Appropriating ads and turning them into fuck-the-man messages is not actually anti-advertising. It’s turning an ad into another (granted, irony-rich and possibly more sophisticated) ad.
While like Mortarblog we have serious doubts about the Anti-Advertising Agency‘s claim that “city dwellers see 5,000 ads per day,” we agree that the world out there is oversaturated ad-wise. But in an ideal world, that raises the bar for us – not to become more ostentatious with our messages, but to make them more slow-moving and subtle. In an ideal world, anyway.
We dig what the Anti-Ad Agency’s trying to do. It’s important to ask questions about the presence of ads in our daily lives. But isn’t that what this whole consumer-gen thing is all about? It’s our strong suspicion that, short of finding a society bent on ridding themselves of ads, what they truly want are ads on their terms and not The Man’s. That’s okay with us.
