I hate midroll ads enough to adblock 100% of the time, yet I happily sat through you guys literally telling me to go buy shit for longer than most midroll ads.
I adblock because the ads that I, as a New Zealand citizen, are shown have NEVER. EVER. EVER. Been relevant to ANYTHING I could ever see myself giving a quarter shit for due to the fact that fucking nobody runs ads aimed at us on youtube, outside of a few huge companies that I really don't need an ad to tell me about.
"Have you ever heard about this magical place called a supermarket, that is literally just down the road from your house? They sell fucking food there, amazing stuff I know."

The absolute closest I have ever seen an ad to being relevant, was an airline ad on a video about famous air disasters, mostly focusing on horrific, high death count plane crashes. But that barely counts because that same airline ad plays about once every 5 ads anyway.

I shit you not, the "best-worst" unskippable pre-video ad I have seen, was a nine minute video about the Russian stock market.
NINE MINUTES of some Russian scammer trying to convince me to invest in his company scam where he would allegedly invest it into the Russian stock market and give me a cut of any profits made and not just leave and never come back with my money.

That was the second pre-video ad I watched on my new tablet before I literally never watched another video on the damn thing due to the lack of adblock.


NINE MINUTES UNSKIPPABLE

I couldn't make this shit up, and he'd already started repeating himself within the first 30 seconds.


Christ. And when it's not hilariously unrelated to me, I just get ads that are set to global, or at least, they forgot to turn off NZ advertising for their USA only product, but because there are so few ads they stick out like a raging erection. It was super culture shocking to have some cowboy I could barely understand tell me it's not normal to be gay so casually. I mean, this was only a few years ago but, I'm not good enough at discerning that accent or whatever to know if it was a joke or not.
I thought it might be some political campaign thing trying to garner votes from old people or something.
Either way, as a bisexual I don't want to sit through some prick telling me I'm a shit person for even the required 15 seconds just to watch a video about a god-damn videogame, it's not something I have to watch under pain of death like some 14 year olds seem to think.

Yeah, I probably never will use squarespace, or buy some underwear but with international shipping costs, but I like you and find you humorous enough that I can sit and watch you babble about 'em for several minutes. ...Babble in a good way, that is.


I really dislike people who get upset when someone does a brand deal for this reason. I would rather watch 1,000 videos of people playing a videogame they aren't particularly fond of just for cash (and that's assuming that most youtubers I watch would even go through with a brand deal for a game they didn't like) than 1,000 videos that pause every quarter to tell me I can buy a fucking cabbage half off at the local morgue. Heck, do what you or the cooptional crew does with your ads and I'll fucking watch a compilation of em cause they're funny. I'll fucking watch someone advertise to me for entertainment! Fuck!

Anyway, I'd like to thank you for reading this whoooole post. I know it was kinda long and full of gratuitous swearing that almost makes me sound like I'm really pissed about all of this; I'd just like to let you know that I appreciate you who still reads. I hope you have a great day. Ya twat.