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The kind of thing which makes you say “how could they possibly have thought this was a good idea?”

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[–] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I once saw a billboard that only had text and a picture of some guy.

The text read "You can't block this ad"

It made me so irrationally angry and I still to this day don't even know what they were advertising for.

[–] JK_Flip_Flop@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'd guess it would be the owner of the billboard advertising the space. I've definitely seen that before, often accompanied by a "x thousand people see this every day!" type message.

[–] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 8 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Advertising advertising is one of the most hilarious things to me.

I hate ads on principle but an ad for an ad is just a level of debauchery I can barely fathom

[–] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 hours ago

You looked! See!? Bench ads work!

[–] LunarLoony 2 points 19 hours ago

Ooh, I saw something like that once. What they haven't considered is that you could just cover it up. Hey presto, blocked.

[–] LunarLoony 2 points 19 hours ago

Ooh, I saw something like that once. What they haven't considered is that you could just cover it up. Hey presto, blocked.