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
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.
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
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.
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.)
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
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.
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).
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
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
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
"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
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.
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.
@@cfedukecan 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.
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.
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.
This is the kind of content I'd been looking for. We all sort of guessed that UA-cam sponsors were scams/rubbish but it's nice to see someone actively pointing it out and why.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
That "constant sale" thing is straight up illegal in many places, including places they operate. Hope someone brings them to the advertising standards organisation.
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.
@@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.
@@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.
@@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.
5:11 the guy on the right image is Carlito, a french youtuber, it caught me so off guard that it got me dead laughing on the floor 5:18 and here is his friend Mcfly lmao
@@incrediman9670 vraiment Carlito le jumpscare ptdr Mais ouais ils ont du juste se dire que c'était des mecs randoms, c'est pour ça que je me suis dis que ça ferait pas de mal de le préciser
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.
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.
@@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.
@@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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
The problem is, here in Europe for me at least displate is actually cheaper then that scroll/paper website. Because of the shipping costs. Displate should tbh price their products cheaper it's more expensive than buying a fumo plushie.
I ordered a Displate after seeing a UA-camr 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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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
5:11 the third design is actually genius if you get the reference, the guy is a member of the french UA-cam 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
I'm only here to say that this isn't new, advertisers have and always will lie, and just let the people who try to entertain us entertain us with whoever's money they want. In the end, it's up to the consumer what kind of products they buy, and a UA-camr is probably just trying to make it work with whatever sponsorships they can get.
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 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.
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.
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.
@@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.
this was actually very useful to me lol, id been recommended them before by a friend and have been looking for new wall art for my room. i guess my takeaway is: use displate as a avenue to find art you like to frame yourself. i may go for one if i can find a design i like.
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).
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.
@@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).
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.
@@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.
@@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)
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.
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
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).
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
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 M3 command strips are the absolute shit. So good, all my art boards, displate and gallery panda acrylic posters all run with command strips
@@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.
Tl;Dr: The poster itself is pretty nice, except that it bends way too easily. It's also very expensive, and you can probably find higher quality paper ones for much cheaper. And for very decent artwork, you have to look through dozens of borderline AI generate garbage to find one.
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.
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
4:52 i was with ya for the entire video but c’moooooon man you can’t knock a goddamn Deadpool poster for being bad when the shittiness is so obviously part of the bit 😭
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...
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.
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.
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
i wonder how strong those magnets actually are? my room is at the top of my house+has slanted walls due to the way the roof is built. i know for a fact i can easily tape+tack whatever i want all over them because i've been doing it since i was old enough to make my own decoration choices; i feel like a displate would either be falling off every five seconds, OR seem fine until it falls off in the middle of the night+makes the loudest noise known to man
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.
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.
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.
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 😭
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!!!!
Yeah, the reason for the high price and constant sales/vouchers is most definitely because the discounted price is the actually intended price. The normal price is just there to make the "discount" look good. And if they are having sales with only 2-3 days between each other, I'm honestly questioning if that's even legal.
I'm not surprised by the result. Sponsored products are, most of the time, a bit like MLM products : overpriced when just not straight up scammy. How else would actually make money when paying so much in influencer marketing ? If tge production was good enough on its own, after a while they wouldnt need to continue those big campains. Just look at raycons and how no one is actually using them outside of their sponsored segments.
The worst thing seems to be the bad search on the site. It seems like the posters are not indexed with different phrases you either hit whatever is in the title and description or not. I tried to find a half-life poster but the search term 'half-life' doesn't hsow anyhting so i browsed in gaming and saw one that was titled "hl poster" so i searched "hl poster" and found pictures of the city munich in germany. However that worked...
I remember there being an add for displate and the poster the guy selling it had this really cool tf2 poster and when i went to look for it it didnt exist. Kinda feel better now
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.
I got a nice poster from ArtStation. And then I custom framed it. The framing cost wayyyy more than the poster ever did, but it also makes the whole artwork look wayyy better.
Back before Displate had stupid amounts of advertising, I bought one. The magnet came unstuck from the paper on the wall within a year. I had bought one for my brother during that time, and his then did the same, never to be re-mounted.
I have never gotten a Displate ad before, until I clicked on the video where the ad I got before watching and after watching the video was a displate ad.
