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The best satire is the one where you can’t immediately tell. This nailed that.
by SlowRobotAhead 9y ago
The best satire is the one where you can’t immediately tell. This nailed that.
- morganvachon 9y agoEven the logo is spot on. This is dark satire indeed, predicting the near future where someone out there actually will offer such a service, and millions will buy into it. This would be a perfect fit in the world of Black Mirror.
- derefr 9y agoAs both a speculative fiction author and an entrepreneur, new ideas sometimes have me on the fence for whether I should make them into businesses, or into dystopian novellas.
- kbenson 9y agoAnywhere we can read your work?
- TheOtherHobbes 9y agoProbably YC Round 2019.
- camillomiller 9y agoHappens rarely, but I laughed out loud at a HN comment :)
- dfox 9y agoMade my day
- escape_goat 9y agoAlso the title.
- itronitron 9y agothis would be hard to scale as you would probably need to generate new images for each client, but if you could auto-generate imagery per client that would help (still the subscription needs to be priced higher)
- ponderatul 9y agoOne issue at a time
- Double_a_92 9y agoThe "influencer" would just have to take a lot of pictures for each event. Maybe the same from different angles... Could easily generate hundreds of photos from one "session".
- tedmiston 9y agoFWIW services kinda like this already exist — there are marketplaces for "social influencers" to buy content.
- naiv 9y agoWould be great to have a link in this thread for comparison?
- otakucode 9y agoOr China if they could improve your 'social credit' rating. I am a little disappointed though. From the title I thought the service would be for faking profiles in order to trick the data vacuuming companies. Filling their databases with fake useless garbage has been my desire for awhile.
- feedmeseymour 9y agoThe movie Idiocracy is an example.
- rosstex 9y agoIt even looks like the 'e' is winking. I really like this logo.
- jd_routledge 9y agoThanks - we're very happy with the reaction and all this amazing discussion - it's exactly what we wanted!
- hunter2_ 9y agoThe bottom of the FAQ did me in, but that's a perfect place: the people who are about to bounce anyway.
- cabalamat 9y agoI cottoned on that it was (probably) fake, but I can imagine someone doing this for real.
- heedlessly3 9y agodid anyone actually think this wasn't fake?