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Ads have always been targeted; they're just more precise now, and fancier. Same tactics.

Think of the old 'sand-in-the-face' bodybuilding ads that were in comic books. Most comic book readers were young males going through puberty, myself included.

Disclosure: I went for the drawing school test ads, and solar ovens in 1976 ;)



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