So I checked out reddit after a long time and was going through the top of r/videogames subreddit and I could clearly see a pattern in most of the posts there. Posts were mostly like “what game ______ for you?” or “what game _____ like this?” Now I could be wrong but it doesn’t feel ‘organic’ (if that’s correct way to put it). It’s like these are put up intentionally. Thoughts?

  • Ginger666@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Reddit isn’t the only place this is happening.

    Nice to know there are other monkeys on this planet that can open their fucking eyes.

    Anyone notice the amount of memes used as free advertising? Disney has been doing it for a while, and crushed it with the mini Yoda in that shit TV show.

    Fuck Disney.

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      6 months ago

      When it’s obvious its so funny and then depressing. Hanging out in r/marvel is a good example.

      Then there is other subs and online places like those r/AITHA and relationship advice places where mods or someone is generating content multiple times a day that people will call out as being made up but still engage with.

      Its too bad culture jamming fizzled out because we could all really fuck with this stuff if we organized a bit. Its why I lover sub reddits like r/fighterandthekid and r/joerogan or r/opieandanthony because how they turned on the product they were trying to sell. It took a handful of random people producing legit funny content to steam roll the advertisers. A couple guys with free time can super fuck these companies if they organized. They have to get paid we don’t.

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        6 months ago

        /r/AITA doesn’t even hide their karma farming bullshit. 95% of that dogshit is like “Hey guys, I kissed my boyfriend and made him a five course meal. Then I rubbed his feet and bought him 5 ps5s to let him know I love him. Today, he ruthlessly beat the shit out of me, hit me with his car, punched me in the throat and then shit on my face. I refused to be treated like this, so I left him. He’s now begging for me to come back, and I feel bad. AITA for leaving him over this?” And then karma flows like gold in El dorado.

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      I really liked mini Yoda. I don’t get why you hate Disney so much.

      So much great content. Really is the golden age of television now that the companies like Disney and Netflix are all trying to compete with each other.

      I always enjoying pirating their shows and movies.

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        They deleted the Expanded Universe as canon so they could bastardize what was left.

        Nothing star wars related since disney bought out lucasarts has been worth spending any time on.

        I cant wait for them to fuck up KOTOR like they did with the og battlefront.

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          The expanded universe never was canon though. At least not movie-level canon. That means it’s still just as much canon as it used to be. If you haven’t, give Andor a try. That show is genius.

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      6 months ago

      I’m 100% sure Baby Yoda was specifically created to sell merchandise.

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      I don’t know, I feel like advertisements CAN be entertaining content, much like how people for decades have only wanted to watch the Super Bowl for the commercials. The problem, and the reason I have ad blockers all over the place, is that they don’t design the commercials to be entertaining. They want to drill it in to you with endless repetition, or banner ads every 2 paragraphs on a news article.

      It is these problems that cause me to want to block ads, not ads in general.