Displate is Disappointing | Just Another Paid Promotion

Today we are Looking at the metal poster brand "Displates".
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[@Tocaric2]

The frame option just being a png slapped on the edges of the design is criminal

[@Sockren]

it sounds so horrific you expect a game publisher to create it

[@True_NOON]

Rippoff

[@alex.g7317]

They misled us into thinkjgnit was an actual frame

[@flo0ki445]

@@Sockren it is advertised to gamers who eat up what ever slop the new football game is

[@TheDaidai05]

lol, bought displates a while ago and I am generally satisfied with what I got (yes, 2 out of 5 have fallen down before), but I remember during checkout seeing the frame option and thinking to myself "what kind of dipstick would pay for that? Why is that even an option?" Displates' only sin to me is that its a bit overpriced. But its not like I'm buying a poster every week, or even every year. I wanted a poster and displate sold me a poster

[@dingo-gorditas]

i love how every sponsor's products are either: a. a scam b. stupidly overpriced c. really bland despite the advertising saying otherwise

[@DogginsFroggins]

Honestly if they weren't any of these they would already be popular, and not a youtube sponsorship, so it goes with the teritory.

[@trolledfrog678]

As Micheal says in gta 5: “it’s called capitalism”

[@ChaosSwissroIl]

@@DogginsFroggins Hey, just because something is stupidly overpriced doesn't mean it can't be popular. Consider War Thunder.

[@Pumpkinchu.]

those are becuase those are the three groups who focus the most on advertising

[@WMan37]

I genuinely liked the taste of gamersupps "Emotional Damage" flavor but it still fell under category B at the end of the day and the shipping prices on top of the already $40 price tag was abysmal.

[@cosmicwafflesTF2]

I have a Displate in my bedroom, and I have been jumpscared twice when it falls off my wall at 4 AM. I don't think I'll bother to put it back up again.

[@Jaroartx]

LOL thanks for the experience i may pass these posters for sure

[@Sassy_Witch]

Yep, same experience here. They're absolute awful and I still cant find better alternatives

[@JessicaFEREM]

try blue tack, it's like chewing gum that you use to hang posters. either that or command strips.

[@Chesbo]

Ive had mine for like 2 years and its never fallen off

[@DerTypDerBrennt]

​@@JaroartxI have 3 Large and 4 Medium Posters and they never fall down. Even after I moved and used the same magnet plus glue pad again

[@tywayne5410]

the large cat one should go on your ceiling above your bed, and when you wake up it'll be to a falling metal catgirl

[@thebaseandtriflingcreature174]

you're telling him to make an improvised, catgirl guillotine?

[@tywayne5410]

@@thebaseandtriflingcreature174I mean, if he’s into that 🫡

[@ProfessorDefault]

Recreating Flat stanley I see

[@SunflowerSeedYtpmv]

this man is a genius

[@LowPolyPigeon]

what a way to go

[@drewsauveterre8867]

My favorite thing about Displate is how they pretend that the mining operations that produce their metal posters is somehow more environmentally friendly than the tree farming that produces regular paper posters.

[@sailorspaghetti2376]

There is a name for this practice: greenwashing. Kind of like how electric cars produce less emissions but the practices for lithium mining are incredibly harmful to the environment the mining is taking place in (usually in the global south, usually close to a community that is being exploited by these corporations for cheap, if not slave, labor).

[@TheSoup222222]

at least it's not plastic... edit: to clarify im specifically referencing how many corporations talk about using "recyclable material" while moving AWAY from aluminum and glass and moving TOWARDS plastic. it's obvious a cost saving measure, palstic is cheaper, but plastic is hardly as recyclable as aluminum or glass

[@noellova]

Yup. My personal pet peeve is when they say that by buying Displate you're "helping the environment". Like, no, even if they WERE more environmentally friendly, buying one still wouldn't HELP the environment, just put a smaller strain on it, which is not the same thing. The language just annoys me sm personally

[@ethereal231]

It's a classic form of deflection that companies do where they make the consumer feel responsible when the top 100 companies account for 73% of global emissions. They make it seem like individuals are at fault when it's the corporations that put profits over anything else

[@eastdakota6954]

"helping the environment". aren't Displates heavier than classic posters/prints? and if something's heavier, it takes more fuel to ship? which is more damaging to the environment?? *maybe* if they used 100% recycled metal i'd be able to get it but... i kinda doubt they're doing that lol

[@graham7784]

You’re not beating the weeb allegations.

[@Czarro672]

Nah this person's definitely a furry, not a weeb Source: Trust me bro

[@sophiebubbles07]

Is there anything wrong with being a weeb though

[@segadoeswhatnintendont]

Nah, he's beating something else with those plates

[@graham7784]

@@segadoeswhatnintendont 🤨

[@lotus20856]

​@@sophiebubbles07i wouldn't want to be linked with r/animemes if i were you

[@dagskyzen]

the biggest ick is that like a quarter of these art designs are stolen/does not have artist permission

[@itsTyrion]

nah more

[@painpaixliberte]

But aren't the designs chosen and uploaded by consumers rather than the company itself?

[@nicywicy]

@@painpaixliberte Shhh, you'll ruin this persons baseless hatespeach if you bring logic to the conversationg.

[@evie7601]

@@nicywicy hate speech? lmao what? a company that unknowingly lets stolen artwork be displayed on their site is just as bad as a company that does it knowingly. either way they’re profiting off of smth that’s not theirs and they should have a vetting system... and pls look up the definition of hate speech my guy.

[@kippie8200]

@@nicywicy your use of the word hate speech is equally baseless. please google words that have significance before you slap them into your vocabulary. Its misinformative on top of you just, kinda making a fool of yourself.

[@m4d_destroyergodfray707]

The catgirl-maid poster was left untouched... kinda sus -_-

[@AnkleBiter3854]

Would you rather it be left touched???

[@mjdevlog]

i wonder do weebs love a random sexy oc character that isn't from any franchise like that? like "as long it's sexy i'll buy it" kind of thing?

