I’ve been sick of the marketing push about this for months by now. Just let it be over punished-bernie

  • AssortedBiscuits [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    Extremely obvious attempt at viral marketing that people have nevertheless fallen for and will continue to fall for when the even more obvious attempt at viral marketing happens again.

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      1 year ago

      I think people have just accepted that they have to participate in viral marketing stuff now because it’s the only way to relate to half their friends, families, and coworkers. Like, did anyone believe for a second all these zoomers were that into Grimmace?

      • zifnab25 [he/him, any]@hexbear.net
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        1 year ago

        Idk. At a certain point, complaining about this stuff feels on par with the scalds who were angry over jokes about the Titanic Sub.

        Yeah, a lot of the shit in the news is a marketing gimmick. But what else is new? Getting worked up because people made Grimace memes for a few weeks after some McDs ad guy spent too much money to force the subject to trend gets us what, exactly?

        People like movies. Both these movies appear to be well received. So people are piling on a thing that looks fun.

        Nothing wrong with that.