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I do not know of any reasonable interpretation of reality in which “these people payed me a lot of money to make an ad for them but I do not think they are legi
by explaininjs 3y ago
I do not know of any reasonable interpretation of reality in which “these people payed me a lot of money to make an ad for them but I do not think they are legit so I will take their cash but use the platform they provide me to keep on repeating that I think they are all a fad and I do not recommend them” can be considered an endorsement.
- nwienert 3y agoDid he ever say he wasn’t a fan of them outside of the ad?
- brvsft 3y agoYou have it reversed. The celebrity endorser is the platform. FTX has no platform, they have money and can buy commercial time. Larry David has his own 'brand', and people like you and I have positive feelings towards it. His mere appearance in an FTX commercial is him lending his platform of positive feelings we all have for him over to the brand of FTX, so that we may associate those positive feelings toward them. That's the endorsement. Even if he said, "FTX fucking sucks, and so does crypto!" in the ad, people would think, haha that's so funny, did he really say that in a commercial?! And the next time they think about crypto they remember their jovial laughter at that dumb ad and "FTX." I also don't care that he endorsed them and don't think he's at all responsible for people losing money in crypto.