JA WestenbergMar 2, 2025

Digital marketing isn't just ads—it's weaponized psychology designed to override your autonomy and extract maximum value from your consciousness, while giving nothing back.

And over the past 20 years, it broke our society.
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/how-digital-marketing-broke-society/

How Digital Marketing Broke Society

25.9% of teenagers who spend four or more hours daily on screens experienced depression symptoms in the past two weeks. 27.1% reported anxiety symptoms. Higher durations of Internet use increases depression levels. Adolescents who spend more than three hours online daily are more likely to fall into the

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Show threadTudor Florescu
@Daojoan I doubt marketing broke society, more like the smartphone revolution and the atomisation caused by social media
Mar 3, 2025 at 3:38amWeb
Show thread✨buff dog himbo✨Mar 4, 2025

@tudorflorescu @Daojoan no, it's marketing. I'm willing to extend the thesis to all marketing, not just digital marketing.

Never underestimate how deadly toxic marketing has always been. I'm not talking about small biz trying to get the word out. I mean an entire industry dedicated to manipulating as much of a population as possible to achieve specific aims. It's WHY you feel smartphones & social media are the killers: those are the primary delivery method, both absolutely fucked by marketing.