I think a lot of it also has to do with (at least originally) their idiocy in going after demographics. Advertising is the most segregationist (racist) business behind politics. Every brochure for a career or a school/college FOR YEARS have had a fucking superfriends collection on the cover. It’s supposed to Be selling racial unity and to give individual peoples someone they can “identify with” but really, it’s just corny and racist as fuck. The Urban afrocentric Sprite commercials are especially cringe. It’s Tokenism. Exploitation. Corporate Slave masters.