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A Wizard of Goatse
Dec 14, 2014

MizPiz posted:

They've come out of far worse controversies without suffering any real consequences; hiring people to drum up fake hatred as a form of marketing wouldn't even register with most people, especially since a number of them would dismiss it because "many people actually do think like that."

The real question is why would a multi-billion dollar company rely on randos who ostensibly hate them to do what they want without instruction when they can use a negligible amount of their budget to have a team curate the "outrage" to their liking?

it's the Internet, and specifically Twitter, you can absolutely find a perfectly tailored hot take about pop media of any flavor you prefer if you look around a bit, and once you use your national platform to broadcast that tweet in your preferred framing other people will start emulating it

this is like brainworms boomers announcing anyone who's ever rude to them is a Russian bot

A Wizard of Goatse has issued a correction as of 19:53 on Jul 8, 2019

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A Wizard of Goatse
Dec 14, 2014

it's all fun and games until someone mistakes a marketing staffer for a cartoon peanut and murders them irl, as a joke

A Wizard of Goatse
Dec 14, 2014

it's just an extension of marketing and PR, often done by the same people who are churning out all the more formal copy, and if you can't sell a corporate exec on the idea they need a highly paid specialist to precision craft their tweets you're a loving terrible marketer

A Wizard of Goatse
Dec 14, 2014


lmao this is genius

A Wizard of Goatse
Dec 14, 2014

New Sorry To Bother You director's cut reveals lost scene:

A Wizard of Goatse
Dec 14, 2014

BioMe posted:

What could this even mean, is there's also a male USB charging port?

on contact the plastic they use leaches a compound that neutralizes sex-related hormones in mammals

A Wizard of Goatse
Dec 14, 2014

wait are we railing against corporate marketing departments repeating trendy buzzwords to sell trash or perpetually outraged twitter hot take factories or have these both become the same thing through the mysterious power of being stuff you're mad at

A Wizard of Goatse has issued a correction as of 20:20 on Dec 2, 2019

A Wizard of Goatse
Dec 14, 2014

fuckin' interns scouring trending hashtags for a way to get eyeballs on Arbys ads, think they're so much better than us, those cultural bolsheviks, those globalist bankers, those miscegenators

A Wizard of Goatse
Dec 14, 2014

that's p bold really given plantation weddings are like 80% of their aesthetic

A Wizard of Goatse
Dec 14, 2014

an actual dog posted:

Emotional baggage: inside the toxic work environment at Away

NEVER add your boss to the venting slack channel!!!!!

what are the odds the Korey is on the cover of Forbes ten years from now

lmao the hairs on the back of my neck stood up just reading them describe their totally-not-a-honeypot company slack channel for exhaustively documenting employee poo poo-talking, what on earth

A Wizard of Goatse has issued a correction as of 21:02 on Dec 5, 2019

A Wizard of Goatse
Dec 14, 2014

CRISPYBABY posted:

i mean that's a bad idea and all but there's about 50 different examples in there of the CEO being a psychopath

E: I mean it's odd that they're confused that their work slack channel for complaining about poo poo was possible a poor idea but if that's your main takeaway instead of "dang this seems like a loving horrible place to work with a strange tyranical boss yelling on slack at weird hours" I worry about you.

I'm just betting HR got it set up for this express purpose

A Wizard of Goatse
Dec 14, 2014

If i were an employee being fired for reverse racism in a bizarre corporate sting operation by my perpetually tantrumming CEO, I would simply run all of my account settings by my information security team for ways in which my privacy could be compromised.

A Wizard of Goatse
Dec 14, 2014

bitch they don't even treat the super mario bros movie as canon

A Wizard of Goatse
Dec 14, 2014

Sonic the Hedgehog is canonically circumcized.

A Wizard of Goatse
Dec 14, 2014


jfc

A Wizard of Goatse
Dec 14, 2014

Barry Convex posted:

I guess this is less insufferable than Steak-Umms, Sunny D, and Little Debbie twitter-chatting with each other about depression, but not by much

https://twitter.com/MrPeanut/status/1220013408180895745

if this takes off Progressive Insurance gonna put out a hit on their mascot lady

A Wizard of Goatse
Dec 14, 2014

Andorra posted:

Hey, I thought Frankenstein was a great read.

Also lol they didn't even read the books

https://twitter.com/yesitshanna/status/1225053896042696704

lmao even the fuckin book publisher couldn't be bothered to track down someone who'd actually read the books that just about anybody literate in English has read

A Wizard of Goatse
Dec 14, 2014

DoubleDonut posted:

I loved Blacula and Blackenstein so I picked up Invisible Man and this isn't what I expected at all

A Wizard of Goatse
Dec 14, 2014

Sad Billionaire posted:

Did you read what the article you quoted said about the mayor?


I mean yeah it's performative and hollow, but she seems way better than most mayors

"better" is a tricky metric, given that my city's mayor ended her last term getting convicted for stealing from a charity fund for impoverished children, but this particular move of Bowser's is intended to distract people from the fact that like a week ago she proposed slashing the city's affordable housing budget by $16 mil to give those same cops a raise with a gesture that has as little as possible to do with actually addressing the loving problem

A Wizard of Goatse has issued a correction as of 01:49 on Jun 6, 2020

A Wizard of Goatse
Dec 14, 2014

Heath posted:

Did it work?

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A Wizard of Goatse
Dec 14, 2014

LastInLine posted:

I feel like if the Monopoly Man is willing to help you get a job it's going to be a no-show corporate board position in Ukraine like Biden

his holding company just bought out your old employer and now he's going to help transition you to doing the same work in an unpaid internship role

A Wizard of Goatse has issued a correction as of 17:48 on Sep 3, 2020

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