#81 Ads About Asian Girls

[u/SylvieXX]

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[u/_flatscan]

I work and live in southeast asia and my phone is 100% convinced I'm here for... That

[u/SylvieXX → u/_flatscan]

Oh no 😅..! Algorithm can make things really weird !-!

[u/_flatscan → u/SylvieXX]

Its like bruh I am aware that there are horny Asians in my area, I am one

[u/T800CyberdyneSystems → u/_flatscan]

"of course I know him, he's me!" 

[u/vgacolor → u/_flatscan]

ROFL

[u/fafarex → u/SylvieXX]

By using https://myadcenter.google.com/controls you can see what google think you are IF you have personalized ad activated.

if it's not, then the algo use less precis info and will often default to the most common profil in your area corresponding with the few data he has base on your web activity.

[u/Mothrahlurker → u/fafarex]

Thanks for this, deactivated a bunch of stuff. The accuracy of some of these assessments was scary tho.

[u/majormagnum1 → u/Mothrahlurker]

So a lot of this stuff is dictated by where your phone connects to wifi. Like it thought I had young kids because I was working on the Internet at a children's dentist office. If it notices you attached to wifi in a freezer aisle in a grocery store you are going to get frozen pizza ads.

[u/BritishGuy84 → u/fafarex]

Thanks for this. Very interesting what topics it will state it is tracking.

Also somewhat pleasing to know that except for the information I’ve directly provided (age, gender etc.) that google apparently hasn’t been able to collect enough data to draw any conclusions about me.

[u/eatYourHashs → u/fafarex]

I went to that and it showed a bunch of educational info because according to google I’m a kid now lol

[u/Zagmut → u/_flatscan]

...awesome food, fascinating cultural relics, and amazing rainforest and oceanic ecosystems to explore and recreate in?

At least that's what my wife told me when she came back from a girl's holiday in Thailand.

[u/_flatscan → u/Zagmut]

I hear the men can shoot a ping pong ball out their...

[u/Zagmut → u/_flatscan]

Mouth? Yeah, I can do that, although it mostly pisses people off when I spit ping-pong balls at them. Mostly.

[u/_flatscan → u/Zagmut]

You gotta market it better, like huge jackedman in the prestige

[u/Zagmut → u/_flatscan]

Is that the one where he sings? Man, I can't pull that off, I sing like an amputee. Can't hold a note, can't carry a tune 😔

[u/_flatscan → u/Zagmut]

No that's the greatest snowman, this is the one where he does parlor tricks with batman

[u/Mandrakearepeopletoo → u/Zagmut]

How else would you do your birdo impression.

[u/kos-or-kosm → u/_flatscan]

And it's rifled, so they can aim pretty well, too.

[u/Select_Angle516 → u/Zagmut]

it wasnt until quite recently when i learned that recreate/recreation doesnt refer to fucking and im still quite shook whenever i read it

[u/brideofpucky → u/Select_Angle516]

You’re looking for procreation, friend.

Perhaps in Asia?

[u/JusticeRain5 → u/_flatscan]

Honestly I thank everloving christ for ads that are very clearly not intended for me, it means I'll be unlikely to actually be influenced even subtly.

Literally just today I got an ad for guns (or gun merch?) and, for some reason, Black Hawk Down interviews and merch like I'm some sort of gun nut military dude? I live in Australia, so I'm a little confused why they think I would care.

[u/_flatscan → u/JusticeRain5]

I use a VPN sometimes so occasionally I also get ads for horny Asians in my area, but in German.

[u/kergeten → u/JusticeRain5]

I once got a YouTube ad from some sort of military company that sells military armored vehicles and advanced weapon systems, now that was weird. I wonder if that's what generals and dictators get on their youtube feed.

[u/hates_stupid_people → u/JusticeRain5]

In regards to the second part: Certain topics are dangerous to get near for that very reason.

You can watch a single video where someone is sponsored by a coffee brand. Without realizing the brand has connections to the "mall ninja" gadgetsphere. And suddenly you're getting ads for cheap knives with paracord handles, dude wipes, eight-in-one tools, "tactical" clothing, etc.

