Have been feeling this strongly recently. The people with the most signs are the least appealing to support. The food with the most advertisements seems the most likely to be trying to lure people into eating garbage.
Surely there is a word for this? Spam doesn’t feel like the right term when it’s all over the place all the time. It’s like you know it’s wrong because there’s too much money involved trying to convince everyone it’s right.
Snob Effect in economics. The more popular something is, someone is less inclined to want to consume it.
A semi-opposite is the Veblen Effect, attracting people to more popular things or pricier things.