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how come ? can you give some examples of how this works?

lotsofpulp 6y ago
Lots of people get advice on what to buy. Imagine if company’s are able to manipulate buyitforlife, HomeKit, personalfinance, babybumps, travel subreddits etc. Probably the best form of advertising. Have people just insert your products in random stories. “I remember back when I was a kid and mom would make a cake with Betty Crocker icing” I’m automatically suspect of any post mentioning products. Probably happens on hacker news too. And instagram. And everywhere else. We have ad blockers, but now the ads will move into the content itself.
- bjonnh 6y ago
  Absolutely. And it is already the case, look closely at movies, TV shows, podcasts...
  - hckr_news 6y ago
    Product placement has had its teeth in movies/TV for a quite a while now. In some aspects it does help movies add more to its budget.
    - lotsofpulp 6y ago
      There’s product placement, and then there is inserting a literal advertisement into the story itself and having the actors talk about it, e.g. watching a car commercial when they get in a car and discuss all of its features.
      - mkr-hn 6y ago
        The Oreo placement in Lost In Space was oddly fitting. If I'm off to another planet, that's the kind of thing I'll pack.
- oh_sigh 6y ago
  browser extension idea: Brandomizer - it detects brand names in text on pages, and replaces it with random other similar brand names. “I remember back when I was a kid and mom would make a cake with Duncan Hines icing”
  - kochikame 6y ago
    And watch the marketing people move into the Brandonizer business Rinse and repeat, rinse and repeat
aloisdg 6y ago
You are a brand selling soda: * /r/aww -> cat playing with a toy with your brand * /r/HumansBeingBros -> a guy helping poor people by bringing free pizza and free soda to a shelter. * /r/Fitness -> how about a gif of a clever workout then the main character drink a sip of your soda. After the effort the comfort. * /r/DIY -> look what I achieve with 7919 cans!
- blaser-waffle 6y ago
  You don't need to be a mod to post those, however.
  - hutzlibu 6y ago
    But beeing a mod you could delete comments, pointing that out.
- chrisdhoover 6y ago
  “Doritos are the best for walking tacos.” “Fritos make the best walking tacos.” Lord savior Jesu i never even had heard of walking tacos until this morning but then leave it to reddit to first inform me of something new and then to tell me the specific products I should use. My poor colleague was incredulous when I told him reddit was gamed. Dear summer child, it is not just the obvious product placement for Doritos. It is also entire subs that are heavily modded to the point of being useless. r/sanfrancisco is endless pix of the gg bridge, thanks mods! It also divides the discourse into red team blue team with red team bad blue team good. High karma users sell their handle so trolls and sock puppets can have a vernier of credibility. Like San Francisco fromwhere it originates reddit is a cesspool that if you practice active denial, selective ignorance, ignore cognitive dissonance and pretend like all the bounders, freaks, fairies, bohos, hippies, punks, transhumanists, burners, and hackers that came before that everything is beautiful man, its a great place that can still surprise and delight on occasion.
  - newyankee 6y ago
    Let me give you a different example. The main Indian subreddit r/india has been taken over by information warfare specialists and actually anything that does not match left leaning viewpoints are deleted. You can see all the power abuse chronicled on a subreddit called r/indiadiscussion. One mod is actually a Pakistani ! Shouldn't country subreddits be sacred ? Should'nt there be a due process to call out mod excesses, some kind of quasi legal means. Instead they continue their information warfare unabated banning anyone that goes against their viewpoints. They also actively browse people posting in other subreddits and ban them.
maest 6y ago
r/hailcorporate is full of examples, although beware: 1. Users on that subreddit can be quite paranoid 2. You'll become paranoid yourself if you spend enough time on that subreddit.
- Lewton 6y ago
  Hmm, browsing "top" of last month just kind of convinced me that real "hailcorporate" material is much much more rare than I expected
  - burger_moon 6y ago
    Could be that the subverting of posts has gotten better and the users who submit there are still looking for gifs of guys drinking refreshing cans of Pepsi™ after a crossfit workout
    - boq 6y ago
      And people aren't always on the lookout, specially in casual conversations.
newyankee 6y ago
reddit.com/r/hailcorporate

