10/20/2026
🚨 **WARNING: CONTROVERSIAL POST AHEAD!** 🚨
So some people are boycotting businesses because they use AI to advertise their products? Seriously? 🤣
Let me ask you something...
**Have you EVER ordered a McDonald's burger that looked ANYTHING like the picture on the menu???** 🍔😂
Come on!!!
Businesses have been using Photoshop, professional photographers, perfect lighting and every trick in the book to make their products look better for DECADES.
But now that AI allows small businesses to create decent advertising without spending a fortune, suddenly it's a SCANDAL? 🤦♀️
And here's something people seem to forget...
**TIME!!!**
As a small business owner, I can tell you there are NEVER enough hours in a day! Customers, inventory, suppliers, paperwork, accounting, events, cleaning, fixing problems and the 300 other things that magically land on our plates!
Marketing is just ONE more thing to squeeze in.
If AI allows me to create a promotional picture in 10 minutes instead of two hours, guess what?
That's almost TWO HOURS I can spend actually RUNNING my business, helping customers, discovering new products or maybe, just MAYBE, having a life outside of work! 😂
AI doesn't run our businesses for us. We still have to come up with ideas, make decisions and do the actual WORK.
**It's a TOOL. And a pretty damn useful one!**
Now, if a business deliberately misrepresents what it's selling, that's a different story. I'm not defending that BS.
But threatening to boycott a hardworking small business because they used AI for an advertisement?
Give me a break! 🙄
**Judge the PRODUCT, the SERVICE and the PEOPLE behind the business. Not the software they used to make a pretty picture.**
There. I said it. 🍷😂
