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The gusto to post an Amazon affiliate listicle?
by zetanor 9mo ago
The gusto to post an Amazon affiliate listicle?
- atwrk 9mo agoI mean if you'd only care about the affiliate revenue, there probably are better niches to serve than citizens looking to protect themselves from tear gas.
- butlike 9mo agoI don't know...the subject matter stirs the pot nicely in my opinion
- miltonlost 9mo agoThey have many other articles directly addressing the rising fascism. That you also only see this as an "affiliate link" without grokking the larger theme of "Gas Masks for tear gas" and how that relates to what ICE is doing to the US is part of the larger problem with contemporary media illiteracy.
- diggyhole 9mo agoVIVA LA REVOLUTION LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE!
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- trial3 9mo agothis article has 19 paragraphs of text in just the main article body, making three recommendations. it’s pretty rich to both decry media literacy issues in sibling comments while completely elastically using the word “listicle”
- zetanor 9mo agoThere is no actionable advice other than "get something durable". Nothing about filtration grades and classes, about particle sizes to worry about, about how filter choice affects longevity, breathability, stamina, etc. Were I to recommend anybody join anti-LE riots (which I categorically do not, in this case), and if I even remotely cared about the wellbeing of my readers (which the author categorically does not, in this case), I would touch on those types of details instead of stringing quasi-random affiliate links together using sob stories, self-congratulations and agitprop.
- trial3 9mo agothese are exciting new goalposts you’ve decided on! i, too, think that any article that is different from how i would’ve written it is a listicle. if you’ll indulge me, i’m excited to hear how you have “categorically” decided the author’s intentions one nit: surely you, of all hacker news commenters, have the extraordinary media literacy to know that the journos themselves do not add the affiliate links or pocket the affiliate link search arbitrage
- zetanor 9mo agoI can recognize behaviors, just like everybody else. Columnists don't add affiliate parameters but they're incentivized or required to place the base links there by the publication they work for. Would you prefer that I clap like a seal at every punkwashed mainstream opinion piece? I'd rather not.
- trial3 9mo ago> mainstream opinion piece my job here is done, but i’m here if you need any more help
- internet_points 8mo agoI read it as an insightful analysis of the concept of tear-gassing crowds disguised as an affiliate listicle. Bonus points if someone actually puts some money towards a human journalist by just treating it as an affiliate listicle.