Just in case you/y’all don’t know, you can report ads for any reason. Just another way to not put up with the bullshit.

First, didn't even know 7 Brew existed until today when their store caused over a mile-long traffic jam that I witnessed while on my own coffee run to a local coffee spot, which lead me down the rabbit hole of their "Jackpot days".

What I learned is that 7 Brew was bought out in 2020 by a LLC conglomerate and then by Blackstone in 2024 and that's when all the insanity of their chain exploding from 7 little stores in 2020 to around 602 today.

That's quite a jump in numbers for a company that started as a little ma and pa store.

So why care about this at all? Well their insane promotional days have made their consumers into free billboards for their company by giving away cheap cr*p that was made in China and will end up in the landfill after the consumer bores of the product.

Today's Needoh "giveaway" was the worst of this money-grab scheme that turns everyone posting online about it into an unpaid advertiser for the company.

The problem is the toy isn't "free" you have to purchase their overly sweet drinks in med or large to even get the toy. I did the math after discovering that was going in when I drove to a local place to get coffee this morning and saw the madness at 7 Brew.

So here's the math:

A more speciality Needoh toy can retail from $12-$19.

We can call the Needoh toys given away today at 7 Brew "limited" and only obtained through this promotion a "speciality" item and since they are "one-of-a-kind", we'll price it at $19.

In order to get ONE toy you have to purchase 2 med or large drinks that range from $3.50-$9.43.

Let's say the "average" family has 2 kids and both kids want a toy, you have to buy 4 drinks. You likely will get your kids a basic lemonade for $3.50 each and then you and your spouse want speciality coffees each $9.43.

So you spend $25.86 (not including tax) for that trip. In that context it seems like you have "won" because you get these speciality toys 2 for $25.86 rather than having to pay $38 for two (remember the $19 high-end Needohs at Target).

But the other "math" I'm most concerned about is this math:

Each of those "plain" lemonades is 49 grams of sugar each, equally 200 calories that you are pumping into your kids.

Let's say your kid doesn't want the "plain lemonade" and they want instead one of the speciality lemonades or say a milkshake, now you are looking at up to 151 grams of sugar and 620 calories. For. One. Drink.

What is even worse is that when you got to 7 Brew's IG and read the comments, most of the consumers are just adults with no kids.

There is something wrong with society. This kind of ish makes me embarrassed to be a human.

Are advertisers INSANE these days? As a YouTube watcher, who does NOT pay, I watch ads that have NOTHING associated with Me. For example, I can’t have kids, own a pet animal, or drive and lack hair, yet get diaper, dog, shampoo, and car commercials. Why are companies squandering money on inaccurately placed ads blind men can’t see? Advertising is NOT cheap, so would be best if companies RESEACH demographics before blindly ensuring I watch their inappropriate tampon commercials.

Basically i think the idea is for them to get you to their site which is when it displays that "you're already getting the best discount possible" message. Basically just to bait people to the product page.

If you ask me it's a mistake on their end since there's not a chance i'll buy their stuff after this lmao

Like the title says. I find it backstabbing from reddit to change the promoted to ad. Which looks exactly like a normal post on a glimpse because other posts only have the time of the post in same fashion. Also the ads inside the comments load after one second so you click on it by mistake because you wanted to collapse a thread. This delay is coded in. So, are there any third party reddit apps without ads? Or do I need to set up a pi-hole?

The other day I saw a clip It was Joe Rogan and JD Vance discussing election denial of 2020. They're saying how it was stolen and shit like that. Midway through this conversation there's an Ad roll and it's for The Farmer's dog, (dog food) before going back to being straight propaganda.

What dystopian world are we living in that we can literally have people trying to market dog food in between straight up lies about our country's elections. This bothered me a lot so I reached out to the company directly. They pretty much told me tough sahit, kick rocks ( In nicer words) and that they didn't really care.

This prompted me to look into the company and lo and behold I find that this company is wrought with lawsuits about how their poor quality is causing problems with dogs.

So now going forward I'm going to keep an eye on every company that markets using Joe Rogan and other right-wing podcasts. And I'm going to investigate them to see if they have any skeletons in the closet and if I can I will let others know.

If the company had literally said "It was our intention to be marketed with JD Vance" or something like that I probably will let it go. But these companies are whitewashing just great up propaganda and they do not care. So it's time to vote where that our wallets. If conservatives can cancel Budweiser over rainbow cans then I should be able to cancel dog food that causes pancreatitis over co-signing electoral denialism.

I'm sure many of these won't have issues and my upset email will be the only repercussion they get. But I want them to know that we don't like this that advertising on these shit platforms full of conspiracies is going to hurt their bottom dollar.

But I'm hoping other people join in this venture with me. If 20 people reach out saying they are upset with an advertisement because it's surrounded by conspiracy thinking maybe that will reach them. Maybe the tens of thousands of dollars they spend for a Joe Rogan podcast advertisement just isn't worth the backlash.

Tldr: Time to vote with our dollars and let companies know that if they market on right-wing propaganda networks they will see a proportionate backlash

These companies are allowed to scam us now and not only that but anyone is allowed to make their own narrative and spread it like wild fire, hence why we are also all fighting each other.

Reminds me of my uncle who collected Pepsi memorabilia his whole life.

Not a brand but I've noticed more pro- California posts lately. Like maybe someone from California wants to be seen in a positive light perhaps? For the record I am from California and love it, but I can sniff out when something seems off.

People who want to schedule a ZOOM meeting. It's not just Zoom, but ZOOM. Big red flag for me....

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