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Originally Posted by Manic_Skafe
They defaced a sign and forced you to actually think about it.
What more could they ever hope to accomplish?
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I don't know? Voting? Not going home to their mom's basement to play their $800 Playstation 3?
The big problem I have with the above statement is that a lot of us already think.
We already know Starbucks is overpriced yuppie goof-fuel.
"If you just paid $8 for a mediocre cookie-cutter latte... you just got Star-fucked!"
We already know The GAP consists of shoddy slave-labor clothes sold at 400% markup.
"The only Gap is the one in your wallet after you buy their shitty clothes."
We already know that catchy jingles are designed to get us to memorize product placement plots.
Despite the fact that I often think there should be a "life lottery" to rid the planet of at least 50% of the dumbasses walking it's surface... the other 50% are just as smart as anybody who reads at this forum. That half of the population knows and feels the same way you do.
It doesn't even take a genius. I'm definitely not one and I don't really cow-tow to any corporate marketing bullshit. I drive a cheap domestic vehicle based on technical stats, wear clothes that come from a god-damn grocery store, and eat generic cereal and canned tuna because it's cheap and healthier than the zillion dollars of fast food advertising that can't hide the fact that their slop will kill you from the inside in only a few years.
Turns out you're not a rebel just because you don't like the system.
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Hah, it's funny how many "rebels" have a closet full of fancy name brand clothes.
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Originally Posted by JumpinJesus
Ah, but crompsin, photoshopping is not culture-jamming. Someone needs to tell those poor, suburban, pasty-skinned, misguided misanthropes to get out there with a can of spray paint and actually do it.
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So what stereotype does the graffiti artist or sign-defacer fall into?
Poor, urban, dark-skinned, misguided?
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Originally Posted by jewels443
Too bad there's no way to sabotage TV ads and keep them running.
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That should be the real target.
No, wait, that would be "terrorism."