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Marques Brownlee's ‘Panels’ Backlash, Explained (www.forbes.com)
submitted 2 months ago by Al0neStar@lemmy.world to c/techtakes@awful.systems
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Bro really tried to sell his subscribers a "50$ a year" subscription to a "wallpaper" app.

Interesting points about the "app":

  • the app has premium and free wallpapers
  • the free wallpapers are only available in sd quality and if you want hd youd have to subscribe
  • in order to unlock the sd quality you have to watch two 30 second ads.
  • theres a wallpaper called "orange" thats just the color orange
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[-] fasterandworse@awful.systems 35 points 2 months ago

Maybe I’m scarred but I have a reflexive distrust for any usage of “pumped” or “super excited” in a commercial context. No matter the subject.

marques brownlee tweets: “And now - I'm so pumped to be launching this app! People have asked where I get wallpapers FOREVER, so this is the answer, now and forever: PANELS!”

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 24 points 2 months ago

pumped: artificially inflated

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 13 points 2 months ago

And remember kids, pump always comes before the dump

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