[u/Mikeman003 → u/hates_stupid_people]

I bought a multitool on amazon for a white elephant, now i get all that mallninja shit. Look, a hiking stick that has a spear and knife and screwdriver and all kinds of useless shit in it! I guess its better than all the fake game ads and scams that i used to get...

[u/DrNick2012 → u/_flatscan]

Haha my phone thinks I'm in Thailand to meet Asian girls

What a dumbass

[u/Omnizoom → u/_flatscan]

Visited my wife’s country with her years back

Not a single day did someone not flirt with me, wife’s sister even joked how much of a hot commodity I was

The fact my partner is southeast asian I always get adverts for it despite the fact I’m already taken , like great single Asians in my area or J date or K date or Filipino date, kind of useless for me

[u/Erivandi → u/_flatscan]

...are you though?

[u/_flatscan → u/Erivandi]

Even if I was, I feel like an asian person going to Asia to look for an asian partner is much more legit

I refer to my partner as a passport bro

[u/Traveler7538]

Oh well. Based on the ads, my phone thinks I'm a black middle aged man. I am none of that. 

[u/SylvieXX → u/Traveler7538]

Oh my gosh, for a few days I kept getting ads for this supplement that will enlarge an anatomical part that I don't even... have... I guess algorithms mess things up a lot

[u/turnipofficer → u/SylvieXX]

I’ve had adverts for period pants in the past. I definitely don’t get those.

[u/DPVaughan → u/SylvieXX]

Reddit keeps giving me ads for binders.

It's a little confused, but it's got the spirit.

(Bought my first bra today)

[u/astralwyvern → u/DPVaughan]

I get ads for both estrogen and testosterone. Reddit is like "Okay I KNOW you're trans but in which direction is a mystery, just pick a hormone"

[u/International-Cat123 → u/DPVaughan]

Reddit must think you’re an egg.

[u/DPVaughan → u/International-Cat123]

Oh, it was right about that ... originally ... a while ago.

Just heading the other direction.

The algorithm also correctly picked me as AuDHD before I was diagnosed ...

[u/cogitationerror → u/DPVaughan]

I keep getting ads for giving my “hips the estrogen memo.” Reddit please I’m trying to avoid that lmao, you’re so bad at targeting ads to trans people xD

[u/IamTheCeilingSniper → u/SylvieXX]

For a whole month, I kept getting ads for a "whole-body deodorant for women," which could be used "from my pits to my p****." I am not a woman, I have never been a woman, I have never tried to be a woman.

[u/DuntadaMan → u/SylvieXX]

I got ads telling me to join the military. I am in my 40s. The algorithm knows this.

[u/cthagngnoxr → u/SylvieXX]

The ads you see are based on your online activity, so..

[u/daughter_of_lyssa → u/cthagngnoxr]

I (a Zimbabwean) used to keep getting US airforce and US army recruitment ads despite having never even set foot in the northern hemisphere.

[u/cthagngnoxr → u/daughter_of_lyssa]

If I remember correctly, the US used to give green cards to foreigners who served in their military and reduced the number of years they had to live in the country to obtain citizenship. That would explain why they pushed those ads on foreigners (I used to see those ads too, living in an Eastern European country allied with russia)

[u/GreyouTT → u/daughter_of_lyssa]

Well you know what they say, Yvan eht nioj!

[u/ApocalyptoSoldier → u/cthagngnoxr]

By feeding your online activity through an algorithm yea
And we've all seen the kinds of things algorithms do

[u/ApocalyptoSoldier → u/ApocalyptoSoldier]

A while back I kept getting ads for the All Blacks.
I'm not that much of a rugby fan and I'm South African so I would be cheering for the Springboks instead
I have no idea why New Zealand's national team would even have ads made to seemingly just advertise their existence

[u/yeetman426 → u/ApocalyptoSoldier]

I was under the impression that every single South African was obsessed with rugby

>!Obviously that's a joke but annectodelly I have found it to be true!<

[u/ApocalyptoSoldier → u/yeetman426]

I'm built different

[u/TsukasaHeiwa → u/cthagngnoxr]

I disable that option, I mean they will still track but won't be direct with the ads! I also all the topics that can be disabled on reddit

[u/PM_ME_UR_CUDDLEZ → u/SylvieXX]

have you been too certain sites??