I got one as a gift, and can confirm they fall off the wall easily. However the nice slight texture compared to flat posters fits some room designs better
My friend got me a jotaro displate for my birthday and i was so hyped (poster looked cool af), he bought it for 60$! What happened?! It just bended and feel off 3 months later! Ever since i just do puzzles for wall artwork, since they look awesome and you just kinda glue them, with the main downsides of a lot of them looking ai assisted (as in not fully generated by ai), ace the tremendous work they require... But after that work you have a flashy piece of work to show off, and it's kinda fun😊.
One advantage of plain paper posters is that they are cheap and lightweight and if they fall of the wall they almost certainly don't cause any damage, but they look kind of cheap of course. These are expensive, heavy and pointy and presumably fairly sharp at speed which would definitely damage stuff if they fall off the wall, and they still look pretty cheap! Why? If I wanted something more fancy than a paper poster fastened with bluetack; I'd just buy a lightweight frame for a poster, or a canvas print from IKEA or something like that. I don't really have the need for more wall decorations; having inherited a lot of original art from my grandparent's collection, I have more need for more wall space; but we still have one large canvas print from IKEA. We could probably have replaced it with some of the paintings or art prints we don't have room for; but the canvas print is on the wall above our bed; and I don't want to have actual expensive paintings hanging within flailing distance from my bed. The canvas print is very light (only an aluminium frame with stretched canvas) so if I ever bump it off the fasteners it's not that heavy to fall onto me and if it's damaged, it's till just a mass produced thing.
I remember watching a video Caddicarus made that had Displate as a sponsor; Back then it actually seemed like a really novel idea to me, even to the point where I looked into the website and found two really cool prints of the health and HEV suit chargers from Half-Life made by the artist RemusBrailoiu. The video Caddy made with the Displate sponsor segment was uploaded three years ago, the two prints RemusBrailoiu are long gone from the website, and someone is selling Bored Ape NFTs and AI art as prints on said website. It's a damn shame the website went down the shitter in terms of quality control, because I was seriously considering picking up a print or two from it back then.
yeah IMO the big problem with them is the price and the fact that they have zero quality control over what actually goes onto the plates so the store is filled with scam images. Your video is spot on. Keep up the good work!
they need some kind of proper artist verification system for quality control. on a site where its this easy to post shit quality control is important and it drags the whole experience down severely, same issue as with sites like redbubble and shit. if you had to manually apply with a small 3-4 poster "portfolio" you could ensure only decent shit gets posted. and maybe a report button for low quality or at least stolen shit. plus on sites like these, ai stuff definitely needs a flag as ai made.
The frame option just being a png slapped on the edges of the design is criminal
it sounds so horrific you expect a game publisher to create it
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They misled us into thinkjgnit was an actual frame
@@Sockren it is advertised to gamers who eat up what ever slop the new football game is
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
i love how every sponsor's products are either:
a. a scam
b. stupidly overpriced
c. really bland despite the advertising saying otherwise
Honestly if they weren't any of these they would already be popular, and not a youtube sponsorship, so it goes with the teritory.
As Micheal says in gta 5: “it’s called capitalism”
@@DogginsFroggins Hey, just because something is stupidly overpriced doesn't mean it can't be popular. Consider War Thunder.
those are becuase those are the three groups who focus the most on advertising
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.
The amount of blatant ai generated art pieces on their website is atrocious
whomp whomp
@@olivercharles2930 Mmmmm common culture being reduced to lowest common denominator slop (more so than it already actually is)? so delicious.
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
@@FiftyCharactersThat is inexcusable. They need to moderate this shit better.
I actually like AI art, but straight up stealing art ain't my forte.
@@olivercharles2930 It might seem crazy what I'm bouta say...
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.
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.)
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
Thank you king :D I have been enlightened
wh... what would you use other than blu tac?? what are you people doing????
@@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.
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.
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).
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
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
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
"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
You’re not beating the weeb allegations.
Nah this person's definitely a furry, not a weeb
Source: Trust me bro
Is there anything wrong with being a weeb though
Nah, he's beating something else with those plates
@@segadoeswhatnintendont 🤨
@@sophiebubbles07i wouldn't want to be linked with r/animemes if i were you
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.
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.
@@cfedukecan 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.
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.
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.
Aren't they the ones who use therapy to get more information for other companies to advertise to you?
Harmful Opinions covered it years ago (before covid). It's wacked
That feels like a video for a more longer form of video. Also the products Shane reviews are physical products that promoted by people.
Better help has already been done before
But they go "wowowowowowowowowo"
The big paper posters can go wawawawawa
@@whatswrongwithmybrain wowowowowo is better
Things heating up in the autistic fandom
@@whatswrongwithmybrainrain world
@@LocalChaos-8217 TRUE
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.
same lol
the supporters had some great picks
Holy shit Bard Quest profile picture
I think he really likes it
girl?
