What the fuck is going on with these ads on the SDMB?

The BBQ Pit
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Okay… I really should have used screen captures to document this, but…

A few days ago brianjedi started a thread, Who’s on your school’s all-time basketball team? Great thread, I dropped in, gave my list, and as I looked at the bottom of the page I noticed three ads - one for African ringtones (?), one for celebrating African-American history, and one on how to reach African-Americans through marketing. Nothing in the thread mentioned race, Africans, or African-Americans. It was just about basketball…

Then today as I’m on page 2 of roger thornhill’s thread, How much does white guilt still affect the race debate and race relations in the US?, there are three ads for Kentucky Fried Chicken. [Stewie Griffin]What the deuce?[/SG]

Has anyone else noticed the bizarre behavior of the ad bot? I just think it’s a little strange that when basketball is mentioned, it thinks ads for marketing towards African Americans is a good match… and when we’re talking about race (specifically African Americans and racism), it drops a KFC ads down there…

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Basketball is probably the most popular sport among black people in the US. Why shouldn’t they target that demographic for that subject?

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I’m so sick of these threads about vanity phone numbers and harassing phone calls.

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I know this is horrible to say, but that bit about the KFC ads made me giggle.

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Feh. It’s the ones that advertise services for such garbage as psychic readings and what-have-you that bug the hell outta me. Crap like that is contra Cecil’s motto and just plain shouldn’t be here.

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[QUOTE=UncleBeer]
Feh. It’s the ones that advertise services for such garbage as psychic readings and what-have-you that bug the hell outta me. Crap like that is contra Cecil’s motto and just plain shouldn’t be here.
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Amen.

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[QUOTE=UncleBeer]
Feh. It’s the ones that advertise services for such garbage as psychic readings and what-have-you that bug the hell outta me. Crap like that is contra Cecil’s motto and just plain shouldn’t be here.
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:confused:

Is Cecil the Undercover White Man?

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I wonder if there are any services out there that offer humor workshops?

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The stupid Google ads don’t even know we’re talking about them!!

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[QUOTE=Hippy Hollow]
Then today as I’m on page 2 of roger thornhill’s thread, How much does white guilt still affect the race debate and race relations in the US?, there are three ads for Kentucky Fried Chicken. [Stewie Griffin]What the deuce?[/SG]
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Oh, see, it’s because black people like fried chicken.

Bet you when you look again it’ll be advertising watermelon. Or grape soda.

(In the words of a black professor I had, “Of course black people love fried chicken. Everybody loves fried chicken!”)

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[QUOTE=Uncommon Sense]
The stupid Google ads don’t even know we’re talking about them!!
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Yes they do! Now they’re shilling African-American Hair, Multicultural Marketing, and Black Singles photos.

One man’s targeted marketing is another’s stereotyping.

Given the link to KFC, I’m now wondering what would happen in a thread discussing watermelons . . . Will a thread talking about potatoes generate ads targeted to Irish-Americans, or one on olive oil ones for Italian-Americans? :slight_smile:

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[QUOTE=Ludovic]
I wonder if there are any services out there that offer humor workshops?
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LOL, OK, you win! :smiley:

Me, I’d like to Take Back Congress, but I can’t find where it went.

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[QUOTE=Colibri]
Now they’re shilling … Multicultural Marketing
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That seems a bit ironic to me.

Oh, yeah. Insert the obligatory sneering “Ads? What ads? I use an adblocker!” note here.

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And I’d like to donate to Katrina Hurricane victims, but I have no idea how to do that either.

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I edited my Hosts file so I don’t see the ads. I really, really regret not being able to participate in these humorous threads.

Oh wait. No I don’t. :slight_smile:

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[QUOTE=UncleBeer]
Feh. It’s the ones that advertise services for such garbage as psychic readings and what-have-you that bug the hell outta me. Crap like that is contra Cecil’s motto and just plain shouldn’t be here.
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Those I can live with. The ones shilling for Creationist websites and merchandise are what make me see red.

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[QUOTE=Cervaise]
I edited my Hosts file so I don’t see the ads.
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How did you do it?

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[QUOTE=Miller]
Those I can live with. The ones shilling for Creationist websites and merchandise are what make me see red.
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I gotta admit those would be worse. I just don’t recall seeing one of 'em. Guess maybe I haven’t been in any religion-type threads lately.

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These ads are freaking annoying!

What were they thinking here? It’s like, “Yeah, ‘pictures’ doesn’t need an apostrophe, but ‘video’ is a pretty weird word, so we better use an apostrophe when we pluralize it. ‘videos’ without the apostrophe would just be too much of a mindfuck.” :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

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Yeah but everybody knows black people go to Popeyes, not KFC. (at least according to the counter guy at Popeyes, ;))