My contribution to the discussion : People getting sad and emotional over christmas adverts. These are adverts that end up trending on youtube too, and get lots of views on there. Usually they are filmed with background music featuring animals, cartoons or depictions of 1st world war soldiers in clean uniforms kicking a football around in no mans land......Now if only a program about real war and whats behind wars would go out on primetime tv at 8 pm.....i bet that wouldnt get 10 million views though, and that says a lot.
I find it crazy that some people get emotional or sentimental over what is an advert and is ultimatley fake, filmed in a studio with background music and actors yet....children and innocent people get blown to bits in far off lands, syria etc....well do they get as emotional over that ?
And all these adverts are really trying to do is get their brand name in your head or get people talking about them at work or at school, ie: have you seen that cool ad for......'Sainsburys etc' And look, ive just given them some free publicity !
Im not saying it actually annoys me intensely, or even that much at all. Just thought id mention it