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If you feel the need to advertise like this you are a bad person and your product is shit. Like this actively breeds contempt towards your product, how can this be an intelligent move?
Because someone took a photo in anger and uploaded it and it's being advertised for free on every social media platform that this gets posted - and reposted - to. That's the game. It's all about getting eyeballs on your ad.
but i now hate the product.
Doesn't matter, attention is attention
Except it isn't.
Bad ad campaign have destroyed brands in the past, hope it happens here.
Only if the public remembers, and in this 4-second attention economy...
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They got my attention. I hate them and will never remotely consider using their product.
Were you even considering using it in the first place?
No? Then you're just a vector for the advertisement to spread, now as am I, and everyone who commented and upvoted this post.
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I saw a post recently about how a business owner was mad about getting bad reviews because customers didn't like that they were getting facebook DMs from clicking on an ad
and, like, no shit? who the fuck wants a DM because they allegedly clicked on an ad while scrolling? fuck anybody who advertises like that
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We're talking about it right now, which means people are thinking about it. That means they successfully got to us.
I’ve tried not thinking about Polymarket and the situation as it currently exists occurred. I don’t think ignoring it works.
It's a gambling company their customers don't have critical thinking skills.
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Again:
Do not share advertisements. They are toxic to society, always based in a lie, and never of benefit. Making fun of them is not better than genuinely shilling for the company. Block ads. Destroy them where possible. Seek to have them banned wherever possible. They are not welcome on Lemmy, and if you are going to share them, neither are you.
I mustve missed the part where everyone decided you have unilateral decision making over who gets to participate here.
the meeting was last tuesday at 15:00 - didn't you read the memo?
I wish taggers would target ads instead of public buildings and infrastructure or even normal businesses.
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Yes we paid for a fortune cookie ad in bed!
Wait… what?! What the hell man?
Next is going to be toilet paper ads.
Kleenex ads. Electric car engine noises play ads. An ad on your shawarma wrap or heat pressed onto the pita. Ads on your furnace filters. Your tide pods.
Anything you might look at really.
toilet paper ads
So polymarket and other betting... things, will finally be useful.
No, it’ll be glossy instead of absorbent.
Exactly like how this ad cookie uses different paper than a fortune cookie.
You just know that paper made the cookie taste weird too
Thankfully, the genius of Polymarket will allow you to bet on whether or not their fortune cookie ad campaign will result in casualties
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Everytime I hear about these gambling companies I'm wondering if there will be a monstrous, public backlash.
Everyone should put money up on the bet that the polymarket CEO lives a long healthy life.
If this happened to me, I’m sorry to my local shops who sold it to me. Yall just lost a customer.
I got a good laugh out of this one from a few years ago.
Ban advertising entirely.
Jesus, they're not even trying to hide how greedy they are
"We paid to have ads inserted into the I Ching. Now every fourth hexagram is 'Drink Slurm!'"
To remove ads, please drink the verification can to continu--
You are participating in the problem by posting this.
Yeah, I feel like if we blurred the advertiser, we could get away with this point.
Does it not work to shame the advertiser?
Is polymarket capable of shame? Is any company for that matter?
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Gianmarco is a comedian btw. It's likely just a joke and not real.
I’ve had several fortune cookies where the fortune was an ad for gambling or crypto
Damn.. I really wanted to keep that ounce of innocence, but now it's gone 😞
Capitalism rapes everything it can
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Nothing like ads for illegal gambling in your cookie.
I expect to live long enough to see "smart" toilet paper that wants you to rate your wipe.
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https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/l-p-d-libertarian-police-department
“Subway™ Eat Fresh and Freeze, Scumbag!®” I yelled.
Everyone's looking to cash in, fortune cookie makers included.
Good comedian
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