The defend billionaires sign is not a real ad, it's created by Martin Sprouse.
We need more like this. Using real billboards and their glasses equivalents.
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Awesome profile pic ma dude!
Same to you! Now I feel like I need some animation.
Is this a real ad ?
A tweet claims a billboard with Elon Musk’s photo that reads “Defend billionaires” can be seen outdoors. But the sign is not real. It is the digital artwork of designer Martin Sprouse, and the image was published on Sprouse’s Instagram account the month before it spread on Twitter.
This is one of the best types of social media comment. Thank you.
Danke für die Info Ü
You're welcomo
...are you taking credit for someone else's helpful comment, or did you forget which sockpuppet you were driving today?
I'm referencing a line from scrubs...
Well, that's certainly better than either of my guesses!
I'd ask why, but that would be facetious of me - I damn well know I do the same thing from time to time.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Episode is "my common enemy". The BBEG gives his Spanish English dictionary to a doctor he is trying to get to not sue him, his Spanish English dictionary claiming he "mastered the language". She responds in Spanish, and he says what you read me type.
Scrubs
BBEG
Dr. Cox? Dr. Kelso? The janitor? 🤔
Not sure which one is the true Big Bad Evil Guy.
Kelso, it was the psych dr that, spoilers, jd dated. Good episode.
Yes, They Live is a real movie and it’s fan-fuckin’-tastic. Definitely need to watch.
I feel like it would work well as one. We probably need more of it; that kind of “Intentional bad messaging” that gets people angry at the thing being advertised.
I’ve been thinking so much about this movie as the Epstein files rolled out. These monsters were literally living amongst us and there’s a whole ecosystem of sycophants that enable them.
It's a documentary can't change my mind
Will you tell me the name of the film, please?
Ew... no. Gross. Compost him instead.
By the way I would never eat a rich person. They taste like shit
I see "eat the rich" as "use them as fertilizer".
Compost the rich.
look, lets just agree to recycle the billionaires. It's probably the best thing we can do to make small amends for the damage they have done.
Don’t eat shit, mulch the rich.
That's just eating them with extra steps.
That’s one potential path, and the indirection contributes to hygiene.
No fucking way, is that top one a real billboard?
No. Full answer in the comments.
Meaning it exists in the real world, but was put up by Martin Sprouse (not Elonk), or the billboard doesn't really exist, just the image was created by Martin Sprouse?
A tweet claims a billboard with Elon Musk’s photo that reads “Defend billionaires” can be seen outdoors. But the sign is not real. It is the digital artwork of designer Martin Sprouse, and the image was published on Sprouse’s Instagram account the month before it spread on Twitter.
Im late, but whats in it for us to defend billionaires?
Another artist Jeff , makes art signs that change the image when you look at them from different angles. These are called lenticular images. (I thought this was his work at first). The bottom image is definitely based off of Jeff's design.
I actually chatted with Jeff a bit on Instagram because I have dabbled in making lenticular images. And asked him a bit about his process but he uses a "flip image" style and has a company print them.
Which was not what I'm trying to do. I was trying to make 3d images that use like 10 interlaced images (vs 2 he uses) and I was hand aligning and laminating them.
We did chat a bit about ideas and the ones he has done though. He seems like a really cool guy. I believe he has a background in graphic design.
Also he sells the lenticular images on his website. Decent prices too.
Considering they are kind of expensive to make. He probably barely makes a profit.