cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/1891139
Archived version: https://archive.ph/OvFse
Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20230825144949/https://www.euronews.com/culture/2023/08/23/billboards-featuring-onlyfans-model-ruled-not-overtly-sexual-by-uk-advertising-watchdog
I’ve seen worse ads about perfume
On one hand, I find nothing wrong with the photograph.
On the other hand, I’m sick of fucking OnlyFans spam online, it’s disgusting to see more spam in real life.
Also billboards as a whole can get fucked.
Not only did the billboard work, but now that news outlets are posting it, with her @ and all, she’s likely getting so much more attention/subs.
Genius.
$5 says the first complaint about the billboard came from the woman herself.
What an incredibly European headline.
This is why I love America, the first amendment is dope.
Edit: It’s hilarious to see the usual Lemmy leftists spazzing out in the replies. A lot of them is just them being made about grooming being banned in certain contexts, but the only thing they’re materially wrong is about the general state of physical displays in America as a whole. The local policies of Florida for example aren’t nationalized, they’re locally specific to the state of Florida exclusively.
Meanwhile the US bans books for being too sexual
The US doesn’t ban shit, individuals hand down mandates to public institutions that then tell them to go fuck themselves.
Not paying attention to anything happening right now, are you?
Oh, I am well aware that people in the US are banning books. There’s a culture war against libraries… but the US, as an institution, doesn’t ban anything. Saying otherwise is disinformation at its finest.
Environmental activists Global Witness later took over three of the poster sites and transformed them into ‘OilyFans’ billboards, to comment on the pay package of BP chief executive Bernard Looney, whose earnings went from £4.5 million (€5.2 million) to £10 million (€11.6 million) last year.
Good bit
Slavoj Žižek and Adam Curtis were correct. Every person (very few like me) who advocates against the use of slot machine style colours in our daily consumer goods and ads around us is correct. People who have no idea how neuroscience and human psychology works, and defend this shit, are direct supporters of the very Black Mirror/1984 dystopia they keep claiming China is. Western world is the real 1984 Skynet dystopia.
Meanwhile, China is imposing limits on children using Tiktok and video games per day/week, as Western society continues to pursue happiness in consooming and sealing its doors away from success for atleast a couple generations.