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godzookie2k · Dec 19, 2002, 11:52 PM

About half of the people I know think the Adbusters crew and magazine are a bunch of full of themself, "sell-out", Hypocrite, etc etc "bastards". The other half, think that they are gods gift to the newsstand.

Me? I love adbusters but I take their political views with a grain of salt. I like the magazine, I like the content, and I love the design. I don't like the cover price, but for no ads, what the hell. Opinions?

Burn · Dec 20, 2002, 05:58 PM

I agree with ya godzookie2k, I think one of the funniest things I ever saw/read in Adbusters was someone sending back a 'hacked' image of theirs..

Great, wouldn't you know it.. I can't find the issue.. anyway - it was a photo of a woman I think, with a caption "You have Beanie Babies and Ninja Turtles, she has no where to sleep".. Someone took that image and sent it back with the caption - "You have expensive Photoediting software and a Mac and she still has no where to sleep"

I am probably taking that completely out of context - but the point was well made and affected me more than just viewing Adbusters differently..

Often I love the rag, sometimes I think they're bored and have had WAY too much Starbucks and Vancouver drizzle. (the thing is still published from Van isn't it?)

razzy · Dec 31, 2002, 07:13 PM

I used to like Adbusters. Like, not love, worship, etc.

The reason being is that Adbusters loves to bitch and complain about how evil the world is, and how everyone is a big consumerist whore, but they never apply any solutions to the world's problems. Bitch, whine, complain.

It's getting old and stale.

Not to mention, I was extremely put off by their last issue, the "Appetite" issue. I found it extremely fat-phobic. I for one, am not overweight; I'm skin and bones. But I'm offended when anyone has to resort to insulting people just because they're overweight. And the whole issue was just that.

"America is fat. Blame McDonalds, you pigs".

It was so shallow and disgusting. That turned me off Adbusters completely.

Not to mention it's a very biased mag. Read it with a grain of salt.

Anyway, I'm done ranting

razzy · Dec 31, 2002, 07:15 PM

LOL@Burn

Maybe it IS the Vancouver weather that's made the Adbusters crew so bitter

art_director · Jan 2, 2003, 11:37 AM

i don't read adbusters -- puts me to sleep. but this makes me wet my britches with laughter:

http://www.adweak.com/

GoGoReggieXPowars · Jan 2, 2003, 12:50 PM

I used to find Adbusters interesting, but they tread the same territory over and over. And they bitch too damn much about everything.

graphics84 · Jan 2, 2003, 05:38 PM

Vice is better... and they don't get on there high something hugging horse about something on every page...

Vice web site

check them out... they aren't socially conscious but they are a lot more entertaining...

Yose · Jan 5, 2003, 04:04 PM

Not to mention, I was extremely put off by their last issue, the "Appetite" issue. I found it extremely fat-phobic. I for one, am not overweight; I'm skin and bones. But I'm offended when anyone has to resort to insulting people just because they're overweight. And the whole issue was just that.

"America is fat. Blame McDonalds, you pigs".

That was the first issue I had purchased in a long while, and being a man of able proportions I found it very telling of how things are presented outside our kitchens (True, it's a little sharp).

Infact, the ad on the back of the magazine has given me an image to think about whenever I get those binge cravings.

Sometimes you gotta get kicked in the ass to see whats going on in and around you.

The Jackalope · Jan 10, 2003, 11:55 AM

I prefer Life Sucks Die and While You Were Sleeping, because they don't give much of a rats ass about politics other than to make fun of everyone. Lots of good photos of graphitti and interviews with porn stars and tattooists though.