• These will be destroyed in microseconds, and rightfully so.

    Toilet stalls are one of the most frequently vandalised things.

        • 3 months

          Their public toilets are immaculate. They have a strong sense of public responsibility.

        • 3 months

          Japan is a paradise, don’t you watch anime?

            • 3 months

              Diffefent from which one? Do you think that there are only two cultures in the world? 🙃 I don’t use google, and don’t know how relevanf graffiti is to discussion about displays in toilets.

                • 3 months

                  Re-read three times until you find two countries in the thread.

        • 3 months

          You see their username, right? The most weaboo of weaboo shit? Of course they have completely misguided opinions on their anime paradise.

          • 3 months

            I’m fairly often in Japan for work. They won’t touch those screens.

  • Saw this in a bar once. You could see the SD card storing ads hidden in a vent. People mistook it for a camera and got the place full of police officers. Not a good move

  • Look if I see a screen in a bathroom I’m NOT trusting that there isn’t also a camera

    • 3 months

      And if there’s not a camera, that screen was broke when I got here.

      • 3 months

        If there’s a camera in the bathroom then you definitely have a home run lawsuit, at least in America.

  • 3 months

    The computers in the restroom are literally free, you can just take them. It’s a free computer with a screen!

  • 3 months

    If only there was something regularly produced in toilet stalls to use for giving feedback…

  • 3 months

    Is it still illegal to have cameras in the bathroom? Because hammers and spray paint are cheap and easily concealable.

  • Places have been doing this for years but not with screens. Just like a bulletin board with ads. Even on your table.

    Places like that, you don’t go back to unless you have to. In laws couldn’t understand why I didn’t like their favorite pizza place.

    • 3 months

      Before that people used to write phone numbers on the stall walls advertising things.

    • The difference is most ad systems with screens also have a camera built in to the hardware, because they’re just repackaged tablets.

      If I want faceless companies to watch me shit I’d buy meta glasses, but I really really do not want that.

      • 3 months

        I don’t think the videos would turn out. They’d be overexposed.

  • Look, if the revenue goes straight into maintaining the restroom and keep it from looking like, well, a public restroom I honestly don’t mind.

    Something tells me that’s just wishful thinking, though…

    • 3 months

      If we could get public restrooms like the ones in Japan just for watching a few ads, I’d be all for it…

  • Pretty sure I saw advertisements on screens in bathrooms in American nightclubs and bars over twenty years ago. I think they didn’t have one per cubicle, though.

  • 3 months

    So we get to punch or spray paint the screen, right?

    Fuck advertising

  • 3 months

    Everyone is quick to judge but no one has asked themselves if this is for the sexy ads. This could make things a lot easier.

    • 3 months

      Most ads there are sexy ads. That’s a default.

  • 3 months

    I see this less of an issue than the overall lack of public restrooms outside of the major subway stations in Japan in general.

    The vast majority of comments here are painfully unaware of Japanese societal norms and I can guarantee that these won’t be vandalized with exception to maybe the most alt cultured youth areas such as Amerikamura.

    • 3 months

      Yes. When I was there, I was amazed by the public toilets in Tokyo.