Author: Rachel Kaser / Source: The Next Web
Facebook ads are usually weird and funny when they’re not showing off spooky knowledge of your life and hobbies. Those targeted ads for graphic t-shirts somehow manage to be all three — and a subreddit is celebrating them in all their bizarre glory.
You probably know the kinds of shirts I’m talking about — I feel like everyone’s seen at least one, and they’ve been making the rounds since at least last year.
Each one looks like a social media-based AI got drunk and threw up refrigerator magnet poetry. They mention specific things relating to what information you’ve put online, such as your birthday, your music preferences, something about your familial situation. It’s essentially the nadir of Facebook‘s data collection efforts.The subreddit, called r/TargetedShirts, collects examples of the worst of these designs (or best, depending on your perspective), just to see how wild they can get. I swear some of these have so many words on them they’re practically novels.
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