• Margot Robbie
    82•1 year ago

    But just when you think you are safe from advertisements on your niche technology forum.

    The advertisements followed you here.

    Telling you to buy the “Barbie” movie, now available on Blu-Ray.

    A movie about rediscovering meaning in a meaningless, hypercommercialized world.

    A movie about reappropriating an advertisement into a New Sincerity, free from despair.

    And that’s what I’ve been trying to tell you here for months.

  • LEX
    69•1 year ago

    Did Banksy draw or write this? What’s the connection?

    EDIT: Here’s an explanation from the artist who drew the comic:

    This quote was taken from Banksy’s 2004 book Cut It Out. Some of the passage was inspired/appropriated from an essay by artist Sean Tejaratchi. I rearranged the last couple of sentences for this comic.

    • @bearwithastick@feddit.ch
      68•1 year ago

      While the comic combined with the text has a bit of an edgy vibe, I agree with the overall message. Advertising was just decided upon to be an acceptable way to force people to look at whatever. And no, it’s not always an option to “just don’t look at it if you don’t like it”. I fucking hate those advertising TVs that get set up all over my city, they grab your attention even more than regular billboards.

        • Star
          2•1 year ago

          You are agreeing? Tone on the internet is lost to me.

          The post you replied to is saying that ads can’t “just not be looked at”.

          Same with nudity. You can’t just not look at it. You didn’t even know it was there.

          • @jivandabeast@lemmy.browntown.dev
            21•1 year ago

            That’s the point.

            They were making the point that public nudity is illegal even though you can just look away if you don’t agree

            But advertising in public spaces is legal on the basis that you could just look away if you didn’t want to see it

            • Star
              9•1 year ago

              Oh ok. I can see that perspective now. Thanks for explaining it to me.

              Edit: and upon re-reading the comment several times, I can see that exactly.

              Without tone the same sentence can go anywhere.

      • @DudeDudenson
        10•1 year ago

        They’ve been putting those blinding boards all over the place where I live, I think they’re supposed to dim at night but they’re not properly maintained and fuck whoever thought putting super bright moving images right next to roads is safe and should be allowed.

        That shit is distracting as fuck

        • @shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
          7•1 year ago

          A 12 or 20 gauge shotgun with a 28" barrel, and maybe a full choke, holds a nice pattern when shot from distances, say like from a slowly moving car to something as tall as a billboard.

        • @aesthelete@lemmy.world
          -3•1 year ago

          fuck whoever thought putting super bright moving images right next to roads is safe and should be allowed.

          I agree fuck ads and all but 90% of the drivers are too distracted by their phones to even see the ad. 😜

          Though I guess this might grab the remaining 10% that were trying to actually pay attention to the road (a hypothetical percentage I cannot claim to personally have encountered).

    • @redcalcium@lemmy.institute
      17•1 year ago

      Fucking up ads with an ad blocker?! Noooo! If you don’t like ads, then you should pay for the subscription to get rid of the ads!

      • Bizarroland
        8•1 year ago

        I’ll pay for all of the subscriptions required to not see ads when the companies I work for pay me enough money to afford it.

        Have you seen the prices on these subscription sites?

        Every single website you go to wants $20 a month to not show you ads, and for some all that will do is decrease the number of ads you are shown.

        If you cycle through the same 10 to 15 websites then that’s $200 to $300 a month just to look at the internet that you’re paying $100 a month to look at.

  • @rebelsimile@sh.itjust.works
    36•1 year ago

    B-but according to lots of people we’re denying the content creators their revenue if we don’t stare at their ads like pathetic little sheep. Won’t somebody think of the advertisers???

      • @Kusimulkku@lemm.ee
        12•1 year ago

        Not my fault they decided to work in an exploitative field.

        I thought that was every field under capitalism

        • @StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world
          2•1 year ago

          I think some are more exploitative than most. I work in a field that isn’t directly exploitative but effectively facilitates exploitation by others. Fields like advertising directly exploit others.

      • AutistoMephisto
        5•1 year ago

        Exactly! Whip cracking isn’t what anyone could call a transferrable skill! They went to school for years to learn how to use it, it’s all they know! If we get rid of slavery, their degrees go to waste!

        Learn to code, slaver!

    • deweydecibelEnglish
      10•1 year ago

      Content creators aren’t the enemy here, at least not the smaller scale ones. They often have no other sources of revenue.

    • @NounsAndWords@lemmy.world
      35•1 year ago

      People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you.

      You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity.

      Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.

      You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.

  • @CapeWearingAeroplane@sopuli.xyz
    20•1 year ago

    Honestly, this makes me feel good about my habit for peeling off / throwing away those little ad stickers and cards whenever I see them somewhere and people aren’t looking.

    It ain’t much, but it’s honest work.

  • @thorbot@lemmy.world
    -29•1 year ago

    I can see the headlines now. “This just in! Global advertising halted because of some shitty vandalism! World saved from crushing depressive corporatocracy!”

    Yeah yeah. Fight the power.

    I’m tired of fighting.