Crude and vulgar
For the most part, advertising is just another form of pollution.
Since we have been able to carry the internet in our front pocket, this stuff is spilling into our lives and has saturated them to the point of no return.
“Unfortunately,” quoting Massimo Vignelli, “there are designers and marketing people who intentionally look down on the consumer with the notion that vulgarity has a definite appeal to the masses, and therefore they supply the market with a continuous flow of crude and vulgar design. I consider this action criminal since it is producing visual pollution that is degrading our environment just like all other types of pollution.”
Cute! But in the attention-starved economy, creativity works for data, and data says crude and vulgar gets eyeballs. It may pollute, but it also converts.
Is this what we gave away our privacy for? Degrading our culture and brewing new mental health disorders?
Is this going to cause our extinction?
Don’t laugh. Nobody thought fossil fuels or barbeques could either!