Somewhat immune to marketing?

[Anktark]

I am not sure if this is just INTP feature or majority's of people who were streamed with lots of marketing excreta.

If I do look at the commercial, I usually disassemble it, looking at it's type ("you would be looser for not having it", "it turns things to gold that cures cancer"), target audience, it's environment (time and/or place) and so on. I remember telling my findings to my imaginary friend, but then he asked what product was the commercial for and I chocked. Missed such a trivial detail.

One of the features of this immunity- selective deafness/blindness - can't see commercials unless they are pointed out. It's as if some spaces of a webpage/building wall get flagged as "irrelevant".

The only commercial so far that did get my attention was: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSkIYunQBdM . But then, it's targeting and timing were near perfect.

I am not narcissistic enough to claim that such marketing immunity is solely INTP feature, but from what I've absorbed so far, INTP's characteristics sure seem helpful in this aspect.

Anyone else here with such a mental illness?

 

[Ex-User (9086)]

I was into ads when I was 10 years old, I could memorise them after watching once and then started with voice acting and tormented others.
When I used to watch tv I knew the exact moment when there will be a commercial break.

I'm glad I don't have to watch any, I think ads are as needless as floral prints on toilet paper, you won't stop to marvel the art design of toilet paper, you will use it and you will buy the product you need, not the one that is in the ad.

 

[Cherry Cola]

If you're meta-analyzing commercials, breaking them down to see how they function, what strings they pull at etc.. then yes you're probably partially immune to them. That is to say that you're likely more resistant to them the average joe, because you don't notice their specific contents when you're looking for general principles; products being advertised may be legion, but the techniques employed by commercials are not and you're focusing on the techniques. Hence it will be harder to peg a specific product onto you which are what commercials are usually all about anyway.

 

[kora]

I do all this.

 

[Absurdity]

These two articles are long but relevant:

The Dove Sketches Beauty Scam

Real Men Want to Drink Guinness

 

[Pizzabeak]

"The first rule of marketing is no one believes they can be manipulated"

 

[Anktark]

"The first rule of marketing is no one believes they can be manipulated"

Oh, that's not true. Anyone with a little bit of introspection and objectivity can come to a conclusion that they can be and were manipulated. I didn't mean to say that I am totally immune to marketing and devoid of any temptations altogether.

Maybe I should reformulate my initial statement to : "I am somewhat immune to the current marketing strategies". That is, I need a different approach than the ones being used nowadays. As it is, I just ignore most if not all commercials and often very little information gets through that channel to me. Then when I do watch them, I analyze them from different angles. Either way, I don't give much or any consideration to the product. I suppose it could be seen as communication failure- I might be wired for different protocols than the ones in use.

Anyway, I am not sure where I am going with this, hopefully I can catch this train later when I am near PC.

 

[Hadoblado]

I'm not immune, but I am resistant. I don't just mean that it doesn't affect me: I feel like I am constantly being attacked by commercials, which I must spend conscious effort 'resisting'. That they attempt to bypass your rationality and head straight to the perceptual processes that are less controlled seems feels like they are plundering the defenseless. It's up to the central executive to protect the rest of the brain, and it infuriates me that I have to constantly spend conscious effort to keep a clear perception. I feel raped.

 

[Cherry Cola]

Meh no one who isn't a fool thinks they are immune.

Hadoblado: Don't resist just look at them in a different way, analyze and rate them, think about the people in them and try to guess their MBTI types or whatever. Doing so should eventually make you do the something along those lines unconsciously whenceupon you will have created a self reinforcing defense!

 

[Pizzabeak]

Well I wasn't being opposed to the idea that one can hindsight and realize they may have been manipulated

But I suppose for whatever reason that's a good thing to have in mind when making certain decisions, apparently especially in regards to spending monies, essentially to ensure maximum satisfaction or gratification. If one had been manipulated into a decision I suppose for the most part they would be less enthralled about a few things, which is apparently to be avoided as much as possible unless certain outlooks are being taken into account then it's "alright" for that to happen every now and then for the most part. This is nothing

 

[Cognisant]

In my experience food ads are most effective because they hit you at a really basic level, you see food, you feel hungry, next time you feel hungry and you're considering what to eat you remember the food you saw on TV, simple, brilliant, insidious.

Car ads baffle me, then again I've never bought a car so I don't know what's going through the average car buyer's mind.

Retail ads are best kept strictly informative, basically they say "we have this stuff" so next time you need something you know where to go; advertising impulse-buy items is whipping a dead horse because people buy them impulsively but retailers do it anyway because impulse items are seen to be popular therefore by advertising them retailers falsely assume their stores will become more popular, I call this impulse advertising

The iPhone 5 ad is sexy as fuck but I still don't want one.
Why? Because Steve Jobs is dead, everything Apple is shit now.
In 5-10yrs everyone else will realise this too.

Like Microsoft after Bill Gates left, down the shitter.
Don't believe me? Have you tried Windows 8?

Once the rockstar inventor in chief leaves it's just a money game, the search for ever more profit surpasses common sense, they stop innovating, R&D becomes retail and distribution, falling profits are met with cost cutting and gimmicks, it's a slow painful death.

 

[Anktark]

Ahh, retail adds are the ones that make most sense to me, because they are usually informative, short and to the point, albeit not as useful for someone with access to the internet (and/or someone who's irrelevant memories get discarded fast).

I don't want to come of as narcissistic brat ( thou I probably am), but I never got that overzealous craze over iPhone or any other Apple products. I know I am capable of it, because when I see some beautiful code or other technological/life hack or a poem I feel like a kid Jesus who got Lego for Christmas (also his Birthday) and want to tell other people about it (I don't, because it's not appreciated) and just feel all happy inside until dopamine drops back to normal levels. Not to say that I dislike Apple, I just feel indifferent towards it.

I still use XP, because my HD is only 200 GB and I am somewhat sentimental. As soon as I buy another HD, I am getting some Gnu/Linux distribution as my go-to OS.

Anyway, I came to a conclusion that IxTx ought to be more resistant to the common marketing strategies. Not quite sure what to with this information now that I have it.

 

[Microtonalist]

I'm pretty much immune to most advertising. I was aware of this from the time I was very small. It actually got me into trouble when I was in eighth grade. We were supposed to be studying the effects of advertising and how it works to sell people things. I said that none of the ads we looked at made me want to buy any of the items in question. The teacher thought I was just being a smartass, but I was telling the truth. She didn't believe me.
The ads that do work on me tend to be very much focused on the product, and tend to be very factual and detailed. I don't want sex appeal, I just want to know what I'm buying.