seitanicBanksy on Advertising [Zen Pencils]
ivanafterallGuess I'm gonna go fuck up some ads now.
bearwithastickWhile 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.
Let’s try that defense for public nudity. People can just choose to not look at it if they don’t like it!
You are agreeing? Tone on the internet is lost to me.
The post tou 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 didnt even know it was there.
jivandabeastThat’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
Oh ok. I see now. Thanks for explaining it to me.
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
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.
UsernameblankfaceWatch your background.
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).
Throw a rock at it.
Go to jail and get sued sure
That’s why you wear a mask
Straight up reads like a Tyler Durden quote.
You can make a high powered slingshot for free. Silent. Use it at night.
redcalciumFucking 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!
RedhotkurtNah, fuck ads.
BizarrolandI'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.
Did Banksy draw or write this? What’s the connection?
You mean the banksy that just had a huge expo in Glasgow? That was advertised all over the place? That published a book this year that was actually copyrighted?
That Banksy?
I suppose I do. That’s kind of disappointing.
Everything is divided. Nothing is complete. There’s a crack in every ideology.
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.
If you’re “tired of fighting” it still costs you little to nothing to support those fighting, or at least not speak condescendingly about the fight they are fighting. Something about cor comment tells me you weren’t fighting much in the first place.
That boy's got a lot of quit in him
samus12345“Trying is stupid.”
DeepGradientAscentI’m tired of fighting.
That’s what every one of your enemies counts on.
Maybe there’s a technological solution. Like an asymmetrical warfare thing.
A really cheap way to fight the bastards that costs them 100000000X to defend against.
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???
Hiro8811Fuck em advertisers
Not my fault they decided to work on an exploitative field.
Abolish slavery? But who will employ the slave masters?!
AutistoMephistoExactly! 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!
Not my fault they decided to work in an exploitative field.
I thought that was every field under capitalism
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.
Content creators aren’t the enemy here, at least not the smaller scale ones. They often have no other sources of revenue.
wha? If you like someone’s content and are concerned about their income, give them a dollar.
Corporations do nothing but take. They owe you.
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.
OkokimupThis is not readable for me, even when I open it in browser.
It zooms in when I click on it. Are you on mobile?
I’m on mobile, works fine for me ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Settings shortcut: Comment options > Autohide FAB
Try turning this off
why did this work
That worked, thanks. Don’t know what FAB is.
Well, that worked.
Emerald (she/her)What is FAB?
Floating action button
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.
I had no idea I had read that much text in all those pictures.
It’s strange. I’ll write a pretty tight email, looks concise on my computer screen. Send it, walk away, read the replies on my phone and it looks like the prologue on a food blog recipe.
Yeah, it’s amazing how much context and layout make a difference
Margot RobbieBut 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.
Thanks, Margot Robbie.
That’s esteemed Academy Award nominated character actress Margot Robbie to you!
This here is a top-tier comment.
…nobody’s telling me to buy josie and the pussycats, though: seems like the safer bet…
The absolute cringe from the second to last panel
Points deducted for missing an opportunity to use the word penultimate.
Fuck, didn’t even realize that
I kinda agree with some of the sentiment here, but if you hate the city, is it necessary to live there? I think it’s even more expensive than outside the city.