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.
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?
19 years and massive commercial success does that to you. I believe 2004 Banksy would describe that as being “a fucking sellout” or something.
I suppose I do. That’s kind of disappointing.
There’s a crack in every ideology. In fact it’s all cracks.
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.
…nobody’s telling me to buy josie and the pussycats, though: seems like the safer bet…
Guess I’m gonna go fuck up some ads now.
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.
Let’s try that defense for public nudity. People can just choose to not look at it if they don’t like it!
You are agreeing? Tone on the internet is lost to me.
The post you replied to is saying that ads can’t “just not be looked at”.
Same with nudity. You can’t just not look at it. You didn’t even know it was there.
That’s the point.
They were making the point that public nudity is illegal even though you can just look away if you don’t agree
But advertising in public spaces is legal on the basis that you could just look away if you didn’t want to see it
Oh ok. I can see that perspective now. Thanks for explaining it to me.
Esit: and upon re-reading the comment several times, I see that exactly.
Without tone the same sentence can go anywhere.
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
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.
Watch your background.
fuck whoever thought putting super bright moving images right next to roads is safe and should be allowed.
I agree fuck ads and all but 90% of the drivers are too distracted by their phones to even see the ad. 😜
Though I guess this might grab the remaining 10% that were trying to actually pay attention to the road (a hypothetical percentage I cannot claim to personally have encountered).
You can make a high powered slingshot for free. Silent. Use it at night.
Also there’s a thing called a slingstaff. It’s pretty amazing. You want the 6’ long 2-handed version.
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!
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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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?!
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!
Not my fault they decided to work in an exploitative field.
I thought that was every field under capitalism
Fuck em advertisers
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.
This is not readable for me, even when I open it in browser.
Settings shortcut: Comment options > Autohide FAB
Try turning this off
why did this work
That worked, thanks. Don’t know what FAB is.
Well, that worked.
What is FAB?
Floating action button
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.
The issue is, people want to be owned. That makes then feel valuable and safe.
Is this how we make our mitochondria feel?
I’m not saying banksy is up is own ass. But it sure seems like he’d be able to plan a route there.
The absolute cringe from the second to last panel
I kinda agree with some of the sentiment here, but if you hate the city, is it necessary to live there? I think it’s even more expensive than outside the city.
You completely missed the point
By kinda agreeing with some of the sentiment there?
Yes, if you like living with people. Why is it OK for cities to be plastered with ads? It’s been shown they are not necessary.
And it’s not like TV or Youtube where ads are subsidising my experience. Outdoor ads are very rarely subsidising the thing you are experiencing. Sure, maybe ads on buses and bus stops help lower bus costs. But most ads are on buildings and billboards where the city doesn’t benefit from them. And you can’t opt out from riding a bus plastered with ads that cover even the windows making you even more depressed. There’s no bus premium subscription.
I can see the headlines now. “This just in! Global advertising halted because of some shitty vandalism! World saved from crushing depressive corporatocracy!”
Yeah yeah. Fight the power.
I’m tired of fighting.
If you’re “tired of fighting” it still costs you little to nothing to support those fighting, or at least not speak condescendingly about the fight they are fighting. Something about your comment tells me you weren’t fighting much in the first place.
That boy’s got a lot of quit in him
“Do not. There is no try.”
- thorbot
I’m tired of fighting.
That’s what every one of your enemies counts on.
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