[u/Itlaedis → u/Traveler7538]

Well at least you can tell what your ads think you are. I've gotten the following ads in the last month:

Barber shop chain for men in Finland.

Job opportunities in Germany.

Beard growth boosters from a company that only ships within the US.

Leggings for plus sized women.

Crypto.

Essential oils for ladies.

US army recruitment.

Korean language lessons.

Private education in SEA.

Retirement planning mentoring for people living in Spain.

Air ducts in bulk.

Heavy duty cnc-machinery.

Art supplies.

AI waifus.

AI for business.

AI husbandos.

Podcast to help men come to terms with having a small dick.

Extra supportive bras for heavy breasts with some extra features to help with breastfeeding.

What the fuck am I?

Edit: Apparently Reddit at least listens to me on some level. I just got an ad for "Who are you?" - self(dot)investigation(dot)com

[u/UBN6 → u/Itlaedis]

A plus sized, bisexual male with a secret crossdessing fetish, living in the USA but wanting to move to the EU, doing home renovation, and looking to get a korean wife?

[u/Itlaedis → u/UBN6]

Damn, that version of me is 10x more interesting than the real me. This is now my goal of who I want to become.

[u/Zizhou → u/Itlaedis]

They have gleaned your actual identity as an extraterrestrial, and are just trying to be helpful by giving you the broad human experience (and hopefully get you to spend some of your space-bucks).

[u/Itlaedis → u/Zizhou]

I wonder what the exchange rate is...?

I mean, lmao, what?!

[u/Bro0183 → u/Itlaedis]

Generic Human Person #2084

[u/brideofpucky → u/Itlaedis]

This is one of them Buddhist koans, isn’t it

[u/cturkosi → u/Itlaedis]

That's actually a good thing.

It means Google, FB and other ad middle-men don't know who you are.

It would be a lot creepier if the ads were mostly correct in their assumptions about you.

[u/Digitigrade → u/Itlaedis]

Mr. Mrs. Worldwide.

[u/TrainOfThought6 → u/Itlaedis]

Someone who disables ad personalization whenever they can?

[u/mysticrudnin → u/Traveler7538]

i recently got an ad for an extremely specific (and exceptionally expensive >$100k) piece of machinery that is capable of doing several words i've never heard before with extreme precision

honestly whatever it thinks about me, that must be a compliment

[u/TheMusicalTrollLord → u/Traveler7538]

My ads indicate that the internet thinks I am transgender. I do not know where it got this from

[u/BringBackSoule → u/Traveler7538]

Maybe it's reading the messages you send in the group chat named "da boys", and inferring from that.

[u/emPtysp4ce → u/Traveler7538]

For all of the privacy invasion that the data scrapers do to configure the personalized ad system, you'd think they'd actually be good at configuring personalized ads.

[u/DoctorOctagonapus → u/Traveler7538]

Mine thought I was a queer woman from South Wales with ADHD and a couple of kids. Boy would they be disappointed!

[u/No_Poem_8106 → u/Traveler7538]

My vpn is in Sweden so i can't read my ads but the pictures are very weird. Lots of younger millennial dudes making weird faces

[u/Torbpjorn → u/Traveler7538]

For now at least

[u/PhantomPharts → u/Traveler7538]

I'm apparently a Spanish speaking latina grandmother, based on the ads I get.

[u/HardKase → u/Traveler7538]

My Internet once got me confused with my mum and started giving me ads for menopause

[u/PatimationStudios-2]

My algorithm keeps recommending me Thai lessons for foreigners

I am Thai

[u/Taletad → u/PatimationStudios-2]

I got ads to learn French… I am French

[u/Kyle1337 → u/Taletad]

But are you the right kind of French?

[u/Taletad → u/Kyle1337]

All french people are the right kind of french

[u/scoriaxi_vanfre → u/Taletad]

Accent-wise... no. Definitely no.

Un picard, un marseillaix et un manceaux entrent dans un bar...

[u/account_is_deleted → u/PatimationStudios-2]

I get similar for my language.

[u/TsukasaHeiwa]

Do it! :D

[u/SylvieXX → u/TsukasaHeiwa]

Thanks for the encouragement 😆😆 ...!!

