Comment on How Ubisoft spent $2.1M on influencers to secure the launch of Assassin's Creed Shadows
glimse@lemmy.world 5 days agoA shill doesn’t disclose that they’re being paid to promote a product. The secrecy is what makes them a shill
Comment on How Ubisoft spent $2.1M on influencers to secure the launch of Assassin's Creed Shadows
glimse@lemmy.world 5 days agoA shill doesn’t disclose that they’re being paid to promote a product. The secrecy is what makes them a shill
njm1314@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Well I’ve certainly never heard that before and that’s not what the definition of the word is from what I’m seeing but I guess I can understand using that as a distinction.
glimse@lemmy.world 5 days ago
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shill
njm1314@lemmy.world 5 days ago
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shill
glimse@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Shill has primarily been used as an insult for the past 50 years in the way I’m defining it here. I don’t believe you’ve never heard it used to mean that.
Literally on that same page.
www.dictionary.com/browse/shill
www.dictionary.com/browse/shill
dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/…/shill?q=…
www.wordreference.com/es/translation.asp?tranword…