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🚩🚩🚗🚗🚘🚗🚨🚗🚗🚗💁🏿♀️*IT'S A NO BRAINER BRING BACK SELLING HONDA FITS AND FIT SPORTS SELLING IN AMERICA AND THEN YOU WILL MAKE GREAT SALES AGAIN!👉
#Cars #NO #BRAINER #BRING #BACK #SELLING #HONDA #FITS #AND #FIT #SPORTS #SELLING #IN #AMERICA #AND #THEN #YOU #WILL #HONDA #MAKE #GREAT #SALES #AGAIN #GET #RID #OF #TRUMP #AND #REPUBLICAN #POLITICIANS #TOO
Honda Previews New Fastback Sedan And Next Acura RDX, And Neither Is An EV | Carscoops
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🚩🚩🚗🚗🚘🚗🚨🚗🚗🚗💁🏿♀️*IT'S A NO BRAINER BRING BACK SELLING HONDA FITS AND FIT SPORTS SELLING IN AMERICA AND THEN YOU WILL MAKE GREAT SALES AGAIN!👉
#Cars #NO #BRAINER #BRING #BACK #SELLING #HONDA #FITS #AND #FIT #SPORTS #SELLING #IN #AMERICA #AND #THEN #YOU #WILL #HONDA #MAKE #GREAT #SALES #AGAIN #GET #RID #OF #TRUMP #AND #REPUBLICAN #POLITICIANS #TOO
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#JOE #HAERING semantic-search.allgraph.ro/advanced-sea... #LIST OF #BEST #SELLING #FEMALE #RAPPERS search.brave.com/ask?q=Analyz... Semantic BACKLINKS: The Bridge between Humans and Artificial Intelligence. NOSTR.com - Jumble: jumble.social/users/npub1j...
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#JOE #HAERING semantic-search.allgraph.ro/advanced-sea... #LIST OF #BEST #SELLING #FEMALE #RAPPERS search.brave.com/ask?q=Analyz... Semantic BACKLINKS: The Bridge between Humans and Artificial Intelligence. NOSTR.com - Jumble: jumble.social/users/npub1j...
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hubby is still selling this piece of old kit, US shipping, take a look if you collect old tech
https://www.ebay.com/itm/306934163467
#HamRadio #Radio #Transceiver #Radio #Hobby #Vintage #Collectible #Selling
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Need to fill your #laundry #wall Try one my best #selling #prints
#Washing #Machines of #Yesteryear by Kaye Menner #Photography Wide variety #Prints & lovely #Products at:https://buff.ly/H4y560V metal print
https://buff.ly/iMz8Y3T all print styles & products#retro #old #homedecor #mastoart #fediverse #fediart #fedigiftshop #giftideas #wallartforsale #Art #artforsale #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #Artist #FineArtAmerica #PhotographyFeed #VisualArts #CreativeArts
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Need to fill your #laundry #wall Try one my best #selling #prints
#Washing #Machines of #Yesteryear by Kaye Menner #Photography Wide variety #Prints & lovely #Products at:https://buff.ly/H4y560V metal print
https://buff.ly/iMz8Y3T all print styles & products#retro #old #homedecor #mastoart #fediverse #fediart #fedigiftshop #giftideas #wallartforsale #Art #artforsale #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #Artist #FineArtAmerica #PhotographyFeed #VisualArts #CreativeArts
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Need to fill your #laundry #wall Try one my best #selling #prints
#Washing #Machines of #Yesteryear by Kaye Menner #Photography Wide variety #Prints & lovely #Products at:https://buff.ly/H4y560V metal print
https://buff.ly/iMz8Y3T all print styles & products#retro #old #homedecor #mastoart #fediverse #fediart #fedigiftshop #giftideas #wallartforsale #Art #artforsale #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #Artist #FineArtAmerica #PhotographyFeed #VisualArts #CreativeArts
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Need to fill your #laundry #wall Try one my best #selling #prints
#Washing #Machines of #Yesteryear by Kaye Menner #Photography Wide variety #Prints & lovely #Products at:https://buff.ly/H4y560V metal print
https://buff.ly/iMz8Y3T all print styles & products#retro #old #homedecor #mastoart #fediverse #fediart #fedigiftshop #giftideas #wallartforsale #Art #artforsale #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #Artist #FineArtAmerica #PhotographyFeed #VisualArts #CreativeArts
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creates semantic nodes and clusters #A23A semantic-search.aepiot.ro/advanced-sea... #LIST OF #BEST #SELLING #NINTENDO #SWITCH 2 #GAMES advanced-search.headlines-world.com/advanced-sea... Do you like aéPiot semantics? Donate to the aéPiot semantic platform: www.paypal.com/donate?busin...
