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No, I'm just trying to keep the facts straight.
Then you're ignorant of how the tone of that comment comes off.
My, you’re sure a pleasant person to have a conversation with!
How the Food Industry Pays Influencers to Shill Blueberries, Butter, and More
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#142I read "Trust me I'm lying" and it reaffirmed a lot of my theories about how modern marketing works. (This isn't a sly paid plug for the book. Trust me ;) Now I assume everything is marketing by default. A couple that come to mind: the ugly sonic design when the movie came out. You get a whole wave of promotion from the outrage, then another when the design is fixed. An innocuous "my girlfriend's shirt matched her co…
The thinking you’re speaking of, namely that marketers are the ones calling the shots and causing disaster in order to generate controversy and therefore attention, is indistinguishable from paranoid delusions and conspiracy thinking. It’s important to back up claims of conspiracy with hard evidence otherwise it’s just unnecessary slander. Everything could be a conspiracy, potentially.
I can’t think of any situation where a marketer would be given enough agency to manufacture disaster in order to sell something, except in politics. However, they certainly do have the ability to manipulate the media and narratives.
I seriously doubt the sonic thing was a conspiracy as they put a ton of effort into making sonic and animating it, which they would have avoided if they intended to withdraw it.
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#143I'm amazed that people still depend on "influencers" to make decisions. After all we've seen over the last 10 years of sponsored posts, and "influencers" people still blindly follow their lead.
Discovery of products has often been outsourced to influencers, think DJs influencing music or fashion icons with style trends.
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I have no idea why the hell people are being so hard on you. I haven't had good fresh blueberries, but it is well known that food tends to be better when you get it fresh from the place where it is grown. I can certainly vouch that tomatoes and strawberries that you get at the store are but a pale imitation of what you get if you can get them fresh. Maybe blueberries are an exception to this trend, but I doubt it. I'…
Honestly, fresh, frozen, store bought, and and all blueberries. They all taste like crunchy water to me. We had a blueberry farm less than 5 miles from our house. My family just raves about how good the fresh blueberries are. Crunchy water. They all taste like crunchy water. I wonder what's wrong with my taste capacity that there is an absolute absence of detection of blueberry.
I don’t think it’s the freshness factor, but rather the difference between wild/bush picked and cultivated.
On the grocery-destined side, there’s probably an aspect of strain selection and farming practices that focuses on bulk without regard to flavour+texture.
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#145I'm amazed that people still depend on "influencers" to make decisions. After all we've seen over the last 10 years of sponsored posts, and "influencers" people still blindly follow their lead.
Discovery of products has often been outsourced to influencers, think DJs influencing music or fashion icons with style trends.
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#146Why even shill blueberries? Who doesn’t like them?
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I'm convinced that this is why every recipe on Youtube now suddenly involves "delicious" Almond milk (which is not delicious and not milk). If you are going to be shilling for the vegan processed food industry, at least use oat milk (which you can make at home) or soy milk (which is actually delicious - at least the processed versions I had in Japan).
Almond marketing is totally insane. I think it's because they feel they have to fight against all the people who point out how environmentally bad they are. It's hard to blame the people in CA who are upset when they're constantly asked to ration their personal water usage while the almond industry there takes more water than all the indoor water use of the entire state.
Yes, I have the exact same feeling. Literally extracting water from an area dealing with drought; it feels icky and not environmentally conscious at all.
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#148Throwing my hat into the noise… Just try things people. Blueberries are awesome. I know a lot of yall sit at a desk and work on a computer. I personally find blueberries to be an amazing snack and fuel for that kind of work. Driscoll Berries - thumbs down Twin Rivers - thumbs up Farmers market - thumbs up
I just don't get the appeal of blueberries. I have tried them several times and find them both lacking in flavor and mealy in texture. I don't think I've only tried bad ones-- when I do buy them they're from the same grocery stores that are stocked with fruit I do like!
I wholeheartedly agree with this. They're not bad at all. And I do enjoy them. But they really are both 'lacking in flavour' and 'mealy texture', as you say.
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Every purchase you have ever made is likely influenced by marketing. As you’re pointing out, it’s not always evil to be told about something you like.
> As you’re pointing out, it’s not always evil to be told about something you like. It's one thing to be "told about something you like" and another to be manipulated even if sometimes it ultimately leads to a good outcome. If I trick you into buying something you wouldn't have bought otherwise it doesn't really matter much if it turns out later that you actually like the thing you overpaid for, I'd still be a dick.
I don’t disagree with the sentiment, but it’s really hard to imagine a counter factual. There are probably 5 fruits just as tasty as blueberries that you would like, but haven’t been promoted to you. Are you defrauded because you ended up with blueberries?
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Big blueberries tend to taste worse than regular ones. I think there's a standard amount of blueberry flavor per volume so smaller ones have a more concentrated/better flavor.
This is definitely a shill comment from Big Black Currant.
Big small blueberry