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[–] [email protected] 213 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I've seen worse ads about perfume

[–] [email protected] 78 points 1 year ago (1 children)

On one hand, I find nothing wrong with the photograph.

On the other hand, I’m sick of fucking OnlyFans spam online, it’s disgusting to see more spam in real life.

Also billboards as a whole can get fucked.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Remember jeans ads from the 90s? Jeans were all they had on!

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (3 children)

In the 2000s women were straight up having orgasms in shampoo commercials.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

French guys 40 upwards were having their first orgasm to shampoo adverts

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago
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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Those were the days, B&W pictures of coked-up anorexic Calvin Klein jeans models shot topless from the back with maybe a bit of sideboob depending on where they put their arm.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago

My thoughts exactly.

They are overtly sexual.... but not moreso than many other ads.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

But is it about what’s directly on the billboard, or about what it’s advertising?

Like, Pornhub could make a billboard with nothing risqué on it, but the fact that it’s advertising a porn website would be an issue wouldn’t it?

Maybe not, I’m just curious tbh.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

A billboard would have just 'Hub' written in a yellow rectangle and we'd know what it is lmao.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Netflix has some of the raunchiest posters I’ve ever seen

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[–] [email protected] 115 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

It's no different than seeing a Victoria's Secret or Calvin Klein billboard, IMHO.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (12 children)

It's completely tame. There are far more sexual images in just about any direction. It's only because people know there's actual nakedness being advertised that anyone has a problem with it. And that's just silly.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Victoria's Secret

I gotchu

Queen Victoria and her husband (and also her cousin) Prince Albert popularized the custom of Christmas Trees in 1848 when Albert sent decorated trees to schools and army barracks around Windsor.

Prince Albert was apparently hung like a horse.

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[–] [email protected] 92 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not only did the billboard work, but now that news outlets are posting it, with her @ and all, she’s likely getting so much more attention/subs.

Genius.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

nailed.

Heh

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[–] [email protected] 86 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is it a good or a bad thing when you're told your onlyfans ad can stay because it's not sexy enough?

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It can be sexy without being sexual

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Yeah. Like really good pizza.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago

Environmental activists Global Witness later took over three of the poster sites and transformed them into ‘OilyFans’ billboards, to comment on the pay package of BP chief executive Bernard Looney, whose earnings went from £4.5 million (€5.2 million) to £10 million (€11.6 million) last year.

Good bit

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The only problem with this is the fact that it's an advertisement. At least in the US, you cant drive down a country highway without seeing at least one advertisement for a strip club.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You can in Vermont and Hawaii, where billboards are illegal.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Hey, I did notice that driving down in Vermont, it makes for such clean looking highways and cities! We need to bring this regulation to Quebec.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Come to Denmark where we have advertising on busses with full on boobs in full show. It's advertiseing for breast implants btw

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Who are these people that pay for pornography?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Who are the people who pay for netflix instead of torrenting?

Someone has to.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Guilty as charged. Netflix has a lot of good content and their app works well so I don't mind paying for it, though I still put on my eyepatch from time to time when I want to watch something they don't have.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

They consulted Twitch mods and they said it's ok.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Billboards erected in London showing model Eliza Rose Watson in underwear advertising her OnlyFans account page have been cleared by the UK regulator following complaints that they were inappropriate for children to see.

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) received 30 complaints stating that the posters seen in Harrow, Tottenham, Lambeth and Edgware in June and July featured adult content and were inappropriate.

ASA said that although Watson’s clothing was revealing, the image did not feature any nudity, and the pose adopted by her was “no more than mildly sexual."

“While we acknowledged that the image of Ms Watson and reference to OnlyFans might be distasteful to some, we considered that because the ad was not overtly sexual and did not objectify women, we therefore concluded it was unlikely to cause serious or widespread offence.”

The ASA continued: “The ad was shown on several posters throughout London, which was an untargeted medium, and was therefore likely to be seen by a large number of people, including children.”

Commenting on the reaction to the billboards, she said: "If people are offended by my ad, I'm assuming they're also complaining about Ann Summers and Jack Daniels ones.


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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Summary fails to mention who the billboards erected.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Heh heh heh. They said “erected”.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

So it's like, a porn advert? I kind of assumed that wasn't a thing.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Nobody will think of the children if they can't infringe on our rights to privacy and freedom, right?

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