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We’re talking about how Google sucks and is stupid. I don’t think that’s what they wanted.
by prepend 2y ago
We’re talking about how Google sucks and is stupid.
I don’t think that’s what they wanted.
- shrimp_emoji 2y agoBut the commercial was about black people. Frankly, I think a big portion of this "I hate the ad" noise is just thinly-veiled racist dog whistling.
- fnord77 2y agothere's no bad publicity
- prepend 2y agoI disagree. Having publicity that reduces the value of a brand is bad. I think the expression was created by publicists who, of course, want more publicity no matter what, because it makes them money.
- Jensson 2y agoGoogles brand today is cold correctness, people seeing dystopian AI overlords in them is not going against their brand image. The posts showing how it is wrong is much worse for their image than this is, so people thinking of this rather than the errors is better for their brand.
- prepend 2y agoGoogle’s brand is a bloated cash cow gradually fading to irrelevance. It’s like IBM or 2000s Microsoft or whatever. I don’t think they like this brand. I think they want people talking about things that promote them.