Marketers and their bots have been using reddit to hype up brands. No wonder Reddit feels like shit these days.

  • Jack_Burton@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    I don’t understand the point of this. Like, you figure out how to increase traffic on certain posts/comments and there’s somehow a push for this? Do they get money somehow? These people always use terminology and ceo buzzwords as if it’s some big business level that people are aspiring to reach, but what’s the actual point? Why would I care if my post/comment exploded? Was I just using Reddit wrong?

    • 4am@lemmy.zip
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      You mention your product in the reply and hope that some poor sap doesn’t realize it’s astroturfing and thinks they’re finding a really glowing honest review from a totally organic real person who recommended a thing they found that actually works

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        So it’s just a grift. Makes sense, they always use grift-style buzzwords. I was about to comment on the ridiculousness of building a business solely on manipulation, but then I thought about it a bit more haha. Thanks for the explanation.

      • VoteNixon2016@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        24 hours ago

        This is why I just never talk about brand-name products online, I don’t want to seem like an advertising shill account (I’m just here to get into heated political arguments and shitpost)

        I’ll recommend things to people I know IRL, but very rarely will I do it online