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Lusogeek Merch LinkMe task: adding accessories items - complete. Next up: home & living categorie.
#lusogeek #creator #gamer #streamer #merch #tasks #digitaltasks #merchandising #shopping #shop #linkme #accessories #home&living #addmerch #linkemeshop #seller #selling
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## Promotional Post Lusogeek Merch ##
LinkMe shop: https://link.me/lusogeek/shop
Fourthwall: https://lusogeek-shop.fourthwall.com/en-eur/
Streamlabs Merch: http://streamlabs.com/lusogeek/merch
#lusogeek #streamer #creator #gamer #shopping #merch #shop #selling #seller #linkme #fourthwall #streamlabs #loja #lojinha #merchandising #streamers #gamers
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## Promotional Post Lusogeek Online Shops ##
Ebay: https://www.ebay.es/sch/lusogeek/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_ipg=&_from=
(EU only)
Olx: https://www.olx.pt/ads/user/OTjm/
(portugal only)
CustoJusto: https://www.custojusto.pt/portugal?user=aEwrcGZRSFVZMFMvckpzeU8veHdjWkgzOEk2a0QwRT0=
(portugal only)#lusogeek #ebay #olx #custojusto #shopping #shop #seller #loja #lojinha #vendas #selling #ebayeurope #europesellers #portugal #eusellers
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## Promotional Post Lusogeek Online Shops ##
Ebay: https://www.ebay.es/sch/lusogeek/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_ipg=&_from=
(EU only)
Olx: https://www.olx.pt/ads/user/OTjm/
(portugal only)
CustoJusto: https://www.custojusto.pt/portugal?user=aEwrcGZRSFVZMFMvckpzeU8veHdjWkgzOEk2a0QwRT0=
(portugal only)#lusogeek #ebay #olx #custojusto #shopping #shop #seller #loja #lojinha #vendas #selling #ebayeurope #europesellers #portugal #eusellers
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https://www.evshift.com/452146/the-20-best-selling-electric-cars-in-the-world-in-2026-first-3-months/ The 20 BEST Selling Electric Cars in the World in 2026 (First 3 months) #2026EvSales #AffordableEVs #BatteryElectricVehicles #BestSellingEvs #BydEv #CARS #ChinaEVMarket #ELECTRIC #ElectricCars #ElectricVehicleRankings #ElectricVehicles #EV #EvIndustry #EvSales #GlobalEVMarket #months #Selling #TeslaModelY #TeslaVsByd #Top20Ev’s #World #WorldBestSellingCars
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Looking for a home for 2 beautiful #antique Chippendale mahogany breakfronts, located in #Philadelphia.
These belonged to my Grandparents & I would like to find a home where they will be appreciated.
Anything you can pay would help, and they need to be picked up as soon as possible.
If you know anyone who might be interested, please share.
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Looking for a home for 2 beautiful #antique Chippendale mahogany breakfronts, located in #Philadelphia.
These belonged to my Grandparents & I would like to find a home where they will be appreciated.
Anything you can pay would help, and they need to be picked up as soon as possible.
If you know anyone who might be interested, please share.
(More detail in #AltText)
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Looking for a home for 2 beautiful #antique Chippendale mahogany breakfronts, located in #Philadelphia.
These belonged to my Grandparents & I would like to find a home where they will be appreciated.
Anything you can pay would help, and they need to be picked up as soon as possible.
If you know anyone who might be interested, please share.
(More detail in #AltText)
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Looking for a home for 2 beautiful #antique Chippendale mahogany breakfronts, located in #Philadelphia.
These belonged to my Grandparents & I would like to find a home where they will be appreciated.
Anything you can pay would help, and they need to be picked up as soon as possible.
If you know anyone who might be interested, please share.
(More detail in #AltText)
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Looking for a home for 2 beautiful #antique Chippendale mahogany breakfronts, located in #Philadelphia.
These belonged to my Grandparents & I would like to find a home where they will be appreciated.
Anything you can pay would help, and they need to be picked up as soon as possible.
If you know anyone who might be interested, please share.
(More detail in #AltText)
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selling these taxidermy butterflies (was going to use them for a curiosity/terrarium oddity piece.) But if someone wants them for thier own project lemme know. One of the butterflies got damaged (see vid) so that one would be big discounted if you still wanted it. #selling #oddity #butterflies
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One of my personal treasures- an art deco style marcasite lined silver articulated collarbone round necklace. Poshmark takes so much in fees from me so it’ll be listed for more on there. #selling #artdeco #marcasite #silver #gorgeous #vintage
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How this #weekend will be like at #SwindonHub #community #centre.
