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38 minutes ago, AshleyAshes said:

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So, basically this was pretending the Blair Witch Project was actual "found footage" all the way to the premiere day, only to end with a deodorant ad - "Rexona keeps your armpits dry even after a stressful week in the woods"?

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38 minutes ago, AshleyAshes said:

Yes!  It was the 'intersectional feminist/neo marxist driven nonsense' who did this!  And that's why it was run by Foote, Cone & Belding, one of the world's largest advertising agencies on the world who do ads for the likes of Taco Bell and Oreo cookies!  Cause that makes sense!

 

Look, I know you guys really love taking the 'EVIL FEMINISTS' angle but honesty, it's stupid.  Any such idea isn't based in reality.  This was run and funded by an ad agency who had a pretty silly idea.  It was commercial from the get go.  There was never any actual way to hire the 'Bully Hunters'.  It was a fake stream and then the ad company found out that they weren't exactly keying into the gaming culture like they thought they could.

 

It's Occam's razer here, it's irrational to believe 'This was yet another intersectional feminist/neo marxist driven nonsense push' when it was actually funded and run by a giant advertising corporation. And I really don't understand why you'd want to paint giant corporations as 'foolish, hapless morons who can be sucked into throwing money at anything just because 'the intersectional feminist/neo marxists said so'.

Maybe you should actually look into the host of Bully Hunters, before you go off on a rant. Yes, a large ad agency went together with Steelseries to start an anti bully campaign. Nothing wrong with that. However, it went of rails the second Zombie Unicorn got involved. She's the one spouting the nonsense of millions of women being harassed. She is also the one who ended up harassing a lot of people herself, which is why this entire project was completely derailed to begin with.

 

If you want to lecture people, maybe, just maybe, look into things so you actually know wtf you're talking about.

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9 minutes ago, Notional said:

Maybe you should actually look into the host of Bully Hunters, before you go off on a rant. Yes, a large ad agency went together with Steelseries to start an anti bully campaign. Nothing wrong with that. However, it went of rails the second Zombie Unicorn got involved.

The way the sources tell the stories, it seems it went off the rails the moment it was conceived. As in it was a terrible idea from the beginning.

9 minutes ago, Notional said:

She's the one spouting the nonsense of millions of women being harassed. She is also the one who ended up harassing a lot of people herself, which is why this entire project was completely derailed to begin with.

Yes, it's what spokespersons do. They are hired to be the visible face. I'm not sure if blaming the actor for the script is naivety, confirmation bias, or an attempt at entrenching in the story you originally believed.

It's like you it to be about "a stupid feminist" so badly that facts (like who put this gig together) don't matter anymore.

 

9 minutes ago, Notional said:

 

If you want to lecture people, maybe, just maybe, look into things so you actually know wtf you're talking about.

Please, stop digging before you reach the antipodes.

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2 minutes ago, SpaceGhostC2C said:

The way the sources tell the stories, it seems it went off the rails the moment it was conceived. As in it was a terrible idea from the beginning.

Yes, it's what spokespersons do. They are hired to be the visible face. I'm not sure if blaming the actor for the script is naivety, confirmation bias, or an attempt at entrenching in the story you originally believed.

It's like you it to be about "a stupid feminist" so badly that facts (like who put this gig together) don't matter anymore.

 

Please, stop digging before you reach the antipodes.

In other words, you haven't bothered looking into the person or what happened either? Good job.

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Wow what a shit show.

 

Even if this wasn't some made up whatever the staged fuck thing, how is getting some knife kills and advertising in chat actually accomplishing anything?  "Oh no I got killed once I'm going to rethink my outlook about female gamers".

 

Really hope whoever greenlit this crap gets fired, they're shit for brains regardless of what the final objective was (selling shit, countering online bullying, whatever).

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what can't people do with a home pc, microphone and editing software anymore?

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50 minutes ago, Razor01 said:

what can't people do with a home pc, microphone and editing software anymore?

Address superiority complexes on the internet? 

 

It has gotten to a stage now where not only are we getting shitty with bad practices, but it looks like we now get shitty with those who report it and those who engage in the conversation as well.

Grammar and spelling is not indicative of intelligence/knowledge.  Not having the same opinion does not always mean lack of understanding.  

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7 hours ago, AshleyAshes said:

Yes!  It was the 'intersectional feminist/neo marxist driven nonsense' who did this!  And that's why it was run by Foote, Cone & Belding, one of the world's largest advertising agencies on the world who do ads for the likes of Taco Bell and Oreo cookies!  Cause that makes sense!

