Anti Advertising Advertising Club

Kill Brands; Get Paid

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Anti Ad Ad Club is sponsoring takedowns of 9 major brands, and we'll pay anyone who joins the fight.

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Where is the funding for the bounties coming from? Who decides which products are “evil” and should be shamed? Here’s a suggestion, put your own company down on your list for your shady and deceitful tactics. Refer to this list: TheBlueDonkey - a pseudo-restaurant which allows employees to abuse corporate perks by routing the funds to political candidates. The Red Line - A service, built by your company, to spam call your (Republican) senators and complain to them in Russian. MasterWiki - MSCHF acknowledges that it “stole MasterClass' content and turned it into wikiHow articles” (https://masterwiki.how/). AllTheStreams - As a means of “boycotting against streaming giants,” a pirate radio service that will “play anything and everything we feel like” (https://thenextweb.com/apps/2020...) Now you’re trying to lecture us about unethical brands? Give me a damn break.

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6yr ago

@georgewillaman don't forget these... Severed Spots - someone else's artwork (Damien Hirst), destroyed, cut up, and resold as bits and pieces https://severedspots.com Times Newer Roman - a font that's slightly bigger than Times New Roman to help students cheat https://timesnewerroman.com/ the list goes on and on Disgusting.

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6yr ago

@gabriel_whaley1 Great finds! @rrhoover how is a product like this allowed to advertise itself on PH?

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6yr ago

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Sponsored posts are a cringey ubiquitous evil of social platforms - a content paradigm that arises inexorably from the basic conditions of the world: brands want to get in front of audiences at any cost, and young people on social platforms have audiences. The idea of “selling out”, once such a hot button, has become so passé that it’s hard to remember what it ever meant. On social platforms, selling out is aspirational: hawking cheap direct-to-landfill products is a sign of institutional success and a stamp of approval. Audiences, steeped in a culture that leads kindergartners to overwhelmingly list “Youtuber” in response to the classic “what do you want to be when you grow up,” are thoroughly unalienated by sponsorship - and perhaps even compelled by it. We've gone from no one wanting to sell out to everyone wanting to sell out. The ability to sell out, perhaps ironically, is not democratized. Not everyone is sufficiently influential to be blessed by the Giant Brand Hand In The Sky. Still, we all buy products: if we cannot become paid shills for brands, we can at least attack them in unison. Anti Advertising Advertising Club is dedicated to reversing the flow of attention-economy juice through the top-of-funnel pipeline. If every user’s desire is to sell out, we’ll happily enable that impulse if it means we can punch at the companies doing the buying.

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6yr ago

Songbox

@15greenberg This is awesome. Site is fantastic. Where is the money coming from?

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6yr ago

@15greenberg Why is Tesla on this list then?

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6yr ago

This is super interesting. Yaaaaa @ calling out Fashion Nova (+ others) for being culture vultures. But my question: what’s next? Paying people for using your sounds is actually a form of advertising that enables you all to build a platform. So, what do you plan on doing with that platform? I’m curious about the long term goals!

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6yr ago

Great idea and incentives to destabilize targeted advertising, especially children/teens. Somewhere, there's a George Carlin bit waiting to be heard that reflects this idea completely, but a few book recommendations on Mass Media: Walter Lippman 1922 - Public Opinion Marshall McLuhan: 1951 - The Mechanical Bride 1962 - The Gutenberg Galaxy Neil Postman 1985 - Amusing Ourselves to Death 1992 - Technopoly Michael Parenti 1986 - Inventing Reality: The Politics of the Mass Media Noam Chomsky / Edward Herman 1988 - Manufacturing Consent

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6yr ago

hello, i can make total 80m view youtube with more video, can u give me more infomation via: nguyendin1711@gmail.com. And we are working. Tks

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6yr ago

Interesting. The idea is good but forgive me from being a little skeptical. We don't know where the money comes from and what happens with the platform/community you build. But I'm %100 behind punishing big brands for their misconduct. Cyberpunk-esque megacorps are a real threat :P

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6yr ago

Where are the bounties coming from? How do we know the Tesla bounty isn't paid for by GM?

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6yr ago

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