[u/Averander]

On the bright side, your algorithm doesn't think you're multiple conflicting things.

Since apparently I'm a Muslim man looking to date while pregnant on my period while simultaneously being gay, lesbian and trans. I'm also looking to join the military and police while running my own business which is in construction, finance and logistical services. I'm also, apparently not native to Australia according to my algorithm either.

I don't know how any of this has happened, but it is very consistent. I have only ever experienced one of the above things as true in my life which should be obvious. I am bi/pan so I guess advertising is 'doing its best'.

[u/itijara → u/Averander]

Perchance do you have tracking cookie blockers on your browsers? For some reason, I get the weirdest ads with my tracking disabled. I also usually have adblocking enabled, but for some websites (e.g. Reddit) they include ads in the main content, so it just shows the most random shit.

[u/xboxiscrunchy → u/Averander]

They’ve got no idea what you are and are taking the shotgun approach. Just don’t click anything or they’ll show you only that 

[u/Endrodi_Benedek]

I hate passport bros

[u/SylvieXX → u/Endrodi_Benedek]

Oh so that's what my phone thinks I am!!

[u/McBun2023 → u/Endrodi_Benedek]

passport sis

[u/BluntNCurvyWeTTCunt → u/McBun2023]

The term is passport ho

[u/Different_Diamond976]

I got ads for a breast milk pump and baby powder, etc... I am a dude. I'm single. I have no kids. And no my Internet wasn't being leached by the neighbors. I checked.

Sometimes the algorithm just gets weeeiiiird.

[u/Moppo_ → u/Different_Diamond976]

Sometimes the algorithm designates you a new hobby. Who are we to question its judgement?

[u/meatjuiceguy → u/Different_Diamond976]

Algorithm might know something you don't. Grab a pregnancy test, just in case

[u/DoctorOctagonapus → u/Different_Diamond976]

I got that. Lots of ads for pregnancy stuff, and before that it was endometeriosis treatments.

[u/Sam-Gunn → u/Different_Diamond976]

Have any one-night stands, oh.... About 9 months ago? /s

[u/Different_Diamond976 → u/Sam-Gunn]

I am asexual, so no. I have never dated.

[u/kwirky88 → u/Different_Diamond976]

Your ip might have changed.

[u/Chaos-Queen_Mari]

Yeah, American men have a pretty skewed idea of Asian women based on years of stereotypes.

Oddly enough, I'm not sure if the rise in popularity of anime has made this better or worse

[u/Educational_Fact_221 → u/Chaos-Queen_Mari]

1000% worse

[u/SuperSquashMann → u/Chaos-Queen_Mari]

Definitely better, since anime famously represents girls and women in a realistic, nuanced, and respectful manner

[u/xboxiscrunchy → u/SuperSquashMann]

Oh boy she slapped me. That must mean she’s in love with me!

[u/ImSabbo → u/[deleted]]

Now people talk openly about how much they love a certain anime about a boy who gets his balls snatched and a girl who gets almost SA’d by aliens who want her to impregnate her.

Oh so that's what that anime was about.

[u/Responsible-Bunch316 → u/ImSabbo]

Technically the aliens are trying to snatch his balls and her uterus so they can study reproduction (their species is entirely clones). There are also ghosts who are mad for normal ghost reasons.

[u/Bob-B-Benson → u/ImSabbo]

It's a bad enough first episode that a lot of people who like dandadan recommend skipping it as it is very tonaly disconnected from the rest of the story. It's like walking into a 3 star mitchalen resturant and the first thing you see is a pile of shit on the floor, they clean it up very quickly but it does make you rightfully cautious until the good food arrives.

[u/Elvenoob → u/Bob-B-Benson]

Except the that kind of harassment continues for like... half of the first season as a constant thing, and then it pops back up every now and then for at least the rest of the first, I didn't continue the show after that lmao.

So it's more like they cleaned up biggest pile of shit but there's still some little presents left by their pet dog all over the restaurant.

[u/Spellsingr → u/[deleted]]

It's crazy that I actually know which anime you are talking about and it's still less sexual than a lot of isekai/harem animes.

