Are culture jammers Acceptable Targets?

We've seen Strawmen Politicals, Soapbox Sadies, and in-universe Moral Guardians.

But I wonder what works have attempted to depict culture jammers as some sort of target.

edited 14th Jul '15 11:29:36 AM by Worlder

What are culture jammers? The new-age "cherry-pick from different cultures and smush them all together" kind of people, or "ooh, let's go nuts about this Exotic Foreign Culture and talk about how much better it is than Western culture"?

It's people who ... let's say "alter" advertisements and similar stuff, not for the sake of vandalising it, but for the sake of lampshading whatever there could be to lampshade.

Wikipedia seems to mark them as some union of anti-consumerists and anarchists, if that helps you any with understanding it.

I think I should've made it more specific and said "self-proclaimed culture jammers".

Hmm, there are already a lot of obnoxious haughty pretentious "Holier Than Thou" characters in fiction, perhaps this is just another variation.

edited 14th Jul '15 1:44:17 PM by Worlder

To be honest, if you remember them mostly as "holier than thou" types who are self-proclaimed whatever then that's their main type, not the "whatever" thing; not "culture jammers" or "pancake makers" or whatever else, but "holier than though" annoyances.

Yeah, good idea.

Well in that case I suppose my "target" mostly runs on Rule-Abiding Rebel.

edited 14th Jul '15 7:17:34 PM by Worlder

Annoying is in the eye of the beholder. However, those who deface ads for the sake of "I'm offended" are just vandals.

Kate Moss was part of the "heroin chic" look of The '90s, every graffiti artist in New York used to spray "Feed Me" on ads with her (very) skinny frame. That's funny, so much so that even a CNN puff piece on that era of fashion mentioned that.

Those who scrawl cluster vulgar words on ads in public (regardless of their content) or deface and ruin products that people need (for instance smashing glassware because the ad copy featured Fanservice), scrawling "ironic" messages on a metro transit map because [INSERT CAUSE HERE], The "activist" who fights for their cause despite being told Stop Helping Me by other activists doing real work, that would be annoying.

Nothing is an Acceptable Target.

However, showing the different sides of the culture jammers in your story (support: pointing out how many fashion magazines portray an aura of self-loathing and body inadequacy that can even affect how men see women) (bad: obnoxiously defacing advertisements based on inaccurate research or exaggerated claims due to low self-esteem or economic jealousy) would be a good step.

Culture Jammers are diverse like people, and not all of them are the same, but of course for every good one there are 3 stupid ones.

I'm not sure you understand the trope. Acceptable Targets describes a behavior of the author, not some kind of fundamental truth.