 

Look, I know you guys really love taking the 'EVIL FEMINISTS' angle but honesty, it's stupid.  Any such idea isn't based in reality.  This was run and funded by an ad agency who had a pretty silly idea.  It was commercial from the get go.  There was never any actual way to hire the 'Bully Hunters'.  It was a fake stream and then the ad company found out that they weren't exactly keying into the gaming culture like they thought they could.

 

It's Occam's razer here, it's irrational to believe 'This was yet another intersectional feminist/neo marxist driven nonsense push' when it was actually funded and run by a giant advertising corporation. And I really don't understand why you'd want to paint giant corporations as 'foolish, hapless morons who can be sucked into throwing money at anything just because 'the intersectional feminist/neo marxists said so'.

It's just a good thing companies can't have political agendas or you'd look rather stupid right now, wouldn't you?

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That's one way to make money from your gender studies degree.

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Honestly the best part of it was reading the exchange between Pistol and one of the Bully Hunter people on Twitter. Was pretty funny how childish the BH woman was.

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9 hours ago, Kierax said:

Image result for canoe in space

 

All the sense this thread makes in one image.

I'm more mad about that the mercedes. Least the boat is in the space.

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I feel like this can only make women more targeted.  That's swell.  I'm going to back away slowly now.

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There's a lovely button called "block" you can use in both of those games. I think if you're on the internet and don't figure out how to use this button, you shouldn't be on the internet

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6 hours ago, Cookybiscuit said:

It's just a good thing companies can't have political agendas or you'd look rather stupid right now, wouldn't you?

Okay, so you think that the priority of the companies involved with this was to perpetuate some ideology and was not an (idiotic) attempt to make money from advertising? Correct me if I'm wrong here, but companies require money to operate, right? They don't magically pop into existence because politics. So, uhh, prove it?

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Well imagine my shock.

 

The sad thing is that there's much more scams like this around (abbreviation of one of them is literally CON). This one was just poorly made, that's why it was uncovered so quickly. Yet the MSM still defends them, even though they should be the ones uncovering them.

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14 hours ago, Notional said:

Maybe you should actually look into the host of Bully Hunters, before you go off on a rant. Yes, a large ad agency went together with Steelseries to start an anti bully campaign. Nothing wrong with that. However, it went of rails the second Zombie Unicorn got involved. She's the one spouting the nonsense of millions of women being harassed. She is also the one who ended up harassing a lot of people herself, which is why this entire project was completely derailed to begin with.

 

If you want to lecture people, maybe, just maybe, look into things so you actually know wtf you're talking about.

Well, i was searching for a TL:DR and i think i found one :D

I'm wondering if someone will end up being sued because of this because steelseries basically ended up paying for really bad marketing that will probably hurt them instead of helping them...

 

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2 hours ago, Shakaza said:

Okay, so you think that the priority of the companies involved with this was to perpetuate some ideology and was not an (idiotic) attempt to make money from advertising? Correct me if I'm wrong here, but companies require money to operate, right? They don't magically pop into existence because politics. So, uhh, prove it?

Both can be correct at the same time.

 

Remember the fearless girl, aka the statue of the moronic little shit trying to stand up to a charging bull, aka little kid with a death-wish? That too was a marketing stunt (for a marketing firm) disguised as social activism, but the activists then turned it into actual activism. Women standing up to toxic masculinity, that's all everyone knows now.

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Fighting bullies in games btw. 

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Let's try and and end bullying in video games by bullying others ourselves. That totally sounds like a great idea!

I don't see how this could ever have been a real thing.

8 hours ago, Syntaxvgm said:

I'm more mad about that the mercedes. Least the boat is in the space.

Actually I believe the Mercedes is parked like that because the boat is occupying part of its parking space. Don't ask me why they didn't just take the next park though ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Who will Bully Hunt the Bully Hunter? o.O

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3 hours ago, Carclis said:

Let's try and and end bullying in video games by bullying others ourselves. That totally sounds like a great idea!

I don't see how this could ever have been a real thing.

Actually I believe the Mercedes is parked like that because the boat is occupying part of its parking space. Don't ask me why they didn't just take the next park though ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

it doens't look like that to me, but who knows. I would think they actually don't have a place to put the boat and rented a space for it, which would make sense. Can't drive around with a boat on your roof every day.

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16 minutes ago, Syntaxvgm said:

it doens't look like that to me, but who knows. I would think they actually don't have a place to put the boat and rented a space for it, which would make sense. Can't drive around with a boat on your roof every day.

That's just asking for it to be stolen then =P

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21 hours ago, Kierax said:

All the sense this thread makes in one image.

yeah that white merc is totally parking like an asshole

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