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I reject the idea that shopping at a business is "support". Like buying chicken nuggets at the gas station is some kind of civic responsibility; I'm a patron.

Capitalists have actually convinced people that shopping is a moral act. In America, we don't protest in the street. We burn our Nikes in a Tic Tock.

Local is still better than giving your money to evil corp. And honestly, local shops struggle against bigger corps. They don't have graphic design artists on hand to make posters. What are you expecting them to do. The shops that don't have AI generated posters usually have menus and posters that are years out of date because it costs too much to update them.

Seeing as you didn't make the meme and it's been around for a while, obviously not

Life is binary there can be no nuance

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get over yourself

I'm not bothered. They are small local shops. The owners are shopkeepers and not graphic designers. Graphic design is hard, not everybody can do that on their own. Many of them have trouble maintaining even a basic website with their opening hours. Many shops do not have the budget to hire a graphic designer for every task.

There now is a tech that allows them to create reasonably good looking signs. And that is fine.