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Google threatened tech influencers unless they ‘preferred’ the Pixel (www.theverge.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Influencer is a fancy word for salesman. Instead of going door to door like grandpa did in the old days, they stream directly to your device.

[–] ScruffyDucky 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

influencers used to be called attention whores but you can't really use that term if you want to shill products

[–] SidewaysHighways 3 points 4 months ago

Yeah that's kinda my whole disconnect from this stuff from the get go. These guys were begging for attention! Huge turn off