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Lvl999Noob on Feb 12, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Nearly a third of TV ads play to empty rooms

The comment isn't blaming communism though. There's a meme that goes like "In the world, <completely normal thing>, In Soviet Russia, <the opposite of it>". So here it would go, "In the world, you watch the TV. In Soviet Russia, the TV watches you." Except that it wouldn't just be in Soviet Russia.

Sebb767 on Feb 12, 2022 [–]

Given that Soviet Russia wasn't a technology monopoly, it actually fits better if you turn it around (IMO):

> In Soviet Russia, you watch TV. In modern world, TV watches you.

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