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tacocat  ·  1681 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Strange Saga of the Steak-Umm Account

I'm extremely online and my brother is not. He told me about the Steak Umms account as if I didn't already know about it and wasn't already jaded about social media managers being ironically honest while selling frozen meat slabs or spicy nuggets. I admire him for having a life outside of the internet but also how do you not see this as pandering for the purpose of advertisement?





_refugee_  ·  1679 days ago  ·  link  ·  

yeaaahhhh but if there was no advertising there wouldn't be any pandering, and i'd at least take the pandering over nothing at all?

like i'm still not going to buy steak ums either way

tacocat  ·  1678 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I prefer Nihilist Arby's

user-inactivated  ·  1678 days ago  ·  link  ·  
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_refugee_  ·  1678 days ago  ·  link  ·  

absolutely fair

OftenBen  ·  1678 days ago  ·  link  ·  

No, but SOMEONE will, and that makes it successful.