Solutions designed for a perceived demographic via dogfooding the same technology?
8bitsrule•1h ago
Advertisers have tried to manipulate our social fears and anxieties since Edward Bernays invented it a century ago, to get more women to smoke cigarettes for Lucky Strike. Along the lines of 'you'll wonder where the yellow went...' or 'the heartbreak of psioriasis' ... The old SOB lived to be 103 years old.
It's sort of the opposite of 'On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.'
absurdo•28m ago
This theory about Edward Bernays and the lucky strike being some PR mastermind striked me as bullshit and still strikes me as bullshit. People have convinced themselves of how this one guy is behind it all because it’s an easy answer - that’s the bigger con.
orionblastar•3h ago