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Lance Dixon
@lancedixon.bsky.social
human. Floridian. doing audience work @19thnews. previous stops at WLRN, The New Tropic and The Miami Herald. forever grateful for Morehouse College and The Maroon Tiger.
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Watching people on tv talk about how losing a girlfriend and losing a job are stressors that can play a part in motivating a mass shooter and nobody’s talking about the fact that women lose jobs and relationships too and it literally almost never ends in mass murder.

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catching up on the bluesky controversy of the day

Image of Shinji Ikari from Neon Genesis Evangelion holding a mug with his face on it that also has a smaller image of him on top of the mug with an arm sticking out holding a mug with his face on it. Around him are multiple question marks as he has a puzzled face
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idk if any of these spaces are perfect or ever can be but I will say bluesky has the least amount of recycled jokes

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chrono cross animal crossing/animal crossing: new horizons marvel vs. capcom 2 super smash bros. melee final fantasy 8 the legend of zelda: the wind waker super mario galaxy 2 jet grind radio crash bandicoot: warped tony hawk's pro skater 2

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oh man people are really joining here, I was still looking forward to sending more unhinged skeets

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honestly proud of the yappy dogs next door for not barking through all the neighborhood fireworks

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saw asteroid city last night and no spoilers but I appreciate how much Wes Anderson respects the power of student journalism

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companies keep hiring influencers for brand deals that go awry and go silent when there's public meltdown and harassment. i wrote about the sponcon machine that keeps coming back to bite, ex: the Shein trip: https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/30/23779058/shein-influencer-trip-backlash-ads-forced-labor

It should be yet another good lesson for anyone trying to make money through content creation: brand deals will sometimes come back to bite you. And it’s often the individual content creator — not the advertiser — that gets the most heat while having the least amount of support resources.

The incentives to make ads for brands have never been higher. Fueled by breakaway stars like MrBeast, the D’Amelio sisters, and Alix Earle, young people the world over don’t just dream of creating a viral presence out of nothing — many of them live it. Acting like an influencer is so easy it doesn’t even feel like pretending; shilling products and services online to a following of a few hundred has become a tenant of being online.
When brand deals go awry, it’s often the individual influencer who becomes the center of the maelstrom, as was the case with the Shein image rehab trip and others. Last month, a different influencer came under fire for referencing a school shooting that happened at her university in a sponsored video for skincare company Bioré. The brand apologized, too, saying it reviews all influencer content but doesn’t “edit or censor” material creators submit. I’m less outraged that a young person who experienced a campus shooting would mention it when asked to create content about mental health. But if you work in marketing for a major brand and don’t see how this could cause problems for everyone involved, you are bad at your job. Content creators are responsible for what they put their name on, but it’s up to the brand to make sure they don’t look like a fool. 

Even worse is when a brand partners with an influencer and throws them to the wolves when there’s a public response, as was the case w
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sorry, I just think it's so funny that they launched this brand new thing and said "yeah, we'll call the messages skeets"

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flirting with someone on bluesky call it skeet shooting

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Lance Dixon
@lancedixon.bsky.social
human. Floridian. doing audience work @19thnews. previous stops at WLRN, The New Tropic and The Miami Herald. forever grateful for Morehouse College and The Maroon Tiger.
56 followers57 following13 posts