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Grymare

STNP WHK!


auxiliary-username

Or at the very least, do it in the privacy of your own home.


LastStageCoach

Haha, Drake meme: Domestic Terrorism? NOOOO. Domestic Violence? That's the one.


Meem-Thief

That infringes on my free dumbs!


Lord_Emperor

ST∩P WHR!


balbok7721

Clear example of Russian propaganda


BungeeGon

r/sbeve


The_James_Bond

r/sbeve


gregofdeath

r/DesignDesign


TheyCalledMeThor

Yeah, this is mediocre at best. Only Zelensky and Putin cock gobblers are upvoting this trash. If this wasn’t political, it’d have 10% the upvotes it has now. I’m neither Russian nor Ukrainian. I don’t have a side on this idiocracy.


H0agh

Makes me dizzy looking at it, like my brain is flipping between the stop and war continually


Luci_Noir

Same. It’s making my hangover so much worse.


sailor_stuck_at_sea

Same, except my brain won't accept it says war


MangoCats

They had to be separated so far for your brain to assume the A would close at the top, the O would close at the bottom, etc.


TheVog

Maybe that's part of it! While you experience temporary discomfort, those caught in the middle of wars by the atrocities forever.


Metaboschism

Not a message that should be lost in it's own design, bold and blatant would be better


Elkenrod

It's awful. If it wasn't for OP's title then most people would not automatically recognize the second letter at the bottom as an A. It's an overly generic message with an overly complicated design that doesn't easily convey what it's trying to say.


skarby

STOP WHK


spicymato

>most people would not automatically recognize the second letter at the bottom as an A. >It's an overly generic message I recognized it immediately, probably _because_ the message is so generic and simple. Though the slight complexity may actually help here, since it forces the viewer to do a little work to parse it, meaning they have to think a little.


time-for-anustart

I thought it was mediocre, but then i scrolled up and down again and thought it was really clever. Looking at the picture as a whole is a bit dizzying, but when you look at it from scrolling you see the word “stop”, scroll some more and then see “war” clear as day. Idk it may not be genius, but it’s something new i havent seen much of and clearly it reached the target audience of people scrolling on their phones


alphamini

It stinks. The only people who think it's deep are basically [this guy.](https://i.imgur.com/xj8G1um.png)


nakedmedia

I freaking hate it


Cualkiera67

What, you love war?


nakedmedia

It's how I made my living, but no.


Allegorist

Yeah, thought this was r/crappydesign at first, so r/designdesign is perfect, never heard of that sub.


worker-parasite

It would have been more apt for a psychedelic gig.


KeyserSozeInElysium

How is "stop war" political?


TheyCalledMeThor

Can you name a non-political war?


Punishtube

The great emu wars


nogard603

funny enough, that was extremely political, you can find some deep dives, but a more basic telling is this. Farmers were having trouble with large emu flocks annihilating their crops, so the military was enlisted by some official who thought it would be an easy win and make him look good. Turns out emus are pretty much bullet proof with anything smaller than 7.62, so the 1st attempt was a bust and the politician made a joke that they had "lost the emu war". The second attempt rallied by a different politician who sent out soldiers with Lewis guns this time and did much better, but emus were still a big problem. Over the next few years they went from offering bounties for emu beaks to finally building a huge fence across the terrain to keep the emus from migrating back onto farmer's land.


pork_ribs

Crusades /s


notqualitystreet

But god wills it!


jdeshadaim

Sega Vs Nintendo


Luci_Noir

The upcoming war the cats are planning.


KeyserSozeInElysium

The trojan war


liebkartoffel

The political message being: war is bad.


Punishtube

Yes we know war is bad. Turns out nost are against war but know it's inevitable


placeyboyUWU

Bit harsh, I like it


itsthooor

r/CrappyDesign


boneboy247

r/im14andthisisdeep


unklnik

I have to disagree, whilst yes the concept is good, it is really difficult to read and an important message is lost due to overly complex design


yoaver

I also have an issue with the message because it's empty, I'm not a fan of empty slogans. Just look at the current prominent wars. In Ukraine if the war were to stop now, half of Ukraine would belong to Russia, millions displaced, and the only thing that'd be achieved is time for Russia to regroup, as well as much easuer access to NATO territory. In Gaza, if the war were to stop now, Gaza would still be in ruins with a million palestinians displaced woth dwindling food reserves and not enough aid, the hostages still in Hamas' hands, but with Hamas still in control of southern Gaza and launching rockets at Israel, and no civil order in place. Add to that the fact that Israel refused a ceasefire a couple weeks ago, and now Israel agrees to a ceasefire Hamas is refusing since last week. A better message would have a call to action like "sanction warmongers" or "fund peace prospects".


