I Don't Care What the Haters Are Saying, I'm Having a Blast (opens in new tab)

This goes to a general shape of the internet as a whole. In combining the best attitudes of the hackers with the relentless drive of business growth, this kind of behavior became inevitable. But, this was also the drive engine that got the internet to a global scale. The N-th scale effects on everything are near impossible to see in advance but look so obvious in retrospect.

I don't have any solutions or much in the way of solid responses, but that is definitely driving force for this predicament.

The current example of this I see lately (and quite excessively), is the AI generated shorts about cats in unfortunate situations, rescued by someone with an unnamed tube of some creamy cat snack.

After a whole lot of these coincidentally similar stories with the same tube of goop, you get a "normal" ad telling you what the product is.

I'm definitely not a fan of this ambush advertising format.