THE VIDEO SHELF · anti-advertising comedy
Bill Hicks on Marketing
A short clip of Bill Hicks's stand-up bit telling marketers and advertisers to kill themselves, which is a harsh critique of advertising.
Why HN readers recommended it
A near-meme reference dropped in threads about advertising, tracking and adtech, often as shorthand for disdain of marketing.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Tyrell Edwards
- Topic
- anti-advertising comedy
- Format
- comedy
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 16
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2018–2023
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
Excerpts from the recorded comments. Follow each source for the full comment and surrounding discussion.
> if someone says they’re in advertising I automatically hate them You might enjoy Bill Hicks’ take: [VIDEO]
latexr on Hacker News · 2020-07
In Only 9% of visitors give GDPR consent to be tracked"Email marketer here." It’s "spammer". Changing the word doesn’t make what you do less awful. (and check this nice video: [VIDEO] )
ploum on Hacker News · 2023-02
In We boosted marketing email open rate from 20% to 60%
Summaries, classifications and recommendation records are from the HackerTube source dataset. Read about this library and its limitations.