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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.
Thanks, Margot Robbie.
That's esteemed Academy Award nominated character actress Margot Robbie to you!
Is it wrong if I think your best performance was as yourself taking a bubble bath?
And not the one in Wolf of Wall Street? (Yes, that one.)
Gasp.
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.
No one will ever believe you.
This here is a top-tier comment.
...nobody's telling me to buy josie and the pussycats, though: seems like the safer bet...
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???
Not my fault they decided to work in an exploitative field.
Abolish slavery? But who will employ the slave masters?!
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.
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!
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.
Fuck em advertisers
This is not readable for me, even when I open it in browser.
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
Settings shortcut: Comment options > Autohide FAB
Try turning this off
why did this work
That worked, thanks. Don't know what FAB is.
What is FAB?
Floating action button
Well, that worked.
It zooms in when I click on it. Are you on mobile?
I'm on mobile, works fine for me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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.
The issue is, people want to be owned. That makes then feel valuable and safe.
Is this how we make our mitochondria feel?