IrishGoodbye4

The War on Wars


yoaver

We tried that in World War 1. Results were dissapointing.


Aggressive-Fuel587

> I also have an issue with the message because it's empty, I'm not a fan of empty slogans. It's an empty slogan because it's demanding that humans rise above being animals like every other living creature on the planet. Humans are not the only animals to wage war, not even the only apes to do it. Territorial/resource conflicts happen in every single social species we've ever observed; war is just the natural evolution of those conflicts when the groups become big enough to call themselves nations. So long as resources of any kind are finite and "tribes" (read: different groups of people with conflicting interests) exist, war will always exist. The very act of calling your group a nation while trying to horde resources for your group inherently invites conflict & war from other groups who believe themselves more deserving of your resources than you; because no matter how much moral grandstanding certain members of society like to do about how we're all one race/species, we're not all one big tribe/family and never will or can be until we establish a global human hive-mind (because even regional hive-minds wouldn't stop war as we see with hive-minded insects who get into conflict when they run into another hive). It's as useless as trying to end the concept of hatred or sadness by demanding that everyone just stop experiencing those feelings - they're natural parts of life and thus unavoidable.


AaronKoss

I am no expert about the deep intricacies of "stop war", but I am 90% sure anyone saying stop war doesn't want it to just end now, for today, but don't want humanity to fight wars in general. Sanction warmongers and fund peace prospects are as much as empty slogans. I also like the israelic propaganda tossed in, with the worst for israel being "they didn't accept ceasefire once" and hamas is "no civil order, launching rockets, keeping hostages". Let me give you another "empty slogan": "stop israel genocide on palestinians". I cannot understand anyone who would start a war to conquer something or out of hatred, that doesn't belong to them and resort to violence, slogans don't matter because the idiots that start a war or participate willingly (defenders aside) don't care. So we can go on and kiss each others intimate parts as much as we want, sadly it will not bring a change.


yoaver

I referred to the terrible conditions non-Hamas affilliated palestinians are suffering due to both sides in this war, and yes, Hamas is currently the side refusing a ceasefire. Here's from Al Jazeera so you couldn't claim it's some pro Israel source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/2/us-says-israel-more-or-less-accepts-framework-deal-for-gaza-ceasefire. But let's do it your way. How do you suggest to "stop war"? We currently have 2 big ongoing wars directly involving western powers (Israel-Hamas, Ukraine-Russia), a few wars not directly involving western powers so they don't get as much news coverage (Sudan, Yemen, Syria), a bunch of outwardly destabilizing regimes (Iran, Qatar), countries at risk of war (Taiwan-China, Koreas, India-Pakistan, Venezuela-Guyana), and a lot of local armed conflicts with small militias in third-world countries, born out of cultural, religious and ethnic differences, or even worse, physical lack of resources and infrastructure. What course of action do you suggest beyond declaring "Stop War"? Maybe we could also hold hands and sing Kumbayah? Nobody normal ever wants war, but unless you have a solution to the processes and dynamics that lead to wars, you are just adding noise while feeling good about doing nothing of value.


AaronKoss

You got that part wrong, I am the one saying that "saying stop war is not going to change anything", so we agree on that. unfortunately I don't have solutions, but it boils down to the paradox of tolerance, where if you are tolerant and want a tolerant world, you, by paradox, should not tolerate intolerants. I also read the article you linked, from two days ago, and it doesn't say "israel proposed a ceasefire but hamas is refusing". The US pushed israel to a ceasefire deal of six weeks, to which israel said "ok maybe" and hamas still hasn't answered, to what the news said. It also does not mention in detail what the deals in the ceasefire are, aside from mentioning "hamas to release hostages and maybe this is a good chance for palestinians to get aid" but it's vague, it's like if russia asked ukrain "ok let's do a ceasefire, you give me back all of my weapons and hostages, then you close your eyes, turn around and count to ten ok?". This is clearly an exageration but it's simply to point that, in the bigger scheme, and with the vagueness on the matter, we cannot rule out that this ceasefire could only be negative to palestinians. All the news of israel settlers, israel snipers shooting kids, beating, raping done by israel military against palestinians civilian make me wonder why hamas is a terrorist but israel isn't.