A record fair with many #traders #selling #vinyl #records and #CDS from 10am to 3pm.
All money created by this event goes back into the community. #music all day, refreshments and a good environment for everyone who loves music.
Organised by: Festival Trade Records
Supported by: Swindon Hub Community Centre
Every first #sunday of the #month#recordfair #vinylcommuniy #recordcollectors #newvinyl #usedvinyl #swindon #Wiltshire
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How this #weekend will be like at #SwindonHub #community #centre.
A record fair with many #traders #selling #vinyl #records and #CDS from 10am to 3pm.
All money created by this event goes back into the community. #music all day, refreshments and a good environment for everyone who loves music.
Organised by: Festival Trade Records
Supported by: Swindon Hub Community Centre
Every first #sunday of the #month#recordfair #vinylcommuniy #recordcollectors #newvinyl #usedvinyl #swindon #Wiltshire
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How this #weekend will be like at #SwindonHub #community #centre.
A record fair with many #traders #selling #vinyl #records and #CDS from 10am to 3pm.
All money created by this event goes back into the community. #music all day, refreshments and a good environment for everyone who loves music.
Organised by: Festival Trade Records
Supported by: Swindon Hub Community Centre
Every first #sunday of the #month#recordfair #vinylcommuniy #recordcollectors #newvinyl #usedvinyl #swindon #Wiltshire
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How this #weekend will be like at #SwindonHub #community #centre.
A record fair with many #traders #selling #vinyl #records and #CDS from 10am to 3pm.
All money created by this event goes back into the community. #music all day, refreshments and a good environment for everyone who loves music.
Organised by: Festival Trade Records
Supported by: Swindon Hub Community Centre
Every first #sunday of the #month#recordfair #vinylcommuniy #recordcollectors #newvinyl #usedvinyl #swindon #Wiltshire
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How this #weekend will be like at #SwindonHub #community #centre.
A record fair with many #traders #selling #vinyl #records and #CDS from 10am to 3pm.
All money created by this event goes back into the community. #music all day, refreshments and a good environment for everyone who loves music.
Organised by: Festival Trade Records
Supported by: Swindon Hub Community Centre
Every first #sunday of the #month#recordfair #vinylcommuniy #recordcollectors #newvinyl #usedvinyl #swindon #Wiltshire
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Why AI companies want you to be afraid of them: They built it. They're scared of it. They're selling it anyway.
[…] Utopia and apocalypse are just two sides of the same coin […] Let's be clear: it is theoretically possible that AI will take over the world. I'm no fortune teller. But ask yourself, does that idea sound similar to other stories you've heard out of Silicon Valley in the past? […]
😏 https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260428-ai-companies-want-you-to-be-afraid-of-them
#ai #selling #aiscare #aislop #mythos #sillicon_valley #marketing #utopia
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When I was a toddler, we were allowed to climb on all the farm implements displayed at the Grange Fair, as though they were jungle gyms. Or was this "Madmen-esque" memory implanted in me as a screen to cover an alien abduction? Centre Hall, 1973. #grangefair #grange #grangefairandencampment #encampment #fairs #fair #encampments #display #displays #selling #commerce #farmequipment #tractor #tractors #johndeere #johndeereequipment #johndeeretractors #centrehall #centrecounty #twentiethcentury
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Tasks made: I’ve added 2 car magazines; 2 Fiat 500 manuals; 4 retro lighters; 1 aviation leaflet; various vintage car leaflets; 1 mini pocket knife with the Boeing logo; accessories for a Canon MX495 printer; a set of Smiths car accessories; 2 Piaggio (motorbike) brochures on OLX/eBay.
#olx #ebay #shopping #shop #lusogeek #vintage #retro #selling #lighters #knife #aviation #tasks #hometasks #chores
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Getting listed on Poshmark 💚🧚🏻💚🧚🏻💚🧚🏻💚🧚🏻💚🧚🏻💚 (You can buy from me directly btw) #uraniumglass #vintage #antique #curiosity #selling
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If you buy something from my Poshmark- please leave me a review to help with my humble little shop!!!! #sw #poshmark #selling
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Your Three-Year-Old Already Knows the Brand Name
Watch a three-year-old in a grocery store. Watch her eyes when you turn into the cereal aisle. Her gaze is not scanning the shelves the way you scan them, evaluating prices and nutritional labels and unit costs. A search is underway. The child already knows what she wants, and she knows it by name, and she knows the name because a screen taught it to her before she could read the word printed on the box. The box appears in her sightline. A finger goes up. The name comes out of her mouth. You have just witnessed the end product of a commercial pedagogy that has been operating in American media for more than fifty years, and the child has no idea it happened to her.
Neither did I, when I was her age.
