• Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Its crazier going back to reddit and asking if each post is really just an advertising for someone’s product. Its surprising how often a post is a commercial vs real content.

    I saw one yesterday for a water bouncing scooter thing where a guy rides across a river and delivers a beer. Water scooter gets placed perfectly to showcase the name. Multiple comment chains of “cool this looks fun what is it how does it work” along with explanations and hype threads like its a ginsu knife at a Florida flea market.

    Reddit is a commercial that we can comment on

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      8 months ago

      I saw that shit, did you see how hard that guy had to work that thing to keep it upright? Probably not the couch potato weekend toy people hope it is.

      Totally an ad.

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      8 months ago

      That doesn’t line up with my experience at all. I wonder if it might be that the subreddits a person follows make a big difference.

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        It definetly does. Small niche subs dont attract advertisers the way the massive subs do.

        It makes sense advertisers are going to target spaces with the most people