Seen in a SF Muni station

Edit to add: Jeez, relax. I was on my way home from a doctor’s appointment and saw that ad. It made me chuckle so I posted it here.

If seeing this post really upsets you, take some deep breaths and keep scrolling. With any luck, you’ll have fully healed in a couple of days.

  • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
    11·
    1 day ago

    Surpressing sponsors is a perverse incentive too; all the more reason to not disclose who’s paying the creator.

    And yeah, any ‘moral’ justification for web ads is dead like 100 times over. I hate how hard it makes life for ‘old web’ style sites with like one innocent banner ad, but still.

    • Vinstaal0@feddit.nl
      2·
      24 hours ago

      Are you saying creators should not disclose their sponsors? If so…

      I disagree, we need more transparency about finances of companies in the world. If a sponsor can pay somebody like LinusTechTips 40k a video to promote their video, than that means we as a consumer are overpaying for the product.

      In a lot of European countries you can just see an annual report of a company which you can use to say filter out dropshippers since they generally spend a lot on ads and marketing.

      We aren’t going to be able to stop ads on the web unless we start paying subscriptions for everything and that is a good way to get a lot of people into financial trouble. I also wish we could more easily go back to simple websites with no tracking and barely any ads.

      • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
        1·
        17 hours ago

        Nah I meant the opposite. Journalistic integrity was learned through long, hard history.

        Now that traditional journalism is dying, its like the streamer generation has to learn it from scratch, heh.

    • brbposting@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      1 day ago

      Wow great point!

      btw I’d also thought to mention how I wish it could just be merch or live show tix b/c: did that creator I love REALLY like the new widget that was released or were they financially incentivized?

      Which is why I mentioned transparency & labeling. Some will falter and some good people will subconsciously be incentivized, but some will choose sponsors so well they’ll be fine, too.