anybody explain?
Thats why i dont buy clothes with a too apparent brand logo/name. I want to have clothes, not be a walking advertisement.
You have a lot more confidence than I do. I would not assume that me wearing a brand would positively advertise that brand.
Don’t sell yourself short! Many brands are just going for the mere exposure effect and you count as an exposure!
Yeah you heard me.
Well, OP may well count as indecent exposure. (I kid)
Thats mean
(I adult)
I need the toilet
(I poop)
There are bulbous protuberances that shouldn't be protruding, certainly.
Yeah I can totally understand because same for me. How can they get any exposure when people just turn away from me.
Accuracy by volume works every time
You play your cards right with that, you could get Seiko to buy you a Rolex, Chevy to buy you a Ford, and the GAP to fund your Abercrombie wardrobe.
just start buying black metal band merch.. no one can read the names of the bands anyways ;)
Yeah, wherever possible I got for clothes without any writing or logos on them (harder to find than you'd imagine).
I can perfectly imagine how hard it is to find those because i look for them too
I buy clothes with prominent brands. Because noone looks at me and thinks they want the same clothes. If anything I'm putting people off
Same, i get hate for it sometimes but it is what it is.
I have a similar attitude. I dont wear anything with an obvious logo. It seems so trashy to me.
you go and look at photos from the "olden days" and for the most part no one is wearing obvious logos. I dont know exactly how it got started but it seems companies got the idea to make customers their walking billboards sometime around the late 70's and that makes a lot of sense to a corporation but zero sense to me. Why would I pay you money to do your job for you?
Anywho I think it started with athletic gear like Adidas and Nike and now its everywhere. I remember being a kid and Starter jackets were so popular people were actually getting murdered for them.
Nowadays I just order my brand name plain shirts off the web by the dozen.
But some decades ago, it was awfully hard to find normal clothes. Just plain shirts in one color, no huge brand name or weird design choice printed on it.
I'd toss the Nike shoes if they screamed brand slogan every few steps.
Sure, but the advertisement’s he’s wearing don’t get in the way of the stuff he wants to watch/play/whatever.
His clothes aren’t going to get interrupted by 2 unskippable 15 second ads.
Consent and control are important when it comes to just about anything. I like chocolate, I don't like it when someone throws it at my face.
Besides having the Apple and Starbucks logos prominently displayed.
Though, what, he’s supposed to tape over his laptop logo?
Yeah this is just another version of that "Yet you participate in society, curious!" but unironic.
Never heard of a sticker that could actually represent an interest of yours rather than an overpriced glowing corporate logo?
So… I’m obligated to buy stickers and slap it on any Apple device? Gotcha
Though, what, he’s supposed to tape over his laptop logo?
You asked a question. I gave a straightforward answer. Nobody's obligating anyone to do anything in any of this, but sure, put words in my mouth.
I didn’t say anything about stickers. I said, is tge expectation is that he’s supposed to cover that up. You said “yeah he could use a sticker”. So it sounds like yes, you have an expectation there.
See I don’t care about being shown ads, I just don’t wanna have to wait for it to be over to watch a video or whatever
I have almost no brand logos for this reason, outside of actual arts like anime, games, sci-fi.
And I'd argue that's more showing your personal brand than corporate advertisement (even though it still is).
Nobody ever wore a Nike hat because of how well they did characterization in your favorite season of a show, but you'd absolutely wear something showing that you love the show or a particular character for those reasons.
I thought it was that he was trying to keep himself safe online by blocking ads, except he's on cafe wifi, so he's probably screwed.
He has become the very thing he swore to destroy
The difference is he doesn't need to stare at the brand logos for 30 seconds before he gets dressed
I thought the joke was he's downloading adblock on public wifi. Your explanation is better.
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Who are you?
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It's a bot, it's in the name
I am nobody, Who are you?
No its a stereotypical rich yangster who can pay for youtube premium anyway, as meme suggests
Plus any "safety" he's gaining from using adblock he's losing by using a public wifi connection.
I get it but ill just say this. Adblock is more than just blocking ads. Its also about giving yourself a better internet experience by delaying page loading for ads, flashing ads, and problematic issues related to ads.
It’s also about consent. Dude bought those brands and chose to engage with them.