[@AnkleBiter3854]

@mjdevlog I mean, I'd like a little more personality or story to the character, my primal meme monkey brain says essentially what you said, but then I also just want to feel like there's something more than titties on the wall

[@AnyHeroBlake]

@@mjdevlogwe’ve literally been watching gamers do that about video games since 2015 and you’re questioning if it happens in other communities?

[@that0nedegenerate]

@@mjdevlog yes

[@timotheatae]

That "constant sale" thing is straight up illegal in many places, including places they operate. Hope someone brings them to the advertising standards organisation.

[@dyXurChannel]

It would only be illegal, if they release it at e.g. $60 with a 25% off sale and then never offer it without the sale untile they stop selling it. So to get around that, they only need to space the sales out a little, so that there are a few days where everything is at the "regular" price.

[@misterwhyte]

@@dyXurChannel The problem is that besides their offer, they constantly have promo codes from the creators they sponsor. I'm willing to bet someone could prove that their discounts never actually end.

[@dyXurChannel]

@@misterwhyte Yeah, but promo codes from creators is something different than a sale. It's a coupon.

[@Bobo-ox7fj]

@@misterwhyte Not actually illegal to offer infinite promotional coupons pretty much anywhere. Otherwise you could be slapped with a fine for forgetting to print an expiry date on coupons.

[@misterwhyte]

​@@Bobo-ox7fj I'm not a lawyer, I'm just pointing out that there's an argument to be made that Displate does have never ending discounts. Whether that's legal or not, I don't know.

[@Smartypants64]

The amount of blatant ai generated art pieces on their website is atrocious

[@olivercharles2930]

whomp whomp

[@hcolider2817]

@@olivercharles2930 Mmmmm common culture being reduced to lowest common denominator slop (more so than it already actually is)? so delicious.

[@FiftyCharacters]

The amount of stolen art too, it’s weird finding my own art on there, especially since they never reached out about getting permission. Even some of my dads art is on there, and not even his public stuff, it’s stuff like commissions that were not for public use

[@olivercharles2930]

@@FiftyCharactersThat is inexcusable. They need to moderate this shit better. I actually like AI art, but straight up stealing art ain't my forte.

[@TEETHHHHH]

​@@olivercharles2930 It might seem crazy what I'm bouta say...

[@PalisadePeryton]

Honestly, I'm tempted to buy one of the posters that's just a middle-aged man's Facebook-style selfie

[@samsas124]

The two middle-age guy are a popular french youtuber duo who did this for there colab with displate.

[@samsas124]

there name is Mcfly and Carlito. they mostly do absurd comedy and wierd concept.

[@demetriajones3231]

I'll probably buy the trollface one

[@arlaratman862]

get a stock image with the logo still on it

[@Svensk_Sal]

half of the website just looks like something straight out of rule 34

[@kenswords]

Some degenerate out there is probably jorkin right now to Displate

[@froggy5748]

When I glanced at the thumbnail i genuinely thought it was gonna be some weird video about r34

[@seliamila1005]

Which is fine if it's not wayyyy overpriced

[@Glegh]

But they go "wowowowowowowowowo"

[@Rope-Tornado]

The big paper posters can go wawawawawa

[@DaMazin7]

@@Rope-Tornado wowowowowo is better

[@cosmerdisstudios4399]

Things heating up in the autistic fandom

[@LocalChaos-8217]

@@Rope-Tornadorain world

[@yeetdanoob]

@@LocalChaos-8217 TRUE

[@Cake_soup]

Their ads are so annoying, they constantly say stuff like ''this is the real deal !'' with the worst voices ever.

[@Neonmagpie]

I was interested in buying their posters until i had to watch the "premium posters for apex collectors" ad every day for a week

[@True_NOON]

And their like "dont go just yet" annoying MFers

[@Krakenburgvortex79]

@@Arum638 Yes, exactly!

[@johannesbertilsson4856]

@@Arum638 I was watching a youtube video with my 57 year old mom with that ad and hearing that line made her go "ugh level up your gaming space? come on!" in such a disgusted tone. If even my mom thinks you're cringe you've got issues.

[@Luna-Starfrost]

Seem's like they searching for Kirito or somethin

[@blacknapalm2131]

*A $9 LED tube for an extra $199 is criminal*

[@PrimroseParadox]

Where else would they get the sponsorship money from?

[@DrTrax1887]

Hello my Brother

[@blacknapalm2131]

@@DrTrax1887 *Time to brew another batch!*

[@wombatZ]

@@DrTrax1887 Can I have some shoes?

[@obsu]

The AI generated junk and stolen artwork is what prevents me from using Displate, as soon as I opened the website for the first time and saw all the AI garbage I immediately closed the tab and moved on, not worth a cent

[@Jadeerai738]

I KNEW IT!

[@jmal]

Wow... and I'm already disappointed by free wallpaper websites being infested with AI-generated junk.

[@Jaakeup]

My issue with Displate is that I've seen multiple artworks from artists I follow get uploaded there without the artist even knowing. Basically someone else is profiting off their artwork and it's really messed up that there's no moderation on the website.

[@darktitan3025]

That happens all the time on these types of sites. I once saw a person selling my old shitty anime fanart I made more than 10 years ago, it was such a bizarre experience.

[@RoseWhitmore]

Ah, the classic Red Bubble move, an absolute traditional

[@Nudgarrobot]

Not absolving them of potentially/bad moderation, but this is a problem with anything that has broad user-generated content hosting, like making poster designs. Unfortunately something that comes with the territory and requires constant action to prevent from legitimate artists, platforms being responsive to reports, etc.

[@SwagSwagSenate]

This sh¡t is why some people put big watermarks on artworks 😭

[@singingdart7854]

My friend made a fan render of Chell from Portal that got so popular it's the second image result on Google, and someone took it without his permission and put it on there and has made god knows how much money from it

[@thebard9459]

Ngl, the sudden reveal of the "Gay Agenda" poster had me snickering, only for me to burst out laughing at the cat girl poster the next second.

