All the capitalist advertising in Times Square is even hollower than usual this year. Hardly anyone out to celebrate (as it should be in a dense ass city like NYC) and you have to watch a fucking KIA ad just to see the ball drop. It's hauntingly quiet, really a shadow of it's former self. Half way through the lyrics of an old song pop through and it starts with "start spreading......the news" like wow holy shit lmao. More like spreading the plague. The fireworks are so tiny compared to the billboards. They tried to fill some of the standing area with wacky waving inflatable tube folks but it's pathetic. They put people in socially distanced pig pens too, because I guess tape on the floor wasn't enough.
:floppy-parrot: Anyways, here's just one NYE celebration from China. :floppy-parrot:
I can't compare this time we live in to anything. It's uncharted territory. Like staring into the abyss.
2021, brought to you by Kia
You just know that someone said that line in a meeting about this, too, thinking they're Don Draper.
What is a New Years ball drop if not a journey. A journey from point a to point b. It's a new journey every time it happens even though it's the same route. Kia, it's not a car, it's a journey.
I think the only good thing about capitalist advertising is highlighting how awful it is is a pretty good way to start pulling some people leftward.
This is all even stranger to me since I don't watch TV with ads anymore and I've got online ads blocked pretty well, so this is even more jarring to me.
I use ublock origin AND noscript and a few months ago I somehow saw an ad online. It threw me completely off guard and I still think about it to this day.
May the odds be ever in your favor!
EDIT: lmao ad on the background of the count down? That's fucking depraved.
BUY A KIA AND CROSS YOUR FINGERS THAT YOUR ENGINE DOESN'T EXPLODE WHILE YOU'RE GOING 70 MPH ON THE HIGHWAY
I have an online friend who had to join the class action lawsuit. She had injuries for months that prevented her from working. The photos were terrifying. :agony-turbo:
It feels so fucking surreal. Cold and death. The vibe reminds me a bit of the fallout 3 trailer.
https://youtu.be/zPt08UYmyMo
Glad we're doing the branded years like in Infinite Jest. Looking forward to posting with y'all in this, the year of Kia Sorrento
I watched it last night with my roommates and it was harrowing. When Frank Sinatra started blaring throughout the streets with this flashy display going on while basically no one was there to watch it felt fucking apocalyptic.
I watched the NBC news youtube feed and thought it had to be fucked up.
No, everyone had this void-adjacent monstrosity streaming out to everyone.
There were more inflatable dancing tubemen then there were people in their little cheer kennels waving their planet fitness floatie things.
Times square empty in a way i havent seen since the last time I was there after midnight.
It’s surreal how the capitalist machine has to continue going, even when it runs low on the bodies it feeds off of
Anyways, here’s just one NYE celebration from China.
It's like Eurovision & the Winter Olympics opening ceremony combined with bar graphs and stats. Love it and yes I am a huge dork, why do you ask? Can't go wrong with inflatable mascots either and the art projected onto the ski slope was cool too.
