Have been feeling this strongly recently. The people with the most signs are the least appealing to support. The food with the most advertisements seems the most likely to be trying to lure people into eating garbage.

Surely there is a word for this? Spam doesn’t feel like the right term when it’s all over the place all the time. It’s like you know it’s wrong because there’s too much money involved trying to convince everyone it’s right.

  • Zachariah@lemmy.world
    84·
    3 days ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactance_(psychology)

    In psychology, reactance is an unpleasant motivational reaction to offers, persons, rules, regulations, advice, recommendations, information, and messages that are perceived to threaten or eliminate specific behavioral freedoms. Reactance occurs when an individual feels that an agent is attempting to limit their choice of response or range of alternatives.

    Reactance can occur when someone is heavily pressured into accepting a certain view or attitude. Reactance can encourage an individual to adopt or strengthen a view or attitude which is indeed contrary to that which was intended — which is to say, to a response of noncompliance — and can also increase resistance to persuasion…

    • Wildmimic@anarchist.nexusEnglish
      18·
      2 days ago

      Thanks to OP’s question and your answer i now have a word for the feeling i’ve had for most of my life that makes me block out ads wherever i can.

      • HurricaneLiz@lemmy.world
        42·
        2 days ago

        Yeah, closest I’d heard before this is Oppositional Defiant Disorder, which always struck me as the most sane position to have considering what “they” were trying to shove down my throat

        • Soggy@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          2 days ago

          ODD does not discriminate between sensible advice and “being told what to do”, it’s a childish knee-jerk reaction to any perceived authority. It is not a sane position to automatically reject any idea originating outside your own head.

        • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
          5·
          2 days ago

          ODD is not what you’re looking for. A logical resistance to being force-fed material that you know is crap and want nothing to do with isn’t the same as escalating the suggestion your room needs cleaning or you have to put the ipad down to a screaming fight.

    • jaybone@lemmy.zipEnglish
      13·
      3 days ago

      Is this how we get moon landing deniers and anti vaxxers?

      It includes the “I’m smarter than everyone else” component.