[@haji2nd444]

same lol

[@crazybird199]

the supporters had some great picks

[@commenterbob9601]

Holy shit Bard Quest profile picture

[@ShotgunRocket]

I think he really likes it

[@ARockyRock]

girl?

[@caskadestudio]

This video was preceded by a video ad for Displate. KZbin, I'm impressed.

[@ThatDigitalDemon]

same here

[@rohanlerenard7972]

5:10 the guy on the right is Carlito, a very known youtuber whose humour... clearly matches this. This is genius

[@rohanlerenard7972]

aaaand on 5:18 is Mcfly. They're a duo

[@Leo-kz6zt]

LMAO j'ai remarqué aussi c'est hilarant de voir du monde qui ont aucune idée c'est qui les mettre juste de même dans leurs vidéos

[@rohanlerenard7972]

@@Leo-kz6zt Ça me rappelle le stream d'un mec anglophone ou je ne sais plus quoi où Carlito s'est invité derrière pour faire des conneries. Les fans du streamers demandait qui était ce plouc XD

[@Sivanot]

Here's a tactic I used to get my friend (now roommate) a unique displate for his birthday, If you make an artist account you can just upload the piece like normal and then buy it. You don't have to go through the membership shit, I didn't even know that was an option at the time lol.

[@donovanjoseph737]

Wait, there’s ZERO barrier for entry for user generated content!?!? Like, no approval process or quality control whatsoever?

[@kingofhearts3185]

Thanks for that. I have some stuff I think I'll get that way, mostly old movie posters.

[@ohhadivist]

When I was on the site recently I had the same idea but only buyer profiles are available right now unless you email them with your artist portfolio, so they must be catching on to the quality issue that they have.

[@Sivanot]

@@ohhadivist Huh, must not effect existing artist accounts. Ive had it for a few years now so.

[@Sivanot]

@@donovanjoseph737 They do have a checking period, but I'm an existing artist on the site so having uploaded an art piece before, it likely slipped through. I should also note that the gift was a legitimate art piece as well, it just had the signatures of our other friends also on it.

[@roachkinq5716]

I actually own two of the display posters, both DnD art, and they are gorgeous. Pretty pricey and the site is just over crowded with pure garbage if you're just browsing, but if you go into Displate knowing exactly what kind of posters you want, you can for sure find high-quality pieces worthy to put on your wall. B-tier site for me.

[@AVanMan]

I agree I probably have about 15-18 of them in my room. The quality imo is always good but so true that you gotta sift through the piles of shit to find the gems

[@_understandable]

I got one for my dad's birthday and it was great, but my God it took a while to find a decent one

[@lunasun1738]

I got one as a secret santa gift from a classmate once. It's a Jack Skellington doing the classic screaming person art pose. I love it, have it hung up on my wall to this day.

[@_Jay_Maker_]

Same. I've bought 7 of them, 4 for myself and the rest for family and they were all high quality. You definitely have to do your due diligence to find good quality, but the ones I received were decent. I'd also agree that its a B-tier site.

[@kaliek5281]

I got two for my brother for Xmas after talking to an IRL friend about theirs. Got em on like 50% off sale, so they weren't over priced imo. But without that discount? Yeah I probably wouldn't pay it. The quality was pretty good, though, and he was pretty satisfied with them. Though I went in looking for particular ones, which is why I didnt have to sift through a lot of garbage. I was looking for particular movie poster ones and found them easily: Army of Darkness and Robocop, two of his favorite movies.

[@victorienreis8743]

The two selfies you posted at 5:11 and 5:18 are two of the most famous youtubers in France, McFly and Carlito, they do pranks and stuff like this so i'm pretty sure this was part of a challenge or inside joke, they have 7.4M subscribers on youtube

[@rumifernandez2550]

Gotta love this guy throwing away sponsor opportunities to keep us from spending money. Thanks

[@hospitable_ghost]

Oh man, that "wood frame" is genuinely embarrassing.

[@ImTakingYouToFlavorTown]

Paying extra to crop your image is criminal.

[@OutLanderUSN]

It works fine if there is already a bunch of empty space around the edge of the picture and the focus is centered.

[@tsm688]

@@OutLanderUSN they shouldn't CHARGE MONEY for what's either a skein of plastic or an image edit

[@blurobinss]

The amount of stolen art on there alone is enough to make me refuse to buy anything from displate. I would much rather buy from an artist I like and be sure they actually get paid for their work

[@thisislame2207]

You can buy from real artists there, the problem is just finding the real artists from the fake/stolen ones. Granted that's the internet nowadays.

[@blurobinss]

@@thisislame2207 Yeah, but I don't really want to support the site in general when they encourage and support theft in this way

[@devilvocano420]

U cant change the world 😢

[@blurobinss]

@@devilvocano420 No, but I can choose where to spend my money

[@hakayonder3396]

@@devilvocano420 But we can make it a bit less shit by not participating in the great chain of digital art theft.

[@Nurr0]

In Australia the walls heating up in summer (or, you know just any time of year here) causes the adhesive to fail even faster, or nearly immediately. 10/10.

[@uwu_pickles]

I feel like the content gripes could be fixed if they added some form of tag and filter system, so you could filter out their meme/ai designs. Because I get that most people don't want to hang up those kinds of posters, but a couple of the ones at 5:00 were kind of funny as satirical posters.

[@kenswords]

Fr. The Andrew Tate one was HARD (ironically, of course)

[@MazDance]

This is the kind of content I'd been looking for. We all sort of guessed that KZbin sponsors were scams/rubbish but it's nice to see someone actively pointing it out and why.

[@mlgcactus1035]

The posters of Displaye aren't... bad. But they are way overpriced

[@Uni0nDirect0r]

I've got to say I love my displates. You can't deny the quality.

[@approblade]

you should see audiophiles reviewing raycons! they tear those things apart! (literally in Dank Pods' case)

[@Lennyxx]

displates are really good tho i have 8 and theyve never fallen off or anything like these comments suggest

[@Sammysapphira]

What part of it is a scam? Did you even watch the video?