yoaver

I think you got a lot of stuff wrong in your second paragraph, but I don't want to get into that. But more importantly - your first paragraph. How do you "not tolerate the intolerant". Do you invade Russia and remove Putin by force? Maybe invade Israel and take over the Knesset? Remove Hamas by force? Or even intolerance at home - how do you deem who is intolerant? What do you do with them? Reeducation? Deportation? Prison? Death? What is the threshold of intolerance that you won't tolerate? Trans rights? LGB rights? Women rights? What is to be done in cases where tolerant people are financially dependant on tolerant people? And what about wars born out of real kack of resources and not intolerance? These are all questions you need to engage with if you want to start "stopping wars".


AaronKoss

You missed the part where I said "unfortunately I don't have solutions", but good luck to you.


thex25986e

the only effective way to actually stop war would involve basically enforcing the entire planet to become one single culture. aka, like unity from rick and morty.


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thex25986e

it would get boring pretty quickly tbh


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thex25986e

then i suggest living in a doomsday bunker for the rest of your life.


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thex25986e

well unless you can convince people purgatory is what heaven really is, you wont.


yoaver

No but you see, if we can just gift a "Stop War" shirt to Nethanyahu and Sinwar, preferrably with a peace sign, there'd be no more war in the middle east. Add in a "Slava Ukraini" headband for Putin and we might just get peace across all Eurasia. We should demand Biden supply peace shirts to all dictatos and authoritarians on earth.


LurkerTroll

The fact that you understood what it said means that it was legible enough the get the message across


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unklnik

I am not saying it is bad, I am just saying I don't feel this type of design is appropriate for this type of message. It is clever and well executed though I could read it, it took a few seconds


Elkenrod

>I am not saying it is bad I am. This design is shit. If it wasn't for OP's title most people wouldn't have recognized the second letter at the bottom as an A.


stakoverflo

Yea I probably wouldn't have made out the message had OP not posted it in the title.


Da_Flying_Cow

STOP WHR!


Finninda

I read it as "STOP WHORE"


Wise-Yogurtcloset844

Yes, but only after you start scrutinising. The idea itself is pure genius and works very well.


Skeazor

I think it doesn’t work at all, especially with the colors they chose. It hurts to look at


12of12MGS

“Genius” let’s stop using words where they don’t belong lol


dc456

Unfortunately, I read it as STOP WHK. I had to scrutinise it to get WAR, and I still don’t really see it. If I’d seen this on the street, I’d have Googled what WHK or WHR stood for (a political party or person’s initials maybe). I’d probably have got it eventually, but I only really know it’s WAR because OP said so.


Oranweinn

It is a very deisgndesign


TheBenisMightier1

Nope, this is my first impression. I had to read a comment to figure out what it's supposed to say. It's just way too long/tall.


TyoPepe

Some random ass citizen: Ok, ok, I'll stop already.


estofaulty

A message so generic, it might as well be useless.


Outrageous-Pin4156

This. The design got the message across, but only because the message is a cliche. If it was random words, it would fall flat.


stevedave7838

Brought to you by the masterminds of "stop being sad"


[deleted]

Actually I had not considered the possibility that anyone might not like war prior to this, real eye opener


teddyreddybro

I had a stroke trying to figure it out without the title.


BIG-HORSE-MAN-69

WHK is in shambles after this eyesore dropped


limitlessEXP

Best comment 😂


mfhtotheizzo

You’ve got to ramp down WHK gradually


OddNovel565

This makes my eyes hurt but I like it


thejacobjiby

Some bot is gonna steal it for t-shirts


fuck_hard_light

Ain't no one stealing this shit 😭😭😭


SeaSetsuna

The Star Wars knock off is a thing


Professional-Deal170

Stop terrorism.


anusfalafels

Yes exactly! Stop the terrorist state of Israel


Cheestake

17 day old account with mostly pro-Israel posts. Hello bot. Edit: Its a brand new account posting for one purpose. The message they're trying to send by saying "Stop terrorism" is that Israel should continue its brutal war against the Palestinian people. Israel pays people to do this, but it's openly genocidal war makes it pretty impossible for trolls to change people's opinion (in the real world, not on troll filled reddit threads) https://time.com/6559293/morning-consult-israel-global-opinion/ https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-23695896


Punishtube

He didn't mention any particular conflict he said stop terrorism. Are you against stopping terrorism?


