts4740 that's insane. Makes you think though, someone must be paying that much, right? They wouldn't offer it if someone didn't buy it... Or more, it's nickel and diming any parents who are constantly being begged for these sub par "drinks"

LMAO Im drinking zero sugar gatorade that has 0 calories and comes in packets 🤣 people are being dumb uncritical thinkers and letting others decide for them.

It tasted exactly like koolaid that someone dumps a bunch of extra sugar into

same 😿 I want pokemon//acnh themed makeup brushes but they're expensive I would most likely just use them for painting.

I'm glad DanTDM raised me when I was a child and not logan.

What small window of time was that?

@@elijimenez7710 I forget when exactly it was put into law but in the 90s until the rise of internet content, legally kids media could not have advertising in the actual episodes. Still had commercials during breaks, but not part of the episodes. And it's what gave rise to channels like Nick and Cartoon Network with creators who were actually trying to make artistic content for kids.

I grew up during that time period as well, and now I have a 6 yr old son, and man, it's wild out there now. Luckily for us, my spouse & I both worked in media for the past decade - I specifically used to write advertising. So there's no shortage of education here about advertising, promotions, and all the tricks people use to get you to want what they're selling. We closely monitor his media intake and provide guidance on these things. And yet it's still so easy for him to get carried away by a RU-vidr's enthusiasm for a product/their merch, or a mobile game ad he saw on the drawing app on his tablet, etc. I can only imagine what it's like in households where there isn't constant dialogue about this kind of thing, and/or media consumption isn't as closely monitored. It's actually low key horrifying to think about. And while yes we should do our part, I don't put ALL the blame on the parents - especially as I don't remember us getting these kind of discussion as kids. You don't know what you don't know. It's not like TV or radio though - you can't just regulate the internet in the same way.

Imma be joining uni soon and movin out People been telling you gotta get branded stuff(shoes etc) I am like I don't need em... Materialism is taking over fr

I dont know if it was just my teachers (in Germany), in english class we watched and talked a lot about the truman show. In German class we watched the circle

Children don't care, they're too busy throwing papers at each other 😂

I watched school of rock in school! Don't remember why, though. Maybe for my history of the american musical class?

I actually watched The Truman Show this year in high school for a video production class

That's what im talking about mate

Literally, they went craazyy for them, even tried selling the goddamn packaging for like thousands 😂

oh my god you just reactivated a memory of mine, I fully forgot about it and Friz in general, it was SO chaotic. I have an "Ekipa" notebook with their logo and I didn't even realize it was theirs when buying it - I got it a while after the situation cooled down. I got it because it seemed nice quality and had a nice cover (I must admit that I really like the cover designs). I remember that when I saw how many people were buying their merch (and for what prices) I got so confused, since I didn't - and still don't - get the hype at all.

In a way, we've always done something of the sort. Femininity has been constructed to sell makeup, razors, and patriarchy. "God bless America" is a cry to respect the Government, with religion used to make the government seem more trustworthy. It's getting worse, but it's also just shifting and changing, not coming out of nowhere.

I unfortunately heard about him for the first time years ago when he came to Japan, acted like an absolute asshat, and then filmed a deceased person and posted it on RU-vid.

@@theEumenides I never liked watching Logan, but I did before that incident went public. I watched that video. For some reason I started watching him out of spite then never ever did again.

In Ireland the whole obsession with it has completely died and theres just fully stocked shelves of unsold prime lying there unbought now

It's for the trend and since there's low quantity I the UK, little kids get it for clout on the school playground and teens get it for clout on tiktok.

Are you a child? If not, prime won't taste that good. Prime is specifically made for a child's pallet

@@scourgehh714 wait, is this like…a real science thing or is this just a joke??? because if this IS a real science thing then thats absolutely fucked up

@@memechild2025 I mean, a child's pallet is far more receptive to sweet flavors. It's why you may love something as a child and go back as an adult and it now tastes too sweet or rich. You lose that as you mature. So the fact that the drinks they are making is so incredibly sweet, means they are making it for kids. Which makes sense if you look at their demographics

@@memechild2025 it is real science lol, because its extremely sweet and the marketing is def for kids because theyre bright big bottles marketed mostly by youtubers that kids watch

