• Freeman@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Is there a !wewantplates community already? This is impossible to drink/eat :D

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    1 year ago

    Didn’t need to look at the account to tell this is advertising. Marble slab, a national ice cream brand. Logo dead center prominent in the photo. Get wise folks. Stop helping these companies advertise to you.

    Someone on their marketing team made this and used a bunch of alt accounts to upvote it. Help the cause and beat this back down to where it belongs.

  • cmhickman358@thelemmy.club
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    1 year ago

    2 day old account with no other posts or comments, and the one thing they post just happens to have a company’s logo front and center. Advertisers really need to start learning new tricks.

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    1 year ago

    I’ve never heard of this place and it turns out there’s a marble slab an hour away from me. I can and will make a 2hr road trip just to put this in my face

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        1 year ago

        Ok, well, am I supposed to hate cupcakes now? Had I seen this in a friend’s photo, I would have asked where they got it. Had I seen it on a menu, you bet my fat ass is ordering this shit. I don’t often (or ever, really) use the word “decadent” to describe anything, but a hot fudge milkshake served in what appears to be a large mason jar, topped with cookies and garnished by an entire frosted cupcake is the most godlessly american food I will see for a good while and just looking at it makes me patriotic. I am going to eat this, given the opportunity. Or at least try to, so I can regret it.

        Since I figure I might as well kill two birds rather than send two notifications to the same person, your other comment here about the bot votes – Kbin allows users to easily look through the votes on any post, and I have more than sufficient spite to sit and do that. Survey says out of 115 upvotes, 14 accounts were otherwise utterly inactive.

        12% is not quite enough to make me cry fake. Not on a lesser-known platform with quite more than its share of self-admitted non-contributors, from an account that would be empty because it’s new, on the basis of a photo I myself would have taken.

        Average for a popular post seems to hang around 60-140 these days and if this were being botted to the top (not a thing that can happen on kbin, at least, which has no algorithm), I feel personally like it would have been way more popular. Like they would have fucked up and sent it to the high 300s because y’all have several thousands of bots lying in wait and they’re more used to causing reddit numbers.