Apr 21, 2023
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Painted on a broken ad space during a demonstration in Paris against Macron's retirement reform
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"Ad block"
Painted on a broken ad space during a demonstration in Paris against Macron's retirement reform
i think one of the reasons ads feel so invasive and downright hostile to the viewing experience in a way commercials never did is because a lot of shows/sitcoms were written and directed to take the story until a certain beat and then stop for commercial. and because you couldn’t pause, this was when you could like, go to the bathroom or something or just take a breather. And it was fine because you knew it was coming! but now you can pause any time and shows aren’t written or directed with a break in mind so there is no natural pause for a break. And because ads can pop up any time, it just ruins the viewing experience. you could be in the middle of the most important scene in a show and a minute long ad pops up cutting someone off. I hate it here.
ok fuck it here’s what we are doing.
if you see AI slop being used in ads on social media platforms and if they have the comments turned on, we are going to leave a comment about how we don’t trust the company explicitly for using AI slop.
if the company deals with money— like handling investments, payments or banking, we say that a company that cannot afford clip art or even stock photography is not good with money.
if the company sells clothes, accessories, or makeup, we say it’s a scam because they’re using AI instead of showing us the actual product.
if it’s some kind of AI chatbot, the jokes just write themselves.
the way advertising works on social media, the comments and replies get carried to wherever the ad goes so there’s a built in megaphone for anti-AI sentiment. it wastes the company’s resources since now their ads come with bad comments attached.
“oh but what about the poor social media intern” look if there’s enough pushback, it’s the social media intern that will report it to the higher ups— it’s part of their job to report sentiment on campaigns because that’s used to inform the next campaign. if using AI is costing the company in having their worker’s time being wasted on deleting comments, they won’t use it. the worst that can happen is that the guy who suggested using AI instead of paying for clip art and photography gets told off or the freelance “AI Artist” has their contract terminated.
you can even open the ad and then close it again because the companies get charged per click and any click that does not convert to a sale is a loss.
the slow creep of advertisement into every aspect of our lives is maddening to me. there are ads on tinder now. tinder. imagine going to a speed dating event and one of the people there uses their sixty seconds to try to sell you cable.
I'm not that old, but I remember a time before ads on youtube, before ads in my email, before sponsored posts on tinder and facebook and tumblr. this shit is not normal. we are not meant to be propogandized to 24/7. it's sick and dystopian and it needs to be acknowledged.
Hey does anyone know how to get rid of ads on youtube on your phone (specifically an iphone). It’s getting downright impossible to watch anything without an ad interrupting the video every two minutes. I have ad blockers on my laptop, but I can’t always use my laptop when I wanna watch a video. Any suggestions?
Nothing quite says “high-performance muscle car” like a popup ad for a Mopar Extended Warranty covering your whole center console. That’s ri
If I found a monkey's paw tomorrow, I would immediately wish for the permanent collapse of the advertising industry and happily take whatever horrible, unforeseen consequences came my way.
What does the failure of a 1960s company with powerful computers and the desire to manipulate an election tell us about today?
...been thinking of starting a new lifestyle of being as anti-marketable as humanly possible. More graffiti! More loitering! More unsightly public spaces with homemade amenities. I’m talking un-mowed lawns, messy food gardens with local weeds galore, broken down fences, pop-up bee and bird houses, picnic tables set up in disused lots... More free shit with no qualification. Public destruction of value is Good actually. I am so sick of being considered consumable as a citizen.