When I was younger, I believed that the people in TV commercials were the first people to buy the product; therefore they got to advertise for it. Whenever I saw a new item in the grocery store I would beg my mom to buy it, just so we could be on TV.
A childhood belief about tv

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that commercials would only go away when you bought the product that was being advertised.— Hayabusa
- When i was younger up untill i was like 8 or 9 i thought that famous people didnt poop only normal people!!!— kaitlin
- for some time I used to think that at a drug store people really sold drugs.— NEO_ryu
- When I was younger I thought that if I ate Gusher's, my head would turn into fruit, like in the commercialsAnon
- I thought brown paper grocery bags would fit more than plastic grocery bags.Anon
- Thanks to the commercials,I believed that Philadelphia Cream Cheese was made by Jesus.— Too Literal