Ads, People, and People that Are Ads, here on Voat

Ads, People, and People that Are Ads, here on Voat (Conspiracy)

submitted 9.2 years ago by SaneGoatiSwear

i'm noticing more and more people are unwittingly advertising products/services/brands, and when they are, those people aren't really discussing a subject so much as they are advertising the product and modeling what they say not specifically about the product to fit the motif of their talk about the product. i've now actually talked directly to one, and it was like talking to a brick wall with an ad on it... the human being - well at least i hope it was a human being - - it purported to be one anyway - - had no idea, even when i directly confronted it and tried to explain, that it's an ad at the moment - not a person - but it wouldn't understand nor listen. it was eerie, like trying to talk to the girl in the most recent south park episodes, but a very poor beta version that really can't hold a conversation.

be careful voatspiracists; the ads are among us.

discuss your experiences with "human" ads and the idea that this a conspiracy of the highest order to usher in the next phase of advertising and social manipulation.

edit: clarification concept: when you tell your friends about a product/service (eg: duckduckgo) are you just telling your friend use this to be safe or are you an ad or both? i'm seeing more "adpersontizing" happening in voat, and i'm bringing it up as a possible conspiracy. the advertisers are here and we're being used as a test bed for a new-ish form of dirty advertising.

edit 2: this is an ongoing thing i'm seeing, not some established well evidenced conspiracy. just keep your eyes open and watch out :)

final edit: i'm out for a while, but i've learned i need to explain things more succinctly, even in text. imagine, i speak in greater volume irl, so, well, it's an ongoing battle. stay aware!

53 comments

Sullysq 9.2 years ago

This is old hat. It's just better tech now.

The porn sites pioneered this kind of chat-bot back in the days of AOL and Yahoo chat rooms. The bot would seem normal till you went off script. They were always trying to get you to go to a pay porn site to see their pics or watch their webcam.

Now it's the same thing on a broader scale with more complex interactions and responses. And yes, they are here on voat.

They started arriving here about 20 days ago and the majority of them within the last week. Only a few of them are engaging in comments so far but I expect that will increase soon as the simpler posting bots are more easily recognized and downvoated by their lack of comments. So far they seem to almost entirely be coming from China. Probably farming accounts to be posed as "real" users when they ratchet up the ad content. Cause other users see an ad, check the user and downvoat the bots. But an older account with lots of SCP and CCP people will listen to or at least let it be when it posts ads.

I would encourage you all to downvoat any botlike behavior you see to prevent these things from infesting the site.

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brokenmoon 9.2 years ago

I don't agree with your assertion, but I love the depth of your skepticism.

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FatPepe 9.2 years ago

Have ya'll heard about Edward Bernays? He was Frued's nephew & pretty much the founder of modern advertising. Apologies if this is basic & you're already informed but for those who aren't, check this out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIRJ-Xi9JXY

He successfully identifies the subconscious reason as to why women weren't buying instant cake mix & as a result sales skyrocket. My point is that this was in the 50's at the start of the modern advertising strategy, so whatever mad shit you think is going down in the world of marketing, likely is. Voat is an interesting sort of isolated environment to test ads on people with an anti-establishment nature, so why wouldn't they be trying this if there's no downside to them doing so.

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pitenius 9.2 years ago

Also, evil downvotin' ghosts.

I wonder about this a lot. I can see not getting upvoats: no one cares. But 80% of the downvoats I see are a mystery. They're grudges or scripted. Why'd you get downvoated? Who knows?

I respect people more for hateful comments than downvoats.

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kittenpoo 9.2 years ago

I've only seen one such post on voat and I really don't think voat is the place they want to test this stuff when facebook and twitter have it down to an artform. Social media is already the social manipulation. Social media marketers with their incessant hashtaggery have made it seem normal for every special snowflake to tell the world what they think about their favourite brands, because people give a shit? Nope because it's letting the plebs do the work for them, they spoon feed them their message and all the obedient little birdies go and regurgitate all over eachother.