#i can't wait to try and understand my foreign language ads when the algorithm is all confused and so am i

[red-lights-of-doooooom]

How to know if the internet is stalking you

Today, I had to watch this one scene of a Wuxia movie that my friend recommended I watch, if only for its brutality. Not gonna lie, it hit hard. Then she tells me about the movie because I'm trying to show genuine interest and be supportive, but also because I'm a little bit curious. And the movie scene is COOL. I search up more scenes of the movie on Youtube. I watch about five or six scenes, and even though I don't know a word of Mandarin, I get the general gist of what's going on. My friend seems rather happy that my lily white ass is praising the performances. The visuals are STUNNING.

Then all of a sudden, ALL my Youtube ads are in fucking Chinese. All of them. Even the Gaza charity relief ones. Not sure which one, but it's probably Mandarin. I'm even recommended more articles in Mandarin online. I'm completely blindsided because apparently Crest 3D-white toothpaste feels the urge to advertise to me in Chinese despite me not knowing a single word of what I've just watched.

Now I feel inspired. I'm gonna go search up more films in languages that I don't speak at all (re: languages that aren't English or French). And I'm gonna watch as many as I can, and see which kind of ads follow my way. Bring it on. Send me Youtube advertisements of McDonalds in Malagasy. Show me ads for tampons in Swedish. Bring on those annoying truck bumpers, but in Arabic or Tagalog or Quechua or fucking Zulu, I don't care.

This is gonna be so fun!