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Don't let computers generate your advertising or things like this will happen
- lepouet 5y agoI can see some friends buying that.
- marcinzm 5y agoYeah, this seems like effective advertising.
- orf 5y agoYou’ve just shown how effective it is.
- ramesh31 5y agoI really doubt that "putianshihanjiangquyumeizhangmaoyiyouxiangongsi" has much of a brand reputation to protect. These type of social media enabled algorithmically targeted products are probably really profitable.
- Mathnerd314 5y agoAccording to Google that translates as 莆田市涵江区与每张贸易有限公司 or Hanjiang District, Putian City, Mei Zhang Trading Co., Ltd. Seems like your average reseller Chinese company. And the city on https://www.amazon.com/sp?_encoding=UTF8&asin=&isAmazonFulfilled=&isCBA=&marketplaceID=ATVPDKIKX0DER&orderID=&protocol=current&seller=A29L3S6BLJI80O&sshmPath= https://www.amazon.com/sp?_encoding=UTF8&asin=&isAmazonFulfi... at least is real. I couldn't get Google to find the building though, and I don't know Chinese well enough to use Baidu.
- thaumasiotes 5y agohttps://map.baidu.com/search/%E6%B6%B5%E6%B1%9F%E5%8C%BA%E5%85%AD%E4%B8%80%E8%A5%BF%E8%B7%AF899%E5%8F%B7/@13259257.125,2914636,18.34z?querytype=s&da_src=shareurl&wd=%E6%B6%B5%E6%B1%9F%E5%8C%BA%E5%85%AD%E4%B8%80%E8%A5%BF%E8%B7%AF899%E5%8F%B7&c=195&src=0&pn=0&sug=0&l=19&b=(13260251.345,2914173.57;13260808.345,2914706.07)&from=webmap&biz_forward=%7B%22scaler%22:2,%22styles%22:%22pl%22%7D&device_ratio=2 https://map.baidu.com/search/%E6%B6%B5%E6%B1%9F%E5%8C%BA%E5%... You can get there by searching for 涵江区六一西路899号. The name baidu attributes to the location, 骏乘亿发城 jun sheng yi fa cheng, is a good match for the "business address" of yifacheng. This is almost certainly the owner's home apartment, not what you might think of as a commercial office. I'm guessing that meizhang indicates some other characters than 每张 ["every sheet"]. Could be anything; that's the part of the name that is actually the name of the business.
- thaumasiotes 5y ago> I really doubt that "putianshihanjiangquyumeizhangmaoyiyouxiangongsi" has much of a brand reputation to protect. I mean, the guy seems to have provided his own home address. He's not hiding a lot. The name you seem to think is so ridiculous would appear to say 莆田市涵江区域 mei zhang 贸易有限公司, or "Mei Zhang [?] Business of the Hanjiang region of Putian [the city in Fujian], LLC". It's kind of like if I tried to emphasize how untrustworthy Amazon was by calling them "Amazon.com, Incorporated, the Delaware C-Corporation in the Denny Triangle of Seattle".
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- neximo64 5y agoI don't get it, do you think someone wouldn't buy this?
- csdvrx 5y agoThere is no such thing as bad publicity. Hell, I just got one to go under my red Ikea table!
- themodelplumber 5y agoThe symbol itself has, to the right audience, some self-affirmation-like implications for those who appreciate it or find it useful. The more modern "evil meme" thing is also less relevant for people who have come to research or understand the symbol in specific contexts. I used to be in a cult, and my mom sent me a pentagram ornament for Christmas one year. She meant it to be understood in one of these specific contexts. It's like, some people wonder why a techie would ever call themselves a scary and obviously criminal name like "hacker"...well, in the right contexts it carries meanings across the entire spectrum from good to evil and more. Also there are people who think this kind of "obvs evil" thing is harmless and on top of that, funny. You may see them organizing horror movie parties and choosing superficially evil decor for their homes...
- poiuytre11 5y agoLots of fake products are used as a way of disguising payments for other products that you can't sell on Amazon like IPTV.
