My mother will walk all around the house with her phone blaring some 30+ minute tiktok ad. She is fully aware that it is an ad, but something at the start promised an answer to .... something... and now she HAS to know what it is. She complains about having to wait so long to get to the end and calls everything in the middle nonsense, and the answer she always gets is "buy thing X" but.... she does it anyways. A lot. She isn't super interested in actually watching documentary since that requires paying attention, and with this she can just set it to the side while washing dishes or something.
We've given up on telling her that ads exist to sell things, she views them as "mini biased documentaries" which... I suppose is sorta accurate. But it still confuses the hell out of me.