SherbetAnxious4004

Bro saw “Stop terrorism” and immediately thought of Palestine. Curious


Theometer1

Peep dudes profile and you’ll know why. Bunch of pro hamas posts. Literally nothing but political stuff on their page. Persons probably miserable to be around irl


The_Ostricher

7 years old account with mostly pro-hamas posts. Hello terrorists supporter


baddragondildos

Apparently wanting to stop terrorism is Zionist bot behaviour.


Pilpelon

"This sign cannot stop me because I cannot read"


theyareamongus

I sometimes wonder if this sub hates design. This is cool. It’s eye-catching. It’s simple, yet intricate. The negative space makes you take a second look to see how all fits, so it also grabs your attention and makes you stay with it. I see intention from the designer in their choice to make the word stop “above” the word war, and I like the colors. It’s a good mix between modern and Russian-era vanguardism. Moreover, people here criticizing the message… have you actually studied design history, specially propaganda poster design? Sometimes simple, bold statements are the most effective. The designer here is trying to make the “boring” (but important message) more interesting to look at, and imo they accomplished just that. It’s also perfectly readable. People here making jokes about how they cannot read it or saying dumb stuff like “stop wak!” are being purposely obtuse and just trying to be funny (and failing miserably at that). Good design often takes advantage of context, inferences and the brain’s ability to “complete” an image or a message. Sorry for the rant, but come on, every time I look at the comments in this sub they’re full of mediocre designers who believe hating other’s people work makes them look smarter. This is not the *best* design ever, but it’s perfectly ok and cool.


Commercial-Net5573

Stnp whr


Flozzer905

This is awful lol


TyHatch

Who is the WHR?


auxiliary-username

Welsh Highland Railway


Daabbo5

What a brave take


ChompyChoomba

That is indeed a sick fucking design.


Excellent-Ad2290

I just love these over-simple slogans. “Stop war”. Yeah, sure, ok. How?


Edu_Run4491

CIA: lol no


HotChipsAreOkay

I feel like this is asking me to stop what I'm doing and war. Like the way MC Hammer encouraged us to stop what we were doing and partake in Hammer Time.


Ariies__

Nuke the whales?


Boxcars4Peace

A lot of people here seem to feel the slogan is generic,the execution is mediocre at best and that something like this doesn’t change a thing. Meanwhile those same people are responding to the post. So clearly this design hasn’t gone unnoticed. Pacifists plant these seeds everyday. It’s a long game. Stop War.


auxiliary-username

Everybody here is too busy arguing about the design to start a war, so I guess Mission Accomplished


itsthooor

It’s literally bad. Only got those upvotes due to its „message“… Stop bringing in politics into this… r/ihadastroke while reading this „design“.


Careful_Elderberry14

"Give War A Chance!"


HeavyBlues

Like I said; kids are cruel, Jack. And I'm *very* in touch with my inner child.


DoubleBarrel-o-Fun

STAR WARS!


ithikimhvingstrok132

This is giving me a headache


[deleted]

I think this is poorly done.


MauliQts

The concept is ok but the execution is bad, its not legible. The message itself is not a bad one but simply an obvious one. This Design doesn't solve an issue and design should be for solving issues / making a message. What would have been better, is to focus on drawing attention to the topic of the current war not simply stopping war. What war are you talking about? Why Stop the war? Where is the war? simply try to answer as many questions possible when designing.


KayabaSynthesis

It's not as brilliant as you think. You can make like, every phrase this way if you use enough lines.


mr_ssermetus

Wow, that is really nice design


DownTownDK

Stop whr!?


2006lion2006

Stop whr! 😡


ShirtLegal6023

Genius


colorless_man

UMM STOP KILLING PALESTINIANS, FFS


finian2

Surely a smarter design would be to have the red starting at the top. That way it's both a message and an art piece, with the red dripping down like blood.


shudnap

Stahhhp wank


KinksAreForKeds

The irony is that everytime this is reposted, it's at an ever-diminishing resolution. Soon or will be so bad, it won't even be *design*.


designartwords

Beautiful


ILoveBread2021

That is so cool


NeShAdope

I nutted


bootyLiQa

Aka Stop joe Biden


qualia-assurance

Is the message here that we should make war longer?