[@FLCL_rox]

I wonder if you just submit an image to Displate and they carry it as an option indefinitely. Looking at your montage I can't help but think a company that wanted to keep down clutter would delete a lot of these after 3months+ of nobody even clicking on a certain picture option on their site.

[@null6634]

I'm sure if you upload a photo they consider it theirs to sell as their own forever. If you care about your own intellectual property, definitely don't upload it here.

[@compassrose1466]

@@null6634man I’d hate to be the person who might’ve tried posting wedding pictures so they could have them on there omg 😥😰

[@markellii3093]

Imagine uploading a picture of your child to only see a criminal investigation a few years later and in the corner of the view of the camera in a few shots of the murderer's house you see it

[@thegoodboy4699]

well the problem is that as soon as it is sexual content people will buy it no matter whatever, they making bank with these lets be honest, those weebs have money

[@PastaAivo]

I'd imagine the only way they take down a piece is if they are contacted by the original rights' holders. Of course there could be some kind of automatic timeout for the truly garbage uploads.

[@hellxapo5740]

Visited a colleague from Uni last week. Guy had at least 2 Displate pieces on his bedroom wall and you can guess what they were about...

[@thebiggestpanda1]

Historic maps?

[@kenswords]

The quadratic formula?

[@MD.Akib_Al_Azad]

Prison?

[@soman5348]

Anime lmao?

[@baoquoc3710]

Lynxhuman?

[@PerfectMachine]

6:00 this literally used to be a thing and I'm so mad they locked it behind their stupid subscription service...

[@november2435]

The cheapest option I found for posters without using frames is to bring your poster to like a hobby lobby, ask them to cut out the white edges and glue on a foam backing, and just getting removable velcro strips. Total should be no more than 20 bucks.

[@fretzil]

This is a good method, you can also have it glued to perspex if you want more rigidity

[@SaarlaneKretiin]

what is hobby lobby

[@rhodesianratman1364]

@@SaarlaneKretiin a hobby/craft store in the US

[@lued123]

Maybe see if there's a non-Hobby Lobby option first though, like a Michael's or something. Hobby Lobby is extremely fundamentalist Christian, to an extent that I think even many Christians would find excessive. Hobby Lobby executives have said that they think all laws should be based on the bible, and they also smuggled $1.6 million worth of cultural artifacts out of Iraq in 2009. They were planning to put them in a Christian museum, but were forced to give them up and pay a $3 million fine. If Hobby Lobby is your only local option, fair enough, but I would suggest looking around a little bit, unless you want your money to go to people... like that.

[@november2435]

@@lued123 michaels and Joanns in the U.S. should be another option

[@finneusredacted5689]

5:07 You can’t include this raw as hell skeleton in your list of “bad posters”

[@a-very-uncreative-handle]

the trollface one was fire too

[@oxnard7163]

Fr. Most of the "bad" posters are either not bad or soo bad that they are funny

[@mechapope9168]

@@oxnard7163 like 5:06

[@sofastuffing]

@oxnard7163 yeah some of the examples were clearly just art shane didn't like

[@hamzerpanzer]

I think the issue is that they're just AI generated

[@justanicemelon9963]

5:23 I mean, someone tried their best here, but instead of doing it digitally and making it look cleaner, they took a photo and it looks a little.... Yeah. Then again, not sure if this was stolen either!

[@Rei322]

Ive been waiting for a channel like this for a long time

[@flubbcat4267]

PLEASE COVER BETTERHELP NEXT!!! my mom is a nurse practitioner for mental health and I am an aspiring psychologist, and we have convos abt it all the time, because in theory it's an amazing idea for cheap access to mental health resources , but in reality it just sucks.

[@bobjohnson5557]

For real. I love how they got exposed back during covid and people just... forgot how awful they are. If i see anyone actually take their sponsorship now it immediately turns me off them.

[@thunblot78]

Aren't they the ones who use therapy to get more information for other companies to advertise to you?

[@Poodleinacan]

Harmful Opinions covered it years ago (before covid). It's wacked

[@Why_does_this_exist_YouTube]

That feels like a video for a more longer form of video. Also the products Shane reviews are physical products that promoted by people.

[@ziphy_6471]

Better help has already been done before

[@SleepyEngi]

Shame on companies that let their sites get infested with shitty AI slop

[@lucarkirb]

Anything for money 🤷‍♀

[@HYDEinallcaps]

Sneed incel to you too, fellow 4channerino.

[@serpentine6318]

Shit id do it if I was getting paid, fuck the consumer lmao

[@doughboywhine]

the slop thickens

[@walkermott1750]

My guy, I don't know how to tell you this but AI art is not only staying but will become it's own market. You can either accept this fact or be the old man who is afraid of blutooth

[@StarSpacewolf]

I'm SO GLAD you called genshit HELL XD That one cracked me up.. I needed that laugh so bad... I had a bad day, thank you so much. 3:44 Who on EARTH thought it was a good idea to send this gross degenerate poster? I mean the one in the middle. You should either refund or burn it.

[@bruhmomentumpsz]

2:59 the dankpods song jumpscared me bruh

[@Leurak]

hurr do six hungos

[@octorokpie]

Pro poster-hanging tip: Sticky tack/mounting putty/blue tac. It goes by many names, but it's a slightly tacky putty that sticks to almost any surface and comes off clean. Warm it up between your fingers, put a dot a couple cm from each corner of your poster (the distance helps when removing it later), and press firmly into the wall. Boom, perfectly hung poster with no ugly tape, pinholes, or expensive frame. When it's time to come down just tug with gentle but consistent pressure at the corner and the putty will separate from itself, then you can dab up the extra from the poster and wall with a bit more putty. At worst I've seen it leave a bit of an oily spot on the back of certain papers. Plus it never dries out, so one cheap pack can last you many years. I also use it to plant things in place on my desk that I don't want to be easily moved.

[@Jenna_Talia]

Blue tac is one of those wonder inventions that just isn't celebrated enough. You can stick anything to walls and even ceilings, it never dries out, weakens or expires in any way and you get a fucking monumental amount in each packet (yet I always end up with just a small wad of it to share between all of the things I'm hanging up.)