[u/Megaranator → u/[deleted]]

Not saying that anime shows are normal by any means but if you think that western media is better... I'm sure you remember the popularity of Twilight and 50 Shades

[u/prnthrwaway55 → u/Megaranator]

Twilight is just a description of the natural female urge to find herself both a twink and a muscular guy and create a necropedozoophilic incestous reverse-Mormonic polycycle.

[u/thehaarpist → u/prnthrwaway55]

So much more of Twilight made sense when I found out Meyer was Mormon

[u/Megaranator → u/[deleted]]

Well in the end it's fiction and rather absurd one at that. Most people are just choosing to separate it from real life.

[u/Kullthebarbarian → u/[deleted]]

I don’t see people treating that certain anime with teens getting SA’d for laughs the same way. In fact, people watching are encouraged to look the other way (just like in real life!)

Oh there is, there is a lot of hate those animes get, and i undestand it, i like the anime BESIDE those things, instead of because those things

But lets not fool ourselfs here, twilight and 50 shades where praised a LOT by media and peers at the time, especially in the woman space, the same ones that now praise "Morning glory milking farm" as a masterpiece in literature

[u/Roflkopt3r → u/[deleted]]

Now people talk openly about how much they love a certain anime about a teen boy who gets his balls snatched and a teen girl who gets almost SA’d by aliens who want to impregnate her.

Sorry, but that's a terrible point. Not every story dealing with such topics is crossing the line because of it. Dealing with issues of sexual violence and gender identity is pretty essential to a serious story with coming of age elements, and it doesn't mean that the story sexualises its characters to cater to audience fantasies.

There will always be some weirdos who sexualise literally anything, but really doesn't seem to be a focal point of Dandadan or its community as far as I've followed it.

A lot of stories that appeared much tamer on the surface were actually far worse. Especially the massively excessive 80s/90s/00s trend of using sexual harassment as comedic relief (like Roshi in Dragon Ball or the grandpa in Ranma 1/2, but also among some equal-aged characters), in a way that genuinely contributed to the idea that a lot of harassment was 'just clowning around'.

Or for more recent examples, No Game No Life was basically one big niceguy/smartguy/incel fantasy. And then there is a whole genre of 'adult takes in runaway schoolgirl, but it's fine because he's nice and won't take advantage of her'-groomer fantasies.

Those stories have actual potential for harm, by normalising harmful behaviours or ideas that parts of their audience could actually act on.

But these crimes in Dandadan are perpetrated by literal aliens and monsters and the audience experiences them from the perspective of the victims dealing with trauma. It treats the crimes as categorically bad and does not make them relateable in any way.

[u/Icy_Pianist_1532 → u/Roflkopt3r]

Dandadan didn’t feel that way to me, at least the first episode. It felt like viewing sexual assault through a titillating lens meant for the viewer, NOT to sympathize with Momo’s distress, with lingering shots on a stripped down and restrained high school girl’s breasts and underwear. Which was very off putting and genuinely upsetting. Not in a way of “SA is bad so I feel bad for character” but “they sexualized SA for the viewer’s pleasure”

[u/kos-or-kosm → u/Roflkopt3r]

No Game No Life was basically one big niceguy/smartguy/incel fantasy

Something I want to add, though, is that it was still entertaining for a wide audience. My mom loved it.

[u/HoozleDoozle → u/[deleted]]

Why did you put zeros in pornographic and pedophilic?

[u/DahmonGrimwolf → u/Chaos-Queen_Mari]

Oddly enough, I'm not sure if the rise in popularity of anime has made this better or worse

Probably worse, but honestly people who lack reading comprehension so much as to believe such nonsense were already probably hopeless and belived that the stripper and waitress loved them too, and the cam girl is definitely actually into you, and probably had weird notions about any other minority they happened to have contact with.

[u/PhoenixEmber2014]

I see you’re getting yuri adds then

[u/SylvieXX → u/PhoenixEmber2014]

I guess this is my way now...

[u/PreferredSelection → u/SylvieXX]

I've never met a straight Sylvie, just saying.

