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I have spent last night laughing at this. I have spent this morning depressing about it.
by Raed667 10y ago
I have spent last night laughing at this.
I have spent this morning depressing about it.
- the_duke 10y agoI just found the site 5 minutes a go. I still can't stop laughing. This is so marvelously stupid, I love it. What do I get for contributing money to the hole? A deeper hole. What else are you going to buy, an iPod?
- tyingq 10y agoThe top contributions are baffling. Some people are donating over $1k USD.
- kejaed 10y agoAnd now you and everyone else that visits the site have seen their business URLs
- wott 10y agoAnd we're not going to buy anything from them, since their products price includes this kind of "cost".
- tudorw 10y agoHmm, as opposed to what? A red bull wing suit event, is that the progress you were looking for?
- icebraining 10y agoAnd their competitors' prices might include $2k in a safari trip to kill endangered species[1]. You monster. [1] http://mashable.com/2011/03/31/godaddy-ceo-elephant/ http://mashable.com/2011/03/31/godaddy-ceo-elephant/
- Programmatic 10y agoI think the fact that advertising persists in such widespread forms is pretty good proof of its efficacy. Study after study shows that even if you think you're immune from advertising you still gain a positive outlook on a brand just from familiarity/repetition alone, nevermind if you agree with the content of the advertisement.
- clarry 10y agoI never saw any URLs.
- grey-area 10y agoThink of it as advertising, most of them have a domain name in there.
- paulddraper 10y agoIt's for advertising. Like meh.com (known for weird humor, like reverse psychological sales pitch).
- radarsat1 10y agoI think the "it's for advertising" excuse is actually the cherry on the top of this satirical turd pile. It highlights ever so nicely the feeling we all have that money thrown at advertising instead of used for buying actual things or paying people for actual services is somehow equivalent to throwing it into a hole. Yet, it's the advertisers choosing to do this. That's what makes it brilliant. Getting advertisers to literally throw their advertising budget into a hole, and when we ask why these sums are there, we are given the excuse, well, "it's advertising." As if that excuses it, in such a matter-of-fact way that we are supposed to accept it without question, as if it should somehow be obvious that that's not a waste of money. Amazing.
- the_duke 10y agoAlmost every large consumer facing company has a huge advertising budget. And they have for a very good reason. People are easily manipulated, and advertising is subconscious manipulation. I abhor all ads, and I never get how Americans actually willingly watch TV with the constant garbage thats stuffed into your brain. (it's not nearly as bad in most of Europe) But then again, our economic model is dependent on driving demand (aka on people continuing to buy stuff, always more stuff), so it all works out. Just see advertising as the necessary grease in the economic engine that is endless consumption.
- thelambentonion 10y agoI'd say they have very large advertising budgets for a fairly bad reason: advertisers for the most part throw shit at the wall to see what sticks. There's some science, but the advertising here is a perfect example that many people have no idea how to spend their ad money in a way that meaningfully engages some target audience.
- poizan42 10y agoWell note that they are using it for cheap advertising
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- Applejinx 10y agoThat's because, to those people, $1k USD is effectively nothing.
- Raed667 10y agoWhat depresses me is the fact that $77k can easily run a startup for over a year in my country.
- tlrobinson 10y agoAnd I'm sure someone somewhere is depressed by the fact that some startup's funding could be used to feed thousands of starving children instead.
- jcoffland 10y agoOr dig a deeper hole.
- swengw 10y agoSeems similar, since the average startup temporarily employs people and results in nothing (although over a longer period of time).
- kome 10y agoahahha! Indeed, good point. Startup economy consists in a lot of hole digging...
- inimino 10y agoThe opportunity cost of the people digging the hole should be lower, and at the end, at least they'll have a hole. A clear win over the median startup. Besides, they are literally changing the world.
- chadscira 10y agoAwe, hey we end up with more than a empty hole! What about all of the dead code!
- TeMPOraL 10y agoAlso often wastes fuel, time and other precious resources manufacturing physical swag that will end up in trash cans after the company inevitably dies. Externalities of the hole are at least related to the hole itself.