• Delphia@lemmy.world
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    Yeah, they used paid models to do some weird shit who took the job and by hashtagging it, retweeting it and sharing it on Lemmy you just put the PaloAlto logo in front of millions more people…

    Its almost like their plan worked perfectly

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    Even if we accept the idea that “booth babes” are a legitimate marketing ploy, this symbolic blinding-and-deafening of them and removing their faces (symbolically, their humanity) is superfuckingweird.

    Seriously, how this got through to execution is pretty shameful.

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      Booth babes turned me off car and motorcycle shows… Get me someone who can talk about the product, not a girl hired to look good around it.

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      It’s happy hour, having a lamp shade on your head while drunk at a house party is a very old media trope, you are reaching SO hard.

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        You normally dress up in slinky black dress and stand motionless in front of some advertising for a multi-billion dollar computer company at these house parties?

        This is a shame too, as Paloalto has some good products. Now they have a layer of “skeeve” slathered on.

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        For men. It’s a very old trope for men.

        Because women in the 1950s when the trope started wouldn’t put something stupid on their heads. Even if they were drunk.

        You’re rationalizing SO hard.

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    Looks like someone managed to work their forniphilia kink into the event booth. I don’t even know how this would tie back to Palo Alto in the slightest

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      omg i completely forgot it had a name i had just been calling it jd vance syndrome

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    This has more to do with cybersecurity than you think: Anyone who thinks this booth is related to cybersecurity urgently needs cybersecurity advice.

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      idk, maybe that women have a bright mind.

      But I don’t think they want us to tell anything at all, other than that it’s marketing that makes people look.

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    As long as they’re getting paid well to do a job they want to do and have breaks, I don’t see the problem. It’s a job and in this capitalist world, bills have to be paid somehow. Pretty low effort way to earn some money.