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Banksy on Advertising [Zen Pencils] (lemmy.sdf.org)
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[-] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 82 points 11 months 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.

[-] NounsAndWords@lemmy.world 39 points 11 months ago

Thanks, Margot Robbie.

[-] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 43 points 11 months ago

That's esteemed Academy Award nominated character actress Margot Robbie to you!

[-] Not_Alec_Baldwin@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

Is it wrong if I think your best performance was as yourself taking a bubble bath?

[-] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

And not the one in Wolf of Wall Street? (Yes, that one.)

Gasp.

[-] sheogorath@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

TBH if this is real Margot I wouldn't be surprised one bit. Because we already had Taylor Swift as a 4chan user. Having Margot Robbie as a Lemmy user is not far fetched.

[-] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

No one will ever believe you.

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[-] Soundhole@lemm.ee 69 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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.

[-] deweydecibel@lemmy.world 29 points 11 months ago

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?

[-] smeg@feddit.uk 19 points 11 months ago

19 years and massive commercial success does that to you. I believe 2004 Banksy would describe that as being "a fucking sellout" or something.

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[-] ivanafterall@kbin.social 62 points 11 months ago

Guess I'm gonna go fuck up some ads now.

[-] bearwithastick@feddit.ch 68 points 11 months 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.

[-] seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org 43 points 11 months ago

Let's try that defense for public nudity. People can just choose to not look at it if they don't like it!

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[-] DudeDudenson 10 points 11 months 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.world 7 points 11 months 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.

[-] Usernameblankface@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Watch your background.

[-] Gabu@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

Throw a rock at it.

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[-] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 17 points 11 months 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@kbin.social 8 points 11 months 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.

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[-] rebelsimile@sh.itjust.works 36 points 11 months 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???

[-] StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world 20 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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

Abolish slavery? But who will employ the slave masters?!

[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 12 points 11 months ago

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

I thought that was every field under capitalism

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[-] AutistoMephisto@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months 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!

[-] deweydecibel@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

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

[-] rebelsimile@sh.itjust.works 7 points 11 months ago

wha? If you like someone’s content and are concerned about their income, give them a dollar.

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[-] Hiro8811@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

Fuck em advertisers

[-] Okokimup@lemmy.world 30 points 11 months ago

This is not readable for me, even when I open it in browser.

[-] NounsAndWords@lemmy.world 35 points 11 months 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.

[-] Usernameblankface@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago

I had no idea I had read that much text in all those pictures.

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[-] Toastypickle@lemmy.world 30 points 11 months ago
[-] shea@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 11 months ago

why did this work

[-] Okokimup@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago

That worked, thanks. Don't know what FAB is.

[-] Emerald@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

What is FAB?

[-] Raxiel@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Floating action button

[-] thimantha@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Well, that worked.

[-] seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 11 months ago

It zooms in when I click on it. Are you on mobile?

[-] ilikecoffee@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I'm on mobile, works fine for me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[-] alienanimals@lemmy.world 21 points 11 months ago

Corporations do nothing but take. They owe you.

[-] CapeWearingAeroplane@sopuli.xyz 20 points 11 months 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.

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