Approved for the use of Red Forman, instead of that dumbass.
sportsGambling shouldn't be advertisedon tvFTFY
everything shouldn't be advertised*
ftfy
I actually don't (well, didn't) mind advertising, to an extent.
I liked seeing what new products or services are out there, or deals I may have not known about otherwise; but advertisers have taken it so far that you can't have a reasonable amount anymore. You either block it all or get bombarded relentlessly.
I wouldn't even use an ad blocker if the ads weren't disrupting the content I'm actually here to see. YouTube for example was fine when it just had banner ads around the video player; as soon as they started forcing you to watch video ads to be able to watch the actual video you came there for is when it became a problem to me.
Gave em an inch and they took a mile. Now they get nothing.
There should be one specific place where advertisements are allowed and contained. If you need X, go to the X page on the one place for advertising and check out your options. No more shoving things people don't need down their throats. Make people seek out the things they need rather than be convinced they need what they don't.
You are my people
Hey we have a law for that in our country. There are some exceptions but those have to be individually permitted.
That being said fantasy sports bets and some other gambling games try to dodge the classification as a gambling game.
Gambling shouldn’t be advertised. Swedish radio advertisements is 70% gambling, and the remaining 30% is sex toys and car related services.
Heh you guys have sex toy advertisements on the radio? Were too prude for that in the US, instead we have prescription drug ads everywhere.
"i wonder why everyone hates watching ads"
I have personally seen gambling fuck up way more lives than drugs, and this was before it was being shoved down our throats. It's honestly disgusting how shameless the advertising has been, getting people to gamble like degenerates in "garbage time." Or poking fun at people "losing their shirt" in Buffalo. And don't even get me started at how they are using fantasy sports to get kids hooked early.
Fuck this so much. I know entire families - children, parents, grandparents - who've been put through hell over this.
yup, I worked at a horse track when I was in HS, and the gamblers AKA addicts had the exact same behaviors as drug addicts.
poor people getting exploited by the rich, but legal
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Fuck casinos
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Mississippi grind is an absolutely incredible depiction of just how sad and devastating gambling addictions are. I can't recommend that movie enough (as long as you're ready for some sad storytelling).
Livestream online gambling is another one of those absolutely abysmal modern exposures that is going to completely destroy the lives of young men as they grow up, and I can't believe it's still legal
The fantasy sports are all about evading local gambling laws. Since only a handful of states even allow sports betting the only way to operate in those states is to have something which is legally distinct from gambling (even though it clearly is). It's similar to pachinko parlours in Japan.
Did they choose to start gambling? Or did someone force them?
Did you choose to be an ass who misses the point? or did someone force you?
It doesn't matter if they choose to start, it matters that they weren't able to stop, gambling and alcohol have both been extremely normalized in our society and are destroying lives. We shouldn't have ads shoved down our throats for industries that profit off of destroying people's lives for a quick buck. Shit aint right. I'm not saying make the industries illegal, just make the ads illegal. Saying drink responsibly at the end of an alcohol ad isn't making anyone less of an alcoholic. And the tiny ass barely readable gambling addiction hotline isn't gonna help anyone with a gambling addiction from getting hooked on sports Gambling which is one click away on the app store.
Gambling, alcohol, nicotine, and prescription medicine should all be banned from advertising. Sponsorship should count as advertising and thus be banned too.
Prescription ads should also be banned
It used to be! I left the US to work overseas from 97 to 2000, and when i came back everyone had heartburn and took "the little purple pill", the laws changed and prescription meds were now on every other commercial.
Every bloody third advert on TV in Australia is a gambling ad, it's insane that we continue to allow it given how much of an actual widespread problem it is here. They have fairly lame government mandated warnings after each one but I doubt they do much at all.
Same in the UK! When the pandemic started companies stopped advertising on TV because they weren't doing business anymore, except for the bookies (gambling brokers) so almost every ad was for them. And because people are on doors and probably bored/miserable I bet they did much more business than normal.
I don't think we have the warnings you're talking about here, except for sone text on the screen that says something like "gamble smart" lol
In my city the government runs the gambling, so I see nothing but government sponsored gambling, it's quite obscene.
