MTA and other public transit have had video ads on the trains for some years now.
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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.
@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.
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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.
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"
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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.
@futurebird I suspect that is an ad.
It's got to be. Those videos come from for-profit content farms, right? Somebody must be paying somebody for them.
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@futurebird I suspect that is an ad.
It's got to be. Those videos come from for-profit content farms, right? Somebody must be paying somebody for them.
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.
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@futurebird I suspect that is an ad.
It's got to be. Those videos come from for-profit content farms, right? Somebody must be paying somebody for them.
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.
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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.
@futurebird Where I live, our transit has a program called Poetry In Motion. Every now and then, instead of an ad, there's a poem by a Canadian artist, with the name of the author and which book it's from. I'm not really into poetry, but it's nice to have the distraction.
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@futurebird Where I live, our transit has a program called Poetry In Motion. Every now and then, instead of an ad, there's a poem by a Canadian artist, with the name of the author and which book it's from. I'm not really into poetry, but it's nice to have the distraction.
Poetry in Motion is a national program we have it in NYC too, but I think it should be on the video screens too.
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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.
@futurebird I guess anything is better than ads, but any kind of video I can't turn off is stressful for me.
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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.
@futurebird
I wonder what it would take to make AR glasses that selectively block the video. -
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.
@futurebird
I feel like the time is right for Min Headroom.
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@futurebird
I feel like the time is right for Min Headroom.
@apLundellOr just stop going to extremes and settle for mid headroom
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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.
@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!
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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.
@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.
