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Clicked on a channel in the Philippines and immediately had to sit through 5 soap related commercials, precisely what I recall from my time there.

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ThatMedicIsASpy 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

I have a hard time recalling the last time I watched ads outside of Cyberpunk 2077 where I watched, listened and actively search for them in my first hours.

But now I want to actively want to know how ads look all around the world.

	▲	mcflubbins a day ago \| parent [-]
		I made some mix tapes a couple years ago for my wife (Filipino) with some of her favorite Filipino artists. I searched for radio bumpers and commercials from the stations we used to hear on the radio and in taxis to put in-between every couple songs as if it were a radio station it was so much fun and made her feel like home, reminded me of my years spent there too!

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DaiPlusPlus 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> had to sit through 5 soap related commercials

Not the skin-lightening kind, I hope? Those ads were... odd.

I spent the late-1990s in Manila, for me it was Jollibee ads, and an oddly recurrent anti-corruption PSA which, I think, made corruption look quite appealing, actually.

	▲	mcflubbins a day ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Nope, a couple of Pride Bar commercials one for Safe Guard and a couple of laundry detergent ones. I agree the skin lightening soap was weird for me too. Its kind of interesting how people yearn for what they don't have (pale light skin women in the west tanning, tan darker skinned women in the east lightening...)
	▲	lawgimenez 2 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Skin lightening products are famous here for social status. It’s so fake.

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airstrike 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Same here. Clicked Brazil, SBT and they're showing Chaves (El Chavo del Ocho) reruns, just like they were 30 years ago...