Yeah that’s the thing. I Support gambling being legal, but it, alcohol, marijuana, tobacco, etc shouldn’t be allowed to advertise. These are harmful vices. It’s your choice to engage in them but advertising them isn’t cool
I think they should be legal to do, but I'm a little more iffy on if it should be legal to sell or profit off of the addictive ones.
Gambling doesn't really bring anything valuable to society and it causes notable harm, so I see no reason we shouldn't tax gambling revenue at a nearly 100% rate.
I wholeheartedly believe the vast majority of the hype surrounding sports is from gambling.
Naw, people like sports.
That doesn't change not advertising it on tv.
Yep and as someone who watches a lot of sports I would love to see those ads banned. Also ban the pre-game odds shows and the in game odds updates.
100% its so cringe, im ok with the fantasy aspect of it, cause it does take some skill, but the odds are just straight up gambling no if ands or buts. I dont know how gamblers in recovery even watch sports anymore... so glad i got addicted to gambling on stocks with wallstreets bets and learned my expensive lesson so that sports can stay pure for me and not tainted by my addictive personality.
The fantasy games are just how they get kids hooked. It's very obvious to me as someone who has always kind of felt like fantasy takes some purity out of the fandom, that this has been a long term plan to normalize this kind of "skill" game so they can create exactly that pipeline.
But I mean, its probably just a crazy conspiracy theory that the NFL already had branded endorsement deals ready to go with a dozen different gambling houses immediately when the Supreme Court cleared the way for all this shit.
In Lithuania it's legal, but they cannot say any words like "let's play" or "best casinos" etc. I don't know specific, but most of casino/betting ads are like these (always with the weird/annoying voice)
NAME, casino!
NAME, casino!
NAME, casino!
NAME, casino!
NAME, casino!
oh my god it annoys the fuck out of me. Since 2019 gambling companies and casinos can only show and say their name so ads went from This to This These ads are everywhere, i never gambled, but for someone who might be recovering from the addiction would be very hard to resist when constantly shoving these stupid ads everywhere.
My dumbass state just allowed it and it is polluting every advertisement route. It is deeply frustrating seeing this happen.
Same. All I see on the tv are the endless floods of gambling ads and Medicare advantage ads in my state. Welcome to America. :/
This should be the new meme format. The only way it could be any better is if the text on the mug said "dumb ass".
what does that say?
It’s the name of the original dumbass’ web show.
It’s been about ten years since sports betting advertising has been permitted on TV in most Australian states. It has pervaded everything and made betting a normalised part of sport.
Most people hate it and want it gone, but clubs and networks are drunk off the money it provides so governments have been slow to move.
Please if your country doesn’t allow sports betting ads yet, put up a fight to stop it.
Ontario just allowed it recently in Canada and it's all there is everywhere, it's disgusting.
I agree. Here in Sweden we've had a huge surge in online casino ads on TV for the last 5 years. Maybe even more. Super annoying. Everyone hates them. But not much is done despite that.
If we ban betting on sports, they’ll just move betting to some other random indeterminate outcome. Like…which industries and markets are going to perform better than others month by month.
Woah woah woah, lets not get crazy, no one is trying to ban gambling! Just advertising it.
Whooo, thats a close one eh? Ban gambling. Ha! Whats next, ban cocaine?
Yes, and it already has a name "investment"
And then let them see the bets we place and allow them to bet the other side after changing the odds.
There's a website kalshi, where you can even bet on the weather.
There is so much cognitive dissonance between the warning at the bottom of the screen and the content of the commercial. Totally agreed.
In Finland gambling/slot machines/betting is monopoly from state and it is not allowed to be advertised. It is age controlled and all the money from the gambling go to charity/tax, and gambling addiction control.
I do like that system, even if it sometimes feels bit controlling people from theirself.
"controlling people from theirself" also prevents them from drunk driving and killing others.
