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It’s largely driven by corporations trying to be as broad and inoffensive as possible. Not sure what skin color to use? Make them blue. Are your depictions o
by nostromo 5y ago
It’s largely driven by corporations trying to be as broad and inoffensive as possible.
Not sure what skin color to use? Make them blue. Are your depictions of humans too thin, or too ableist? Make them misshapen blobs so nobody can tell. Not sure how to include non-binary representation? Just make them all genderless.
- echelon 5y agoThis is so bland and dystopian. Mutated blob people make me hate interacting with corporate products. If you're going to do this, at least use creativity. Discord does a fantastic job of being inclusive and yet creative.
- genericone 5y agoCorporate culture has deemed it a better tradeoff to be called uncreative than to be called k-ist or j-phobic. Most of these people just want to do their jobs and go home at the end of the day, not thread the political needle at great expense if it goes wrong.
- Lammy 5y agoI just think of it as "Doug, but everyone has elephantiasis" https://i.imgur.com/LMqi9fp.png https://i.imgur.com/LMqi9fp.png
- userbinator 5y agoIt's so inoffensive that it has become offensive to me, with an "evil megacorp" association.
- rsj_hn 5y agoThere used to be true artistry and celebration of beauty in corporate advertising. Look at the works of Toulouse-Lautrec or Alphonse Mucha. But no college kid is going to be putting up posters of these misshapen flat people in their college dorm.
- notriddle 5y agohttps://i.pinimg.com/originals/fe/a1/24/fea1247eb6d9d47c6997e1461e0cae4a.png https://i.pinimg.com/originals/fe/a1/24/fea1247eb6d9d47c6997... I... guess "celebration of beauty" is a good description, but let's be honest: it's insulting and artistically lazy.
- userbinator 5y agoDefinitely not politically correct these days, but unlike Corporate Memphis it's memorable, a trait important for adverts.
- rsj_hn 5y agoThe difference between the crude poster you linked to and the women portrayed by Mucha is enormous. I would say the poster you cited does not celebrate beauty at all. This one, for Trappist Liquor, does: https://www.allposters.com/-sp/Trappistine-Liquors-Posters_i9072548_.htm https://www.allposters.com/-sp/Trappistine-Liquors-Posters_i...
- notriddle 5y ago> The difference between the crude poster you linked to and the women portrayed by Mucha is enormous. I wasn't trying to character assassinate your favourite commercial artists. I was trying to claim that they aren't representative of the past.
- nostromo 5y agoIn the gay community you’ll still see these kind of ads in 2021. And I don’t think anyone particularly cares... Yes, it’s a cheap trick and tacky. But it’s also a recognition that sexual desire and beauty are real things and a part of our shared human experience.