Webtoons put fun, cute subway ads up for Lore Olympus, but comics’ Insecurity Brigades forced
Webtoons put fun, cute subway ads up for Lore Olympus, but comics’ Insecurity Brigades forced them to straight up 100% apologize because the ads were worded in cutesy ad speak, like every ad for everything ever…? “Why is this shoe ad telling me to do it? A lot of people who go for jogs don’t have sexual partners or rhythm– they can’t do it, sir. Jogging is serious business– we can not sanction your buffoonery,” – Comic Fans looking at the first Nike Ad. That’s crazy. How are these people this insecure??? I mean, yes, the work is mostly pointless and unnecessary-to-a-complete-life– which I think of as a virtue, but I can understand being insecure about that. Also: all of their comics are being easily stolen and no one with the economic heft to address that is doing anything about that– I can see how that’d make someone insecure. And I mean: the no money thing. Kind of a bummer. But being insecure about ad copy…? AD COPY? On a subway ad someone’s probably going to pee on later…? I don’t get it because I like the ad– I just think it’s a funny thing to say. “Side hustles! Literature! We’re having fun here at the end of history. Wheee.” – Webtoons. “No, we are not having fun– we are suffering. The despair never ends, and I have forgotten the face of my father. Snakes! Snakes!”– America’s cartoonists. I mean, calm down, Francis. And respectfully, these people can barely create comics– Japanese comics kick the living shit out of them– so why do they think they also know anything about marketing??? That is a complicated topic to know something about, but everybody in comics is an expert? Really?! If that were the case, wouldn’t American comics sell anywhere to anyone…? I don’t think they do, so I’m having a hard time understanding what went wrong for these marketing super-geniuses. Last I checked, if like a thousand people buy your comic, comics will put you in charge of their Midsommar festival– you’re like the Midsommar dude who writes all the laws. Nobody reads the fucking things, but everyone’s an expert on advertising now…? I mean, I watched Mad Men too but all I really learned was that marketing and child care were best done drunk, which felt like wisdom but didn’t exactly make me any kind of expert. Mostly I just think it’s kind of funny people are picking this fight over Lore Olympus. Isn’t that a romance??? I kinda think it’s okay for romances to have fun advertising– I actually think romance readers are the most admirable readers, in terms of being able to laugh at themselves. I was seriously no-joke at a fucking funeral for someone who died young yesterday, horribly tragic, just… a rough time… But the second person eulogizing them made a joke about how they were both secretly romance novel readers– and everyone laughed along with them like “haha yessss good for you” nice laughs, it was very sweet. I think advertising a romance by being like “we’re having a good time over here” … doesn’t seem that strange to me! I don’t think they advertised Casey McQuiston’s One Last Stop by telling people about the tragic importance of subway safety for the LGBTQiA+ community. Maybe they did, but I don’t think so. I mean, I’m not sure because again, I’m not fucking Don Draper over here– I related a lot more to the guy on Mad Men who cuts off his nipples. He was making points, if you think about it. With a knife. Knife points, some would say the best kinds of points there are. Me. Knife salesmen. Your mom when she is kinky. Et Tu, Brute????? -- source link