[@spacegoat555]

if you slap a layer or two of painters tape into the corners where you plan on slapping the tack on the poster,the oily spots won't get through to the poster, but it might reduce the hang-time... painters tape isn't as good for sticking, but I guess you could go crazy and tape some other material to the back of the poster, and put the blu tack against that, if you really wanna avoid the oily spots :D

[@thenextarbiter]

Thank you king :D I have been enlightened

[@mdpl-05]

wh... what would you use other than blu tac?? what are you people doing????

[@LlywellynOBrien]

​@@mdpl-05this is exactly what I was thinking. Is this a joke or a cultural/geographical thing? Here this is the absolute default way to do posters.

[@DemsW]

The two random weird faces from the 5:00 montage are french youtubers Macfly and Carlito, seeing them amongst the Little Red Riding Hood erotica and chipmunks took me off guard

[@auriletinmirielle7004]

Ça m'a perturbé aussi, je m'y attendais pas

[@alexstars40]

I knew they were familiar !

[@Smousie23]

Je regardais les commentaires pour voir si quelqu'un en parlait X)

[@longiusaescius2537]

@@Smousie23 French furry.... c'est vrai

[@SwagSwagSenate]

There was also Markiplier later lol

[@dan_the_swag_man6937]

I got a displate ad before this video

[@bulletholeteddy9223]

I got one after the video

[@TheRealMycanthrope]

1:58 "This shot is so sus" Bro, you filmed it and put it in the video, idk what to tell ya 😂

[@qpwoeiruty850]

1:46 is worse

[@lenapawlek7295]

Thanks for talking about the stolen and ai art - i so rarely see that addressed but i heard some artists say they got their art stolen which sucks

[@jdboston307]

I really appreciate this series. We need more people like you. When I get a little better situated financially I will definitely be supporting you on patreon.

[@Shane_McGillicuddy]

Thanks man, It will go towards a new Camera.

[@Omega-EP]

Both Patreon and KZbin are stealing like 30% of all the money you donate. Good idea.

[@frostern4863]

@@Omega-EPWhile KZbin does take 30% of each transaction a viewer gives I am not sure what you're talking about with patreon. With a little bit of research I found that patreon takes about 15%-20% of the total you make each month as a creator. I also don't think I would use the word "stealing" but that is more semantic.

[@Omega-EP]

@@frostern4863 Oh, it's stealing. What else would you call it, smartass? Coerced donation?

[@VoidsGames]

You didn't have to waste your money like that. Give it to someone who deserves it man!

[@GoriguiMonke]

The prices are absolutely mental, it's unreal and unthinkable. I'm not gonna spend $60 or more on a small poster like that, I get offended every time I check their website.

[@Handles_AreStupid]

The problem with displate is that steel is heavy and isn't feasibly scalable. a 1mm thick plate of A4 size would weigh around 492.7 grams. That means an A1 piece would be in the ball park of 4 kilos. Hanging 4KG on your wall isn't going to be realistic for most plaster construction, and that ignores the possibility of it falling on someone... That doesn't even touch how overpriced and limited their designs are.

[@henryfleischer404]

Yeah, I thought Steel sounded like an odd material to use, instead of, say, Aluminum with a steel plate brazed to the back to attach to the magnet. Although that might have some weird corrosion, and would cost more to make.

[@Handles_AreStupid]

@@henryfleischer404 It would certainly cost more to make, but the alternative would be that they use aluminium as the plate, and meerly use a steel frame that interacts with a frame shaped magnetic attachment point. Doing this would cut down the weight by at least half, but would likely fall closer to 2/3.

[@TheTeamAwsomness]

This site give big redbubble vibes with the stolen work/ai images flooding the site

[@AbnormalAbnorman]

Are you REALLY sure you bought that catgirl poster because your fanbase told you to?

[@ryreis5913]

Nice job on that edit at the start with the displate crushing out the logos. If I can offer a very small criticism, work on your audio balance a bit, through good speakers you can really hear the peaks. Otherwise great job, nicely edited. Keep it up, subscribed

[@Evanz111]

Damn, I once would have considered this, but I had NO IDEA just how expensive they were. I assumed they’d be at least half, and even that was the typical up charge margin I expect from KZbin sponsors

[@HughAverageHomoMan]

Displate allowing/using AI "art" is enough of a reason for me to hate them lol

[@Bandit4557]

The only issue that I have with that, is there (to my knowledge as of right now) is no filter to separate them from regular pieces when looking for specific designs. I could care less what designs they allow onto the site, AI included, as long as I can properly filter what I want.

[@rimaproductions9369]

Yeah no screw that

[@derpstick5467]

@@rimaproductions9369well I bought two of their posters, just generic space themed ones, guess I won’t be buying anymore from them since everyone here hates them, also that thing he said about the magnets failing did happen to me, scared the shit out of me when the poster fell.

[@RedPirateMercenaries]

@@derpstick5467 you don’t have to hate something because everyone else hates it.

[@rimaproductions9369]

@@derpstick5467 I mean use them if you want I just personally don’t support ai art stuff (at least not when your selling it or replacing real artists with it)

[@wescole5979]

That is a BOLD thumbnail. Respect. EDIT: Great video as always. I feel like the biggest issue with a lot of these sponsors so far is just being aggressively overpriced (guess that's where they get the money for all those sponsorship deals).

[@AdmiralTails]

This is always a concern when it comes to the truly *everywhere* sponsors, this indicates a substantial advertising budget, as well as a near endless slew of promotions a lot of the time. Also makes me *very* suspicious of some of them, particularly those that shouldn't even be *able* afford such a massive advertising budget, like Opera GX.

[@derpstick5467]

@@AdmiralTailsopera GX, lol yeah the thing about all these Sponserships is I wonder, do any of these fucking tubers use these products on a regular basis? Like I’ve seen at least one of them say that once the sponsorship ended, he did stop using their product (it was an ad for that dumb AirUp bottle product, he kept using the bottle).

