Companies Against Black Friday

Clodfobble · 11-25-2016, 01:52 PM

Marketing sucks. But when it's really done right, it sends a shiver down my spine. Like you can sense the power of really manipulating tens of thousands of people. It's probably a mental illness.

ANYWAY. There's this game, Cards Against Humanity, that is fun and offensive. And they are really really good at their personal style of anti-marketing, which is just marketing in disguise because duh. They've always done a big thing against Black Friday. One year they tripled the price of everything on their site, and heavily advertised that they would do so, and people bought that shit anyway, for the chance to tell their friends they paid three times as much in some sort of artistic statement against Black Friday. This year, they are digging a hole in the ground. You give them money, and they put it in a hole in the ground. See?

Seriously. They're just digging a hole. I hope that it's secretly a spot where a new hospital is going or something, but it sure doesn't look like a good location for that (or anything else) on the live cam. Yes, there's a live cam. As of now, they've just passed the $30,000 mark.

xoxoxoBruce · 11-25-2016, 02:33 PM

Wow that was loud! Reading the link I get the impression the money is not going in the hole, it's being spent on the equipment digging the hole?

Clodfobble · 11-25-2016, 06:12 PM

Right, they figured out the by-the-second cost to run the digger, dump truck, and it looks like a bulldozer in the background to manipulate the dump truck's dirt pile--and you give them money to keep digging as deep as you want to make them dig.

Griff · 11-25-2016, 09:09 PM

That is some fine digging.

elSicomoro · 11-26-2016, 03:45 PM

Reminds me of when the KLF burned $2 million: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_Foun...a_Million_Quid

11-25-2016, 01:52 PM	#1
Clodfobble UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 20,012	Companies Against Black Friday Marketing sucks. But when it's really done right, it sends a shiver down my spine. Like you can sense the power of really manipulating tens of thousands of people. It's probably a mental illness. ANYWAY. There's this game, Cards Against Humanity, that is fun and offensive. And they are really really good at their personal style of anti-marketing, which is just marketing in disguise because duh. They've always done a big thing against Black Friday. One year they tripled the price of everything on their site, and heavily advertised that they would do so, and people bought that shit anyway, for the chance to tell their friends they paid three times as much in some sort of artistic statement against Black Friday. This year, they are digging a hole in the ground. You give them money, and they put it in a hole in the ground. See? Seriously. They're just digging a hole. I hope that it's secretly a spot where a new hospital is going or something, but it sure doesn't look like a good location for that (or anything else) on the live cam. Yes, there's a live cam. As of now, they've just passed the $30,000 mark. __________________ My book My other book My spirit animal

11-25-2016, 02:33 PM	#2
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Wow that was loud! Reading the link I get the impression the money is not going in the hole, it's being spent on the equipment digging the hole? __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

11-25-2016, 06:12 PM	#3
Clodfobble UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 20,012	Right, they figured out the by-the-second cost to run the digger, dump truck, and it looks like a bulldozer in the background to manipulate the dump truck's dirt pile--and you give them money to keep digging as deep as you want to make them dig. __________________ My book My other book My spirit animal

11-25-2016, 09:09 PM	#4
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	That is some fine digging. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

11-26-2016, 03:45 PM	#5
elSicomoro Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 12,486	Reminds me of when the KLF burned $2 million: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_Foun...a_Million_Quid

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