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I just find their "yooo waddup homeeey" white-boy street talk obnoxious, if not borderline offensive.
by jimmytucson 13y ago
I just find their "yooo waddup homeeey" white-boy street talk obnoxious, if not borderline offensive.
- bigiain 13y agoPart of me suspects there's a very smart marketer/psychologist working with them, who's intentionally using that language to not just target their core demographic, but also to actively deter people not in their demographic - much the same as the speculation that some spam email is so badly written because the spammer is intentionally appealing to less educated people and actively discouraging people who value "proper" grammar and spelling. "We want the Beliebers to look up to us as their cool older brothers, and we want our competition and the tech crowd (and specifically Matt Cutts) to ignore us and disregard us as ignorant 'bros…" The other part of me suspects they're actually idiots as they seem - and that Andreessen Horowitz's $15mil investment in them is just proof that the handbasket we're all traveling in has crossed the event horizon…
- goldenkey 13y agoWaddup mah HackerNews son, u Dillon dat old phish raw? Yah affiliate profs be sappin mah sentry, Kahn!
- TeMPOraL 13y agoCthulhu fhtagn.