What a mess! Its like the PAC who made it hired a 13 year old who makes little dark age edits, from 1950s kitchen appliance ads, to be their campaign manager.

Aside from embracing a degree of queerphobia which might be off putting for even the boomers who vote in Republican primaries (the ad essentially calls Trump a cuck for holding a rainbow flag, and shows gigachad.jpg after a reporter called Florida's trans policies genocidal) its above all else terminally online. Filled with clips of Patrick Bateman and Thomas Shelby as the sigma music plays. For everyone whose not in the "teenager whose tiktok bio says libertarian traditionalist-Fascist" demo, it's completely bizarre.

Meanwhile Trump ads attack Desantis for stuff that boomers actually care about, like wanting to gut social-security and raise sales taxes to 23%, no wonder DeSantis is floundering so hard when he's failing the first TrueAnon rule: be normal.

Anyway here's the ad if you're interested (TW: extreme queerphobia)

https://streamable.com/zorrfy

  • Grandpa_garbagio [he/him]
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    Can't he be sued for all the copyrighted shit that's in that advertisement lol?

    Campaign ads aren't the same thing as Twitter shit posts legally speaking right?

    Like I doubt Christian Bale or the Chad model guy gave their likeness away for this. That's legitimately bad for their careers

    • captcha [any]
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      1 year ago

      Political campaigns steal IP all the time and face no consequences.

      • Grandpa_garbagio [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        They don't usually flash celebrities faces right next to inarguable hate speech lol

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          But is their face their IP or the IP of the studio that owns the movie?

          It'd be hilarious though if this trash was actually sued into oblivion though. You stole IP to make a 4chan webm and used it as a campgain ad.

          • Grandpa_garbagio [he/him]
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            1 year ago

            The Chad guy definitely has his own brand, I'm not sure how it works with Bale and the movie though

            • captcha [any]
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              1 year ago

              I thought that guy was like 90% CGI.

              • Grandpa_garbagio [he/him]
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                He's a real guy afaik, but depending on the meme it might have more Photoshop than others.

                The original photoshoot was an art project apparently with a lot of manipulation, so idk it's complicated there as well I guess

            • Dryad [she/her]
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              Gigachad literally isn't a guy, he's a work of art created using multiple different guys (as in, not the same guy in every picture) as a base for photoshop.

              • Grandpa_garbagio [he/him]
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                1 year ago

                Yeah I looked into it like way back and apparently I just took the misinformation about it they originally put out about it being a real guy and never looked any further.

                I was just like yep steroids and plastic surgery and air brushing can probably make someone look like that and never thought about it again lol

                • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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                  1 year ago

                  https://www.instagram.com/berlin.1969/?hl=en

                  Besides the plastic surgery, is this a fake person?

    • posthexbearposting [they/them]
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      The Chad model guy isn't real, they're highly doctored images from an artist who takes real people and chadifies them. The base models are generally unrecognizable compared to the final product.

      The artist who makes them knows they have an alt right following and panders to them with a crypto grift. I doubt they care about this usage.

      • Moss [they/them]
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        1 year ago

        You mean this guy? gigachad

        Because he's very much real, his Instagram is like Berlin1969 or something

        • posthexbearposting [they/them]
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          1 year ago

          That's an Instagram dedicated to the art project lmao

          https://instagram.com/sleekntears https://twitter.com/ingleeshh/status/1339995667025027073

    • RuthlessCriticism [comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      It is probably fair use. Also copyright has nothing to do with reputations being harmed. I guess they could sue for defamation but that wouldn't go anywhere either.

      Actually, the music is probably not fair use, if they didn't license it.

    • GoodMorningMrPhelps [none/use name]
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      1 year ago

      The people behind Peaky Blinders issued a statement yesterday, or the day before, calling them out for using their work. There's not much that can be done because Meatball's gang o' goons aren't passing it off as their own work, merely using it as part of something else. There could be an issue with licensing, but it's so tenuous its hardly worth fighting.

      Bale's American Psycho imagery has been used on 4chan and elsewhere for decades at this point, if he was concerned about it harming his career he would have done something about it already.

      • Grandpa_garbagio [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        I just figured there's a difference between a political advertisement vs shit posting as far as free use goes