- tus666 5y agoI just bought 5. I have too many kids and haven't appeased the Gods in a while.
- dgellow 5y agoI also don’t get it, that looks similar to the quality of a lambda online ad
- Apocryphon 5y agoSomeone could even buy that screenshot for a record cover.
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- notahacker 5y agoThink the baby appearing to be fending off a speeding motorcyclist (next product thumbnail) works as a record cover too. The Nirvana/Meatloaf crossover I'd never anticipated
- Apocryphon 5y agoThat child must be the infant version of Starman from Rush's 2112.
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- spelunker 5y agoThanks, now I'm going to get endless pentagram product recommendations from Amazon.
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- xenihn 5y agoI'm not seeing a problem here
- HarryHirsch 5y agoNeither did the folks with the Auschwitz Christmas ornaments (these here: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50625558 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50625558) They probably thought "souvenir from Poland", pretty local architecture.
- TulliusCicero 5y agoAre you seriously comparing the holocaust to a pentagram?
- notahacker 5y agoI have to admit I was assuming the algorithm would have done something as crass as those ornaments, or something overtly racist, not just a baby on a pentagram, which probably looks very sweet to people that like pentagrams (Then again, there's a subset of the internet that would have bought the Auschwitz ornaments for the lolz if they hadn't been taken down, and I suspect algorithmically generated product shots that appear racist probably are more likely to sell crappy no name products than most)
- jdubb 5y agoFor anyone not interested in clicking on clickbait, it's a rug with a pentagram pattern, positioned in "homey" situations, e.g. with a baby on top of it.
- woodruffw 5y agoI can assure you that I would buy this, were it not on Amazon.
- wmf 5y agoWiccans are people too you know.
- ruined 5y agoautogenerated product listings are my favorite genre of internet. another classic are the "don't tread on me" doormats. there's also some software apparently used by several retailers that automatically edits various flag designs into a stock photo of a trump rally, with predictably amusing results.
- steanne 5y ago> Round area rugs have 5 dimension to choose what kinda dimensions are we talking about, here?
- formerly_proven 5y ago→Size:70cm/80cm/100cm/120cm/160cm
- steanne 5y agoyou missed the point. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_universes_in_fiction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_universes_in_fiction
- actusual 5y ago666 cm
- hn_throwaway_99 5y agoWrong, I firmly believe that Satan uses inches and not the metric system.
- lapetitejort 5y agoSatan got kicked out of heaven after suggesting moving to the metric system right after God hung up all road signs in Imperial.
- aaaaaaaaaaab 5y agoAh, if only we had these in the 90s! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day-care_sex-abuse_hysteria https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day-care_sex-abuse_hysteria
- cardosof 5y agoOh yes, that will fit nicely with my toddler's demon summoning kit.
- CountSessine 5y agolgtm
- hn_throwaway_99 5y agoCan someone with more background knowledge explain how an ad like this gets computer generated? Is it that this company probably has like 50 circular doormats with different designs, and they use the same imagery for all of them, or is there something deeper going on?
- steanne 5y agothey probably don't have ANY designs premade, they have the ability to print on demand and went trawling the net for likely-looking round images to offer.
- leros 5y agoAnd why can't I have a pentagram rug in my suburban house? Hail Satan!
- Khelavaster 5y agoThis is underhanded corporate advertising...
- Khelavaster 5y agoThis is underhanded product advertising. Remove..
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- h2odragon 5y agoMore than most things, the spirit with which the design was laid down counts here. What if they've put their own runes on it first? Could match the color of the fabric or bury it under a layer and the end user would never know until things go wrong. Think that chinesium torque wrench was a disappointment when it bent into a full circle? That's nothing compared to what you're likely to get when your orders to the Underworld are subverted by lax quality controls.
- senectus1 5y agothats a striking looking pattern. I wonder if it comes in other colour combos...
- solarkraft 5y ago"Don't editorialize titles" or something. Also, looks like something I'd buy.