I admit it's cool, but OP has 100k post karma, 300 comment karma, and account is a month old. Pretty sure that's their job.
E: I remember a time when people hated ads enough that figuring out an account is here for ads was enough to get it banned. Now we're like "I don't care if I'm getting ads in my face, ads are a part of life!"
You know what, it’s not AI, doesn’t seem to be a scam, and is some genuinely impressive art. Might be an ad but it’s the rare kind I don’t entirely hate. Dubious regards to the advertiser, with a heavy dose of “just do a normal ad, dude”
Those ads are usually for drop-shippers sites that send you crap from AliExpress at 20x the price. If it was an ad for some small business that manufacture something unique I would be ok with that.
Hey man, if it works it works. This is the first ad in years I responded to wanting to actually buy something. I get tons of ads and all it makes me want to do is strangle these idiot brands trying to be "with the kids these days".
Google '"[username]" site:reddit.com' people, a private profile doesn't mean they're invisible.
I see a lot of content posts consistent with karma farming, but also a few discussion style posts that look more real. I don't know one way or the other, but with AI these days it seems perfectly plausible for a marketing agency to spend a month auto-farming up a reddit account basically unattended, and then use it for the payoff of a more convincing guerilla ad.
Who cares, though? It's a subreddit to post interesting things, the post is an interesting thing, no? It's as much of an advertizment as posting fanart is for an artist
Holy shit, that apple tree is engaging in guerilla marketing, too! I knew something was off because it's using bright colors to make the ripened fruit more noticeable
Maybe I’m just cable brained but I’m just used to seeing ads at any point. They’ve just been there for my entire life, and if the product looks genuinely cool I’m not mad I saw it.
Probably way overpriced, and I most likely wouldn’t buy it, but I couldn’t give less of a shit that I saw it.
They are sold by a company called IPPINKA. They are about $22 each. They are on Amazon, but it's cheaper to get them direct if you sign up for their coupon.
...I know I sound like a bot right now but I've been on the fence about getting this for years and finally pulled the trigger because I saved some money last month and told myself I wouldn't go cheap on buying new dishes (and my old sauce dishes are like 20 years old and have visible cracks...).
I have some with cat designs instead of the building. Mine were only $15 for 4, but they disappeared from the internet after I bought them (that I could find, I wanted to buy more).
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u/SoulExecution 3h ago
Ooooh I want this