My Love… Or Your Love?

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
fischtoria
demilypyro

Thinking about all those youtubers and streamers who generally stayed nonpolitical as not to alienate anyone but who absolutely could not handle it when that hogwarts game came out and their progressive audiences were telling them to maybe not play/review that one and they'd throw a fat tantrum like "no you don't get it it's my job this is the biggest game of the year I can't not play it" and now we're a few months along and fucking nobody is talking about it anymore cause it wasn't even good. Was it worth it

fischtoria

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good news for @zetrif and anyone else that may want it, back when the game came out i downloaded the firefox addon "unwanted twitch" which lets you basically block people and it'll never show you their streams again, and since all you have to do to block someone is click on a little X on their stream thumbnail i just set up an auto clicker and cleared the whole ass category on twitch every day for a good month or so. was it petty? god yes, very much so. worth it? definitely also yes, knowing i wont have to watch anyones stream again if they played/streamed it is worth it to me for sure

anyway, heres a link to the .json file you can either import into your own unwanted twitch addon or just open it and ctrl+f and see if your streamer is on the list

baobabssomemore
demilypyro

Thinking about all those youtubers and streamers who generally stayed nonpolitical as not to alienate anyone but who absolutely could not handle it when that hogwarts game came out and their progressive audiences were telling them to maybe not play/review that one and they'd throw a fat tantrum like "no you don't get it it's my job this is the biggest game of the year I can't not play it" and now we're a few months along and fucking nobody is talking about it anymore cause it wasn't even good. Was it worth it

thisgirlshouldbeworking
homoqueerjewhobbit

I care more about being spoiled about what Chocolate Guy is making at the start of his tiktok videos than I do about Marvel movies. Don't post "chocolate guy makes a ____" in the description, I want to see him pour chocolate into an egg mold and then 2 minutes later be like "oohh shit " when I realize that it's actually a life size chocolate model of himself making a life size chocolate model of himself making a solid chocolate model of himself making a

womenintheirwebs
chrisdornerfanclub

Ever think about how Barack Obama’s Vice President was a segregationist Democrat who is directly responsible for helping expand the police state?

hully-gully-gee

And Bernie was robbed, and we're all kinda fucked, just not as fucked as when the orange fuckwit was prez. We hold them up. We need them to obey us.

womenintheirwebs

tbh i was personally doing better under trump. the stimulus checks and rent moratorium (that biden’s admin ended) was really helping me out when i was working full time hours and going to school. that money made a real difference.

also it’s worth noting that the biden admin continued most of trump’s policies (title 42 for example) and directly acted against his constituents wishes by dumping federal money into PD’s across the country so they can continue to murder black citizens and residents with ur tax dollars…..things are just as fucked—if not more so.

ororomunroedontpullout
killyfromblame

Between the barbenheimer shit and the grimace shake tiktok trend (e.g., social media users creating organic viral marketing for these products), I don’t think most people hate corporations nearly enough

killyfromblame

This kind of thing where people promote products for free is a corporate wet dream btw. Word-of-mouth (and the memes have the same impact as traditional word-of-mouth) is more convincing to consumers than actual ads, and the corporation doesn’t have to pay for it. Everyone making Barbie memes and shit is doing Warner Bros’s job for them!!!

cios-correct-opinions

ok so what exactly are we supposed to do when we like something then? i'm really curious as to why you think people enjoying things is bad when this is how we as humans have been bonding for a long time. it's not like ppl are singing warner bro's etc praises specifically, they're just doing silly things to have fun with media they like. i'm so confused

killyfromblame

Ok to be fair I need to remember that most of you aren’t versed in this shit. I work adjacently to media and it all seems very obvious to me but I can see it isn’t translating. When I say “organic viral marketing” that is a specific thing. I’m not referring to fandom. Viral marketing is when companies (and other entities eg nonprofits) try to create hype for a product or campaign using easily-spread images, memes, etc that spread exponentially (thus “viral”). Think the grimace videos, the “this Barbie is…” edits. “Organic” in this case means it’s not paid for, users do it on their own, which creates credibility because the audience doesn’t feel so much like they’re being advertised to. Usually marketing and advertising teams try to seed this type of engagement (if that’s what they’re going for) with hashtag campaigns, social media contests, etc but in this case users started posting stuff that corporate teams would want from such campaigns *on their own*, using only the base promo material as a starting point rather than being directly encouraged to engage in a grimace challenge or Barbie hashtag or whatever

These trends im mentioning like the grimace and barbenheimer shit are incredibly in line with these types of marketing/advertising campaigns yet appear to be mostly or entirely organic. Fandom doesn’t typically resemble a viral marketing campaign to this degree; I think making a “this Barbie is…” edit or Barbie mugshot edit based on movie promo images prior to the movie even coming out, for example, is very different from typical fanfic, movie reviews/discussion, or even fan art—the edits created a lot of buzz in advance of the actual movie and *directly replicate the promo material.* The grimace tiktoks were basically free user-generated ads that riffed on a character that exists purely to sell fast food, there isn’t even a “fandom” there (…I’m sure there’s jokey Ronald McDonald yaoi or something but McDonald’s characters generally don’t have the same fandom presence as something with a story). Tl;Dr this isn’t typical fandom, it’s the kind of thing marketing teams dream of kickstarting with their own planned campaigns and it has been VERY effective at driving sales