[@Hostefar]

@@derpstick5467 Hmmm, I wonder who that was. 🤔

[@derpstick5467]

@@Hostefar sarcasm or you asking in seriousness?

[@Hostefar]

@@derpstick5467 sarcasm, it’s pyro right?

[@PerpetuusTenebris]

5:30 WDYM "LIKE THESE"???? THATS ONE OF THE BEST GODDAMN DISPLATES IVE EVER SEEN!!

[@doorbox788]

anytime a youtuber sponsors a product in a paid promotion, I immediately write it off as a product or service to never use ever, no exceptions. It’s never served me wrong when so many of my friends have been scammed by all this garbage.

[@MinoriGaming]

Ultimately, Displate isn't really a poster company, it's a tech company whose product is posters, as weird as that might sound. With that reality in mind, a lot of the weirdness with the weird bullshit subscription service and cluttered storefront becomes a *lot* easier to explain.

[@jacobkirch9652]

Lmao no they are just a poster company.

[@MinoriGaming]

@@jacobkirch9652 Their product philosophy and overall attitude is much more aligned with tech companies than anything else. The constant sales and discount codes, the offloading of design work onto users, the aggressive advertising campaigns, it’s all very Wish, or Honey, or Surfshark, or what have you. You don’t see Designworks sponsoring dozens of gaming youtubers to read a script about their poster designs, you’ve never even heard of Designworks because they don’t market themselves in that fashion whatsoever.

[@Eyclonus]

The tech company part is important; they're doing exactly the same thing as the competition, but less efficiently and with this magic hype that doesn't seem to dropoff because of its weird skew.

[@OzixiThrill]

May I recommend not engaging in overly reductionist forms of simplification? I get it, you want to explain a phenomena without really digesting it, but your brain in it's quest for ever less work has achieved a grossly incorrect conclusion. Displate is not a tech company; And them engaging on more recent sales tactics that got popularized in IT reliant fields does not change that. Unless you want to state that airlines and large store chains are also "tech companies", and have been for well over half a century, at the very least.

[@MinoriGaming]

@@OzixiThrill All I’m saying is that if it looks like a duck, sounds like a duck, and acts like a duck, it’s probably a duck. Displate’s main method of advertising is via hype and an endless slew of sales. Its main selling point is that it is Disruptive and puts a spin on the product that just so happens to make it several times more expensive than the competition. The bulk of the company’s product is outsourced from what are effectively volunteers. These are all staples of Silicon Valley business strategies, pulled straight from tech companies. These sorts of businesses are an extremely new phenomenon, and the majority of them deal in technology and software, hence the umbrella term I’m using.

[@TheGloriousLobsterEmperor]

I ordered a Displate after seeing a KZbinr advertise it. I've moved twice and have never been able to hang it up again because I still can't get the fucking magnet off the wall of my mum's house, so now that I'm in a rental, I'd rather not permanently attach an impossible to remove gigantic magnet to my wall. I don't know who is struggling with them falling off, my experience has had this magnet scourge the wall for years. Plus, it's fifty fucking dollars to get a replacement magnet here in Australia.

[@bluebosnian]

get some command strips, friend

[@TheGloriousLobsterEmperor]

@@bluebosnian Man you got the right fucking idea.

[@dissonantdreams]

God yeah. My boyfriend moved into a new place recently, and the previous tenant had had a bunch of Displates in every single room, but they took the posters with them and just left the magnet things all over the walls. He had a total nightmare removing them all.

[@TheGloriousLobsterEmperor]

@@dissonantdreams "Simply take a corner and slowly peel them off" my arse, those things are an eternal scourge.

[@thisislame2207]

@@TheGloriousLobsterEmperor Ironically when I was looking into how good the magnets are (I was a lil suspicious of slapping a giant magnet on a wall and it remaining good for a long time) I saw a crapton of posts about how often the magnets/adhesive falls off. It seems the magnets are never consistent lmao. I wonder how much the room's environment affects the durability/strength of these things.

[@dreflox]

This was a better ad for Displate than any of the youtuber's sponsored segments about it ngl

[@Scarbonara_]

"They have millions of poster designs, from officially licensensed ones like Marvel, DC, Star Wars, to even straight *HELL* ." As a Genshin Impact player, I agree 💀👍

[@charlesHowle]

5:11 the third design is actually genius if you get the reference, the guy is a member of the french KZbin channel Mcfly & Carlito. I"m pretty sure it was made as a joke by them in a required sponsor contract or something where they had to give a custom design so he gave them this masterpiece edit: same thing for the one at 5:18

[@flarys6732]

As a french person, I just went "nah, I'd buy that" when I was them

[@R18jura]

I got two displates two or three years ago ( I think I paid like 30€ on the small and 45€ on the bigger one, with 10-20% discount). I am very happy with them. Also had no problems with the magnets (I need to say I didn’t swapped the posters so there wasn’t much stress on them). BUT BRO this increase in price is wild! I thought about buying some new ones for my other room but this really feels like a scam. Sad, because I really like the concept and was very happy with the quality.

[@charlesfe]

Yes these were reasonably priced a few years ago, now with the constant sale prices they are still expensive. I have gotten sublimated prints from other companies for various art projects of my own for around 60% of the price of Displate, but these other companies have a 2-3 week lead time and the art is your responsibility to supply, so there's that.

[@R18jura]

⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@charlesfecan you tell me about these other companies? I recently made a piece I‘d like to print, time wouldn’t be a problem so a few weeks of waiting would be completely worth it.

[@ender_z4nd3r83]

​@@charlesfewell just stop buying then, it's easy

[@infinitebracket4823]

love how the mid-roll ads are about displate. what a lovely age of irony

[@vahlen5281]

If a company almost exclusively promotes their products on YT, they're neither worth your time nor money.

[@Bread78787]

1:37 Nah, my KZbin just crashed when you showed the poster💀

[@Alex_Fishman]

The Gay was so unexpected that it managed to break your device's will... interesting.