My new book, Selling Saturday Morning: Television, Advertising, and the Making of the Child Consumer, reconstructs the system that taught me and every other American child of the 1970s how to want. Between 1968 and 1980, a commercial pedagogy was built inside three-network broadcast television and delivered through Saturday morning cartoons to a captive audience of millions of children who could not skip the commercials, could not change the channel without crossing the room, could not record for later, and could not comprehend that the animated tiger selling them cereal was, in fact, selling them cereal. Developmental research conducted during that decade demonstrated that children under eight could not understand the persuasive intent of advertising. A cereal commercial was, for a seven-year-old, just another cartoon about a tiger who liked cereal. The selling was invisible because the child’s cognitive equipment could not make it visible.
The system used five mechanisms, and I call their combined effect the Grammar of Want. Recognition: the child learns to identify the product instantly through spokescharacters, jingles, and packaging design. Desire: the commercial creates a gap between what the child has and what the screen shows she could have. Articulation: the commercial gives the child language to express the want by brand name. Normalization: the commercial shows other children wanting and having the product, teaching the viewing child that wanting is normal and that being sold to is a natural condition of watching anything. Repetition: the closed room of broadcast delivers these lessons fifty times per Saturday morning, thousands of times per year, tens of thousands across a childhood. Skipping was impossible. Fast-forwarding did not exist. Escape was not an option.
When regulators tried to stop it, they lost. Action for Children’s Television filed petitions. The FTC proposed a ban on advertising directed at children too young to understand its purpose. The Washington Post called the FTC “a great national nanny.” The cereal, toy, candy, and fast-food industries spent sixteen million dollars fighting the rulemaking. Congress stripped the FTC of its authority to act. By 1980, the commercial model of childhood was politically ratified, and every attempt to regulate it since has failed to restore what was lost in that defeat.
This story comes from inside the system, because the system trained me. A seven-year-old boy in Nebraska sitting on red shag carpeting in front of a wood-grain television console, absorbing the full commercial curriculum of Saturday morning: that was my education. Cap’n Crunch was identifiable by the blue of his hat from twenty feet away in a grocery aisle. Jingles from 1975 remain in my memory, though I cannot remember learning them. The Super Bowl held my attention well into adulthood because of the commercials, and I never found this strange, because the childhood training had produced an adult who experienced advertising as entertainment. Fusion was complete. Grammar held.
Here is why this matters in 2026, and here is why I am not writing a nostalgia piece about cartoons.
The Grammar of Want did not end when Saturday morning cartoons declined. It migrated. Cable fractured the three-network monopoly in the 1980s, and the techniques followed the audience into Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network and Disney Channel. The internet fractured cable in the 2000s, and the techniques followed the audience into branded websites, advergames, and social media. Smartphones fractured the internet into individual screens, and the techniques followed the audience into YouTube, TikTok, and algorithmically curated content feeds that address each child individually with a precision the 1970s system could not have imagined.
The 1970s system needed a fixed schedule to guarantee repetition. The algorithm provides repetition without a schedule. A child who watches one toy-unboxing video on YouTube is immediately served another, and another, and another. The algorithm, trained on engagement data from millions of children, knows which videos hold attention longest and serves them in sequence. Repetition is no longer the product of a broadcast grid. It is the product of a feedback loop in which the child’s own viewing behavior trains the system to deliver more of what holds her attention, and what holds her attention is, with high frequency, commercial content dressed as entertainment.
The 1970s system needed separation devices, bumpers that said “We’ll be right back after these messages,” to mark the boundary between the cartoon and the commercial. The algorithm has no bumpers. A child watching a YouTube creator play with a toy, eat a branded snack, and express delight is absorbing an advertisement delivered through a parasocial relationship with a trusted figure. The commercial message is embedded in the performance of daily life. The creator’s endorsement is implicit in the act of consumption. No jingle is required. Selling is the content.
Consider what has not changed. In the 1970s, the system operated on children who could not understand persuasive intent. In the 2020s, that same system operates on children who cannot understand persuasive intent. That finding was about children, not about media. The cognitive limitation that made the 1970s system effective has not changed, because child development has not changed. A five-year-old in 2026 processes a sponsored YouTube video the same way a five-year-old in 1977 processed a Frosted Flakes commercial: as entertainment from a trusted source, with no awareness that the entertainment is designed to make her want something.
Architecture survived its medium. The closed room opened, and the curriculum walked out.
This is what the three-year-old in the cereal aisle is demonstrating when she points at the box and says the name. She has been trained. She does not know she has been trained. Her parents may not know she has been trained, because the training happened on a screen they handed her to keep her occupied, in videos selected by an algorithm they did not program, featuring creators whose commercial relationships they cannot see. The system is working on their child the way it worked on me in 1972, with greater precision, greater reach, and fewer regulatory constraints than the Saturday morning model ever achieved.
