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Advertising is more than just toxic.
In the face of the ecological emergency, it traps us in a dead end.
Deciding together to ban it would send an immediate signal of a shift toward a fairer, healthier, and more deeply human society.

We are facing historic social and ecological challenges. Our current societal model is unsustainable, and advertising is only accelerating our descent.

By marketing idealized lifestyles, it manufactures desire, driving overconsumption and waste. It leaves us no escape, bombarding our minds and exploiting our impulses. Worse, it reinforces sexist stereotypes, suffocates independent media, and subjects us to constant surveillance just to target us better.

By commodifying every single aspect of our lives, advertising erodes our core human values.

Yet, this dependency is not inevitable. Breaking free is a collective choice.

Below is a tool to divert an image inspired by advertising and draw attention to democracy, living, happy sobriety, poetry, clean air...

A word of advice : don't cite any particular brand, don't use a logo or image that is privately owned. It is the very principle of advertising that is targeted.

1) Upload an image file. Write a short positive and constructive message. Adjust the settings.
2) Confirm. The words are written on the image. Oblique colored stripes are added meaning "in progress", "under construction".
3) Save the produced result : a PNG image.

Use this tool. Publish your creations.