The word expressly has appeared in 112 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on May 12 in “Fast Food Forever: How McHaters Lost the Culture War” by Brian Gallagher:
In the age of social media, brands don’t even have to advertise expressly to children anyway, in the way they might have in the past, by buying a slot during Saturday-morning cartoons or on Nickelodeon. On TikTok and Instagram, kids of all ages see the same content we all do.
Younger people are also making content of their own, getting in on the marketing campaigns with thousands of videos of themselves ordering, unwrapping, eating — a sort of advertising Amway.
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