The amount of money freely sloshing around to influencers ever randos i know irl is one of the reasons why I never underestimate the scale of modern day project mockingbird shit
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I watched the five gum one, it wasn't anything amazing, but I saw the thumbnail and though "what did happen to that weird gum that they marketed the shit out of for a few years?"
Basically everything is someone's niche interest. Some people are interested in the evolution of the rail coupler, some people are interested in how marketing decisions are made.
I definitely watched the video on 5 Gum for the same reason. I was in school during the 5 Gum campaign, "This is what it feels like to chew 5 Gum" was the catchphrase to say before doing anything extraordinarily stupid that you think is badass in the moment
Wish I still had that video of me in 5th grade saying that then proceeding to try to jump off a 3rd floor balcony using a trash bag as a parachute and absolutely failing at it.
That's amazing
bestseller lists are rigged so I would assume views are too
Quality of content on YT has being going down rapidly since they broke the downvote count