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It irritates me more than it should, but I hate how virtually all major brands and sports teams seem to have the same “voice” on social media now. They all have this “desperate to be hip” and snarky tone of an urban teenager, all express the same restrained support for the social issue of the day (regional accounts may be excluded), and all overuse emoji.

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I feel a lot of big YouTube channels do the same thing. The terrible thumbnails, the editing out of any pause, thought, or breath, the quips and the half-smirks. It just seems kind of juvenile or a dumbing down of things.

I don't get it, but I'm also not the audience so I try not to judge too harshly.

I’m right there with you. The constant attempt to be relevant and jump in on every situation is obnoxious. We can see right through you that you’re trying to manipulate us.

I'm still not sure why so many people think that random household product companies should be a source of political opinions. But for some reason there is consumer demand for that, at least in America. It almost makes the obsession with movie stars' takes on unrelated current affairs seem sensible in comparison

Half the population has a double digit IQ. The methodology has converged on what it has because it works on the majority of the population. Most people don't see through it.

I agree that it is the strategy because it works, but I dont think you can just blame it on the stupids.

A lot of social branding is made by the upper class, for the upper class. After all, they are the ones with disposable income looking for meaning at the top of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs.

Rich != Smart

I'm not sure there's a reliable distinction between the wealthy and the stupids. Very little wealth is generated solely or principally as a consequence of applied exceptional intelligence or talent.

Increasingly, as pools of wealth become so concentrated as to be impossible to consume entirely within a statistically average adult lifespan, and are thus passed on to offspring, there is little to no intelligence or talent necessary whatsoever.

For an extreme example consider that in my country we are about to endow yet another habitual gambler with a multi-billion dollar fortune, instantly catapulting them and their entire family over multiple generations, into status of what amounts to minor nobility. And their contribution to society, at least as far as this reward is concerned, is that they had the foresight to spend $5 or $10 or $100 on lottery tickets for the unknownteenth week in a row.

I agree that it isnt deterministic, but I think there is a very real correlation between wealth and intelligence, however you want to define the latter.

How much disposable income does the illiterate 20% of Americans have, and who is targeting them with their social consciousness marketing

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