Lots of people get advice on what to buy. Imagine if company’s are able to manipulate buyitforlife, HomeKit, personalfinance, babybumps, travel subreddits etc. Probably the best form of advertising. Have people just insert your products in random stories. “I remember back when I was a kid and mom would make a cake with Betty Crocker icing” I’m automatically suspect of any post mentioning products. Probably happens on hacker news too. And instagram. And everywhere else. We have ad blockers, but now the ads will move into the content itself.

bjonnh 6y ago
Absolutely. And it is already the case, look closely at movies, TV shows, podcasts...
- hckr_news 6y ago
  Product placement has had its teeth in movies/TV for a quite a while now. In some aspects it does help movies add more to its budget.
  - lotsofpulp 6y ago
    There’s product placement, and then there is inserting a literal advertisement into the story itself and having the actors talk about it, e.g. watching a car commercial when they get in a car and discuss all of its features.
    - mkr-hn 6y ago
      The Oreo placement in Lost In Space was oddly fitting. If I'm off to another planet, that's the kind of thing I'll pack.
oh_sigh 6y ago
browser extension idea: Brandomizer - it detects brand names in text on pages, and replaces it with random other similar brand names. “I remember back when I was a kid and mom would make a cake with Duncan Hines icing”
- kochikame 6y ago
  And watch the marketing people move into the Brandonizer business Rinse and repeat, rinse and repeat

aloisdg 6y ago

You are a brand selling soda: * /r/aww -> cat playing with a toy with your brand * /r/HumansBeingBros -> a guy helping poor people by bringing free pizza and free soda to a shelter. * /r/Fitness -> how about a gif of a clever workout then the main character drink a sip of your soda. After the effort the comfort. * /r/DIY -> look what I achieve with 7919 cans!

blaser-waffle 6y ago
You don't need to be a mod to post those, however.
- hutzlibu 6y ago
  But beeing a mod you could delete comments, pointing that out.
chrisdhoover 6y ago
“Doritos are the best for walking tacos.” “Fritos make the best walking tacos.” Lord savior Jesu i never even had heard of walking tacos until this morning but then leave it to reddit to first inform me of something new and then to tell me the specific products I should use. My poor colleague was incredulous when I told him reddit was gamed. Dear summer child, it is not just the obvious product placement for Doritos. It is also entire subs that are heavily modded to the point of being useless. r/sanfrancisco is endless pix of the gg bridge, thanks mods! It also divides the discourse into red team blue team with red team bad blue team good. High karma users sell their handle so trolls and sock puppets can have a vernier of credibility. Like San Francisco fromwhere it originates reddit is a cesspool that if you practice active denial, selective ignorance, ignore cognitive dissonance and pretend like all the bounders, freaks, fairies, bohos, hippies, punks, transhumanists, burners, and hackers that came before that everything is beautiful man, its a great place that can still surprise and delight on occasion.
- newyankee 6y ago
  Let me give you a different example. The main Indian subreddit r/india has been taken over by information warfare specialists and actually anything that does not match left leaning viewpoints are deleted. You can see all the power abuse chronicled on a subreddit called r/indiadiscussion. One mod is actually a Pakistani ! Shouldn't country subreddits be sacred ? Should'nt there be a due process to call out mod excesses, some kind of quasi legal means. Instead they continue their information warfare unabated banning anyone that goes against their viewpoints. They also actively browse people posting in other subreddits and ban them.

maest 6y ago

r/hailcorporate is full of examples, although beware: 1. Users on that subreddit can be quite paranoid 2. You'll become paranoid yourself if you spend enough time on that subreddit.

Lewton 6y ago
Hmm, browsing "top" of last month just kind of convinced me that real "hailcorporate" material is much much more rare than I expected
- burger_moon 6y ago
  Could be that the subverting of posts has gotten better and the users who submit there are still looking for gifs of guys drinking refreshing cans of Pepsi™ after a crossfit workout
  - boq 6y ago
    And people aren't always on the lookout, specially in casual conversations.

newyankee 6y ago

reddit.com/r/hailcorporate