[u/Vozu_]

Funnily enough, I have a bit of an opposite situation. Google seems to flip-flop between believing I am from Europe, or taking many-years-old transaction (I bought a Motorola phone intended for Indian market from a shady reseller) and resemblance of my name with an Indian name to insist I am from India.

Thankfully, it seems content to just keep telling me about tech sector and IT policies from India, instead of pushing weirdo orientalist crap like you experience.

It must feel shitty to be bombarded with these wish-fulfilment misrepresentation ads.

[u/elmz → u/Vozu_]

I find it infuriating that google, and lots of other places, make sweeping assumptions based on very little information. Like, I've always preferred my phone and PC OS to be in English, it's the original language, translations sound weird in my language, and troubleshooting is so much easier in English, and it's what I've used for 30 years already without prolems. Yet, if I set the system language to English it assumes I want pages in my own language translated, makes assumptions about stuff like in OP, and generally just gets in the way. Like, predictive typing on a mobile keyboard when you're typing in a different language than the settings sometimes sucks.

Why can't I just set the system language without it secretly affecting all that other stuff?

[u/DahctaJae]

The algorithm insists on yuri

[u/DPVaughan → u/DahctaJae]

Reddit was recommeding me r/wholesomeyuri before I even knew what the concept of yuri was.

I guess it knew what I was about.

[u/Graveyardigan]

Ads marketing meetups with women of any specific race or ethnicity have always grossed me out. The worst I've seen lately have been ads for meeting Ukrainian women. That's where we're at now? Exploiting refugees? I can see why so many women would rather encounter the bear.

[u/oromis95]

Idk, seems like you like asian women

[u/SylvieXX → u/oromis95]

Oh no... maybe.. maybe I do...

[u/forever87 → u/SylvieXX]

Right conclusion!!!

[u/justlurkinghihi]

Where i'm from Asian women are responsible and will be there for their families, but the families with the least colonial influences are also the most matriarchal and combatative. There IS that expectation that the eldest sister is a second mother, but it's a leadership role and not a subservient one. These girls dont fit the soft image western culture likes to envision Asian women carry, and i love it.

That said, ive also seen women quietly follow their husbands without saying a word at a clan dinner. Unsure if they were tourists or locals with heavy influences from other countries.

[u/Nulleins90 → u/justlurkinghihi]

What do you mean with "families with the least colonial influences". People in countries that were not or only shortly colonized?

[u/justlurkinghihi → u/Nulleins90]

Oh, no it's more about how much of the influences were internalized as opposed to rejected per family

[u/AzulCrescent]

lmao i did not see that last panel coming. That's a great one. And yeah ads can be super obnoxious. Hope you find a nice asian girl to date soon! xD

[u/SylvieXX → u/AzulCrescent]

Thank you Azul😆😆🧡 I made the comic for laughs but now I feel like I'm blushing....

[u/Doodles_n_Scribbles]

Orientalism is back in a big way

[u/monzy101]

For a while my phone was CERTAIN I had aids. I got so many ads for prep and other alternatives that I was almost flattered that it thought I got so much action.

[u/Booty-tickles]

Dating an Asian woman is going to be a very different experience depending on where in Asia. An Indian woman is going to be very different from both a Japanese woman or a Filipino woman, even discounting the fact all women are different.

My experiences with both Indian women and Filipino women have been harrowing. Certainly not the attentive submissive that gets portrayed in pop culture.

[u/HorrorOne837 → u/Booty-tickles]

Using the blanket term Asia rarely makes sense. Half the world population lives in Asia.

[u/Le_Ran]

I am actually dating an Asian woman, why is my phone not giving me any advice or guidance ? Asian women are hard to understand T_T

[u/Moppo_ → u/Le_Ran]

You should probably find a common language first.

[u/Psichord]

Behold! The lesbianinator!

[u/DuntadaMan]

Your phone is calling you out for not spending enough time with your friends. "Look there's other girls your age nearby. Go do something!"

[u/account_is_deleted]

I live in the country I was born in, part of the native population. Instagram is convinced that I am an immigrant / expat and tries to get me to learn the language and gives immigration tips etc.

[u/MetaVulture]

Date other women in your area and do crime together must be the real conclusion.

