Bonus Panel

Transcript

[A man in a suit stands on stage, arms outstretched before a crowd]

Suit: And with AI we won’t need apps anymore. We’ll have a single terminal from which you can find anything you want!

[A man in the crowd shouts back]

Heckler: That used to be called the internet!

[The man on stage shouts, his arms raised in anger. His robot minions rush after the heckler, drones fly after the heckler overhead as the heckler flees]

Suit: Seize him!

[Bonus Panel: The author shouts at the stage]

Author: Bring back Memepool!

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  • cannedtuna@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
    12·
    3 days ago

    🤷‍♂️ Idk. I get your point of view, and you’re right it’s legitimately an ad. I’ll consider cropping it in the future, but I’m a bit torn on it. Let me think about it a bit.

    • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip
      18·
      3 days ago

      it’s legitimately an ad

      But at least it’s an ad for an author referring to more of their work. It’s not like he’s got a box of cheerios or something on there. Is a patreon URL an ad?

      • cannedtuna@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
        8·
        3 days ago

        I mean that’s kind of where I’m at. It’s the artist promoting his book to support his livelihood, so idk. If you go to his website and click the image it will redirect you to his kickstarter page for his two new books.

      • Grimy@lemmy.world
        3·
        3 days ago

        I think the difference is the size and how it’s meant to catch your eye compared to a Patreon link. I don’t really have ads on anything I use so its kind of apparent when I come across his comics.

        Im not against links in the body or a line or two at the bottom of the image or anything. I just consider all ads bad, I’m surprised this is considered controversial on Lemmy.

        Well, I guess a bot that reads tags and drops a comment about merch and the author would be interesting. It’s arguably an ad but since it’s textual and all that.

    • Grimy@lemmy.world
      3·
      3 days ago

      Ya, I think cropping it would be the best solution but would probably start a debate about the rules and all that.

      I think a level of ads is acceptable too, like just a one line at the bottom of the comic inviting people to the website or something.

      1/4 of this comic is an ad though, it’s a lot. The comic takes up my whole phone screen top to bottom when browsing, so it’s essentially covering 1/4 of my screen. It’s more aggressive than actual banner ads on websites.