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

  • 4am@lemmy.zip
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    1 day ago

    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

    • Jack_Burton@lemmy.ca
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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