This is the kind of content I'd been looking for. We all sort of guessed that UA-cam sponsors were scams/rubbish but it's nice to see someone actively pointing it out and why.
The posters of Displaye aren't... bad. But they are way overpriced
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.
LOL thanks for the experience i may pass these posters for sure
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.
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.
Ah, the classic Red Bubble move, an absolute traditional
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.
This sh¡t is why some people put big watermarks on artworks 😭
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
That "constant sale" thing is straight up illegal in many places, including places they operate. Hope someone brings them to the advertising standards organisation.
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.
@@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.
@@misterwhyte Yeah, but promo codes from creators is something different than a sale. It's a coupon.
@@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.
@@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.
The catgirl-maid poster was left untouched... kinda sus -_-
5:11 the guy on the right image is Carlito, a french youtuber, it caught me so off guard that it got me dead laughing on the floor
5:18 and here is his friend Mcfly lmao
mdrr la même, les américains doivent croire que c'est juste des gars randoms ça me tue de rire
@@incrediman9670 vraiment Carlito le jumpscare ptdr
Mais ouais ils ont du juste se dire que c'était des mecs randoms, c'est pour ça que je me suis dis que ça ferait pas de mal de le préciser
Comment j'ai pas pu le voir
MERCI 😭 j'étais quasi sur que c'était eux, mais je comprenais pas ce qu'ils fichaient la- 💀
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.
Wait, there’s ZERO barrier for entry for user generated content!?!? Like, no approval process or quality control whatsoever?
Thanks for that. I have some stuff I think I'll get that way, mostly old movie posters.
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.
@@ohhadivist Huh, must not effect existing artist accounts. Ive had it for a few years now so.
@@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.
Their ads are so annoying, they constantly say stuff like ''this is the real deal !'' with the worst voices ever.
I was interested in buying their posters until i had to watch the "premium posters for apex collectors" ad every day for a week
"LeVeL uP yOuR GAmE sPaCe" has big 'Hello fellow kids' energy.
And their like "dont go just yet" annoying MFers
@@Arum638 Yes, exactly!
@@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.
1:37 Nah, my UA-cam just crashed when you showed the poster💀
The Gay was so unexpected that it managed to break your device's will... interesting.
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.
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.
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
I got one for my dad's birthday and it was great, but my God it took a while to find a decent one
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.
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.
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.
Oh man, that "wood frame" is genuinely embarrassing.
Paying extra to crop your image is criminal.
Sobbing at 2:28 the way he hurls the poster at the magnet is SENDING me 🖐️😭
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.
Thanks man, It will go towards a new Camera.
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.
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.
@@null6634man I’d hate to be the person who might’ve tried posting wedding pictures so they could have them on there omg 😥😰
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
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
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.
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
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.
@@thisislame2207 Yeah, but I don't really want to support the site in general when they encourage and support theft in this way
U cant change the world 😢
@@devilvocano420 No, but I can choose where to spend my money
@@devilvocano420 But we can make it a bit less shit by not participating in the great chain of digital art theft.
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...
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.
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
Ça m'a perturbé aussi, je m'y attendais pas
I knew they were familiar !
Je regardais les commentaires pour voir si quelqu'un en parlait X)
@@Smousie23 French furry.... c'est vrai
There was also Markiplier later lol
This site give big redbubble vibes with the stolen work/ai images flooding the site
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.
The problem is, here in Europe for me at least displate is actually cheaper then that scroll/paper website. Because of the shipping costs.
Displate should tbh price their products cheaper it's more expensive than buying a fumo plushie.
I ordered a Displate after seeing a UA-camr 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.
get some command strips, friend
@@bluebosnian Man you got the right fucking idea.
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.
@@dissonantdreams "Simply take a corner and slowly peel them off" my arse, those things are an eternal scourge.
@@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.
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.
This is a good method, you can also have it glued to perspex if you want more rigidity
what is hobby lobby
@@SaarlaneKretiin a hobby/craft store in the US
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.
@@lued123 michaels and Joanns in the U.S. should be another option
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.
Gotta love this guy throwing away sponsor opportunities to keep us from spending money. Thanks
5:07 You can’t include this raw as hell skeleton in your list of “bad posters”
the trollface one was fire too
Fr. Most of the "bad" posters are either not bad or soo bad that they are funny
@@oxnard7163 like 5:06
@oxnard7163 yeah some of the examples were clearly just art shane didn't like
I think the issue is that they're just AI generated
Shame on companies that let their sites get infested with shitty AI slop
Anything for money
🤷♀
Sneed incel to you too, fellow 4channerino.
