Kiln Me Softly

My name is Emmie, I am an artist. I am a server. Passionate about cat toes, civil rights, and arts of all kinds.

[left-reminders]

[peer2peer2peer-deactivated20210]

okay i just had a bad epiphany but corporate interest’s influence on the internet is going to become so much stronger now that generations that are internet naturalized have grown up and starting working as “social media consultants”. advertising is going to become so much more subtle, manipulate your behavior to a greater extent, and completely pervade every aspect of our lives the more we rely on the internet for everything from entertainment to social validation. 

[peer2peer2peer-deactivated20210]

what im saying is its scary that corporate twitter accounts are getting good at twitter. to have the same avenue a human would to express themself. its like, an extreme anthromorphism of a brand, and that brand representing a corporate interest, and successfully passing itself off as a sentient entity on twitter, thats really weird to me.

[peer2peer2peer-deactivated20210]

like this is so fucked up. it doesnt immediately read as an advertisement, conceptually it executes the levels of irony and deconstruction that usually make for successful memes in this genre or whatever. its almost subverting itself, but ultimately it still succeeds as an advertisement. it makes me sick. for every misfire of corporations trying to relate (pepsi protest commercial), theres another company getting better at it

[radailurophiles]

okay but like my thing about this is… who is actually eating at these places because shit like this? yeah it’s funny but i never go to wendy’s because a meme, if i go to wendy’s it’s because i want a gross burger and a frosty, same with taco bell and mcdonald’s and wherever the fuck.

i really think that you’re blowing this out of proportion and having very little faith in people’s ability to decide what they want for themselves. it’s just not that deep.

[peer2peer2peer-deactivated20210]

It’s not about the effectiveness of the ads in question, but their complete omnipresence in every aspect and moment of life, and how bizarre and sophisticated the mechanations of advertising have become. If people don’t call attention to these things, they become normal.

[sausaged-rat]

The effectiveness of marketing isnt one-to-one, like, “ad says burger is good, I think burger is good, I eat burger.” That was 50 years ago. Y'all, since then these multi-million dollar corporations have been hiring psychologists and sociologists and anthropologists to study how best to get under consumer skin and theyve figured out it’s not about making you WANT a burger,

It’s about creating a Brand Identity - an anthropomorphized personality that your brain fits into an established schema (system of thought) so it’s easier to just drop into the background of your everyday life. It’s not about making you want a burger, it’s about making it so, when you DO want a burger, the first place you think of is Wendy’s, because their ads have made you think about them five time already that day. And most importantly, it’s about making sure you dont realize how often they make you think about them, so you don’t resent how pervasive they’ve become. They do that by tricking your brain into thinking of them as just another human-like personality. Your Funny Meme Friend Wendy’s. Wine Aunt World Market. Woke Jock Nike. Even your Endearingly Unhip Uncle Geico.

(hey also if you want dozens of terrifying examples of what I mean, just type ‘brand identity schema’ into Google like I just did and take a gander at all those scholarly articles discussing how best to acquire consumers, like we’re a fucking commodity)

[captainsnoop-deactivated2020041]

one time i said i didn’t like the wendys twitter and got called classist for hating retail employees 

this shit works. it makes people like Brands. gets under their skin and in to their minds. when i said i didnt like the wendys twitter i personally offended people that viewed wendys as a friend, that viewed the wendys social media manager as a friendly individual that they respected.

the wendys social media manager is not your friend. they don’t even really exist. there’s no one person that writes the tweets for wendys. there’s a team of 20 something year olds that casually observe the latest meme trends and crank out mspaint memes because they know they’ll get retweeted if the memes are relevant.

they trick you in to thinking that Wendys is a hip friendly young person, and they manipulate you in to thinking that disliking marketing is somehow a “problematic” “un-woke” thing to do. 

and it works. 

install ublock origin. on mobile, block every promoted tweet you see. don’t let them convince you that this shit is normal.

[lostinspaceandmeaning]

[peer2peer2peer-deactivated20210]

I just wanna say, not only was I extremely correct in my paranoid regarding these posts, but it’s actually gotten way fucking worse already

I’m just going to be blunt about it; America’s depression epidemic is a direct result of the all-encompassing alienation we experience under late stage capitalism, and now private interests are attempting to recuperate the general public’s feelings of hopelessness and despair into marketing material, the spectacle in effect recuperating our despair and making it appear that the powers that be are on our side. That we are being watched over by boardrooms with loving grace, despite the fact that they are part and parcel with the forces of economy that has driven so many people to not see any hope in their lives. By recuperating the public discourse about the root of endemic depression, the status quo is able to trivialize it and sterilize it before before safely incorporating it back into mainstream society. Not only are we unable to strike against our enemy, most of us can’t even see them for what they are, and the rest of us can’t even speak to the truth of what they are capable of.

Pay attention to little bizarre happenings like these, they betray the rest of the iceberg

[miscreant-side-puffs]

OP was right.

[queerbrownvegan]

What is time poverty?

