Yeah, they used paid models to do some weird shit who took the job and by hashtagging it, retweeting it and sharing it on Lemmy you just put the PaloAlto logo in front of millions more people…
Its almost like their plan worked perfectly
Like when people say nationstates and corporations are astroturfing lemmy, I’m sure bruh, manipulating all those thousands of people will have dire geopolitical outcomes.
This is the same ignorant shit as “I don’t mind surveillance, because i’ve got nothing to hide.”
Marketing agencies and the likes actually like new platforms as they rarely have strict spam prevention mechanism and analytics to prevent astroturfing, multiple accounts, automation, proxies and everything relating to brigading.
Do you think automating some shit posting on an online forum costs a million dollar or something?
An intern could code a bot in an hour and add in to the already operating workflow. There are also ready-made products that just fill in forms and do social shit.
But sure bruh, no one’s doing anything you don’t know. You got it all figured out.
So they finally upgraded it.
Even if we accept the idea that “booth babes” are a legitimate marketing ploy, this symbolic blinding-and-deafening of them and removing their faces (symbolically, their humanity) is superfuckingweird.
Seriously, how this got through to execution is pretty shameful.
It’s happy hour, having a lamp shade on your head while drunk at a house party is a very old media trope, you are reaching SO hard.
I use to be in corporate sales, did a lot of conferences. Even in the most “professional” corporations the sales team culture is pretty garbage. My company was a little bit wilder than the others so I know the kinds of people that would be capable of doing this type of shit. The only way I can describe is as shock value, kinda “look what we did haha” and Im pretty sure thats whats going on here. Pretty childish.
Wonder how much per hour lamps make
