I got the ad pictured in frame 2 today and it made me sad, so I made this meme. So many levels of sad:

  • Sponsored ad for a charity, plausible but seems fishy.
  • The needy children are positioned as “earning” the food and education they will get by your donation by writing back to you. Just way too overtly transactional.
  • The advertising tactic seems to prey on the lonely.
  • arrow74@lemmy.zip
    2·
    6 days ago

    Assuming the charity is managing the money appropriately and donating it, is it insidious at all to use a stock photo?

    Like it’s insidious that we live in a world that to donate people feel like they need recognition from the hungry child. It’s more insidious that there are hungry children at all of course

    • skisnow@lemmy.caEnglish
      21·
      6 days ago

      Can we really not agree that lying is bad? And now we have AI the lies are likely to get even more elaborate.

      • arrow74@lemmy.zip
        11·
        6 days ago

        I’d lie if it meant a child was fed, unfortunately there’s very little in this world that is only good or bad. There’s a lot of grey