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[–] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 121 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Was this an actual real post or satire?

I genuinely have no clue.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 92 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Welcome to the 2024. This year's presidential election will have exclusive live coverage on election night, from your official election coverage team....The Onion. No word on if they'll still deal in satire on the night, but it is confirmed that it will be absurd.

I would absolutely love for this to happen

[–] awwwyissss@lemm.ee 33 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think it's just an advertisement for Snickers. Gross.

[–] booly@sh.itjust.works 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The sign of a successful ad campaign is when the campaign itself gets satirized to continue to build on brand awareness.

[–] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

But that only works if the satirization is still somehow stylistically distinct to be recognizable as a satirization of your brand.

You could put Wendy's, Walmart, Northrup Grumman, Tyson, Bank of America, whatever, into this, and just change the last line a little bit, and I still would not be able to determine if its satire or not.

Twofold reasons:

1 Corporate Advertisement in general is almost completely stylistically played out. Almost everyone has tried almost every approach. It's all just blended together, at least for me, into 'insert nearly any kind of rhetoric or style or music or imagery here' followed by: So buy the thing.

Sure, there are still some general trends for certain marketed product types ... but ...

2 Is anything on Twitter/X genuine? First we had a whole bunch of brand accounts acting like increasingly twitter brained idiots, then we had Musk's disastrous takeover and blue check fiasco with people impersonating corpo accounts running wild, now the bots are even more widespread AND the general corpo trend seems to be 'yes actually just have AI generate/do everything', why wouldn't text only posts currently be able to be handed over to an edgy ChatGPT model?

Like... this image, the account has some kind of silver tick or badge or something.

Is that from older Twitter era meaning its verified?

Was the account hacked?

Was this image photoshopped?

....

Can you even tell the difference between a serious idiot, an unserious troll, or a bot mimicking one of those, without an investigation?

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[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I don't think the marketing people for a billion dollar corporation would be that bold.

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[–] multifariace@lemmy.world 70 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I went on chatgpt and said "Write an advertisement that plays on the fears of gen z then suggests they eat a snickers". It returned almost the same as above.

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[–] MissJinx@lemmy.world 64 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Boy you guys talk so much about student debt that I'm very thankful to not have it

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

I worked full time through college. So much that it often interfered with the time that I needed to be spending on study. I still owe $40k.

My ex husband who’s billionaire family paid his tuition while I paid our bills owes nothing of course.

Hey, your ex husband pulled himself up by his bootstraps! That's no way to treat the world's most elite!

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[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Thank goodness my "third world country" offers free tuition for uni. 🤩

[–] Moah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 2 months ago

The US used to, too. But then a retired mediocre actor decided education was a privilege, not a right

[–] trolololol@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Yep same here.

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[–] redhorsejacket@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Continue to be thankful. I made some boneheaded choices in college which resulted in my throwing away a full ride, and I left school with like 80k in debt. Thankfully, I am much more fiscally responsible than I was academically responsible, and I managed to pay that off over the course of like 7 years (aided in no small part by the forbearance periods Biden forced through during COVID). Which is good, because more boneheaded choices were made which resulted in a significant change to my financial situation. If I were still making payments at this juncture, I would be in a position where I'd be moving back into mom's basement just to make ends meet.

Not that there is anything inherently shameful in that (it's fucking hard out here, and if that's a resource that you have available, it should not be turned away simply because of pride), but it does cause me to wake every morning pleased I didn't listen to any "financial gurus" out there who talk about shit like "good debt".

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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 62 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's so cynical that I would almost kinda respect it if I didn't hate marketing on principle.

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Well you can just buy that check mark, and I have trouble believing the advertising people at Snickers are bold enough to actually post this, so it's probably satire

[–] WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You can also just Photoshop or edit the page source to make it say whatever you want

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 months ago

That's cheating, and someone could catch you.

Not me of course; that would require actually checking Xitter

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 47 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] random_character_a@lemmy.world 40 points 2 months ago

Yeah, low blood sugar does that... wars and shit.

[–] uhhhehhh@lemmy.world 40 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Whitebrow@lemmy.world 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 30 points 2 months ago (6 children)

I genuinely can't tell if this is fake. I fucking hate this world. Anyone want to team up to build a time machine and travel the future until the perfect utopia is achieved?

[–] backgroundcow@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Anyone want to team up to build a time machine and travel the future until the perfect utopia is achieved?

How about we team up and try to make this world better instead?

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[–] Luvs2Spuj@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I envy your optimism, that things get better in the future.

[–] hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Well, I'd go insane if I didn't believe that.

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[–] paddirn@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)

We’re probably more likely to see a return to feudalism, with the wealthy getting worshipped as god-kings and regular folks going back to being illiterate peasants working the land for their overlords.

[–] Lemmynated@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 months ago (3 children)
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[–] archonet@lemy.lol 28 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (7 children)

literally just trying to stay alive until my mother passes away, just so she doesn't have to bury a child. Then it can finally be over.

Like, I got personal reasons I think life sucks, but boy howdy I have no shortage of "big picture" reasons too. The future is bleak, at best.

[–] Cargon@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 months ago

There are a lot of Republicans I need to outlive before I throw in the towel.

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[–] De_Narm@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Because when you're down in life, nothing quite helps like getting fat, diabetes and cavities.

Treat yourself to even more problems!

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[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Lace it with LSD and it'll fix my outlook on life for about six months until reality wears me down again.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Hmmmmm. I should try drugs.

[–] blackluster117@possumpat.io 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] awwwyissss@lemm.ee 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

DARE to try interesting drugs

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[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Try a lot of some drugs, a little of others, and none of bath salts.

Also, rrrrrrrreal fuckin high on drugs.

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[–] Chill_Dan@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Jokes on you, I'm only 25!

[–] voldage@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago

Only thing I can promise you with somewhat high degree of certainty is that you won't stay that way for long. 2-3 years tops.

[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

Nihilist Arby's all over again.

[–] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So you're saying it's not just me?

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[–] NutWrench@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I miss Nihilist Arby's.

"You’re older than you’ve ever been, younger than you’ll ever be again, and you’re also a pointless biological accident in an entropic void and your sentience literally has zero significance

Eat Arby’s"

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[–] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

Good old mars wrigley. Always giving lip service to helping the environment.

[–] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

One more plastic wrapper for the fire!

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