why do i hate that artist thing that people keep posting on my facebook so much? why am i such a jerk?

Wolf In White Van is probs what piqued a lot of Ilxors' interests in this kind of thing

https://scontent-lht6-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/fr/cp0/e15/q65/1460038_10152406671217228_538912542_n.png.jpg?efg=eyJpIjoidCJ9&oh=63b4941c1434247c833ce996d91483d4&oe=59E727DF

Oh cool ive got 30 odd years to deffo invent like zipcar 2.0 or something cos in special

I could totally see myself inventing some great fried chicken when I'm 65, and by inventing I mean eating a large platter of it

lol

quarter life crisis at 25, mid life crisis at 35

jesus and buddha and jimi hendrix need to be on that timeline tbf

i guess whatever happened in the intervening decade certainly warrants a crisis

when you're 35 you just sit there and take a shit, thinking of your future business opportunities

That's when you think of fried chicken.

I don't think all that many people get married when they're 20 anymore, but whatevs; I presume it's not meant to be rigorous.

Alternate imagery for the next iteration of that graphic

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/11/The_Godfathers_-_Birth%2C_School%2C_Work%2C_Death.jpg

crazy to think jesus didn't live long enough to have a midlife crisis

quarter life crisis at 25, mid life crisis at 35

― qualx, Thursday, June 1, 2017 1:55 PM (fifteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

sigh

brb gonna fly a kite

Midlife crisis at 35, fuck off wi'that.

summer t-shirt ads

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imo mid-life crisis is a free floating range, you can drift into it any time between 35 and 50

or whenever you buy that corvette

...I dont get that tshirt. Whys it a misquoted GoT thing?

mid-life crisis is a free floating range, you can drift into it any time between 35 and 50

Possibly because people die at different ages. If you have it when you're 35 that means you'll die when you're 70.

you're assuming a crisis is a moment and not an ongoing condition!

mine started right around age 23 iirc but i've extended my lifespan considerably by picking a few saturdsys a month and putting it on pause

I flipped out in my late 20s and tried to conform to a bunch of conventions that I thought would make life better. Now it's, like you say, searching for those saturdays

Well, I'm 56 and I still haven't had one.

Then again, I had a bad illness at 21, so every year is a bonus effectively..

Wait, was I supposed to have one?

They overrated.

So, basically if you get to a certain age, and decide you want a sporty car, that's level one.

A sporty girlfriend, that's level five (two if you're not actually married, etc)

What else?

change career paths when you have a good job, go back to school, change your lifestyle by becoming some crazed marathon runner, become an expat somewhere with a low coat of living, post on craigslist looking for someone interested in cannibalism to eat you

i'm one for five there, and i keep juuuuust missing on the cannibalism partner

keep hustling karl, you'll find that special cannibal one day

the problem is that traditionally, you have to eat others before you are eaten, and that has been an absolute mess to arrange

classic catch-22

when will our poLIEticians wake up and deregulate the cannibal industry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2B54QkYF_vs
original is from a Moby music video natch

animator is very much a facebook viral artist; this stuff is too obvious even for political cartoons

http://stevecutts.files.wordpress.com/2016/11/santa-fb.jpg
http://www.stevecutts.com/uploads/2/6/3/8/26381140/7987204_orig.jpg
http://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/modern-world-caricature-illustrations-steve-cutts-6.jpg

Definitely some crossover with the trenchant commentary thread there

really makes u think

http://www.ufunk.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Steve-Cutts-illustrations-3.jpg

Caca Cola

in what universe is acer's brand identity up there with Mcdonalds

why even bother changing spellings if you aren't making a poorly formed joke. i am really hating this artist thing

I call this one "Corp-rophilia"

keeping up on the latest trends is the only thing that fills the void in my soul

if i eat consumer products i'll shit money? goddammit i've been doing this all wrong

Not sure I get the recurrent "trenchant commentary" sarcasm with a lot of this stuff, like these cartoons. Yeah they are simplistic, obvious, etc., but doesn't being on Facebook mean engaging w people who require or are drawn to simple messaging? These cartoons are not at all insightful but they are "accurate" in a broad sense, and evidently in America at least they are not at all obvious to something like 38% of the population.

I don't know, seems like a lot of liberal guilt snobbery at the wrong people but then again I'm "not on Facebook" which is the ultimate snob move

most of the memes on here are neither insightful nor "accurate", reducing complex issues to slogans is a bad thing that makes public discourse worse

I should add that I am grateful to you guys and appreciate all the dirty work as this thread has kept me safe from FB in homeopathic doses

https://sd.keepcalm-o-matic.co.uk/i-w600/keep-calm-and-reduce-complex-issues-to-slogans.jpg

Are we doing this in all these threads now

new board description

I agree w/ that in general! Just not convinced it's a worthwhile position in a messaging battle w/ corporate bots. It's gonna take a lot of people some of them not too sharp to get out from under this mess.

doesn't being on Facebook mean engaging w people who require or are drawn to simple messaging?

Depends on who you add, surely. Your FB list is determined by your real life friends and family in a way most social media isn't, if there's an echo chamber there it's gonna translate.

My personal experience is people who tend to post these things also tend not to have friends who disagree with their basic premise, or if they do they know better than to engage with them on it.

Though frankly I don't think it's a valid premise from the get-go to think that anyone in America has never been exposed to messages like "corporations are bad", "money doesn't buy happiness" or "x-mas is too commercial".

I only interact with wins on fb tbh

The trouble is I've never met the type of person these cartoons propose - the totally dumb consumer, someone with a brain covered in NIKE ticks, sucking shit out of a pipe. I know the cartoons are exaggerated, but they're still saying that a type of person or a type of consciousness exists and I'm still not sure it does