Shit id do it if I was getting paid, fuck the consumer lmao
the slop thickens
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
Bro as long as you keep up this series you got my view
Ive been waiting for a channel like this for a long time
5:11 the third design is actually genius if you get the reference, the guy is a member of the french UA-cam 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
As a french person, I just went "nah, I'd buy that" when I was them
Are you REALLY sure you bought that catgirl poster because your fanbase told you to?
I'm only here to say that this isn't new, advertisers have and always will lie, and just let the people who try to entertain us entertain us with whoever's money they want. In the end, it's up to the consumer what kind of products they buy, and a UA-camr is probably just trying to make it work with whatever sponsorships they can get.
FINALLY IVE BEEN LOOKING FOR CHANNELS LIKE THIS
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.
Lmao no they are just a poster company.
@@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.
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.
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.
@@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.
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
this was actually very useful to me lol, id been recommended them before by a friend and have been looking for new wall art for my room. i guess my takeaway is: use displate as a avenue to find art you like to frame yourself. i may go for one if i can find a design i like.
Man, kudos to your editing skills!
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).
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.
@@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).
@@derpstick5467 Hmmm, I wonder who that was. 🤔
@@Hostefar sarcasm or you asking in seriousness?
@@derpstick5467 sarcasm, it’s pyro right?
Displate allowing/using AI "art" is enough of a reason for me to hate them lol
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.
Yeah no screw that
@@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.
@@derpstick5467 you don’t have to hate something because everyone else hates it.
@@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)
That Jixaw pipe drop sound effect usage was so smooth that I had to rewind to be sure I heard it
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
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.
@@ef2216 Who made the original?
@@ltb1345 hasubatake39
I'd post a link but that got my comment deleted instantly.
@@ltb1345 hasubatake39
Even the catgirl art was stolen by ‘Waifu Hunter’ from hasubatake39.
Such is rampant art theft on the internet.
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@@ltb1345 Something or someone keeps deleting my comments, original was made by hasubatake39, resold by Waifu Hunter on Displate.
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
💀
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).
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
This channel is gonna do numbers.
Super ironic that I just got a displate ad at the end of this video
2:58 I got a sudden urge to compare headphones against the Sennheiser 600.
It's so weird to hear that song without a drastic change in audio quality partway through.
the huh-duh-six-hungos by old mate senny sens
ah another dank pods enjoyer
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.
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.
@@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
@@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.
Duuuuude this is such cool content. Pls keep making videos like this.
Tl;Dr: The poster itself is pretty nice, except that it bends way too easily. It's also very expensive, and you can probably find higher quality paper ones for much cheaper. And for very decent artwork, you have to look through dozens of borderline AI generate garbage to find one.
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.
If the custom one was open to everyone i probably would slap my own art and get a few.
Apparently it is according to another commenter. Said it was free too.
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.
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
4:52 i was with ya for the entire video but c’moooooon man you can’t knock a goddamn Deadpool poster for being bad when the shittiness is so obviously part of the bit 😭
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...
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.
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.
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
i wonder how strong those magnets actually are? my room is at the top of my house+has slanted walls due to the way the roof is built. i know for a fact i can easily tape+tack whatever i want all over them because i've been doing it since i was old enough to make my own decoration choices; i feel like a displate would either be falling off every five seconds, OR seem fine until it falls off in the middle of the night+makes the loudest noise known to man
I NEED this channel to blow up. Mr. McGillicuddy has gotta be the realest guy on the platform
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.
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.
These things are sheets of metal, can you imagine the noise they would make falling off your wall in the middle of the night?
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.
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 😭
6:36 I love how good you explained this. Im really suprised.
the fact i got a displate ad before the video played
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!!!!
Legitimately terrifying 😓
I kinda want that catgirl poster…
why tho
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love these "popular" sponsor critiques
Yeah, the reason for the high price and constant sales/vouchers is most definitely because the discounted price is the actually intended price. The normal price is just there to make the "discount" look good.
And if they are having sales with only 2-3 days between each other, I'm honestly questioning if that's even legal.
I'm not surprised by the result. Sponsored products are, most of the time, a bit like MLM products : overpriced when just not straight up scammy. How else would actually make money when paying so much in influencer marketing ? If tge production was good enough on its own, after a while they wouldnt need to continue those big campains. Just look at raycons and how no one is actually using them outside of their sponsored segments.