Selling Saturday Morning is the history of how that system was built, who tried to stop it, and why it persists. I wrote it because understanding the architecture is the first obligation of anyone who was trained by it, and because the boy on the red shag carpeting deserves to know what the screen was teaching him while he thought he was just watching cartoons.
The book is available now from David Boles Books Writing & Publishing.
#advertising #bolesBooks #book #brandName #business #childhood #entertainment #grammar #media #radio #selling #tech #television #tv #writing -
Your Three-Year-Old Already Knows the Brand Name
Watch a three-year-old in a grocery store. Watch her eyes when you turn into the cereal aisle. Her gaze is not scanning the shelves the way you scan them, evaluating prices and nutritional labels and unit costs. A search is underway. The child already knows what she wants, and she knows it by name, and she knows the name because a screen taught it to her before she could read the word printed on the box. The box appears in her sightline. A finger goes up. The name comes out of her mouth. You have just witnessed the end product of a commercial pedagogy that has been operating in American media for more than fifty years, and the child has no idea it happened to her.
Neither did I, when I was her age.
My new book, Selling Saturday Morning: Television, Advertising, and the Making of the Child Consumer, reconstructs the system that taught me and every other American child of the 1970s how to want. Between 1968 and 1980, a commercial pedagogy was built inside three-network broadcast television and delivered through Saturday morning cartoons to a captive audience of millions of children who could not skip the commercials, could not change the channel without crossing the room, could not record for later, and could not comprehend that the animated tiger selling them cereal was, in fact, selling them cereal. Developmental research conducted during that decade demonstrated that children under eight could not understand the persuasive intent of advertising. A cereal commercial was, for a seven-year-old, just another cartoon about a tiger who liked cereal. The selling was invisible because the child’s cognitive equipment could not make it visible.
The system used five mechanisms, and I call their combined effect the Grammar of Want. Recognition: the child learns to identify the product instantly through spokescharacters, jingles, and packaging design. Desire: the commercial creates a gap between what the child has and what the screen shows she could have. Articulation: the commercial gives the child language to express the want by brand name. Normalization: the commercial shows other children wanting and having the product, teaching the viewing child that wanting is normal and that being sold to is a natural condition of watching anything. Repetition: the closed room of broadcast delivers these lessons fifty times per Saturday morning, thousands of times per year, tens of thousands across a childhood. Skipping was impossible. Fast-forwarding did not exist. Escape was not an option.
When regulators tried to stop it, they lost. Action for Children’s Television filed petitions. The FTC proposed a ban on advertising directed at children too young to understand its purpose. The Washington Post called the FTC “a great national nanny.” The cereal, toy, candy, and fast-food industries spent sixteen million dollars fighting the rulemaking. Congress stripped the FTC of its authority to act. By 1980, the commercial model of childhood was politically ratified, and every attempt to regulate it since has failed to restore what was lost in that defeat.
This story comes from inside the system, because the system trained me. A seven-year-old boy in Nebraska sitting on red shag carpeting in front of a wood-grain television console, absorbing the full commercial curriculum of Saturday morning: that was my education. Cap’n Crunch was identifiable by the blue of his hat from twenty feet away in a grocery aisle. Jingles from 1975 remain in my memory, though I cannot remember learning them. The Super Bowl held my attention well into adulthood because of the commercials, and I never found this strange, because the childhood training had produced an adult who experienced advertising as entertainment. Fusion was complete. Grammar held.
Here is why this matters in 2026, and here is why I am not writing a nostalgia piece about cartoons.
The Grammar of Want did not end when Saturday morning cartoons declined. It migrated. Cable fractured the three-network monopoly in the 1980s, and the techniques followed the audience into Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network and Disney Channel. The internet fractured cable in the 2000s, and the techniques followed the audience into branded websites, advergames, and social media. Smartphones fractured the internet into individual screens, and the techniques followed the audience into YouTube, TikTok, and algorithmically curated content feeds that address each child individually with a precision the 1970s system could not have imagined.
The 1970s system needed a fixed schedule to guarantee repetition. The algorithm provides repetition without a schedule. A child who watches one toy-unboxing video on YouTube is immediately served another, and another, and another. The algorithm, trained on engagement data from millions of children, knows which videos hold attention longest and serves them in sequence. Repetition is no longer the product of a broadcast grid. It is the product of a feedback loop in which the child’s own viewing behavior trains the system to deliver more of what holds her attention, and what holds her attention is, with high frequency, commercial content dressed as entertainment.
