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Soulja Boy Is Selling Cheap Emulators as His Own Consoles

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Re: Soulja Boy Is Selling Cheap Emulators as His Own Consoles

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I'm semi-famous. Does anyone want to buy a raspberry pi running RetroArch with my name written on it? /s

It’s just marketing, I don’t see what’s so strange about it. He runs a public brand, and he looks for products that he thinks can be effectively marketed through that brand.

It’s no different than Urban Outfitters.

Re: Soulja Boy Is Selling Cheap Emulators as His Own Consoles

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I'm semi-famous. Does anyone want to buy a raspberry pi running RetroArch with my name written on it? /s

Honestly though, I'm surprised we haven't seen this from well known 'celebrity' accounts on Reddit.

Celebrities on Reddit don’t have great push marketing channels. And in general overt marketing doesn’t work well on Reddit. That audience likes to be tricked into buying things via clever organic “news”.

Other sites like Instagram are much more amenable to brand marketing like this.

Re: Soulja Boy Is Selling Cheap Emulators as His Own Consoles

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I've found it interesting that knockoff SNES and NES classics are pervasive not just online these days, but and brick and mortar malls. For the unknowing parent buying for their kids, they seem like the better offer, they usually list having hundreds of games rather than the couple dozen with the legitimate consoles. At a glance, they look official, having similar styling to both the hardware and the classic Nintendo…

They are the better offer. Why should a parent care if some company's getting royalties for a game they released 30 years ago?

Re: Soulja Boy Is Selling Cheap Emulators as His Own Consoles

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Rap music has a strong history of building your brand then licensing products with your name/brand on them or even to the extent of Kanye where he actually designs his own fashion line/shoes.

> even to the extent of Kanye where he actually designs his own fashion line/shoes. There is no way he does that himself, just like all the other wannabe fashion/perfume/merchandising brands. They just use their fame to tack on another revenue stream.

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Re: Soulja Boy Is Selling Cheap Emulators as His Own Consoles

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

The really interesting part is that the highlight marketing photos are using pictures of an Apple Watch and when you actually check the product, the "real" photos is nothing like it. This is basically adding a known brand onto cheap tech knockoff products.

Here is a video [0] of him with it on, yeah, nothing like the Apple watch. Also on the topic of cheap Chinese watches I would read the section of this article on the smartwatch [1] and note this was published 2 years ago. That whole article is interesting but the smartwatch and their contact who said it only cost them $6 to make (note they bought the watches for just under $10 each): > If the factory sold the watches…

Notice how none of the product photos show the other side? Must be a pretty ugly micro b port.
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