YOUTUBE HAS NO SHAME
(WHEN YOUR FAVORITE MUSIC IS BEING USED FOR COMMERCIALS FOR PHARMACEUTICALS IT'S ALL BAD)
DON'T READ THIS IF YOU 'RE SQUEAMISH!
Have YOU noticed that the Allman Brothers, the Rolling Stones, the Beatles (these two the early music which I believe is still owned by Allen Klein's company), and hell, not just music from the 1960's but even some music from the 1980's (which I suppose does qualify as Oldies) is being used to advertise products such as whisky and pharmaceuticals?
Sometimes I think an AI spy is looking to see who is watching what in a room. I especially hate the soothing voice overs that suggest the side effects that might be worth it to solve the maladies of aging, such as the appliance that stops the ruination of your (rear-end) skin from leaky bladder and runs off urine into a receptacle.
I think, OK, the guitar heroes and the owners of the musical intellectual properties are selling their catalogs (or at least a song or two) and are out of the control and so the music is being sold and used for these purposes. The guitar gods, the singers and songwriters, are facing their own mortality and want things to be more simple for their heirs, I get it, but it wouldn't just be Jim Morrison rolling in his grave over in Paris over the use of Light My Fire, because the energy of rock and roll is being used to suggest we medicate the aged with prescription substances. Would someone who liked whisky too much (or make it through a serious drug addiction) really want their music behind an ad for liquor?
It's assumed that if you love this music you must be old, old enough to be on at least one, maybe a dozen prescription medications... But if you like to be more natural in your approach to health there are advertisers waiting for you too.
Worse are the ads that come up on YouTube, which assume that if you love old Soul music, which I do, then you need pills for erectile dysfunction, and even worse than that, worse that some modern "snake oil" remedies that suggest that you will loose weight drinking some sort of pink salt mixture or simply warm water... (If drinking warm water was the cure, surely this would have been discovered eons ago.) ... Let's just say that almost every food that exists is bad for you and go from there. And that it's assumed by what I listen to that I have a penis that isn't working and obese.
Even worse than that are ads coming up on videos, including podcasts, telling you how to conquer not just DIABETES but also STUCK POOP! (One states no, it's not about SUGAR, another that it's not about FIBER. These "experts" who are selling products are in conflict with each other by the way.)
It happened slowly that such ads showed up on GOOD SONGS WITH LOVING and ROMANTIC LYRICS. (Not, as my buddy says, more appropriately on "Rap Crap.") But now, it seems I'm getting one ad after another and some of them are gross and graphic. I swear to you that one of these commercials actually suggests how many times one would normally wipe, and another showed what looked like poop streaks on someone's underwear. Like I really want to have to experience such a commercial simply because I was thinking of The Temptations or - more locally - Pepe Marquez!
What can a YOUTUBE VIDEO POSTER DO?
First of all, I resent the way that these commercials ruin my experience, take the pleasure out of listening by inducing anxiety and worry. I resent being pushed to pay for a listen by accepting interruption. I have never bought a single product thrust upon me and have bookmarked very few for future consideration.
Who does profit from these ads?
I suggest that if you post on YouTube, that you say NO to having ads on your video... If you have enough hits, you should still be PAID BY YOUTUBE as promised. The videos I post here are acceptable to me because I did not encounter a commercial. I hope when a reader listens to them here they contribute to the hits.
I will continue my policy of not posting videos that have commercials on this blog. YouTube would not exist if it were not for the way people early-on decided to CONTRIBUTE TO IT. People spent many hours creating content as volunteers. I seek out those contributors who believe in this COLLABORATIVE EFFORT. Some of us did that at no charge to Google or the Universe in the spirit of NON PROFIT SHARING for years, but YOUTUBE is worth millions... And, sadly, you may here there is no such thing as a free lunch, but there is because you served it!
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