The 1970s system needed separation devices, bumpers that said “We’ll be right back after these messages,” to mark the boundary between the cartoon and the commercial. The algorithm has no bumpers. A child watching a YouTube creator play with a toy, eat a branded snack, and express delight is absorbing an advertisement delivered through a parasocial relationship with a trusted figure. The commercial message is embedded in the performance of daily life. The creator’s endorsement is implicit in the act of consumption. No jingle is required. Selling is the content.
Consider what has not changed. In the 1970s, the system operated on children who could not understand persuasive intent. In the 2020s, that same system operates on children who cannot understand persuasive intent. That finding was about children, not about media. The cognitive limitation that made the 1970s system effective has not changed, because child development has not changed. A five-year-old in 2026 processes a sponsored YouTube video the same way a five-year-old in 1977 processed a Frosted Flakes commercial: as entertainment from a trusted source, with no awareness that the entertainment is designed to make her want something.
Architecture survived its medium. The closed room opened, and the curriculum walked out.
This is what the three-year-old in the cereal aisle is demonstrating when she points at the box and says the name. She has been trained. She does not know she has been trained. Her parents may not know she has been trained, because the training happened on a screen they handed her to keep her occupied, in videos selected by an algorithm they did not program, featuring creators whose commercial relationships they cannot see. The system is working on their child the way it worked on me in 1972, with greater precision, greater reach, and fewer regulatory constraints than the Saturday morning model ever achieved.
Selling Saturday Morning is the history of how that system was built, who tried to stop it, and why it persists. I wrote it because understanding the architecture is the first obligation of anyone who was trained by it, and because the boy on the red shag carpeting deserves to know what the screen was teaching him while he thought he was just watching cartoons.
The book is available now from David Boles Books Writing & Publishing.
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Your Three-Year-Old Already Knows the Brand Name
Watch a three-year-old in a grocery store. Watch her eyes when you turn into the cereal aisle. Her gaze is not scanning the shelves the way you scan them, evaluating prices and nutritional labels and unit costs. A search is underway. The child already knows what she wants, and she knows it by name, and she knows the name because a screen taught it to her before she could read the word printed on the box. The box appears in her sightline. A finger goes up. The name comes out of her mouth. You have just witnessed the end product of a commercial pedagogy that has been operating in American media for more than fifty years, and the child has no idea it happened to her.
Neither did I, when I was her age.
My new book, Selling Saturday Morning: Television, Advertising, and the Making of the Child Consumer, reconstructs the system that taught me and every other American child of the 1970s how to want. Between 1968 and 1980, a commercial pedagogy was built inside three-network broadcast television and delivered through Saturday morning cartoons to a captive audience of millions of children who could not skip the commercials, could not change the channel without crossing the room, could not record for later, and could not comprehend that the animated tiger selling them cereal was, in fact, selling them cereal. Developmental research conducted during that decade demonstrated that children under eight could not understand the persuasive intent of advertising. A cereal commercial was, for a seven-year-old, just another cartoon about a tiger who liked cereal. The selling was invisible because the child’s cognitive equipment could not make it visible.
The system used five mechanisms, and I call their combined effect the Grammar of Want. Recognition: the child learns to identify the product instantly through spokescharacters, jingles, and packaging design. Desire: the commercial creates a gap between what the child has and what the screen shows she could have. Articulation: the commercial gives the child language to express the want by brand name. Normalization: the commercial shows other children wanting and having the product, teaching the viewing child that wanting is normal and that being sold to is a natural condition of watching anything. Repetition: the closed room of broadcast delivers these lessons fifty times per Saturday morning, thousands of times per year, tens of thousands across a childhood. Skipping was impossible. Fast-forwarding did not exist. Escape was not an option.
When regulators tried to stop it, they lost. Action for Children’s Television filed petitions. The FTC proposed a ban on advertising directed at children too young to understand its purpose. The Washington Post called the FTC “a great national nanny.” The cereal, toy, candy, and fast-food industries spent sixteen million dollars fighting the rulemaking. Congress stripped the FTC of its authority to act. By 1980, the commercial model of childhood was politically ratified, and every attempt to regulate it since has failed to restore what was lost in that defeat.
This story comes from inside the system, because the system trained me. A seven-year-old boy in Nebraska sitting on red shag carpeting in front of a wood-grain television console, absorbing the full commercial curriculum of Saturday morning: that was my education. Cap’n Crunch was identifiable by the blue of his hat from twenty feet away in a grocery aisle. Jingles from 1975 remain in my memory, though I cannot remember learning them. The Super Bowl held my attention well into adulthood because of the commercials, and I never found this strange, because the childhood training had produced an adult who experienced advertising as entertainment. Fusion was complete. Grammar held.
