Post Au6NWhtI1PuaoRSRX6 by futurebird@sauropods.win
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(DIR) Post #Au6MfcztU8jwHuEkQC by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-05-15T00:42:39Z
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MTA and other public transit have had video ads on the trains for some years now. When they aren't playing ads they play what I think are tictok craft videos? You know that kind of sped up hypnotic footage of people making food or little crafts that often aren't something you could ever really try since it's just designed to be watched. If you have seen this on public transit how do you feel about it? (check all that apply)I think they should have contests and show little art videos instead.
(DIR) Post #Au6MotSReedfwg0ecC by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-05-15T00:44:20Z
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I tried to make some room for difference of opinion here but that kind of high-speed hypnotizing stuff drives me nuts. I literally think it's "unhealthy."Frankly I'd rather see the ad for the local guy who does the hair plugs or something. Or if they don't have an add to run why not animations from NYC artists. They could have a contest and would get so much good stuff.
(DIR) Post #Au6Mzc7sQyJlNSV7Ng by carrideen@c18.masto.host
2025-05-15T00:46:13Z
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@futurebird The food ones are kind of unpleasant; they need a vision of what people will actually make. Or--hear me out--shelter animal profiles.
(DIR) Post #Au6NCROLegrtqlJzvc by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-05-15T00:48:35Z
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@carrideen Some of the food ones are just gross. But they are optimized to hold eyeballs so I end up staring at them for 30 seconds before I shake my head and realize that I've been snared. I hate feeling "snared"
(DIR) Post #Au6NOqpYtqYyDqy5bs by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-05-15T00:50:47Z
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@apLundell They are NOT selling anything. (I asked my MTA inside source) I'm told it's meant to show advertisers that they can do video but that seems silly to me.Maybe it's to make you stare at the screen so you see the ad that follows?It just makes me feel like I'm trapped in an airport. I don't even mind the ads at least the MTA gets paid for those.
(DIR) Post #Au6NWhtI1PuaoRSRX6 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-05-15T00:52:11Z
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@apLundell It's blipverts from Maxheadroom. Someone is gonna explode. Not one second ads but hypnotizing machines to get you to look at the ads. We do not need this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blipvert
(DIR) Post #Au6Nl8pgeJp6QRehfs by gretared@sfba.social
2025-05-15T00:54:49Z
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@futurebird in the Bay Area we have (had) local@art and poetry when ads couldn’t be sold. It’s lovely!
(DIR) Post #Au6O8UrAvlOFONUL1k by SKleefeld@mastodon.social
2025-05-15T00:59:01Z
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@futurebird @apLundell WOOOO!! I think that's probably only the second Blipvert reference outside the show that I've heard since Max Headroom went off the air!
(DIR) Post #Au6Pl1lh79XsQLrTLE by adardis@fediphilosophy.org
2025-05-15T01:17:10Z
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@futurebird @carrideen butt cremewhere can I sit in this car so that stuff isn't even in the periphery of my vision !?!?!?!?
(DIR) Post #Au6Q9p9FAmdoWThTw8 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-05-15T01:21:40Z
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@Space_Burger_Steve Poetry in Motion is a national program we have it in NYC too, but I think it should be on the video screens too.
(DIR) Post #Au6QmFH4U6FGYXgMqG by kevinriggle@ioc.exchange
2025-05-15T01:28:38Z
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@futurebird since it’s literally just demonstrating recipes and not trying to sell me anything I don’t mind it, I would also love poetry or art or other things
(DIR) Post #Au6RTgi8Lt1g6K3VPE by llewelly@sauropods.win
2025-05-15T01:36:29Z
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@futurebird I guess anything is better than ads, but any kind of video I can't turn off is stressful for me.
(DIR) Post #Au6ReTE8pBXjT2AV2O by jeffc@mastodon.online
2025-05-15T01:38:26Z
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@futurebirdI wonder what it would take to make AR glasses that selectively block the video.
(DIR) Post #Au6UMs2S8Z3L4K05tQ by hanktank61@NerdJoy.social
2025-05-15T02:08:51Z
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@futurebird As long time catering -worker in and around trains, still user , busses as well: In West. Europe and a part of it in the UK . For many years trains had replicas from Art- icons hanging on the walls. Van Gogh, Monet, Escher etc. It was the first entrance for many , making curious. Now , usually a cycle of info and adverts, repeating every so many minutes.Well trained to watch it not longer than that. No lasting interest. No curiosity. London Tube is the exception: Art by itself
(DIR) Post #Au6VzYjVwqNwRS9ccS by dlakelan@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-05-15T02:27:03Z
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@futurebirdI feel like the time is right for Min Headroom.@apLundell
(DIR) Post #Au6XG407YwYU0MM6iG by gbargoud@masto.nyc
2025-05-15T02:41:15Z
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@futurebird Speaking of the MTA and local artists, have you seen https://rexs.nyc ? It's at my local station and has made it impossible to get on or off the train with a toddler in a reasonable amount of time since she always shouts "no, looking" any time I walk away from it
(DIR) Post #Au6YS98QOtHHMAZ5pA by A1MVP@masto.hackers.town
2025-05-15T02:54:38Z
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@futurebird There's some completely inane "channel" that gets played on TV's in bars (probably cheaper than cable; maybe they're even getting paid to show it?) But it's completely mind numbingly dumb stuff and is literally a waste of electricity both transmitting it and displaying it.
(DIR) Post #Au6YYz7M2iM4JdKE1Q by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-05-15T02:55:54Z
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@dlakelan @apLundell Or just stop going to extremes and settle for mid headroom
(DIR) Post #Au6a4DS6tdKfhnUPq4 by dlakelan@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-05-15T03:12:33Z
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@futurebirdThat feels a little too much like the story of my life.@apLundell
(DIR) Post #Au6tlBi991m7szC7d2 by DrHyde@fosstodon.org
2025-05-15T06:53:23Z
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@futurebird There was a brief fad for video ads in the back of taxis here in London several years ago. Didn't last long, they were hated so much that people would refuse to use taxis that had them.On tube trains, there's been a long-standing practice that if they can't sell an advert they put up poetry instead. It's so popular that they then went on to sell hundreds of thousands of tie-in books of the poems. Which, I suppose, means the poems were adverts after all. I'm so confused! 🙂
(DIR) Post #Au7Dy2KrJQSfeihq6K by isotopp@infosec.exchange
2025-05-15T10:39:48Z
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@futurebird https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV-B-GoneI never traveled to the US w/o one.
(DIR) Post #Au7gKyHJMPbORvls3s by rothko@beige.party
2025-05-15T15:57:41Z
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@futurebird i've seen these in various waiting rooms as well (not only medical but also auto service waiting areas, random places) -- i'd much rather see these than have it blaring fox or cnn... but yeah, it would be way cooler if they had local artists.
(DIR) Post #AuBZOee2FbsUJfqoTY by incomprehensibeel@sauropods.win
2025-05-17T12:58:46Z
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@futurebird when I saw them it was kind of amusing how ridiculous/impractical the crafts were (there was one where they hollowed out a squash to put floral foam in it to display flowers?) but I would much rather see local art.