e.g. for a car ad they show happy people living exciting lives which have no relation to the car but make you associate the buying of the car with non-existence social fulfillment.
It’s actually worse than that—the way the manipulation works is to induce you to compare the people in the ad with your own life, causing you to feel ugly, unlovable, like you’re missing out on life, etc. and then to propose the product as a relief from this deliberately induced misery.
It’s actually worse than that—the way the manipulation works is to induce you to compare the people in the ad with your own life, causing you to feel ugly, unlovable, like you’re missing out on life, etc. and then to propose the product as a relief from this deliberately induced misery.