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Political cartoons from the 30s would be a picture of a dude wiping his bum with sandpaper and everybody would know what was up. Are we too stupid to use context clues now?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 21 hours ago

Guy who's bad at drawing: "dude, I'm gonna use so many fucking labels."

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Eh, political cartoons of the past would sometimes be heavily labeled, other times not

an alt text? what is this, xkcd?

However, when they do the labeling, they were a lot better at incorporating it to the artwork itself.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

Before, political cartoons were shown primarily in a local context (or in international papers to an audience that was more aware of political things) so labels weren't needed. These days, political memes are disseminated online to an international audience who don't necessarily know what every single US politician looks like. I have no idea who the person on the left is without a label, for example, besides "that person who said 'we're all going to die.'"

This doesn't strike me as an example of over-labelling, the way that gets satirized in Kelly comics.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Honestly I feel people back in the day were far more open to adventure-time as well as just open public debate and srimmage (quite litterally) regarding political content. I feel the last three decades has done a lot to stunt the concepts of having any actual debate or discussion of politics with the "well I guess both sides have a point" instead. And overall not existing in a far more effective police state that hampers down on educated people using their most basic 1st amendment rights via arresting protestors on BS charges let alone someone saying what we all think should be done in regards to the current political structure and people within it ("the french solution") or just openly discussing leftist theories/concepts.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

"Martyr's of course, to the freedom that I shall provide..."

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

Well, the scary thing that I learned from my partner is that every single business in the USA produces content that is scanned multiple times to ensure that it doesn't exceed a 4th grade reading level

Because they know the average USAan can't read above that

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

It saves the artist the trouble of actually learning how to draw accurate caricatures.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

they still had a lot of labels, but they were more tastefully incorporated into the scene