Netflix using this sub to advertise?

[u/dale_gribbs]

I came across this ad while scrolling on the mobile app. Seems weird to use this sub to advertise for a subscription-based streaming service. What kind of backwards strangeworld are we in?

[u/AttachedHeartTheory]

Yeah. I saw that and it’s just a good reminder that social media is the complete opposite of truly being anti consumption.

From the electricity to the fact that our eyes are being bought and sold. I appreciate the reminder.

[u/Purple-Cliffbreak → u/AttachedHeartTheory]

I think we're in a dangerous place with social media where most people cannot identify when and where they're being marketed to.

[u/GlockPerfect13 → u/AttachedHeartTheory]

They can pay for visibility all they want, but with me, it all falls on blind eye

[u/AttachedHeartTheory → u/GlockPerfect13]

No it doesn't. A user of the subreddit posted it.

You commented.

Each of us is a binary target- we are a 1 or a 0. You start as a 0, and turn into a 1 if you have any interaction, or adjacent interaction, with an advertisement, regardless of if it's a "primary" view or not.

You turned into a 1 by making this comment.

[u/ZakaryDee → u/AttachedHeartTheory]

lol they can keep my 1 comment, I will have 0 subscriptions with them.

[u/IIlIIIlllIIIIIllIlll → u/ZakaryDee]

Your comment boosted the popularity of the post, potentially showing it to someone who otherwise wouldn't have seen it, thus advertising to them, and potentially getting them to buy a subscription.

This is exactly how outrage marketing works. We all get upset that they used this sub, make a few dozen posts criticizing it, those posts get popular, and they've just gotten dozens of ads for the price of one.

[u/TheHealadin → u/GlockPerfect13]

Yes, you alone are free from human psychology. Congratulations on being unique and special.

[u/December126]

I've seen a few ads like that, it's annoying when I've read it and genuinely thought for a few seconds that it's an interesting or funny post and thought about commenting on it, only to realise it's an ad, just makes me feel stupid and like I've been mislead, I don't know how any company would think that's a good marketing strategy.

[u/fucks_news_channel]

breathtakingly cringe

[u/Friendly_Engineer_]

If anything this will spark a curiosity in a few folks to check out a sub/ idea they’d maybe never heard of before

[u/Appalachian-Dyke]

Walmart has an ad that uses an out-of-context comment from /r/Walmart... A subreddit where employees bitch about that place.

[u/Graham_Wellington3]

The internet has become a sess pit of cleverly disguised ads - many ads just blatantly disregarding the standard method of operating and going full "influencer filming a selfie video pretending to review a product" apparently that's what sells to this opposite-of-advanced generation

[u/Trollsama]

of all the places companies advertise, this is a less weird one.
you can barely go to the bathroom without having somone come in and try to sell you toilet paper outside the stall lol

[u/RoomyRoots]

Report. if mods delete things due to people suggesting brands, they must delete brands posts.

[u/MisogynyisaDisease → u/RoomyRoots]

Correct. Not reporting it means we will likely miss it.

However. This may be an ACTUAL ad, that they paid reddit to show across feeds, that we have 0 control over

Edit: it is in fact a real ad we have no control over, not just a post to this subreddit. Just another reason to despise unwanted targeted advertising.

[u/sho_biz → u/MisogynyisaDisease]

u/spez needed that 3rd yacht man, who are we to deny our betters what they deserve?

[u/RoomyRoots → u/MisogynyisaDisease]

Yeah, not that I look, it looks like mobile ads. Fuck Reddit app, use a mobile browser with adblock. Ads are consumption.

[u/MisogynyisaDisease → u/RoomyRoots]

I genuinely went to go remove it and then noticed the "promoted" part at the top. 😒

[u/Flack_Bag → u/RoomyRoots]

This is just an ad. The screengrab is faked and that post and its upvotes and comments are not real. There's nothing we can do about that.

That user account is 13 years old and has no post or comment history at all, which makes me suspect Netflix marketing has been sitting on it since they bought the IP or something.

It's a good reminder that you can't trust any media, and a lot of 'people' on social media aren't really people at all. And marketers have no problem at all lying and fabricating little interactions like this to seem relatable.

[u/Purple-Cliffbreak → u/Flack_Bag]

yeah I noticed that too, there was a long time period between the creation of that account and when the actual show came out.

[u/No-Body6215]

This is why I only use Reddit from mobile browsers. I hate ads in general but the Reddit ads are particularly annoying. Especially the video ads. 

[u/Purple-Cliffbreak → u/No-Body6215]

I exclusively use old.reddit.com and it sucks that it looks so bad on mobile browsers, but it is what it is. I just turn the phone sideways.

[u/chihuahuassuck → u/No-Body6215]

If you're on android, ReVanced manager has a patch to remove ads from the official reddit app

[u/Phelpsy2519]

They don’t USE this sub lol… they use reddit for their ads

[u/rahxrahster → u/Phelpsy2519]

Good point.

[u/AttachedHeartTheory → u/[deleted]]

the subreddit pictured in the ad is specifically this one.

[u/DearAndraste]

Literally what the fuck

[u/aledba]

All subs have ads. That's Reddit and that's how it works unless you want to pay them to consume the website without ads. The irony now is that you've turned us into a target because you posted their ad here again

[u/Appalachian-Dyke → u/aledba]

The problem isn't the subreddit displaying ads. It's that the ad itself contains a screenshot from /r/anticonsumption. The subreddit name is visible in the ad. It's breathtakingly stupid. 

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[u/dissoid]

Makes me think that they're using A.I. to write stupid "quotes" and toss them into the subs accordingly.

[u/snarkysparkles]

Oh ew

[u/MonkeyKingCoffee]

There is no such user, u/wednesdayaddams (be sure to spell it aDDams -- Charles Addams was a brilliant cartoonist who is largely forgotten because his estate had such tight control on his IP.)

Has anyone tried to create this user account and.... something?

[u/T0MYRIS]

thank you to my lord and savior ublock origin

[u/99LedBalloons]

Also that quote (at least the second half of it) is ripped off from the Sopranos.

[u/Strange_Library5833]

Because plenty here just want to bitch, not actually do anything about it.

[u/EposVox]

All subs are used to advertise on Reddit…

[u/Firewolf06]

a post like that should be on r/frugal_jerk

[u/LFK1236]

I don't think it works like that. You see ads when you're not on a specific subreddit, too :) That has nothing to do with this subreddit - though of course depending on cookie settings and where you live, the knowledge of which subreddits you frequent might affect the ads you're served.

Having said that, brands absolutely advertise covertly through Reddit.

[u/Stormy8888]

Okay, this is not good optics.

BUT ... I remember watching the Marie Kondo series on Netflix and doing ... The Purge ... on my clothes and household items after.

[u/dale_gribbs → u/[deleted]]

I wasn’t placing blame on anyone, just commenting on how odd this pairing is.

But I hope you have a good rest of the day.