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Billboards featuring OnlyFans model ruled ‘not overtly sexual’ by UK advertising watchdog (www.euronews.com)

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/1891139

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[–] [email protected] 207 points 10 months ago (5 children)

I've seen worse ads about perfume

[–] [email protected] 75 points 10 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I don't see how it's worse than other kinds of advertisment. We are spammed by ads everywhere. What difference does it make whether it's an OnlyFans or a car you will never buy?

[–] [email protected] 40 points 10 months ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 44 points 10 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Good times

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

They don't make shampoo the way they used to :-(

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

That’s tame. Mark Whalburg was a underwear model.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

*broken jeans

[–] [email protected] 34 points 10 months ago

My thoughts exactly.

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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] 6 points 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Netflix has zero skill anymore. They rely completely on sex and controversy to sell shows now. Gone are the days of sell a show based on a good story.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Or dances that trend on TikTok.