I guess some way to change your mind is giving you a share of the money the gambling industry is paying for having this happen
Before it was outlawed, in my country some gambling website even paid to rename the league to "bet and win league"
who tf gambles on sport (probably why they are advertising on tv)
Gambling on sports is one of the oldest types of gambling.
And, look. If you have the cash to spare, and gambling isnt a vice for you, it is kinda fun. Thats kinda the problem, its easy for the average person to get into it with some friends as a way to have more fun watching the game only for that to be the first domino.
A lot of sports fans do, and then statisticians take them to the bank.
Good to see people agree on this. The way that gambling in sports has flourished really targets and is detrimental to young men, IMO. I've noticed that younger men tend to feel it's normal to risk a significant amount of money gambling on almost all sports, to include E-sports, when really it shouldn't be something they think about constantly.
I like gambling as much as the next person, and I feel like you should be allowed to if you're responsible, but I think we shouldn't be glorifying gambling like it's just something everyone does. Shame on all these celebrities using their status to trick younger people into gambling.
It's honestly insane. I have been watching sports with the same group of people for almost 30 years now, and the past few years it's gotten fucking insufferable. These people genuinely believe that they've got a system going, doing bet arbitrage against their six different apps and seventeen different accounts. They don't even watch the fucking game. They are just watching phones and laptops. I hate it.
So what ends up is that I'm watching our team win, and happy about it, but half the room is punching holes in the wall because thirteen different stats across six different games didn't magically align to give them a 100:1 payout. Two of the original group have literally taken on major debt to fund their addiction and still think it's perfectly fine to keep betting.
Governments want that tax income. They want that business to boom. They don’t care about the side effects.
It goes beyond tax money, but that's a part of it for sure. Gambling in the USA at least helps prop up the 'American Dream' by keeping the under privileged poor and in-debt. Because at any minute they could become mega rich! Except they won't especially as the addiction will tell them to double down and make them lose it all.
The worst are podcast ads. It's like 30% "you can win $100 on a $10 bet with promo code xyz" and 70% disclaimers and gambling addiction hotline numbers.
Damn I listen to a LOT of podcasts and I've heard a ton of annoying ads but none for gambling. I must be doing it right.
At least those are usually clearly marked and easy to skip in a halfway decent podcast player like Pocket Casts, though..
no. you're right.
I get why we want to get away from that dumbass(heh) that's the normal part of this meme?
But Red would give zero fucks about gambling.
Red would however call you a dumbass for enabling people's gambling problems
If Red met me his brain would literally explode because of all the different fucking reasons to call me a dumbass.
I think he would call you a dumbass for getting into gambling, but would view someone running the business as just a businessman. He may be wary of the gang associating with him but I don't think he'd view him as a bad dude
Edit his mug so it doesn't have that Nazis name on it. Maybe have it say boot or dumbass lol
Do they advertise sports gambling on tv?
In California I don’t see this. You do get the occasional ad for an Indian casinos, or Las Vegas though.
Some states have recently legalized it, and, oh boy, no time was spared filling every commercial break with ads for it.
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They legalized online gambling and ads for it a couple of years ago in the Netherlands. It's already causing problems with addiction. I personally think all ads for gambling and alcoholic beverages should be banned.
Yes
Or I'll put my foot up your ass!
Make space for me on that seat
I'm in Ontario Canada so it's extra perverse that the government runs all the gaming and ads
Video games are addictive and ruined plenty of lives. Still see ads for them.
It is illegal in some states. You should only be able to advertise things that are legal.
Not sure you should even be allowed to advertise legal things except in very specific cases. It's an incredibly toxic industry that is doing a shitload of the heavy lifting of corporations destroying the world..
I mean, everything that’s better than your average real life can be addictive. Should games not be advertised because some people are addicted? Should phones not be advertised because they have negative implications for your health?
I’m not particularly in favor of gambling ads, but where exactly would you draw the line?
At gabling ads.
Anything can be addictive, puritan.
Death? Dividing by zero? Jaywalking to Pluto?
Once you are dead, you are so addicted to it that you do nothing else.
Gambling is designed to be addictive.
It's similar to how tobacco ads are not allowed.
