I always like the differences in the ads.

SFO: "Use our AI startup!"

DCA: "Buy our warship!"

krackers 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

"In New York, all the advertising on the streets and on the subway assumes that you, the person reading, are an ambiently depressed twenty-eight-year-old office worker whose main interests are listening to podcasts, ordering delivery, and voting for the Democrats. I thought I found that annoying, but in San Francisco they don’t bother advertising normal things at all. The city is temperate and brightly colored, with plenty of pleasant trees, but on every corner it speaks to you in an aggressively alien nonsense. Here the world automatically assumes that instead of wanting food or drinks or a new phone or car, what you want is some kind of arcane B2B service for your startup" - Sam Kriss

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tverbeure 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I haven’t lived in NYC for more than 20 years, but I still associate it with Dr Zizmor, a dermatologist. His ads were all over the subway.

He retired not too long ago. I know because it was notable enough to deserve a feature in the NY Times.

	▲	caycep 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I remember those ads... Here, the infamous one are these James Wang, Esq ads on the placemats for Chinese restaurants in the area. I suspect he placed the ad 20 years ago but they never bothered to change the design...

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_moof 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Ha. Last time I went through DCA the ads were all "Here's why TikTok isn't evil!"

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oaktowner 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Go to Louisville -- it's all BOURBON.