Please show the court on this stuffed bird where Duolingo hurt you
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Vespair@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Fuck Duolingo and any other company that thinks it’s okay to comment all over social media. If you aren’t paying those people sponsorship deals to promote your brand, it should be illegal to hijack their page with your product.
Shit is disgusting and there is literally no worse offender of this loophole than Duolingo.
I recommend any time you see them in the wild telling them how disgusting it is that they think they can put up their billboards in other people’s lawns.
Fuck that bird. Don’t even support their entirely manufactured meme status. Just give them zero fucking attention
cm0002@lemmy.world 2 months ago
pancakes@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
^1^In this context stuffed bird refers to a Thanksgiving turkey.
arudesalad@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Every brand does this. Duolingo has just been one of the most successful
Vespair@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Yes, I’m aware of that, but ubiquity doesn’t make it okay, and my ire for Duolingo is specifically because they have been the most successful exploiter of this circumstance
null@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
If you aren’t paying those people sponsorship deals to promote your brand, it should be illegal to hijack their page with your product.
Huh? Just don’t follow them…
Vespair@lemm.ee 2 months ago
That’s not what I mean. What I mean is that Duolingo frequently comments on individual user posts on tiktok, which tiktok raises as a high-visibility comment because Duolingo’s size makes the algorithm think it’s quality content. This means that Duolingo isn’t just advertising on their own tiktok page, obviously that would be fine, it means that they get to piggyback on viral content from completely unaffiliated users massively spreading their brand while providing no compensation of any kind to the creator of those viral videos. It wouldn’t be okay for somebody to run an ad before your content without your consent (we aren’t talking about the ads you consenting to run by tiktok/youtube/whoever), so it shouldn’t be okay to use the comments as free advertising space too.
kautau@lemmy.world 2 months ago
TikTok
I think you should take it up with them. I hear they’re super ethical and give a shit about what their algorithms do to people in the interest of farming data and profit
Vespair@lemm.ee 2 months ago
And for that reason we should turn a blind eye to any and all other broaches of ethics?
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Can’t you just block Duolingo?
dingus@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Bro I get company shills exist, but that’s a big level of paranoia right there.
I swear, some people on the internet act as if you even mention a company name, that you’re some sort of paid corporate shill. No, man, sometimes I just talk about every day things in my life lol.
Vespair@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I’m not saying OP is a shill, I’m saying that Duolingo manufactured the “Duo is coming to get you” meme intentionally, and people are happy to be stooges so happily accepted it. I don’t think OP has any affiliation to Duolingo, but they’re still normalizing their stupid trend so they can continue to leave meme comments on individual pages and get free advertising. It sucks.