A Boring Dystopia

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Where everyone’s an influencer and everything’s for sale - The Verge (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 year ago by gedaliyah@lemmy.world to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world

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The video feed of Flip, a short-form vertical app, is a 2020s QVC in a nightmare, as if a bunch of teens started an influencer marketing agency where brand safety is not a real concept. It doesn’t really matter what’s in these videos, as long as the product being reviewed is linked below.

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[–] zeppo@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sounds like pure hell. I have a question about this though:

Someone is silently laughing off-camera

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Idk sounds kinda fun lol

People don’t want to keep buying products from paid shills that say each camera, pillowcase, or teeth whitening strips are amazing, brilliant, must-buys, Agha’s thinking goes. They want unscripted, real people talking about products, even if it’s at times excruciatingly awkward to watch.

She's....not wrong....lmao

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Of course real unscripted people talking honestly about products is not what this app provides. It is still shilling just far less polished.

[–] DessertStorms@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Someone is silently laughing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WhRrgpal7g&t=2s ?