You have six seconds to communicate your message. Make sure the most important info is prominent.

• The swastika is both front and center and bigger than the word “takedown.”
  • This gives visual weight to the swastika, and it results in what appears to be a pro-nazi takedown of something.
  • What is a “takedown?” A protest? A fight? A verbal debate?
• The word “protest” is very small
  • This makes it hard to read.
• The word “protest” is overshadowed by the size of Musk doing the salute. This does three things:
  • Onlookers may miss the word entirely
  • It makes the act of protest look small and ineffective against the big, bad Nazis
  • It gives the impression that “this is what we’re doing,” not “this is what we’re protesting.”
• Nowhere is it made obvious that this is an antifascist protest.
  • No swastikas with lines through them, etc.
  • The color palette is the one people associate with Nazis.

If you intend to use red and swastikas, you have to make it so glaringly obvious that this is antifascist, the dumbest person you can think of can get that gist by glancing at it. If that gets their interest, the other seconds need to be spent telling them what and where: Protest, Corpus Christi Tesla (or vice versa).

At that point, they’ll either want to know more, so they’ll look for specifics and actually read the poster, or they’ll wander off and think the fascists won’t come for them.

Hope that helps! And remember, this is a critique. It’s good-faith advice, but you are under no obligation to take any of it in part or in total.