- X users are complaining about an influx of low-quality ads promoting crypto scams and AI “undressing” apps.
- The decline in reputable advertisers on X has made the platform more reliant on less reputable ad buyers.
- The exodus of advertisers, partially due to Elon Musk’s controversial behavior, has left X with a growing revenue gap.
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You advertise to your audience. Ads targeting the perverse and the stupid seem perfectly suited to twitter.
You may not like it, but this is what peak advertising looks like. Add in some T-shirts with swastikas on them, and they’ve nailed their target demographic.
I’ve clicked a few “sources” from a dude I know on Facebook that constantly posts his crazy bullshit. Dick pill ads for days.
Meanwhile my Hulu ads are for Hers or Hims, I guess my VPN works
HIMS, HERS, and dating apps for days.
When in doubt bank on people not feeling they’re enough and lonely.
I recently got a fresh Hulu acct and it’s funny watching them try to figure out what I “am” while they just cycling through the dating app ads.
One commercial will be a christian dating app, the next will be a black dating app, the next will be a latino dating app, the next a farmers dating app. It’s hilarious and I’m not exaggerating at all. I’m sure if I started interacting with anything they’d start narrowing my demographics down but for now the algorithm seems to be trying a shotgun approach and it’s a little bit amusing.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the far right wing christofascists start seeing CP AI generators adverts suddenly, it would fit their preferences so well.
404 Media report[ed] last month that ads promoting “semen stealing” were showing up on the site.
Wait what now
I mean, where do you get your semen?
I make my own.
It’s 9pm. Do you know where your semen is?
Once I figured out how to get it back into my penis I became unstoppable.
Well that UTI was unstoppable anyway.
Just pour some cranberry juice in afterwards.
If I were someone with no tact and low-brow humor, I’d say it’s in your mom’s mouth. Fortunately I’m much better than that. So I’ll just say it’s slowly gathering in preparation for a pre-sleep release into a few tissues.
ETA: which I will douse in hot sauce before flushing down the toilet.
I got the rest from this guy named Ralph in an alley–stupid asshole didn’t even charge me, he just told me to close my eyes and suck it out of a hose!
I wanted to see what kind of ads that might actually be since I have zero concept. I do not recommend typing “semen stealing” into Google innocently and hoping for an answer.
I’m going to have some weird ads now…
And yet you didn’t share the info with us? Shame on you
You’re welcome to weird up your ads, also.
If you don’t want to search it up, here are the first 3 DuckDuckGo results for “semen stealing”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_fatherhood
https://news.yahoo.com/spurgling-stealing-sperm-pregnant-121820779.html
https://www.refinery29.com/en-gb/2022/01/10831906/baby-trapping-illegal
Here’s the summary for the wikipedia article you mentioned in your comment:
Forced fatherhood or imposed paternity, occurs when a man’s semen is used, against his will or without his knowledge or consent, to inseminate a woman, it includes deception by a partner about their ability to get pregnant or use of contraceptives, birth control sabotage, and sexual assaults of males that result in pregnancy. “Sperm theft” (also known as “unauthorized use of sperm”, “spermjacking” or “spurgling” (a portmanteau of sperm and burgling), refers to a specific form of forced fatherhood where a males semen is collected without his consent. Although the term uses the word “theft”, it more closely falls under a state of fraud or breach of contract. Stealing of sperm in itself without using it for successful insemination is not illegal and is difficult to prove. It usually has no bearing on issues like child support.
Say what now? Stealing sperm isn’t illegal unless you use it?
I saw… that. But what could someone advertise about it! And that’s a curiosity those links don’t answer…
I like how you’re just adbaiting us at this point
Entirely by accident I assure you.
Yea this guy is the hero of the thread, I would have just not bothered with the article if it wasn’t for you pointing that line out
Couldn’t find that username or email is my favourite person!
Yep, I’ve seen that, along with ads for “jack-off pants”:
Weird, this week they’re also claiming that TwitX has 24 times the engaged users of YouTube.
Prime example of “source? trust me bro”. Elon can make up whatever metrics he needs to, but it doesn’t make the platform any better
Advertisers surely know he’s full of crap, too. He can make up fake views, he could even have bots click on ads, but unless he’s also going to fake being a customer it will all come out in metrics. Savvy advertisers track all of that. Clicks per display, sales per click.
Maybe misspelled “enraged”?
Tbf I think the YouTube comment section has that one too
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I’m curious about what their definition of “engaged” is. I imagine most people don’t make comments on YouTube videos, but twitter’s main focus has always been posting and commenting on others’ posts.
Scrolling by a video without even looking at it counts, apparently.
“The fact that X has made it abundantly clear that it has no desire to create a brand-safe environment has only solidified our recommendations to move to growing platforms with better opportunities for organic discovery,” he added.
This is how you say “fuck you too” in corporatespeak
I would personally go with:
“Some may say that Mr. Musk was a visionary, and further to the road map laid out by Mr. Musk during the Dealbook Summit, our organization is happy to assist with bringing said business forecast into reality.”
- Past tense on visionary
- brings up him telling companies to “fuck off”
- rubs it in that his financial people have clearly told him that this is how Xitter goes belly-up, and that when he tries to fix it, he just makes it worse.
Well he told advertisers to fuck off so they did.
To me as an average Joe it seems pretty dumb to tell your advertisers to fuck off when they provide a big chunk of your income but hey, I’m not a stable genius billionaire so I just don’t get Elon’s 5D chess moves. Right?