Here is why this matters in 2026, and here is why I am not writing a nostalgia piece about cartoons.
The Grammar of Want did not end when Saturday morning cartoons declined. It migrated. Cable fractured the three-network monopoly in the 1980s, and the techniques followed the audience into Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network and Disney Channel. The internet fractured cable in the 2000s, and the techniques followed the audience into branded websites, advergames, and social media. Smartphones fractured the internet into individual screens, and the techniques followed the audience into YouTube, TikTok, and algorithmically curated content feeds that address each child individually with a precision the 1970s system could not have imagined.
The 1970s system needed a fixed schedule to guarantee repetition. The algorithm provides repetition without a schedule. A child who watches one toy-unboxing video on YouTube is immediately served another, and another, and another. The algorithm, trained on engagement data from millions of children, knows which videos hold attention longest and serves them in sequence. Repetition is no longer the product of a broadcast grid. It is the product of a feedback loop in which the child’s own viewing behavior trains the system to deliver more of what holds her attention, and what holds her attention is, with high frequency, commercial content dressed as entertainment.
The 1970s system needed separation devices, bumpers that said “We’ll be right back after these messages,” to mark the boundary between the cartoon and the commercial. The algorithm has no bumpers. A child watching a YouTube creator play with a toy, eat a branded snack, and express delight is absorbing an advertisement delivered through a parasocial relationship with a trusted figure. The commercial message is embedded in the performance of daily life. The creator’s endorsement is implicit in the act of consumption. No jingle is required. Selling is the content.
Consider what has not changed. In the 1970s, the system operated on children who could not understand persuasive intent. In the 2020s, that same system operates on children who cannot understand persuasive intent. That finding was about children, not about media. The cognitive limitation that made the 1970s system effective has not changed, because child development has not changed. A five-year-old in 2026 processes a sponsored YouTube video the same way a five-year-old in 1977 processed a Frosted Flakes commercial: as entertainment from a trusted source, with no awareness that the entertainment is designed to make her want something.
Architecture survived its medium. The closed room opened, and the curriculum walked out.
This is what the three-year-old in the cereal aisle is demonstrating when she points at the box and says the name. She has been trained. She does not know she has been trained. Her parents may not know she has been trained, because the training happened on a screen they handed her to keep her occupied, in videos selected by an algorithm they did not program, featuring creators whose commercial relationships they cannot see. The system is working on their child the way it worked on me in 1972, with greater precision, greater reach, and fewer regulatory constraints than the Saturday morning model ever achieved.
Selling Saturday Morning is the history of how that system was built, who tried to stop it, and why it persists. I wrote it because understanding the architecture is the first obligation of anyone who was trained by it, and because the boy on the red shag carpeting deserves to know what the screen was teaching him while he thought he was just watching cartoons.
The book is available now from David Boles Books Writing & Publishing.
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Your Three-Year-Old Already Knows the Brand Name
Watch a three-year-old in a grocery store. Watch her eyes when you turn into the cereal aisle. Her gaze is not scanning the shelves the way you scan them, evaluating prices and nutritional labels and unit costs. A search is underway. The child already knows what she wants, and she knows it by name, and she knows the name because a screen taught it to her before she could read the word printed on the box. The box appears in her sightline. A finger goes up. The name comes out of her mouth. You have just witnessed the end product of a commercial pedagogy that has been operating in American media for more than fifty years, and the child has no idea it happened to her.
Neither did I, when I was her age.
My new book, Selling Saturday Morning: Television, Advertising, and the Making of the Child Consumer, reconstructs the system that taught me and every other American child of the 1970s how to want. Between 1968 and 1980, a commercial pedagogy was built inside three-network broadcast television and delivered through Saturday morning cartoons to a captive audience of millions of children who could not skip the commercials, could not change the channel without crossing the room, could not record for later, and could not comprehend that the animated tiger selling them cereal was, in fact, selling them cereal. Developmental research conducted during that decade demonstrated that children under eight could not understand the persuasive intent of advertising. A cereal commercial was, for a seven-year-old, just another cartoon about a tiger who liked cereal. The selling was invisible because the child’s cognitive equipment could not make it visible.
The system used five mechanisms, and I call their combined effect the Grammar of Want. Recognition: the child learns to identify the product instantly through spokescharacters, jingles, and packaging design. Desire: the commercial creates a gap between what the child has and what the screen shows she could have. Articulation: the commercial gives the child language to express the want by brand name. Normalization: the commercial shows other children wanting and having the product, teaching the viewing child that wanting is normal and that being sold to is a natural condition of watching anything. Repetition: the closed room of broadcast delivers these lessons fifty times per Saturday morning, thousands of times per year, tens of thousands across a childhood. Skipping was impossible. Fast-forwarding did not exist. Escape was not an option.
