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That’s a pessimistic way to put it, but you have a point. This depends on the target audience though. Some people seem unable to be convinced by hard evidence
by codeflo 5y ago
That’s a pessimistic way to put it, but you have a point.
This depends on the target audience though. Some people seem unable to be convinced by hard evidence and reason. If you’re able to pick your audience — which is the case for content creators and politicians — you will always be able to address those people.
In most professional settings, you’re more dependent on the goodwill of someone specific, and I think there the strategy is less effective.
- ZephyrBlu 5y agoIn this case it wasn't so much that Dream chose his audience, but that his audience is primarily impressionable young kids. I looked through the Reddit threads that got posted around the time this happened and there were clearly a lot of young people who either chose to believe Dream because they didn't understand the statistics well enough to know it was BS, or were trying to rationalize that Dream was innocent based on some weird logic.
- codeflo 5y agoThat’s mostly my point though, if “doubling down” works best with impressionable, unreasonable (in this case, young) people, then the strategy limits you to that audience.