A Starbucks logo t-shirt doesn't infect your computer with spyware.
with web cam qr codes and ai programs its only a matter of time
I’m curious how many days/months I would end up with if I added together all of the time I spent just watching ads. I’d hate myself.
I'm not a fan of big brands at all, but this is a bad argument. Ads online are often highly intrusive, whilst having a silly tick on your hat doesn't interfere with you at all. People don't block ads simply because they don't want to see brand labels.
Ads literally make my phone not work.
it's not really a serious argument. this is part of a series of yes, but... that's just joking about things
But the things it’s comparing are different which causes the joke to fall apart.
To piggyback on this… whats wrong with a clothing line displaying their “logo” on their clothing? I would get the joke/argument more if they were wearing a Jack Daniel’s t-shirt or John Deer hat…
whats wrong with a clothing line displaying their “logo” on their clothing?...
harder daddy capitalism
Capitalism is when brands display their logos.
No, but capitalism IS when brands charge you to display their logos for free advertising.
Do you have an actual answer or are you just going to be snarky?
wearing logos for Mega Corporations all of the time…. Should hurt your soul. If it doesn’t congrats, but that’s why you didn’t understand the joke.
If you brought somebody from the past to present day America, they would see how corporations and Advertisements have taken over every space.
They might find it very creepy as do I
How far in the past? Ads have been around for a very long time.
And where are you getting the assertion that I’m “advocating” for wearing “logos for Mega Corporations all the time”?
I’m asking what’s wrong with a logo on an item of clothing that lets people know what brand of clothing it is? Do you have a problem with cars having their own branding on them? How far does it go before it’s not an issue? Does it depend on how much the company is worth?
Yes but it interferes with other people that are seing your branded clothes. You effectively become a ad billboard.
If you don't want to get bombarded with ads on the web, do the same IRL with others people.
It “interferes”?
I was so agitated because of how overstimulating they were. Not to mention the sheer waste of time. Over years, it adds up. I simply don’t have a tolerance for it anymore.
Yes but it interferes with other people that are seing your branded clothes. You effectively become a ad billboard.
If you don't want to get bombarded with ads on the web, do the same IRL with others people.
People are not forced to stop and look at me for 5 to 30 seconds before moving on with their business. If they did then people could make such stupid comparison make sense.
And your friends or family when you're talking to them? When in front of someone in a restaurant, or in the subway, or a thousand other places?
now i am quite ugly but my family look me in the face/eyes when talking not at my shirt.
It’s saying it’s hypocritical to want to block ads when you yourself are a walking advertisement, while conveniently ignoring the fact that ads on the internet are disruptive wastes of time while you wearing brand logos is not disruptive nor does it cost anyone any time.
This is such a stupid point to make
The things he bought was choices he made and presumably happy to have. The Adblock blocks adds that are pushed on him.
And for other people that are seing your branded clothes? You effectively become an ad billboard.
Yea because getting interupted with penis enlargement pills is the same as wearing an adidas tshirt
ITT: lots of butt hurt people who think fashion boils down to the set of logos you decide to display on yourself.
you are not immune to propaganda
That's why I solely buy brandless clothes
I only do name brand for footwear.
Because I don’t feel like buying new shoes every year lol.
I’ve hated this guy’s comics for so Long
He is blocking ads that are free,but, he paid extremely high prices for wear ads.
I'm sure little to no one will read this but me and my friends have come up with an inside joke called, "millennial man" and it is literally the image on the right. Some guy, sitting a coffee shop, with a macbook, with no mouse and only uses the trackpad, and crosses their legs.
Adblock not chadblock.
He's already hooked on brands.
They are are a walking ad
I never found these Yes, But comics very insightful or funny....I mean, I "get" them, but they seem like pretty well-tread observations for the most part.
Oh you don’t like capitalism? And yet you partake in it? Interesting….
He needs his bill flatter and cocked to the side more...
He's installing ad blocking while himself being a walking billboard.
If my t-shirt stopped me from watching a video every five minutes, then I would care about that.
Northface Jacket and Starbucks, must have recently moved to Seattle.
What about brand loyalty though...? Some people actually think they're better than other people simply by buying the latest Iphone...
He is blocking advertisements, but his possessions are themselves advertisements for the companies that made them. He is covered in huge brand logos, but he doesn’t want to see any advertisements.