Liked on YouTube. | Title: “Messed up that you’re not happy to find out I don’t have cancer 😕” #manipulation #liar #cringe. | Description: . | Published at: February 5, 2023 at 10:39PM. #%via:ifttt #%youtube #bookmarked_on_site #%watched #%consumed

They spend their days sifting through reams of market research data. They conduct endless surveys and focus groups. They comb the streets, the schools, and the malls, hot on the trail of the "next big thing" that will snare the attention of their prey--a market segment worth an estimated $150 billion a year… Journeys into the world of the marketers of popular culture to teenagers. They are the merchants of cool: the creators and sellers of popular culture #manipulation #lemmings #consumerism #capitalism #advertising #interesting #badass #teens #pop #culture #PBS #documentary #rushkoff #pub

"We do not know how to program our computers, nor do we care. We spend more time and energy trying to figure out how to use them to program one another instead." #journalist #manipulation #essays #interesting #inspiration #homepages #pub

"wikipedia has trained us to believe anything followed by little blue numbers in brackets" #funny #wikis #wikipedia #xkcd #web_comics #misinformation #BS #advertising #manipulation #pub

"I was recently featured in a CNBC article about Penguin and the lack of updates (article here[1] ). After the author interviewed me, he went back to Google for comments on my claims. They responded by giving him some of my past Reddit posts: 1) where I asked about possibly buying an email list and 2) asking for feedback on getting my site to convert. Think about that for a second. Neither of those things have ANYTHING to do with my sites SERP rankings. It was only Google trying to imply that I must be a bad person and therefore I deserve to be indefinitely penalized by Penguin." #Google #not_evil #you_are_bad_pattern #manipulation #monopolies #pub

Annapurna sucks. It ahs relied on using tried and true directors. Or famous directors. And it still can’t do shit. Annapurna puts out a reputation of being indie, risk taking, and for cinema. When it’s a safe stauts quo company, by and large. Meanwhile A24 is succeeding and actually taking far more risks. While also being diversified. #the_elite #status_quo #patterns_status_quo_lol #manipulation #the_boys_social_manipulation #pub