[@BerixMaster2010]

Their sponsorship ads always emphasize the actually good quality artwork and officially licensed art, but all of the posters made from AI-generated and/or stolen artwork on the site really turned me off from ever buying from Displate. At that point its no better than etsy or ebay in terms of quality control, or lack thereof. I'd rather just buy a print from a specific artist directly just so I can avoid accidentally giving a scammer who uploaded to Displate money for something they didn't even make.

[@ltb1345]

@@ef2216 Who made the original?

[@ef2216]

@@ltb1345 hasubatake39 I'd post a link but that got my comment deleted instantly.

[@ef2216]

@@ltb1345 hasubatake39

[@ef2216]

Even the catgirl art was stolen by ‘Waifu Hunter’ from hasubatake39. Such is rampant art theft on the internet. (Previous comments auto-deleted.)

[@ef2216]

@@ltb1345 Something or someone keeps deleting my comments, original was made by hasubatake39, resold by Waifu Hunter on Displate.

[@_ikako_]

6:50 (spoilers for avatar) trying to wrap my head around why you would make a poster about the moment aang gets shot in the heart and loses the fight instead of literally any other moment in that fight scene

[@VoidsGames]

AT LEAST put something to prevent people from reading the spoiler! Like you could have just done this!

[@claytonbarnes6644]

@@VoidsGames no one gives a fuck if your spoiled for an almost 20 year old cartoon

[@_ikako_]

@@VoidsGames if you read the text "spoilers for avatar" and keep reading anyway, that's not really on me

[@VoidsGames]

@@_ikako_ I'm sorry, but normal humans don't read word by word! That is fully on you. Are you too lazy to press the enter key like 10 times?

[@Angel_Flash]

Dude I'm so glad I found this video. I watch Otzdarva and VaatiVidya who have both been sponsored by Displate for years and they like to show off the super cool Dark Souls/Dead By Daylight metal posters they offer on the site. I finally checked out the site a few months ago for ideas for a birthday gift for my mom, and all the art on that site was stolen or AI-generated. It was so disappointing. I thought it was like an actual artist marketplace. What's even sadder is that if my mom ever finds out about this site she would probably buy me something from it because she likes to buy "diamond paintings" which are basically Chinese "color-by-numbers" posters where you stick shiny plastic beads on a grid to make an image... She has a ton of them and they're all stolen art, of course. I only realized it when she got me a Persona 5 diamond painting for Christmas and I recognized the art. When I asked her where she got it from, she said it was from AliExpress...

[@cole009productions7]

2:58 I got a sudden urge to compare headphones against the Sennheiser 600.

[@punchdrunkassassin]

It's so weird to hear that song without a drastic change in audio quality partway through.

[@nanattechi]

the huh-duh-six-hungos by old mate senny sens

[@armisist3375]

ah another dank pods enjoyer

[@d3fault1420]

and on the freakish ears on a stand

[@Cohen-Tiger]

Gotta play scarlet fire from on them

[@lillypar8415]

Sobbing at 2:28 the way he hurls the poster at the magnet is SENDING me 🖐️😭

[@sarah.233]

The two random selfies are really popular French KZbinrs 😂

[@Peubescent]

Im gonna be honest displate was probably the only sponsor that actually hooked me into getting 3 posters. The poster that intrigued me in the sponsorship was like a blueprint of the cyberpunk mantis blades

[@Ro-qp8rb]

4:40 oh no... I have this exact poster... My mom wouldn't stop buying those stolen shitty and corny displays for the whole family. It breaks my heart because it would fall off the wall after a month and it almost injured me and broke some furniture on two separate occasions

[@RRRRREEEEEEE_69_420]

💀

[@Poodleinacan]

oof How old is she? ....... if she's almost my age, I'm giving a big 💀 Dude, sometimes, I'm just amazed at how boomer people around my age and also younger can be. Like fr I'm a millennial but I'm also part of the internet generation. A few months ago, I bought myself a large mouse pad and gd are there a lot of AI generated arts. Some are nice and all, but a lot are just generic. It's just the price that is demanded for them that can be way too high..... especially when they all come from the same place (yes, I tested. I bought 2 different pads from 2 different online stores and they came at the same time AND shipped at the same time. The better one was taking too much time to ship).

[@Firestar-TV]

Thanks for mentioning this. Thought, maybe I should look if there are some nice Nuka Cola Designs for when I finally have a Kitchen, but now I definitely won't 👍🏻 Of course also even more frightening for someone with small Pets that might try to sit on it or accidentally touch it with their Wings or just stand underneath it and then something might happen

[@badwolf_2628]

These things are sheets of metal, can you imagine the noise they would make falling off your wall in the middle of the night?

[@Tonmarutchi]

This happened to me and it woke up my whole family - along with me. We thought someone had broken in, and the edges of the metal poster damaged my floor a fuck ton.

[@dankerbell]

uh yes, even with a carpet it was annoying because the magnet just did not stay on the wall, even now i just keep them under my desk because i can't hang them up which sucks 😭

[@WolfyRagnarok]

I don't have to imagine. It scared the shit out of me.

[@DodgeThatAttack]

Honestly at this point "theyre too expensive and a little bit shit" is about as good as it gets in terms of prolific youtube sponsors.

[@fishmasteryt2994]

There's a reason I don't buy any products that market this aggressively on social media

[@Megaman231122]

I have 2 pairs of displates, they are nice, clean, the art is actually original and it matches my space very well. The pricing on some editions are incredibly expensive and the fact that the majority of walls just won't work with the magnetic panel is incredibly dissapointing (I ended up using command strips). The major issue with displates is the magnet panel and the copyright - but overall I would still recommend them especially in a 1 big purchase due their consistent discount deal, never buy the frames and buy some command strips.

[@derpstick5467]

Yeah I got textured walls in my room, one of the posters has fallen, haven’t bothered to hang it up again but I’m sure the command strips would help.

[@Megaman231122]

​@@derpstick5467 M3 command strips are the absolute shit. So good, all my art boards, displate and gallery panda acrylic posters all run with command strips

[@hakayonder3396]

@@derpstick5467 You could place it on a screw if you just attach a ring (or anything else that'll hang on the screw) to the back of the poster. Or get glass-less frame big enough to hold it, there are tons of people selling custom sized frames, I'm sure you could ask one of them if they could skip on the glass part.