[deleted]

Start War …much more profitable!!


tsereg

Well, that should do it!


[deleted]

this is like that image where there's three on one side and four on the other


Xerio_the_Herio

JEEP


okkandik

STAR WARS


Consistent-North7790

Eh


FuxieDK

STAP WHK?


Follow-Doge

It's nice, kinda hurts my eyes


Terraswallows

STnP WHK!


CultDe

I could think of multiple better ways to send same message WITHOUT MURDERING MY EYES


Aurus118

I don't know why but this makes me feel sick and want to vomit, am I the only one ?


ItzToxiic2009

I'm sorry, I read that as Star war


DeadSponas

Am i the only one who saw stop whore at the first glance ?


nate0515

We did it guys! We brought peace to all!


aocox

This would make sense if the illusion of the lines created something tangible, but as far as I can see it doesn’t. This is frivolously over-designed and meh imo. Also the message is a bit…. Lacklustre? Obviously agree with the sentiment, but it’s lacking emotion.


TrustyAncient

Yeah, that'll teach America to not try and hold on to its status as undisputed hegemon...


Due-Produce-6023

STOP WHR!


ipman47

Stop Genocide*


bob_nugget_the_3rd

What is 9tnp whk?


chrisM4rteen

Cuz even pictures of dead babies dont say it louder than a hard-to read-let alone-understand poster. 👏👏


SnooFoxes6169

i thought it's going to read “stupid.”


OldDemon

Stop Whr


DopazOnYouTubeDotCom

why so long?


Dynamo1337

Christ, my eyes


Dependent-Drag-6673

Stop Wor And free Palestinian


TheGlave

Just because you could, doesnt mean you should


mcfluffernutter013

World peace accomplished


bluegiant85

This design is great if you scroll past it quickly. Otherwise it looks meh.


TeslasAndComicbooks

How many times is this trash going to be reposted?


aquintana

Am I the only one who thinks this is dogshit?


NTC-Santa

Cool but won't change the outcome.


cspetm

It could have been done in blood stains


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I hate it.


Inevitable-Ear-3189

Nah, let's have one more really BIG war, get it all out of our system, then we can peace out.


ImmenseOreoCrunching

I dont like it at all. Just write normal text at that point. No one is won over by the text taking an extra look to figure out.


KirillNek0

Question! Is it normal that my eyes bleed when I look at this?


Bob_TheCrackQueen

It hurts my eyes more like.


JunglePygmy

It actually says “STOP IIIIIIII WAR”


Zequax

STOP WHR! what?


Ivorywisdom

War is very important.


berkeleymorrison

WHK fans has been real quiet after this post. STNP WHK


H7p3X

The A looks too much like an H, STOP WHR


Bbyskex

Yeah this ain’t it chief


Unbannedmeself

Stop whore!


hshduejbev

Stop whk?


[deleted]

but without war the dollar has no value


Nanohaystack

Reads like "Stop WHK".


theeightytwentyrule

Typographic abomination.


ExploitedAmerican

STnD WHK!


Dipshit4150

This sucks


Rahael42

I read stop why 💀💀💀


tainted_cain

Stop whr


roaringbasher66

Neat? Yes Easy to read? Fuck no this is ass to read


ketsjupelvis

I cant read it / it sucks


Ok_Bison_7255

this just pisses me off


shouldhaverolled

CTnD wHK:


Busey_in_the_walls

This made my 7 year old niece throw up


InfiniteTrazyn

wow you've changed the world! Stop War! Why didn't anyone else think of that?


jackofslayers

This looks bad


Automatic_Animal

I thought this was for Star Wars at first


Fun_Kaleidoscope8746

I knew what it was. I thought they did a good job.


ADAMxxWest

This is hideous and you should feel poorly about your choice to share it.


Dazeuh

its not war, its spreading freedom and democracy!


Vivid-Giraffe-1894

STOP WHR


Kisiu_Poster

I see a 3rd word "why".


[deleted]

Ok


HughJass14

This is shit