“The biggest scam in YouTube history”

  • DasAlbatross@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Why would publicly burning an advertiser on their channel cause other advertisers to be reluctant to work worth them?

    Could be any reason.

    • person420@lemmynsfw.com
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      5 days ago

      I don’t have a dog in this fight, but just to play devil’s advocate the advertisers too could have been losing money and be happy it was brought to light?

      • jrs100000@lemmy.world
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        4 days ago

        You are ascribing a lot of human reasoning and emotion to corporate entities they they just dont have. Gratitude is not part of their decision making process. Instead, they might attempt to use past behavior to predict future behavior when evaluating an outlet for their marketing budget. They arnt going to prefer an outlet that occasionally burns advertisers, even if the benefited from it once.

    • JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works
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      5 days ago

      They’ve had public spats with Anchor and Plex, doesn’t seem to have hurt them too much. I don’t see how honey is more dangerous to them.

      • brbposting@sh.itjust.works
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        5 days ago

        About to entirely make something up

        Maybe there are 10 more advertisers they want to rip on but they already felt two was too many

        IDK!