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Billboards in the US are wild to me. The craziest, flashiest shit, straight into your eyeballs while you're trying to focus on the road.
by danielbln 1y ago
Billboards in the US are wild to me. The craziest, flashiest shit, straight into your eyeballs while you're trying to focus on the road.
- toomuchtodo 1y agoA fun fact is billboards are banned in Vermont, Maine, Hawaii, and Alaska.
- jrvarela56 1y agoIt’s a great example of how ‘the market’ sucks at externalities. We just accepted that you can pay to spam people’s visual field.
- whamlastxmas 1y agoA million people a year die from fossil fuel pollution
- varelse 1y ago[dead]
- malfist 1y agoThere's now boat billboards that are the same way. Wanna enjoy a nice day at the beach? Too bad, someone parked a boat just offshore blasting a million lumens of alcohol ads straight into your eyeballs
- devmor 1y agoI have seen a couple different videos showing off drone-carried ads in the sky. It's infuriating.
- __MatrixMan__ 1y agoThe market is great at externalities. It's finding new ones to exploit all the time. Not so great for the rest of us though.
- navane 1y agoCan't look at your phone, but look at this!
- goosejuice 1y agoThey have moving ones on cars too.
- dylan604 1y agoLike anything else in life, once you get used to them, you no longer see them.