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shenanigarson · 27 days ago

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It's even worse when you consider that anything can be an ad. Anything.

The clothes on your back? Branded. (Usually aggressively). Think about your jeans. Notice the patch on the waistband? Or your average t-shirt. Unless you go out of your way to consistently wear bland solid colored shirts- there's almost always a pattern or graphic on there. Usually said graphic is a popular brand name, logo, or a character of sorts.

Talking about media you love? Yeah babe, that's free advertising for said media. Games, movies, TV, even musical theater, They didn't pay you to talk about it, but you'll yap anyway because you love it. They love that shit. Word of mouth is just another way of saying "free advertising"

For those of us that partake- weapons. (Yeah. Weapons.) Usually have the maker's name plastered EVERYWHERE. I get it helps for maintenance reasons, but you don't need the name slapped on there 5 or 6 different places. I've seen archery sets where the brand name is labeled all up and down the curve of the bow, the wrist strap, the arrows, and on the carrying case. Not very discreet. Like at all.

Your devices also have the brand somewhere on them. And in some countries- a service provider will have an animation in your startup screen. Every time you turn the device on. Even if you have a case on it, the case is most likely branded too, unless it's mass market dropshipped, or custom made- but that's a whole other can of worms for another day.

Oh babey speaking of devices- STICKERS. Sometimes a new device will come with branded stickers. Half the time they end up in the trash anyway, but they still include the stickers in the packaging. They want you to plaster your shit with their name so you can advertise for them. You paid them, for you to advertise about them.

Ads for the same brand will appear in your own device. There's no way to turn it off. Just today I got an ad in my notifications from the brand my phone was made by. Guess what? It was for their newest model. Funny how that works.

On this silly goofy fandom discourse hellsite- it's especially prevalent. Fandom is inherently advertising. fics, cosplay, fanart, discussions, music, all of it. But do we notice or talk about it? Nope. Because we genuinely care about The Things We Like™

I personally bought the premium service for a certain play button shaped video platform back in 2019- and I still pay for it today despite the price tag for watching without interruptions. Why? imagine you're absolutely vibing to one of your all time favorite playlists, finally a chance to relax and be chill for a bit after a long day where all you wanted to do was just listen to your music and zone out, mayhaps even some delicious maladaptive daydreaming- or a new video from someone you like just released and you want to watch it when out of nowhere in the middle of their sentence;

"DIAPERS FOR THE BABY YOU'RE NEVER GONNA HAVE! PILLS WITH SIDE EFFECTS THAT'LL DEFINITELY KILL YOU! VOTE FOR [Politician]! KEEP [Politician] OUT OF OFFICE! A CAR YOU'LL NEVER AFFORD! A PRODUCT YOU'LL NEVER WANT TO SEE AGAIN AFTER WE SHOW IT TO YOU 50 TIMES!"

etc...etc...

you can't tell me that whatever good mood you might have been in wouldn't be absolutely destroyed and beaten over the head with a stick by the time whatever was interrupted came back.

(also the fact that commercials are always louder than the actual thing you wanted to watch, thus forcing you to listen to them unless you mute it, but again- a conversation for another day.)

OP is right. You can't turn two inches without an ad slapping you in the face and obnoxiously asking (or even demanding) your money. The Corporations™ have us all under their thumbs and won't let us up.

Something so profoundly fucked up between the inverse ratio of shrinking middle class and ever increasing aggression of advertisement

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shenanigarson · 3 months ago

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It feels like now "that's AI" is another way to shut down artists that people don't like for some reason.

"lemme just fuck up this person's whole deal just with a single comment" ass.

Cause with that one comment, now there's a bandwagon, and most people don't want to research so they hop on the Incorrect Bandwagon™.

If the art isn't being made in person, right in front of an audience, there will always be people wrongfully accusing it of being AI.

Some people just can't appreciate good art at all, and want to see it, and the people who make it, destroyed. Humiliated. Never to be posted again.

AI slop is out there. But that doesn't give you the excuse to be an asshole to real artists either.

Not telling y'all that you should be able to identify AI slop (but it is a valuable skill, you totes should), but if you're to be accusing artists of being AI left and right at least go and do your homework, or at least do the bare minimum and use AI identification tools like Hive Moderation, so you 1- don't ruin someone's lifehood 2- don't make a clown out of yourself maybe

Like, i get it, AI slop and "AI artists" pretending to be genuine is getting harder and harder to identify, but just accusing someone out of the blue and calling it a day doesn't make it any better.

The AI clowns shifted to styles that have less "tells" and the AI arts are becoming better. Yeah, it sucks ass.

They're also integrating them with memes, so you chuckle and share, like those knights with pink backgrounds, some cool frog and a funny one liner, so you get used to their aesthetic.

This is an art from the new coming set Final Fantasy for MtG. This is someone on Reddit accusing someone of using AI. From what i can tell, and i fucking hate AI, there is NO AI used on this image.

As far as i can tell and as far as any tool i've used, the Artist didn't use AI. which leads to the next one:

they accused the artist of this one of using Ai. the name of this artist is Nestor Ossandon.

He as already been FALSELY ACCUSED of using AI, because he drew a HAND THAT LOOKED A LITTLE WEIRD, which caused a statement from D&D Beyond, confirming that no AI has been used.

Not to repeat mysef, they're accusing the art above, that is by Nestor, to have used Ai.

REAL artists are not machines. And just like the AI slop, we are not perfect and we make mistakes. The hands we draw have wonky fingers sometimes. The folds we draw are weird. But we are REAL. We are real people. And hey, some of our "mistakes" sometimes are CHOICES. Artistic choices are a thing yo.

If you're to accuse someone of using Ai, i know it's getting hard to identify. But come on. At least do your due diligence.

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