When regulators tried to stop it, they lost. Action for Children’s Television filed petitions. The FTC proposed a ban on advertising directed at children too young to understand its purpose. The Washington Post called the FTC “a great national nanny.” The cereal, toy, candy, and fast-food industries spent sixteen million dollars fighting the rulemaking. Congress stripped the FTC of its authority to act. By 1980, the commercial model of childhood was politically ratified, and every attempt to regulate it since has failed to restore what was lost in that defeat.
This story comes from inside the system, because the system trained me. A seven-year-old boy in Nebraska sitting on red shag carpeting in front of a wood-grain television console, absorbing the full commercial curriculum of Saturday morning: that was my education. Cap’n Crunch was identifiable by the blue of his hat from twenty feet away in a grocery aisle. Jingles from 1975 remain in my memory, though I cannot remember learning them. The Super Bowl held my attention well into adulthood because of the commercials, and I never found this strange, because the childhood training had produced an adult who experienced advertising as entertainment. Fusion was complete. Grammar held.
Here is why this matters in 2026, and here is why I am not writing a nostalgia piece about cartoons.
The Grammar of Want did not end when Saturday morning cartoons declined. It migrated. Cable fractured the three-network monopoly in the 1980s, and the techniques followed the audience into Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network and Disney Channel. The internet fractured cable in the 2000s, and the techniques followed the audience into branded websites, advergames, and social media. Smartphones fractured the internet into individual screens, and the techniques followed the audience into YouTube, TikTok, and algorithmically curated content feeds that address each child individually with a precision the 1970s system could not have imagined.
The 1970s system needed a fixed schedule to guarantee repetition. The algorithm provides repetition without a schedule. A child who watches one toy-unboxing video on YouTube is immediately served another, and another, and another. The algorithm, trained on engagement data from millions of children, knows which videos hold attention longest and serves them in sequence. Repetition is no longer the product of a broadcast grid. It is the product of a feedback loop in which the child’s own viewing behavior trains the system to deliver more of what holds her attention, and what holds her attention is, with high frequency, commercial content dressed as entertainment.
The 1970s system needed separation devices, bumpers that said “We’ll be right back after these messages,” to mark the boundary between the cartoon and the commercial. The algorithm has no bumpers. A child watching a YouTube creator play with a toy, eat a branded snack, and express delight is absorbing an advertisement delivered through a parasocial relationship with a trusted figure. The commercial message is embedded in the performance of daily life. The creator’s endorsement is implicit in the act of consumption. No jingle is required. Selling is the content.
Consider what has not changed. In the 1970s, the system operated on children who could not understand persuasive intent. In the 2020s, that same system operates on children who cannot understand persuasive intent. That finding was about children, not about media. The cognitive limitation that made the 1970s system effective has not changed, because child development has not changed. A five-year-old in 2026 processes a sponsored YouTube video the same way a five-year-old in 1977 processed a Frosted Flakes commercial: as entertainment from a trusted source, with no awareness that the entertainment is designed to make her want something.
Architecture survived its medium. The closed room opened, and the curriculum walked out.
This is what the three-year-old in the cereal aisle is demonstrating when she points at the box and says the name. She has been trained. She does not know she has been trained. Her parents may not know she has been trained, because the training happened on a screen they handed her to keep her occupied, in videos selected by an algorithm they did not program, featuring creators whose commercial relationships they cannot see. The system is working on their child the way it worked on me in 1972, with greater precision, greater reach, and fewer regulatory constraints than the Saturday morning model ever achieved.
Selling Saturday Morning is the history of how that system was built, who tried to stop it, and why it persists. I wrote it because understanding the architecture is the first obligation of anyone who was trained by it, and because the boy on the red shag carpeting deserves to know what the screen was teaching him while he thought he was just watching cartoons.
The book is available now from David Boles Books Writing & Publishing.
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I have to fix this up a little bit/do a little tlc and clean it up nice but once it’s done I’m selling it. This specific piece was $1K originally- made by a company that I don’t think is around anymore unfortunately. #selling #gorgeous #carnival #LookAtTheSparkle #boost #boostsky #PleaseReshare
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Edit: Now available publicly
https://www.fansale.de/tickets/all/1/850815/20465840?offerId=10615560&language=de
I’m selling a ticket for the Critical Role - Echoes of Exandria show in the Uber Arena Berlin on the 6. July 2026.
It’s the seat 18 in Block 204, Row 21. The ticket was bought on Eventim so I’m selling it via their fansale service.
You can send me a DM here on Mastodon or contact me on Signal.
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