1:46 nahhhh no way you have that
The worst thing seems to be the bad search on the site. It seems like the posters are not indexed with different phrases you either hit whatever is in the title and description or not. I tried to find a half-life poster but the search term 'half-life' doesn't hsow anyhting so i browsed in gaming and saw one that was titled "hl poster" so i searched "hl poster" and found pictures of the city munich in germany. However that worked...
Great video, really opened my eyes to this brand and funni editing xD
I remember there being an add for displate and the poster the guy selling it had this really cool tf2 poster and when i went to look for it it didnt exist. Kinda feel better now
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.
You're doing realy great work! Thank you!
I got a nice poster from ArtStation. And then I custom framed it. The framing cost wayyyy more than the poster ever did, but it also makes the whole artwork look wayyy better.
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Please review *Raycons* next.
have you ever just stopped to think. Like maybe people just genuinely wanna enjoy what they wanna enjoy?
Back before Displate had stupid amounts of advertising, I bought one. The magnet came unstuck from the paper on the wall within a year. I had bought one for my brother during that time, and his then did the same, never to be re-mounted.
the knowledge of them falling off the wall sometimes makes me glad i never got one
great vid
Mine has fallen off twice and has fucked up my floor
Kind of gimmicky imo. Good in concept, but also kinda overpriced.
I have never gotten a Displate ad before, until I clicked on the video where the ad I got before watching and after watching the video was a displate ad.
I got one as a gift, and can confirm they fall off the wall easily. However the nice slight texture compared to flat posters fits some room designs better
The good thing about this model us that if you ever actually get sponsored you it's gonna be a good product
My friend got me a jotaro displate for my birthday and i was so hyped (poster looked cool af), he bought it for 60$! What happened?!
It just bended and feel off 3 months later!
Ever since i just do puzzles for wall artwork, since they look awesome and you just kinda glue them, with the main downsides of a lot of them looking ai assisted (as in not fully generated by ai), ace the tremendous work they require... But after that work you have a flashy piece of work to show off, and it's kinda fun😊.
One advantage of plain paper posters is that they are cheap and lightweight and if they fall of the wall they almost certainly don't cause any damage, but they look kind of cheap of course. These are expensive, heavy and pointy and presumably fairly sharp at speed which would definitely damage stuff if they fall off the wall, and they still look pretty cheap! Why?
If I wanted something more fancy than a paper poster fastened with bluetack; I'd just buy a lightweight frame for a poster, or a canvas print from IKEA or something like that.
I don't really have the need for more wall decorations; having inherited a lot of original art from my grandparent's collection, I have more need for more wall space; but we still have one large canvas print from IKEA. We could probably have replaced it with some of the paintings or art prints we don't have room for; but the canvas print is on the wall above our bed; and I don't want to have actual expensive paintings hanging within flailing distance from my bed. The canvas print is very light (only an aluminium frame with stretched canvas) so if I ever bump it off the fasteners it's not that heavy to fall onto me and if it's damaged, it's till just a mass produced thing.
I remember watching a video Caddicarus made that had Displate as a sponsor; Back then it actually seemed like a really novel idea to me, even to the point where I looked into the website and found two really cool prints of the health and HEV suit chargers from Half-Life made by the artist RemusBrailoiu.
The video Caddy made with the Displate sponsor segment was uploaded three years ago, the two prints RemusBrailoiu are long gone from the website, and someone is selling Bored Ape NFTs and AI art as prints on said website.
It's a damn shame the website went down the shitter in terms of quality control, because I was seriously considering picking up a print or two from it back then.
Caddy makes great videos but the sponsored segments are kinda annoying. At least he makes them unique.
yeah IMO the big problem with them is the price and the fact that they have zero quality control over what actually goes onto the plates so the store is filled with scam images. Your video is spot on. Keep up the good work!
I got a displate add while watching a video bad mouthing them XD
they need some kind of proper artist verification system for quality control. on a site where its this easy to post shit quality control is important and it drags the whole experience down severely, same issue as with sites like redbubble and shit. if you had to manually apply with a small 3-4 poster "portfolio" you could ensure only decent shit gets posted. and maybe a report button for low quality or at least stolen shit. plus on sites like these, ai stuff definitely needs a flag as ai made.
Tbh, i already knew displate was kinda mid. Feels like overengineering a small problem. Also that frame has me fucking livid.
I'd rather get a custom wall scroll tbh. Fabric posters just look nice. but I can definitely see the appeal of a metal poster