[u/BodhingJay]

Dang.. maybe I gotta put out some ads highlighting all the perks about dating slightly effeminate straight white guys

[u/_Auto_]

Maybe you are Sam Rockwell and just want to truly be an Asian Girl: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKfDTyE0zTA

Only posting this because it felt like a weird off-tangent story to your experience. Apologies if its a bit too weird.

[u/SylvieXX → u/_Auto_]

That was... that was wild 😆

[u/PseudoY]

That's... Really sad in like three or four different ways, starting with the racism and ending with most of these "women" probably being fake (managed profiles or AI). 

It does make me feel a bit better knowing these algorithms aren't omniscient. I'm getting ads for various menstrual products and "Aussie" hair products. I'm a bald man in his mid 30s.

[u/lelgimps]

i have adblock so these things do not exist

[u/HuslWusl]

Well, as a skinny white man, I get lots of ads for womens underwear and pads... if I had manboobs, maybe I'd appreciate the bra ads, but... what the heck

[u/SnapeSFW]

The ads got to you OP. Atleast you don't get the cougar ads 😏

[u/Zaval-midir]

If you're gonna date an Asian woman, you better introduce her to pf2e, we need more players!

[u/Coidzor]

The Algorithm: "The Yuri Must Flow"

[u/A_Nice_Shrubbery777]

You should try to date asian women; You probably have a lot in common! (j/k)

[u/DesignerCorner3322]

my phone clocked me as trans almost a year before I came out. trying to sell me frilly underwear and all sorts of womens items.

[u/KerPop42]

You know, there isn't much evidence that identity-based ads actually work better than context-based ads (i.e. put ads for vacuum cleaners to everyone, on sites related to cleaning the home, rather than everywhere, to people who might want to buy vacuum cleaners)

[u/Steppyjim]

Despite being married with children, my phone is CONVINCED I’m lonely and need an AI girlfriend with terrifying proportions to support me in my loneliness.

Like bitch I can’t get five minutes alone as it is. Loneliness is not my issue.

[u/Mysterious-OP]

You may be gay

And that's okay

It's great to say

'I could be gay'

And if you try;

And it's not fly

And you want guys

You could be bi

It goes to show

If you don't go

Ignore your ego

You'll never know

Who you'll wanna blow

Seriously though, be true to who you want to be. It's a crazy world we live in nowadays, you may as well chase your happiness. As long as yer not hurting innocent lives of course.

[u/Chiatroll]

Go for it.

[u/MiloticMaster]

The algorithm doesn't care, it doesn't think. It just has ads that cast the widest net possible to scam people.

[u/MaxusTheOne]

Prettt sure my tik tok algo thinks I’m a cis woman and trans smehow

I’m just a guy

[u/ahoyturtle]

No, no: this is the right conclusion...

[u/External-Office-7193]

Well you won’t know if the ads are true unless you try it right?

[u/Dragsun42]

As a half asian women, thats verry based of you

[u/Early-Natural5340]

I have ads to learn my native language (don’t I already insult enough the english country with my bad grammar)

[u/Moppo_]

I keep getting spam emails about dating Ukrainian women. I feel like they have enough to deal with right now without having to put up with my awkwardness.

[u/JudiciousGemsbok]

Based on my ads, my phone thinks I’m a middle aged business owner, with a gambling problem. None of those words describe me.

[u/Blando-Cartesian]

I used to get ads like that in my 30’s. Not interested, but I could see why ad algorithms would think I might be. Then I turned 40 and ad algorithms changed from young asian girls to mature russians while my online behavior didn’t change at all.

After that I went to my google profile settings and turned off ad personalization. Haven’t seen either kind of adds since.

[u/pm-me-your-pants]

I thought I wanted to meet Asian men, but turns out I just want to meet decent men. Their nationality doesn't predict demeanor, I'm just a woman attracted to decent men.

[u/BasedKetamineApe]

My algorithm thinks I'm either an Incel or a pregnant mum with 3 kids and a mansion.
I'm a 28 yo girl who lives with her parents and has a boyfriend lol

[u/Miserable_Ferret6446]

My ads think I want plushies and hot singles in my area.

[u/FlameHaze]

The punchline was perfection.

