Honestly. I used to watch my dad have like 4 channels he could switch between so he didn't have to do commercials. I used to think that was weird, and indicative of some poor character traits. I was a judgemental little shit.

Now this meme is me. I have become my father.

-The break meant that there would be at least 15 minutes of no ads after

-During that long break you had the ability to empty your bladder, or get more snacks

-You didn't get repeats of ads during that singular break

-The ads weren't targeted to you specifically, but targeted to the viewers of the show you were watching

-The advertisers saw value in "quality over quantity"

Yeah sorry not every aspect of my life needs to have advertisements trying to ram themselves down my throat.

Let me just enjoy something without interrupting me every 5-10 minutes.

Also idk about you but commercials on TV were just as infuriating to deal with

Nice try Google, still I am not paying for youtube premium.

All ⚠️ advertising ⚠️ is ⚠️ theft ⚠️ of ⚠️ time

The 90s ads gave me time to use the bathroom and get snacks in an era where shows could not be paused. I took advantage of that time.

Now it's too short to do anything, or I need to press a button to end the commercial after 5 seconds, requiring my attention.

There is a limited amount of tolerance for ads, and I had that all used up by the time I was 25. Now they can all go fuck themselves and I'll read a book or build an end table before I watch another ad.

You need uBlock origin!

It’s hard to retain patience when literally everything everywhere all the time constantly tries to shovel ads down your throat

It could be nostalgia, but I feel like commercials used to be a lot better. Well produced jingles, kinda funny characters, etc. In the 90’s, everything on MTV was designed to make you feel cool for watching it, even the commercials.

Now there are just too many ads for medications. Oh, and those ads that pretend to be the lowest quality twitch streams with no production at all.

90’s me had a lot more free time, since he was a child being carried by my parents. So, my free time is waaaaay more valuable now.

Ads are a way for corporations to steal your life from you, 2-3 minutes at a time.

I've recently gotten hit by the 3-strike adblocker blocker. Had to download a Tampermonkey script to get around that shit.

YouTube makes enough money off selling my browsing history and stats, I don't need to waste my time watching 3 unskippable ads.

I'll admit it does feel like someone killed my dog when it's the SAME ad over and over.

I remember forgetting what I was watching because of the length of commercial breaks back then. There is a good reason to hate ads.

I feel less like we have lost patience so much as gained a respect for our own time and autonomy in being relegated to being nothing more than a product. At least that is what it is for me.

Now Youtube is doing unskippable 30 second commercials. I turn the sound off, but it's still very f#cking annoying. We're not bombarded enough with ads every time we use our computer? I'm 65 now, and I've yet to see any commercial that ever made me want to buy the product advertised.

I didn't have a choice back then. Now that I do, fuck ads!

One of the very few benefits of cable was that you could be watching one channel, then when the commercials come on, you could switch to another channel and watch that until the commercials come on. Then you could just keep pressing the "Back" or "Previous" button to switch between the two.

Had this mastered back in the late 2000s, rarely had to sit through a commercial break if you knew the channel schedules.

Somehow I feel like tv commercials are more tolerable than the ones you get in the internet and games.
Also: use https://piped.video/ for watching youtube videos without ads. And no, that isn't a porn site domain even if it sounds like one.

4 second my ass. You could either get multiple ads or even unskippable one. Btw, did you enjoy having to push a button every few minutes instead of be free to do anything else?

ublock n sponsorblock

Me pushing the "fast forward 30 seconds button on my VCR remote 3 times" and not watching TV live.

I don't know, something about seeing the same diarrhea pills ad over and over doesn't exactly spark joy for me.

Ain't nobody got... Wait, I closed it out of reflex... yes that was a good decision.

I have noticed that people are generally less patient these days. I am pretty efficient at doing stuff at work, but at home or other places when I am trying to be relaxed and I take some time to do something, or even think about something more than a second, other person is getting angry for some reason, like I am wasting their time or something, even though I've noticed that they don't really use their time for anything other than browsing social media and being distracted by notifications on their phone.

How does the line go...

"Life is pain highness, anyone who says otherwise is selling something".

I've noticed more often I'm getting two unskippable 15 second ads. I've been watching YouTube less and less because of it. A lot of creators I like are on other platforms, like Nebula or Spotify. It's moved to the end of the line for when I'm looking to watch or listen to stuff.

At least in the 90's ads were interesting