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All Those Celebrities Pushing Crypto Are Not So Vocal Now
- mdrzn 4y agoHey, "Fortune favours the brave". They've been brave in accepting payments for Crypto ads and potentially ruining their reputation.
- 5350-uiop-1130 4y agoWhy would they be, they're just paid shills. $millions for 1 day of work, yes please, so what if ethics of crypto are a gray area.
- DerekL 4y agoShill is the wrong word for this. A shill is someone who is paid to promote something, but pretends that they are neutral and impartial.
- netizen-936824 4y agoCelebrities and influencers are literally just paid shills. That's how they make a large portion of their income, through advertising. Of course they aren't personally invested
- EricE 4y agoAdult pretenders. Much better term than actor.
- vintermann 4y agoMatt Damon and Gwyneth Paltrow? It's not so surprising actors get paid to promote something. But how about Bill Clinton and Tony Blair? They both took money to speak at Crypto Bahamas this April.
- elipsey 4y ago"Jeff Schaffer, the director of that Super Bowl spot, said in an email that he and Mr. David did not have a comment on the market collapse. “Unfortunately I don’t think we’d have anything to add as we have no idea how cryptocurrency works (even after having it explained to us repeatedly), don’t own it, and don’t follow its market,” he said. “We just set out to make a funny commercial!” Priceless.
- Traster 4y ago>Matt Damon, who compared the advent of virtual money to the development of aviation and spaceflight in a critically panned but widely seen Crypto.com ad last year, did not respond to requests to weigh in. Sorry but what is this? Does anyone watching Matt Damon in a superb owl advert think "Oh Matt Damon is personally in favor of this" and not "Matt Damon is being paid to read this script". Does this author think that George Clooney just really fucking loves Nespresso?
- cguess 4y agoThere's a reason celebrity endorsements work (companies wouldn't do them if they didn't). Even if people know it's a script it's still "something they believe in because otherwise they wouldn't say it."
- dtagames 4y agoLarry David admitted he didn't know anything about crypto before doing his ad[0]. The dismissive comments he makes in his usual character's style are actually the right response to most crypto projects! But George Clooney does probably love Nespresso. :-) [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH5-rSxilxo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH5-rSxilxo
- daniel-cussen 4y agoThat's why I stopped watching video, with rare exceptions like dancing. No drama, no comedy, nothing. Main form of entertainment is listening to music, in bed, staring at the ceiling. Because drama and comedy...so George Clooney is always playing George Clooney. Matt Damon is always playing Matt Damon. They're always acting naturally at a deeper level, and they have to have for celebrity reasons a semi-consistent persona in every role. Like Matthew McConaughey, also semi-consistent. I liked his rom-coms while I could still watch them. So in the end it's playing dress-up really. And it's lies. The second problem is the 2 spatial dimensions, everything you see in 2D is lies. Everything. It's just too easy to distort. That's why I like Hacker News, the social network for essays, it's all just text. Could do it with audio alone.
- low_tech_love 4y agoLately I’ve come to the conclusion that, if Gwyneth Paltrow is involved in something, that’s a very clear red flag to me.
- ProllyInfamous 4y agoWhere will she infuse her scents, next?!