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Chris Who
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Jorge

@chriswho see also the Billboard Liberation Front

28 April at 19:50 | Open on mastodon.design
Alexander Dyas

@chriswho

Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket. - George Orwell

28 April at 20:03 | Open on mindly.social
JamesK
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Karl Auerbach

@chriswho People (especially people who own trademarks) tend to forget that the express purpose of trademark law (it's written into the words of the US trademark law itself) that trademarks are to benefit the consumer by making it easier for a consumer to clearly identify the source and identity of a product.

Trademarks are not intended to be a boon for the trademark owner, rather trademarks are there for the protection of consumers.

28 April at 21:41 | Open on sfba.social
Sir_Osis_of_Liver

@chriswho

There was a smaller billboard for a real estate agent that I would walk past on the way to work.

Big cheesy smiling face of the agent took up a big chunk of the space.

Then one day someone put large googly eyes on it. It was stupid, and juvenile and I absolutely loved it.
It stayed that was for several days before the billboard company removed them. That lasted a few days and the googly eyes came back.

It went on like this until the agent relented and had the sign replaced with one without a headshot. Which was kind of a bummer.

Certainly nowhere near Banksy's talent, but I was cheering for Googly Eye all the same.

@chriswho

There was a smaller billboard for a real estate agent that I would walk past on the way to work.

Big cheesy smiling face of the agent took up a big chunk of the space.

Then one day someone put large googly eyes on it. It was stupid, and juvenile and I absolutely loved it.
It stayed that was for several days before the billboard company removed them. That lasted a few days and the googly eyes came back.

28 April at 22:56 | Open on beige.party
SamuelJohnson

@Sir_Osis_of_Liver @chriswho I used to pass a travel agent's office on my way to work. The window had some posters for sunny destinations, one of which featured a couple supposedly catching a fish on a fine sandy Mediterranean beach. One day I realized that the line hanging from the rod was hanging straight down and flatfish on the end was certainly 100% dead. Ergo the whole thing was staged and completely fake. Amused me every time I passed.

29 April at 8:12 | Open on mstdn.social
yunchtime

@chriswho

subvertising and agit-prop are the only solution to the dialed in advertising nightmare we live in.

28 April at 23:37 | Open on wandering.shop
SamuelJohnson

@yunchtime @chriswho Regulation is vital. Only 2 countries allow direct marketing of drugs to the population (US and NZ). The rest regulate, for good reasons. We need to extend the regulation:

eff.org/wp/behind-the-one-way-

Most people have no clue how their data is collected and used.

29 April at 8:18 | Open on mstdn.social
Cai
René M. Grabow

@chriswho

/full agree
from my pov
copyright is braindamage

29 April at 8:17 | Open on troet.cafe
Polly
unlucio 🌍 :mastodon:

@chriswho we need the right to NOT be the target of marketing and advertising.

29 April at 9:45 | Open on mastodon.social
Laurent Bercot

@charles au cas où tu ne connaîtrais pas ⬆️

29 April at 11:37 | Open on social.treehouse.systems
Ghostsigns (Sam Roberts)
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