It’s your call, but:If you are not paying for it, you are the product being sold.
If you are not paying for it, you are the product being sold.
If you are not paying for it, you are the product being sold.
once again, say it with me:
If you are not paying for it, you are the product being sold.
No one’s forcing you to do anything.
I was in the middle of writing a post about Miller Lite’s terrible ‘BE A MAN’ ads, but abandoned it because I couldn’t write it without citing the fact that Miller Lite is not manly. This was disappointing because I originally set out to deconstruct the idea that choice of beverage impacts your identity as a man. Thanks, Drew Magary for saying what I couldn’t say:
by Drew Magary
I don’t know who invented the phrase “Turn in your man card,” but whoever it is should be taken out in the street and have his balls stomped on by a fucking marching band. Every Sunday, I’m now subjected to some goddamn Miller Lite ad where the guys in it are like, “ZOMG! You’re drinking a generic light beer? YOU’RE SUCH A FAG! Turn in your man card, faggity fag fag!”
As if drinking Miller goddamn Lite is somehow a manly endeavor. This shit needs to stop. There’s no such thing as a man card. If there were, it would be the single most douchetastic thing in the history of the world. Darren Rovell would keep 12 of them in his money clip. Advertisers and film studios love to exploit the whole supposed male identity crisis they think America is suffering through right now. What’s that? You won’t drink Miller Lite? DURRRRR THEN I GUESS YOU’RE JUST A WALKING VAGINA DURRRRR BUY OUR SHIT.
No. Fuck you. If I want to drink some piss warm generic light beer, I’ll do it. If I want to take a tandem bike ride with Peter King and enjoy a citrusy Shock Top while watching the sun set, I’ll do it. You want my man card? Take it. COLLECT ALL OF THEM. You get enough man cards and I bet they’ll give you a $10 rebate at the Ed Hardy Shop. I don’t need it. I’m not a real man. I listen to Snow Patrol. I drink rum and Diet Cokes. I like a good number of Hugh Grant movies. I don’t give a shit. I do what I fucking want, which should be the first and last stupid retarded “man law” ever. Everything else is superficial bullshit.
Always interesting to see the blending of old and new media, although in this case, it seems to make perfect sense.
One of the things I’ve always hated about ads on the web is just how little attention is paid to the way they actually look. Instead, ads are shoved in any and all available white space. This makes both the ads and the content look like shit.
Flipboard will take a different approach. Ads will only be full-screen, and will reside in between stories, like a traditional magazine.
Will that work? I don’t know, but I certainly appreciate Flipboard’s firm stance to keep the reading experience as pleasant and as beautiful as possible.
It’s at least better than some alternatives, like making ads look like stories.