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What’s much more interesting to me is when Facebook and YouTube told advertiser’s to fuck off? Because it’s the exact same type of ads but people pretend they see Disney and coca cola ads on everything except twitter…
Max? Is that you?
I don’t use Twitter and my life is better off.
It’s crazy, any time I open it up I see blatantly obvious rightwing trolls or even gore. My feed pre-Elon didn’t look like that, I mostly followed infosec people but they’ve all gone elsewhere and now it seems I’m being served content that baits me into arguing or converts me.
Ten is a terrible site anyway.
Please don’t associate Xitter with the ancient Romans. They never hurt you.
They never hurt you.
This heavily depends from which geographical region you’re from. They were the champions of imperialist colonialism for a loooooong time.
We’re all victims of Roman jurisprudence
What have the Romans ever done for us?
The aqueduct.
Yes, they did give us that, that’s true
And sanitation Yes, that too
The aqueduct I’ll grant is one
thing the Romans may have done
And the roads, now they’re all new
And the great wines too
Well, apart from the wines and fermentation,
And the canals for navigation
Public health for all the nation
Apart from those, which are a plus,
what have the Romans ever done for us?
Oh. Yeah, yeah. They did give us that. Uh, that’s true. Yeah.
I’m starting to think that telling your customers to “go fuck themselves” may not be a sound business decision.
So that’s why my boss won’t let me do it.
You couldn’t have posted this twenty minutes earlier? Fuck!
I mean…youtube is the same tho. I constantly get ads for apps that are basically flat out saying you can use it to make porn of anyone you want. Not to meniton the constant scams. There is that big one that pops up all the time claiming you can get a online only, no experience necessary, data entry job for Disney starting at something crazy like $25 an hour.
Musk is shit, X is shit but…all of them allow these kinds of ads.
You should just block the ads. It’s not that hard and certainly worth it.
Eh, i rarely use it on my phone so not really worth the time and effort.
It’s a couple clicks. I’d seriously recommend it because I’ve found that Google actually will improve their recommendations if you tell them stuff you’re not interested in.
Wait. That job posting is a scam?
Yep, money is too good to be true for a job like that for one thing but I saw someone talk about it and a few others like it. You go through all the steps, give them your personal information, and then you get dumped on a generic job seeking website and then get spammed to death for months.
$25 an hour is sadly not too good for any job in the US these days. $50k doesn’t go that far anymore.
Define “the US” because 25 an hour is living a life of luxury in much of the US that’s not a major city
$25/hr isn’t living a life of luxury anywhere. Not even in a town of 2,000 people.
What is that like 40, maybe 35k after taxes?
$52k before taxes, about $41k after. It’s an ok wage a lot of places but I defniitely wouldn’t call it a “life of luxury” anywhere in the U.S. and I’m from one of the LCOL places in the U.S., the midwest.
You definitely won’t starve but you’re also not going to retire early.
I was slightly exaggerating sure, but 25 an hour outside of a city is a lot of money.
People are still on Xitter? Gross.
Xitter is great for keeping the riff Raff contained, else they share their shit takes with the rest of the internet.
Since when do “high quality ads” exist? I mean, the mentioning of “low quality ads” implies that those others might actually exist.
Probably meaning ads for real products and travels etc.
As a current Twitter user I would say there’s actually a large void between normal ads and whatever the hell I’m getting served on that platform these days.
This is the last ad that had me paying full attention when it first came on. It was ran during the football finals season and they made two cuts, one for NRL and one for AFL. https://youtu.be/gbMeKMkE_mk
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There’s low quality ads, shit tier ads and then there’s whatever Muskyboi is attracting these days.
Spanish national lottery has amazing ads. Like in the sense that the writing, direction and execution in general is always spot on. I know how it sounds but they are really little works of art.
Not many people in the world watch Spanish TV, so we might have missed the rare exception.
Actually, millions of people watch Spanish TV.
Those YT “in video ads” on Internet Comment Etiquette is about as high quality as you can make it. I wouldn’t want to skip Erik selling Nord VPN, Raycon, Nobleberry, or anything else he wants to make an ad for.
What’s that you say? Advertisers took his advice at that event seriously?
AI undressing apps you say? AI’s about to make that video of Elon telling advertisers to fuck off a lot more surprising.
“What’s that melting refrigerator? I thought this was an undressing app!”
“Oh, my God, that’s disgusting! Software that makes naked pics online? Where? Where did they post those?”
I care just enough to say I don’t care.
I was repeatedly called a GPT3 bot on Xitter. This was before it was even public.
There was a crazy guy on Reddit who was absolutely convinced I was a rogue AI. It was so bizarre.
Can you prove you AREN’T a rogue AI? :p
The best part was, just to see what he would do, I wrote his username and the date and time on a napkin and took a picture of it- blacking out part of my face to limit the doxing- and he claimed it was photoshopped. You can’t win against crazy, but I was pretty amused.
He fully embraced a post-truth world! Assume EVERYTHING is a lie
Except the stuff he knows is true of course
You admit you care, and that’s the first step to curing your addiction.
Curing my addiction? Hell no, I just substituted it with Mastodon and Lemmy!
I downvote every article giving him attention
I still use Twitter but I have no idea what the quality of ads is like since they’re long blocked. I could well imagine that there is some absolute bottom of the barrel garbage and scams a plenty.
That’s what happens when you cater to a bunch of right-wing extremists and literally tell mainstream advertisers to fuck off.
Hail adblock!
