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.
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???
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!
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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
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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!
The absolute cringe from the second to last panel
The issue is, people want to be owned. That makes then feel valuable and safe.
Is this how we make our mitochondria feel?
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 usually even more expensive than outside the city so you cannot explain it with money.
You completely missed the point
![Banksy on Advertising [Zen Pencils]](https://lemmy.sdf.org/pictrs/image/5a38e085-a10a-4a6f-9b9e-5587eae659ed.png){kind=link}