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Cake day: November 6th, 2025

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  • Do you remove covers from books that you read? Scratch out the name on bottles or cans of drink? Does your car or bicycle or skateboard have a logo on it?

    What you are doing is removing an individual artists ability to make a living. They’ll probably have to go work for a corporation that does advertising.

    Human to human attribution “made this meal? It’s so delicious!” Isn’t advertising, it’s community. It’s connection. As soon as you put a stakeholder or faceless business entity in the way, it’s an ad.

    What you are doing just feels like actively defacing art, and depriving their creators or authors of recognition and credit. Which, to be clear, MOST USERS HERE WANT TO GIVE. You’re also depriving THIS community of its ability to show appreciation.

    Sort your shit out and either go to the effort of putting the artist in the post title, link in the sub heading, stop cropping, or stop posting.















  • caurvo@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldGreedy bastards
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    3 months ago

    It’s very hard to live in the system without somehow taking part. I work in marketing adjacent industries. My job is fully bullshit. But I love my team, I love problem solving, and I love working with research data. So I’m definitely part of the problem, but where I live there’s not much else my skills work for. And as the sole income earner, renting, I’m insecure enough financially that I don’t really have a choice. Almost like the system was designed that way…