My assumption is that it’s almost certainly the other way around. Ads visible surrounding you in your life work their way into your head and make it to your conversations. At that point it stops being subliminal and you’re thinking about it and notice the ads.

My entire theory is hinged on the idea that advertising works. That all these companies spending millions and billions on ads fundamentally know what they’re doing and that you’re being hacked in an insidious and grotesque way by them.

My worldview still makes it a duty to protect your own goddamn soul by installing as many ad blockers as possible though