Overcommercialized attention harvesting provokes strong social backlash

Evidence

Eventually it was too much; the novelty was no more. Here for the first time, but certainly not the last, attention harvesting, taken too far, engendered a vehement social reaction; the proliferation of commercial art and its displacement of other things began to drive people crazy. — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 69

Categorization

• SEED: Angle for an essay tracing the first documented attention-harvesting revolt in Paris posters as an early template for later ad-blocking movements.
• XREF: connects to: Public discourse about technology shapes behavior, attention, and capital flows — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 57; Social media originally appealed through collective joy, now threatened by commercial management — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 633; Google Street View triggered worldwide legal and public resistance — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 454 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Audience backlash against attention capture can trigger industry-wide regulation and reinvention #corroborates (0.85) — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 72
• Self-commodification in the attention economy creates an escalating spiral of exposure and attack #corroborates (0.80) — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 207