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It's a common tactic. Ebaumsworld and Newgrounds both got popular 15 years ago through the same methods.
by darpa_escapee 8y ago
It's a common tactic. Ebaumsworld and Newgrounds both got popular 15 years ago through the same methods.
- kopo 8y agoYou can rewind to the birth of MTV 15 years before that. "I Want My MTV" by Tannenbaum and Marks is a great book. Think of it as the bible of what a successful marketing execs wants to achieve. It's not a common tactic. It is the BASIS of consumer culture. Give people what they want. Target their senses not their minds. It's how you get everything from the global spread of Pepsi to McDonalds to Starbucks to Apple to Hollywood to the Kardashians having 200 million teenage girls globally wanting to grow up to be like them. Consumer culture is based on giving people what they want. And labeling it Freedom.
- nathancahill 8y agoAnd now, let's repeat the Non-Conformist Oath!
- justtopost 8y agoI once watched Jello Biafra lead a crowd in a "we wont follow orders" chant. The irony was literally and figuritively deafaning. Nothing more stuck up than the in-crowd of outcasts.
- headsoup 8y agoSlight correction: it's convincing people you're giving them something they want, not necessarily delivering what they actually want.
- DaiPlusPlus 8y agoEbaum, perhaps - but I wouldn’t say that about Newgrounds: it was all about user-submitted content, especially original Flash content, instead of being manually curated.