Remember when Amazon Prime literally plastered Nazi and Imperial Japanese symbols on the NY Subway or when the London Underground literally renamed entire stations and lines for weeks for a brand deal that caused confusion when people couldn’t find the old name because they changed all the maps and signs, like when Samsung turned the Circle Line to “Circle to Search Line”?
This is literally the kind of shit you’d see in kids cartoons from the stereotypical corporate villain character.
I already hate regular graffiti on transit but there’s unfortunately not that much a cash and resource strapped transit agency can do about it, this is like a middle finger from the transit agency telling you that they absolutely don’t care about their commuters.
Also fuck “viral marketing” stunts posing as ARGs. You think you’ve discovered an art piece online by some indie creator, get really invested trying to look for clues and crack the hidden narrative, but then find out it’s just promoting Harry Styles or something.
the Black Mirror episode “Fifteen Million Merits” really showed how corporations would like to have us live. The character wakes up to ads, when he tried to close his eyes to get a little more rest the system starts screaming at him to open his eyes and stop blocking the ads.
Related, Futurama predicted ads in our dreams. I feel like that might be part of the reason that one tech CEO really wants brain implants to be a thing.
Worst are the “themed ads” on transit systems.
Remember when Amazon Prime literally plastered Nazi and Imperial Japanese symbols on the NY Subway or when the London Underground literally renamed entire stations and lines for weeks for a brand deal that caused confusion when people couldn’t find the old name because they changed all the maps and signs, like when Samsung turned the Circle Line to “Circle to Search Line”?
This is literally the kind of shit you’d see in kids cartoons from the stereotypical corporate villain character.
I already hate regular graffiti on transit but there’s unfortunately not that much a cash and resource strapped transit agency can do about it, this is like a middle finger from the transit agency telling you that they absolutely don’t care about their commuters.
Also fuck “viral marketing” stunts posing as ARGs. You think you’ve discovered an art piece online by some indie creator, get really invested trying to look for clues and crack the hidden narrative, but then find out it’s just promoting Harry Styles or something.
Not having ads blasted in my face 24/7 was one of the best things about growing up in USSR, and I didn’t even appreciate it at the time.
the Black Mirror episode “Fifteen Million Merits” really showed how corporations would like to have us live. The character wakes up to ads, when he tried to close his eyes to get a little more rest the system starts screaming at him to open his eyes and stop blocking the ads.
Related, Futurama predicted ads in our dreams. I feel like that might be part of the reason that one tech CEO really wants brain implants to be a thing.