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

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[-] MarcoPolpo@lemmy.ml 213 points 10 months ago

I've seen worse ads about perfume

[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 78 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 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?

[-] CraigeryTheKid@beehaw.org 41 points 10 months ago

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

[-] z500@startrek.website 45 points 10 months ago

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

[-] Mr_Blott@feddit.uk 15 points 10 months ago

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

[-] Mannimarco@kbin.social 8 points 10 months ago

Good times

[-] VanillaGorilla@kbin.social 6 points 10 months ago

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

[-] Ertebolle@kbin.social 14 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.

[-] lazylion_ca@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 months ago

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

[-] dansity@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 months ago

*broken jeans

[-] LoraxEleven@beehaw.org 1 points 10 months ago

GUESS!

[-] average650@lemmy.world 34 points 10 months ago

My thoughts exactly.

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

[-] CaptainEffort@sh.itjust.works 19 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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.

[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

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

[-] Wookie@artemis.camp 7 points 10 months ago

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

[-] Ubermeisters@lemmy.zip 2 points 10 months ago

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.