Poolboy nails one of the three most pernicious forms of marketing trends: the ironic self-deprecating brand run by some douchey social media manager:
brand makes self aware joke pic.twitter.com/41KyLMyBeT
— poolboy (@oypoolboy) September 29, 2018
The other two manipulative trends separating the gullible from their cash on Twitter are influencer marketing and cynical "we care"/issue marketing, for those keeping a list of who we line up first in front of the slicey bois.
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