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[–] [email protected] 121 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Was this an actual real post or satire?

I genuinely have no clue.

[–] Lost_My_Mind 92 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

I would absolutely love for this to happen

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

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[–] multifariace 70 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

This is basically the text version of the Kendall Jenner Pepsi commercial.

[–] MissJinx 64 points 1 month ago (7 children)

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

[–] andros_rex 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.

[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie 8 points 1 month ago

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 21 points 1 month ago (5 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

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

[–] trolololol 6 points 1 month ago

Yep same here.

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month 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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

That's cheating, and someone could catch you.

Not me of course; that would require actually checking Xitter

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] PrimeMinisterKeyes 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] LemmyKnowsBest 16 points 1 month ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago
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[–] random_character_a 40 points 1 month ago

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

[–] uhhhehhh 40 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Whitebrow 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Iheartcheese 11 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month 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 18 points 1 month 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 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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

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[–] paddirn 13 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

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

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[–] De_Narm 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 20 points 1 month 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 15 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Hmmmmm. I should try drugs.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

DARE to try interesting drugs

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[–] Allonzee 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I used to do this and it helped my mental state a lot. LSD refresh every 6-12 months.

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[–] Chill_Dan 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Jokes on you, I'm only 25!

[–] voldage 17 points 1 month 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.

[–] NutWrench 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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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[–] ceenote 12 points 1 month ago

Nihilist Arby's all over again.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

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[–] Itdidnttrickledown 10 points 1 month ago

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

[–] PieMePlenty 10 points 1 month ago

One more plastic wrapper for the fire!

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