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[[File:To Plushie Foxy|thumb|280x280px|"[[To Plushie_Foxy]]", one of the more notable pieces of political advertising]]
'''Campaign advertising in [[Nubia]]''' is a tool often used by political campaigns with political posters, videos and attack adverts.

Campaign adverts are mostly published in the officially designated discord channel, #propaganda, during the designated days of campaigning as per election rules in [[Nubia]]. Little regulation exists as to what the content of the election propaganda may be, however this an one hour limit between when the candidate is allowed to post election propaganda.

== History ==

=== Early election propaganda ===
Whilst there was election propaganda published prior, the amount of election propaganda increased drastically with the creation of a dedicated #propaganda channel. The first election propaganda there would be published by [[Greaseballer]], which described previous [[Ancient Egypt-Nubia relations|Nubian relations with Ancient Egypt]] and his involvement in them.

The first attack advert, against Steelerplayer1, was made by [[Greaseballer]], pointing out a misspelling of 'Nubian' as 'Nubain', with a caption saying 'Can you trust this man?'. Reactions to this would mostly mocking Steelerplayer1.

=== Nondevelopment of election propaganda ===
Between the July and September 2020 elections, election propaganda would become more text-based, with the occasional piece of poster propaganda. This would result in the #propaganda discord channel facing complaints of looking like spam and being used for debate. After discussion, a timer was implemented to slow down the rate of how often someone could post election propaganda, with the time varying between 1 hour and 3 hours until [[twomoo1119]] setting it as one hour, which it would remain for all elections after.

=== Rerise of political posters and videos ===
Post-September 2020, campaigning would see less spam type messages as a result of the timer that stopped election propaganda being used too often. Political videos especially would see a rise in usage by the likes of [[iamkeg]] in late 2020, often resulting in increased voter count as it attracted further voters. Towards the end of 2020, these videos would come into less use, however in 2021 videos such as "[[To Plushie_Foxy]]" and "[[Nubia's safety is at risk...]]".

== List of notable campaign adverts ==

* On the 31st June 2020, [[Greaseballer]] would publish the first piece of election propaganda in the designated discord channel, with it describing [[Ancient Egypt-Nubia relations|relations with Ancient Egypt]].
* On the 1st July 2020, [[Greaseballer]] would publish the first attack advert, aimed at Steelerplayer1. This would be one of the more notable events during the July 2020 elections.
* On the 27th August 2020, MasterNathan would publish a political poster that would receive much backlash for its alleged contradictory messages, with the MasterNathan campaign soon withdrawing.
* On the 28th August 2020, [[gorkymoo1119]] would publish the first election propaganda to prominently feature endorsements, with it inspiring other pieces of propaganda to include notable politicians who have endorsed them.
* On the 25th November 2020, [[gorkymoo1119]] and [[Mengan_]] would work alongside [[StarKiller1744]] to publish attack adverts against Wandering_Hero, who was viewed as a threat by them both.
* During the later stages of the [[February 2021 Nubia elections|February 2021 elections]], [[Gorkymoo1119's campaign for the February 2021 Nubia elections|gorkymoo1119's campaign]] would publish "[[To Plushie_Foxy]]", a video that would catch attention due to the controversies including Plushie_Foxy.
* On the 27th March 2021, [[Gorkymoo1119's campaign for the April 2021 Nubia elections|gorkymoo1119's campaign]] would publish "[[Nubia's safety is at risk...]]", a video that would suggest another candidate could lead foreign affairs to disaster.