How does time influence the lifestyle we choose? When I was in college, the dominant class activists constantly challenged me to choose between the messaging of climate justice or my mental health and being seen as less than. Time poverty is defined as the chronic feeling of having too many things to do and not enough time to do them and it is increasing in society. The common thread is that both time and financial poverty intersect and shape how people act. Many economically disadvantaged communities of color that are systematically oppressed by the laws and policies implemented by governments are the same ones with the least access to opportunities. Now, even if we follow a time structure, we have to think of the system of adults processes: such as if you live in a low-income neighborhood that has a dense population, you lose time going back home because of traffic, compared to a rich community that doesn’t have as many people in their community. Our jobs are not created equal. We know for a fact that many working-class people are often the most brutalized in facing injustices compared to those in higher-end salary jobs. Yes, all jobs are toxic, but for many people who have intensive jobs, this also affects their ability to take care of themselves. Our health is being robbed for many of us and it is not fair. I share with you all the lack of patience I have developed over my childhood years for waiting for public buses, especially in Los Angeles. A friend in college once shamed me for asking if we could Uber back to campus as I did not want to wait for the bus and they instantly shamed me and told me that they thought I was an environmentalist. I explained how my frustrations come from having to wait hours in the heat growing up as a child to get back from school due to the lack of resources in my city and how I want to reclaim my time. The biggest issue is that there is often this glorification of green lifestyles from the dominant class wanting to be perfect rather than breaking down the nuances we live in today in choosing our lifestyles. Before we try to ask others, why aren’t you flight-free, ad-free, vegan, zero-waste, chemical-free, car-free, or whatever lifestyle you choose, perhaps we should also add nuance to these conversations. Yes, these lifestyles are not exclusive to wealthy people, but we must also add that two truths can co-exist. The mentality of, “if I can do it, you can too” can’t be a blanket statement used to ignore socioeconomic inequality and oppression. We have to push for more nuanced conversations and conclude that perhaps there isn’t a set answer but rather an active conversation we should be having in the environmental movement. Dismantling perfectionism is essential in liberating ourselves from an expectation of time poverty. -queerbrownvegan

[naramdil]

there’s a creature in my chest and at all times she’s banging a drum and shouting “GUILT! GUILT! WE LIVE AND DIE WITH GUILT!” 

[alivehouse]

that post about negotiation with hoas by threatening to set up a ham radio tower bc the fcc would back you up will not work at all even slightly but i will say that the blood feud between hoas and ham radio ppl is real & eternal. like if you want to get around hoa rules a ham radio person will probably have ideas

[alivehouse]

once again thinking about this guys "birdhouse" bc his hoa banned antennas but not "birdhouses"

[sloppystyle]

bug boys

[guardianofscrewingup]

It’s amazing how much we can see ourselves in some of the other ape species and how much they likely see of themselves in us. 

[shakespork]

everyone in the comments going “haha two apes looking at a bug...”

bitch you’re looking too

three apes looking at a bug

[treasures-and-beauty]

Nargile (water pipe), turn of the century Turkey

[guerrillatech]

[punchesco]

GRASPT

[zoesupreme]

God there's a Johns Hopkins study out now that says lockdowns in the US and Europe were largely ineffective at preventing covid deaths and only reduced them by around 3% while causing a huge economic burden and my first reaction was okay you're telling me the half assed lockdowns where workers still had to go to work every day and if you were lucky you maybe worked somewhere with a drive thru or outdoor seating but still came into close contact with your coworkers all the time didn't do shit in comparison to the actual lockdowns in countries that provided the means to actually shelter in place without leaving your home for 2-4 weeks and kept deaths to a minimum and got to more or less go back to normal after that until it started spreading again from Americans and Europeans? Big shock.

Then I looked at the report and the authors are all economics professors.

[fag-it]

[thewindowofthesummerhouse]

Mark Powell

[jamesleech]

Fish study

60 CAD + shipping (sold) Oil on hardboard panel, 6″ x 6″, 2016

[jamesleech]

The first fishy

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[clarencechampagne]

the haunted house is an essential setting for feminist horror because the home is a fundamentally unsafe space for women

[alwaysbewoke]

had to get that off my chest… 

[alwaysbewoke]

the bullshit i’m talking about… 

meanwhile…

[alwaysbewoke]

THANK YOU!!! THESE ARE INDICTMENTS OF OUR COUNTRY!!! NOT INSPIRATION!! 

[skepticalmuppet]

[esmeriandreamer]

[keepbreathingout]

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[daysinstarlight]

There’s a girl wearing a ‘Men have made a lot of bad art’ shirt to the Met. What a power move

[dizkuar]

[allthemuches]

2 dudes, chillin in open graves, 5 feet apart cause they’re not gay

[astratic]

This is actually an art piece by Miller & Shellabarger where they dug graves connected by a tunnel so they could hold hands. They are very much gay and irl married

[csevet]

they are in fact married for real

[bananahomo]

out of all the explanations, two gay husbands making a gay art piece was defiantly not on my list  

[gecsplaining]

two dudes, chillin in open graves, holding hands through a tunnel cuz they are gay