We're Not All Happy. They're Not All Miserable.

[fm93]

ChristianMingle route?

ChristianMingle tends to advertise on random websites with banners like these:





in which the maker clearly just found some random pictures of people and made them the poster men/women for the site.

[jpholding]

ChristianMingle tends to advertise on random websites with banners like these:

in which the maker clearly just found some random pictures of people and made them the poster men/women for the site.

That's not uncommon in advertising or even in the production of magazines. It costs much less to pay a company like Getty for use of an image than it does to hire models to stand for a photography session.

[KingsGambit]

A few months ago the Republican Party was found to be using stock pictures of racial minorities in ads to make themselves look more inclusive.

[Cerebrum123]

A few months ago the Republican Party was found to be using stock pictures of racial minorities in ads to make themselves look more inclusive.

[Zymologist]

A few months ago the Republican Party was found to be using stock pictures of racial minorities in ads to make themselves look more inclusive.

That's dumb.

[Paprika]

That's dumb.

Which political ads aren't?

[jpholding]

And I'll add that I've had to do much the same thing. In my recent vid on the blood moons, I had a point to make about a solar eclipse only being visible over a couple of islands in the Arctic. I needed maybe 5 seconds of footage. I had these choices:

1) Go to those islands and film them -- or ask someone to do it for me. Cost: Several thousand dollars.

2) Use stock footage of a frozen landscape which probably wasn't from those islands. Cost: $30.

I imagine some fundy atheist might someday whine that the footage wasn't from those islands. I also imagine such a person would have no life.

[KingsGambit]

And I'll add that I've had to do much the same thing. In my recent vid on the blood moons, I had a point to make about a solar eclipse only being visible over a couple of islands in the Arctic. I needed maybe 5 seconds of footage. I had these choices:

1) Go to those islands and film them -- or ask someone to do it for me. Cost: Several thousand dollars.

2) Use stock footage of a frozen landscape which probably wasn't from those islands. Cost: $30.

I imagine some fundy atheist might someday whine that the footage wasn't from those islands. I also imagine such a person would have no life.

No reasonable person would find that deceptive; as opposed to actually outright ascribing fabricated quotations to people in stock images, which has been done.

[Carrikature]

I dunno...I've seen plenty of fundamentalists try to make the case that anything with remotely distorted guitar in it is supremely evil.

Edit: this is an exaggeration, but you get the point.

Afaict, this is the majority of anti-Ozzy sentiment.

A few months ago the Republican Party was found to be using stock pictures of racial minorities in ads to make themselves look more inclusive.

No reasonable person would find that deceptive; as opposed to actually outright ascribing fabricated quotations to people in stock images, which has been done.

It would obviously depend on how it's presented. "Here's a picture of that place" is quite a bit different than "here's an example where that's possible".

[KingsGambit]

I can see why Christians wouldn't like Ozzy, based on the lyrics to N.I.B. by Black Sabbath. But basing it on literal style of music is dumb.