I'm not sure if they would be classified as influencers but have you ever fallen into the rabbit hole of youtube reaction channels? I fell into it because of a band I like was being heavily reacted to on youtube but I quickly noticed there is a cycle of right wing propagandists like Tom McDonald and other music type people who get featured on these reaction channels. The majority of the reactors I watch are black but they sell their souls for the traffic they get from what I assume are mostly bots that watch and comment in support of the right wing propaganda.
The first time I watched one of those reaction videos I was awestruck by how the reactor was so agreeable to the theme of "I won't apologize for being white". I know it's only tangibly related to the topic here but I have been bothered by it and wanted to share and see what other people think.
I am convinced the reactors or paid to favorably review this stuff.
I’m having the same issue with a different post… OP said it was sleeping ducks, comments seem to suggest it is sleeping ducks, but I see a movie poster.
I don't know about you, but I only notice when it's a wildly different pic, usually nsfw. Probably just bias, I bet it happens all the time with pics that seem somewhat related or it's a topic (and picture) you don't care about.
Oil companies (via “independent film makers”) have been paying influencers to shit on Tesla, ever since Tesla became a viable threat to big oil and legacy auto. Nothing new here.
Big oil already has massive investments in lithium. Big oil is already ready to transition to big lithium, they're just squeezing out the last bits of cash they can in oil.
Did anyone think that as EVs became popular that industrial giants like ExxonMobil would just disappear? No, big oil is already positioned to be with us another 100+ years as they strip mine the planet for lithium.
Mass transit is what was always needed, but there's little to no profit there. With EVs, it's just the same song and dance as oil but with batteries this time.
Yea, there’s definitely some weird bug for some of the users. I just see the normal image from the article. I tried on lemm.ee and also just see the normal image.
Kbin only problem. Usually we get something dumb from improperly cached images, but sometimes we get naked ladies and that gets a lot of attention from our instance.
You're a mod for this community, right? I'm not sure if this would work, but if you were to add an NSFW tag to this post, I think that should federate over to Kbin, which will at least blur out the thumbnail for us.
Though that may also end up hiding the post from users who have NSFW disabled on their accounts, so it might not be worth doing.
EDIT: I realized that the way I phrased this may have seemed unnecessarily confrontational with the "You're a mod, right?" part. Sorry if it came across that way! I didn't mean for it to sound like "You're a mod, right? Do something!" lol
I think there’s some issue with people on kbin seeing wrong images. Probably a question for the server admins over there. It’s normal on three of the Lemmy instances I checked on.
fair play laws required 1 anti smoking PSA to be aired for every ~3 smoking advertisements. This was causing the first downturn in the amount of smokers for pretty much the first time
it made it basically impossible for any new tobacco companies to take any marketshare from the established brands
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