[@xdbig-mike]

5:08 that skeleton poster was a banger i dont know what your smokin

[@Harbinger_of_entropy]

I gotta say it's ironic that youtube advertised displate as the pre video ad

[@oni-linkle4880]

5:10 guy to the right is literally just a french youtuber called Carlito (Edit: and 5:17 is literally just his partner, Mcfly), hilarious

[@BeiyongError]

If the custom one was open to everyone i probably would slap my own art and get a few.

[@kingofhearts3185]

Apparently it is according to another commenter. Said it was free too.

[@valdemarjrgensen8072]

You can just make an artist account, upload some art, buy it from your own store and then remove it again. Or that used to work in the past at least.

[@ignatiusartistry]

If you can wait a year, get the membership. One year of paying for that, you get a voucher for a free poster, including customs. Cheaper than buying one as is. $36 a year vs $49+shipping per order

[@PostingCringeOnMain]

I bought 3 displaces when I moved into my new room - I knew specifically what I wanted (Disco Elysium art - character portraits and the 'conquest of revachol' scene). Got the portraits in medium portrait and the city scene in large landscape... and... well... they look awesome. Gotto give them credit for the colours, the print quality and the fact these are clearly gonna last a really long time. But yea, they are expensive AF. I was surprised at how simple they were, there's no fancy design to take advantage of the fact they are metal. I feel like another company could easily produce the same quality of metal poster at half the price. It feels like they got an advantage on being something of a monopoly, but with a bit of competition in the space and some cooler innovation, I can see metal posters as a concept being a really good idea - but without any competitors to drive innovation or pricing, Displate are never going to be pushed to do better on either front. Can't fault the quality of the product, though. They actually exceeded my expectation on print quality and the magnets system worked flawlessly for me. I even stuck one magnet and moved it with the protective pad and it's held up just fine.

[@TeddyKirkegaard]

Which portraits did you get? Im guessing Kim Kitsuragi and Cuno

[@RealLargeManTheGiantOne]

I've worked in a print shop, as far as I can tell those are just vinyl printed then stuck to a sheet of cheap steel. my guess for cost of materials would be maybe a couple of dollars for the sheet and a couple for the print. Discounting marketing costs and all that, I'd guess the cost of a single poster is probably around 15 dollars max.

[@_.Brii._]

Why do I genuinely want the “what color is your Bugatti”

[@chaos_331]

5:10 the one on the right and 5:18 are a duo of french youtubers and those plates matches their vibes so well i actually think its hillarious (not worth tho lmao)

[@Ehksoduss]

I got two Hunt: Showdown displates, as they have absolutely amazing designs, and despite the price, I am pretty happy with the product. But that of course doesn't excuse art theft.

[@derpstick5467]

Yeah I have two generic space themed ones, lol one of them has fallen off the wall, the other is still up, i like them but yeah the stolen art and AI art is just eww.

[@ohhadivist]

I've been wanting to get some displates for my shed since the fluctuating temps/humidity in there make traditional posters kind of a no-go, so I went on the site recently, and while I really liked finding smaller artists selling original works I was really put off by all the absolute trash AI art on there and the really poor, unhelpful navigation, so I found it hard to trust enough to actually go through with a purchase.

[@greatape8019]

i dont think the fluctuatng humidity is best for like the stick on magnet stuff. i think your best option is to just properly laminate paper posters xP

[@Vol9pn]

Half the time I forget this isn’t a sponsorship and a review of the product

[@SpadesNeil]

This channel is gonna do numbers.

[@dlanistheman]

I enjoy what Displate offers, but there really are people trying to cash in with low effort reprints that make searching for the gems an ordeal. Great video

[@sugar-rice]

I have a few displates. We hung one of them next to our computer on a wall with a power strip plugged in. It fell off one day and landed right where the power strip was plugged into the wall and nearly started an electrical fire. Be careful where you put them!!!!

[@punchdrunkassassin]

Legitimately terrifying 😓

[@Nocturna.]

The frames with the selfie are actually french youtubers 😭

[@fuwu9904]

Got a displate ad when I clicked on the video, classic

[@chloepeach5]

I don't get the point of a subscription service for posters. Maybe it's just me but when I buy a poster I generally leave it up for a few years before I think of switching it out.

[@SinderSoyl]

I think their big idea was to have their posters be some kind of collectible product. Perhaps they wanted to have it be the new Funko pop type of product, as in the "nerd" collectible for people with a bit too much expandable income. They used fomo and exclusivity to fuel this idea. But of course, at the end of the day, it's all meaningless and doesn't work when their website is cluttered with stolen garbage and AI generated content.

[@perkhunter_craig2304]

5:41 is that Ray William Johnson??😭

[@sokabl64]

that cupcake will forever haunt my dreams

[@WrathOfTheHydra]

The only thing I can say in defense of displate is their customer service is pretty fantastic. If you get any dented stuff from shipping in the mail, they'll send you new ones as long as you have proof. The art stealing is a bit rough, I really wish they'd tune their artist certification to make sure the work is actually from them.

[@RayTheFloofyBoi]

I honestly agree with you. If they lower there price down, and clean up there site of the junk and, allow you to make your own poster for a small extra fee... It can definitely be a good alternative.

[@GooeyGremlin]

WHAT A COINCIDENCE. I've been seeing these folks popping up constantly halfway into a vid. Nice to see an honest review for something I might actually consider.

[@DamiaBerry]

I went on Displate the other week thinking "Oh I will get a poster of a character I like" because of the whole magnet gimmick which saves me having to drill and nail holes into my wall but the officially licensed IPs were boring and didn't peak my interests then anything I searched just didn't exist so I went onto the anime category and its pages and pages of AI generated collections with names that I don't think a human typed. One of them was literally, and I quote, "FEMBOY ANIME BOY GAY GIFT".

[@Lunathean]

No free shipping is insane. The subscription service is basically greed AF, let's take basic quality of life features and charge for them