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I'm not even sure where to start with this article. There are valid points, but they are shuffled up (is this against smartphones, corporations treating custome
by syntheticnature 10y ago
I'm not even sure where to start with this article. There are valid points, but they are shuffled up (is this against smartphones, corporations treating customers as kids, or as it seems at the end, taking issue with hot topic Pokemon Go), bathed in smugness (look how self-aware I am that this is like a temper-tantrum!), and taken quite far.
If you take the author at his word, cuteness, and corporations being patronizing (and the two are linked here), are a new trend, not something obvious even in early advertising.
Further, I find it quite ironic that a publication started by SnapChat is calling out the possible misuse of camera imagery from Pokemon Go. I figure if the cameras were regularly uploading we'd know by now, by size of data usage if nothing else.
In the end, as someone with an Android phone, never saw that hamster in Yelp before. So I suppose it got me to go find an Easter egg hidden there.
- icebraining 10y agoI don't think the points are shuffled; the main topic is the infantilization of consumers by companies. Cuteness, targeting products more appropriate for children to adults (like coloring books or Pokemon), etc are simply examples of that broader point. And while this was obviously used since the beginning, was it ever a trend? When was that?