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Relevant ad on Gaia

 

Gaia Online is free, so it can display ads, right? 

 

Wrong. First, Gaia Online is not a game. It’s a forum. It’s a forum made from PhPbb, a ressource that is 100% free and takes 30, maybe 40 minutes to install. There are no music to write, there is no marketing to pay, no programmers, no technical support, no add-ons, no boss to design, no graphics to draw (unlike you consider gay, immobile 2d avatars ”graphics”), nothing. We are not saying Gaia doesn’t have the rights to display ads, we are saying that Gaia is in no way a real game and that ads are more than enough to pay for its bandwith. 

Oh, and here is the kind of ”relevant ad” Gaia Online used to display: 

 

stupidad

 

 

 

**NOTE** I take no credit for this picture. It has been sent to me by e-mail and the author prefer to remain unanymous. 

 

 

 

What kind of message are they trying to send? That women are objects? That women need to wear cute little uniforms and that the sole point of their life has to be seduction? And frankly how could Gaia ever show this to 13-14 years old children? This is one of the reasons we are so disgusted of Gaia Online; not only do they sell virtual crap at a super-expensive price, but they still harass us with their crappy, ugly ads.

 

Since then, Gaia stopped that kind of advertising (obviously), but you can still see that ads presently on the website are always directected at children, such as smilies, education material, etc.

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11 Responses to “Relevant ad on Gaia”

  1. Rin Says:
    February 26th, 2009 at 1:41 am
    That is a very fake ad, easily put in with something like photoshop or even paint.
  2. Alexwebmaster Says:
    March 3rd, 2009 at 8:35 am
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  3. Spike Says:
    March 20th, 2009 at 3:14 pm
    The ads displayed depend on the filtering of the persons account. If they have max filtering then there is low amounts of adult ads and if its on minimal filtering then its high. You seriously need to stop flaming gaia just because you don’t like it. Ever stop and think “Oh well I don’t like it but millions of other people do so I should just walk away and leave it alone”?
  4. Karumi Says:
    March 21st, 2009 at 5:41 pm
    I see some viability in this article. While browsing my inventory on the site, I encountered an ad for a site selling Gaia items for money. Never saw it again, but it was kind of astonishing.
    It depends also when that “screen shot” was taken. I remember back in early ‘05 they did have that sort of advertising, but that was before Gaia announced that it was a site relevant to 13 year olds and up.
    But with that in mind, is that ad relevant now?

    To Spike: Filters have nothing to do with ads. Filters are for profanity only, since many users do swear.
    And it’s more like a million people think it’s a good site.

  5. Luna Says:
    April 29th, 2009 at 2:22 am
    PhP boards?

    I don’t think thats accurate.

  6. O_O Says:
    July 11th, 2009 at 4:14 pm
    ugly ad? shes hot!
  7. chris Says:
    August 5th, 2009 at 3:39 am
    now i play runescape.com and maplestory (get maplestory at nexon.net)
  8. Kunushi Says:
    August 13th, 2009 at 8:37 am
    Karumi, you’re partly wrong again. Do your research. Gaia online has been 13+ announced since it was http://www.go-gaia.com back in 2003 when they first released.
  9. Evil Tuna Sammiches Says:
    August 30th, 2009 at 3:41 pm
    Actually, that isn’t a fake ad because I and many others on the site have seen that ad.
  10. LOL Says:
    September 10th, 2009 at 11:41 pm
    You’re obviously a fucking ranting bitch, nobody cares what you think, all you’re doing is bitching about how gaia makes it’s money.
  11. FRostyPWa Says:
    March 5th, 2010 at 12:28 pm
    Its true that ads are filtered..

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