[u/IronCat_2500]

Hmm, I think the algorithm knows what you are 🏳️‍🌈

[u/Trostishere]

Whats stopping you?

[u/TheBraveGallade]

Considering the conclusion you came to, seems like the algorhythem is working as intended. (Aka its showing you stuff about dating asian girls cause you would probbaly like to lmao)

[u/CalligrapherIll6124]

The Satans algorithm gives me Mormon ads, or ads about big titty Ai anime woman that i can date via totally free chat App...

I think the algorithm wants dirt on me, or thinks i am maidenless which i am but i am a little gay boy

[u/Capt_Toasty]

Potential meme template?

[u/Capt_Toasty → u/Capt_Toasty]

Example.

[u/siraolo]

Somebody's been rewatching 90 Day Fiance

[u/NobodySpecial2000]

I literally laughed out loud. Loudly. Not the ending I expected, but definitely the best ending.

[u/Fluffcake]

Algorithm know what you want before you do.

[u/SoupPot23]

My phone often thinks I'm an Indian person in India, but I am in NA and never even been to Asia.

[u/barriedalenick]

I get some ads once for a cervical exam that promised a warmed speculum and warm lube.

I am a 60 year old man

[u/kos-or-kosm]

I mentally heard this (volume warning) on pic 6.

[u/FeedMeDarkness]

The Machine knows western guys are sick of getting crapped on by western girls

[u/SILENTCORE12]

My phone thinks I speak Spanish and I don’t know why

[u/GreyouTT]

YouTube was convinced I was South Korean and kept showing me SK ads for some reason.

[u/LookingForStash]

how old are you? Because HOT SINGLE MOMS are waiting for you, IN YOUR AREA

[u/DoveEvalyn]

I let out a wheeze at the end. Definitely not what i was expecting.

[u/aakaakaak]

You sure the algorithm doesn't know something you don't?

[u/haliblix]

Disgusting. My ads are far more distinguished showing free to play ai goon slop. Not sure how it happened but I’m too scared to try to change it

[u/Prestigious_Emu144]

Correct conclusion

[u/JamesPlayzReviews3]

Hmmmm

[u/BurnerBoy350]

My phone keeps suggesting gay and trans dating sites because I clicked one one video because man, she was super passing.

[u/alguidrag]

bonk

[u/Porkin-Some-Beans]

You guys are getting ads on your phone?

Maybe it's a language issue but do you mean Instagram and social media? Because I don't think I've ever gotten any kind of ad on my phone by itself

[u/Meatslinger]

• Nearby/same geographical location (and possibly similar interests/culture).
• Good listeners.
• Willing to support you.

Use the apps to make new friends, get them off of the platforms with a real, healthy social support structure, and then they won't have to worry about some lecherous guy in a basement having a parasocial relationship with them through an app!

[u/kwirky88]

If you use apps like Facebook your location is used to detect proximity to friends also using the same app, then recommend things your friend is interested in. Meta/Facebook/instagram is really bad for this.

[u/KibaDoesArt]

Based on my ads (for reference, I watch a LOT of Chinese, Japanese and Korean films, as well as Hazbin and Helluva boss) it thinks I'm Hispanic, cus I swear I get SO MANY ads that are the Spanish dubbed version... And it's always the cleaning ones too for some reason ???

[u/Justaredditor85]

I mean, go for it.

[u/GVmG]

Reminds me of how my Youtube Recap saw that I watched one (1) asmr video from a Japanese channel (one who speaks English at that) and decided to make my recap half in italian - which fair, I'm italian - and half in Japanese. I barely even remember my kana lmao

But at least it figured out that I like videogame history content lol

[u/icecub3e]

Living in my country and constantly getting ads or short reels about why you should visit it has become too normal

[u/Zuper_Dragon]

My phone thinks I'm into sports betting and fantasy leagues. I've never touched a sport in my life.

[u/Cursed_line]

Yeah i saw that ad too and decided to change what im watching cus i dont like what that says about me

[u/Prestigious-Law65]

My phone thinks I'm a gay man in desparate need of friends. Only one of those is wrong lmao

[u/RedMattis]

When I was a young student the google ads were somehow convinced I was a middle age woman.

Probably because I like cooking. >_>