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Maybe statistically even a bad ad skews the population on average? I wouldn't say the examples you've provided would work on me, or anyone conscious of advertising in general. Unless that can be proven in some way, I refuse to believe that the excuses advertisers tell to justify their existence are true.
The only advertising that I know for sure works on me is SEO and search result manipulation. If I need a suit, I'll search for places and usually will end up with whatever's closest or in my price range. The power Google has over that decision is significant.
But let's be real, seeing and making fun of some awkward store window decals on lemmy is not a significant deciding factor for anything.
Basically this. If you are consciously aware of advertising, you are already largely outside the advertiser's demo. You could also avoid SEO manipulation by, say, using a different search engine or always getting your recommendations from friends or something like that. But you don't do that, because you don't care that much. This is how most people feel about all advertising. They put no mental energy into selecting or avoiding companies based on their ads, because they don't care.