• the_green_bastard@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Any traffic on Reddit or engagement with anything they’re doing is bad. Quit visiting r/place. All you’re doing is padding numbers for their IPO stats.

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      2 years ago

      I think that getting “fuck u/spez” and ads for the competition all over it is a big win, personally. They are getting a bunch of negative press from this.

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        2 years ago

        You want to give Reddit bad press? Stop posting links to Lemmy. Start posting links to fetish porn.

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          2 years ago

          There are people doing that sorta stuff too if you wanna join them. Some QR codes up there.

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          2 years ago

          An investment firm executive will have zero clue about what the hell a spe

          An investment firm executive makes it their business to know everything there is to know about negative press (or anything else that could jeopardize their management of an IPO), which this campaign is generating huge amounts of…

        • Holymoly@lemmynsfw.com
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          This is stupid to me. You really think advertisers look only at the stats and not the content? Having been part of trans who had to decide “who to spend our money on” - the content matters A LOT

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          Kinda true but we also know that advertisers can be very picky about having their content displayed next to sensitive content or even profanity. So seeing a guillotine and fuck spez written all over Place on Day 1 was pretty cool