It’s only really big in the UK I think

I've watched a little more, I think coca cola gonna have to put the coke back in

I believe Prime was being sold before he was called out for the scam

@@gremloid way before

Lmao wtf is that ​@@pyan9660

Coca Cola is absolute SHIT and literally everyone knows it. There was that whole boil Coca Cola trend. Where you see how much sugar they put in it. How you can use it to clean things. (Not to mention all the other additives and shit that’s in it) AND it’s still popular. Literally the drink that is around everywhere. I remember going to a meeting and they provided water and Coca Cola!! It’s a popular choice preferred drink and ppl will drink it over water. It’s literally all about marketing these days. You can market literal bath water and ppl would go crazy for it. Bc it actually happened

@@C4MNOTICS it’s just soda bro calm down… Practically no one thinks it’s healthy, it’s a treat.

@@AP-uc7oz I’m pretty calm. I’m just annoyed. Marketing and advertisements are annoying. Why does it matter anyway if I’m heated at soda being everyone’s treat? Also just saying, treats can be good and not be made of shitty ingredients. Big companies treat their workers like shit, sell people shit with a happy label, own other big branch companies and we just supposed to be cool. It’s messed up. They just treat people like predictable consumers they can profit off of selling them low quality products.

Coca-Cola got big around the 1930s though, before any of the Beatles were born

@@C4MNOTICSlol oh hush you watched a video or tik tok & ran with it 😂😂

Ew Poland

Yep, and Ksi is making it worse, setting up misfits boxing and pushing out constant fights between untrained RU-vidrs fighting under pro boxing rules

What terminal capitalism brain does to a mf

He's rich as fuck because he simps for brands. RU-vid only allowed his channel to grow as much as it did because he's a generally inoffensive milquetoast guy who simps super hard for capitalism. He's the perfect person to be allowed to get big. He's also smart enough to understand his role. When he has an opinion that's heterodox to this, the recent example being his video on eye surgery he's smart enough to bury the lead and not talk about that opinion in his video. His opinion in this case was that eye surgeries actually should be paid for by the government, but the idea here is offensive to the people who pay him, so rather than talk about that he makes a video which comes off as a celebration of capitalism and philanthropy while talking about one of the most insane elements of US hypercapitalism.

Bro get over yourself how does that make you physically recoil in disgust

When was this?

@@ZeroDim fr lmao ppl making up shi

I'm not a Londoner, but I'd be PISSED if someone brought all those giant bottles on the train during RUSH HOUR lol. i'm honestly surprised the transit authorities allowed it

@@lmnop29if they tried that in NYC subways a fight probably would’ve broken out 😂😂

Tv shows do integrated ads too now like shopping shows were a tiny little text comes at the end saying this show was sponsored by = insert brand =

It really shows how brain dead these people are

Me when chemistry is real: 😱🤯

ew, you're honestly probably right about that too. I'll stick to 0 sugar 0 calorie packet contained glacier cherry gatorade thank you

He needs the money to help people.

He uses the money to help people, and the mountain almost indefinitely already had a name, it’s just something he did to get other brands to like him

actually the sugar isnt for energy, its to fix the horrible taste of the sodium, which is the main electrolyte u sweat out. gatorade isnt for energy, its to keep u hydrated

You got got

@@krusher181 worst part is, i knew better.

@@APunisherKnight I'm wondering how does it compare to actual hydration drinks. Lot's of people don't like those cause they claim they taste like medicine. To me powerade or gatorade taste pretty good so idk if I'd like prime. I don't really have oportunity to buy them cuz they don't sell in my country and I also don't really care for it but seeing many people say how desgusting it is I'm wondering if it actually tastes bad or if it is in the sam zone of taste as powerade and gatorade

@Luka Lazarevič I drink lot of similar products, like Power Armor, Vitamin Water and of course Gatorade and Powerade, which i do like, but Prime tasted way too strong with a poor flavor imo

@@APunisherKnight ah got it. Yeah from what I've gathered and from reading their label it seems it is just flavoured water with shit ton of fake sugar and some flavouring without any real hydrstion properties like sodium. Pretty much a scam

no.. from what I've heard it's mediocre. I don't want to ever try it either. If I do, that's how you'll know my life has really spiralled.