Advertising people were annoying enough before the internet
trying to grab your attention and create a false sense of amiability in order to grab your cash. Then along came youtube and all the fuckers seem to do it sit back and steal ideas.
I work in a creative industry myself and it fucks me right off when people do this. Yes - there is little here that could be taken to court. It's not a copyrighted style. But the sheer laziness of some people astounds and infuriates me.
There's nothing wrong with taking things that exist and using them to fuel your own ideas - it's about where your ideas go from there rather than where they're from. But surely there was once an ambition in these people to create. Instead they just take the easy route, copy someone else and push the idea absolutely nowhere. They have contributed nothing with this advert except bringing someone else's idea to many more people, shitting on him as they do.
I always used to think that people like this would get their comeuppance - that plagirising work will bite them in the ass because they learn nothing. What really gets me is that people continue through school, uni, and in work to do this and seemingly get away with it, the lazy, derivative, ambitiously-compromised hack-twats that they are.
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thiswasmyclone, Thu 22 Jan 2009, 16:51,
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