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20h ago
inMy $12,000 mistake: I let a friend's "cool cafe ad" run for 3 days before checking the comments
Oh man, this is way too familiar... I did the same thing with a "cinematic" promo for my dog grooming place last year. Paid some film student $150 and he made this super dark moody video with slow piano music, like it was a trailer for a sad movie about a lost dog or something. I posted it and didn't check anything for like two days, then my sister called me laughing so hard she could barely talk. The comments were full of people asking if my business was closing down or if it was some kind of joke. So yeah, always watch the whole thing twice with the sound off, and honestly just show it to one blunt friend before it goes live.
11d ago
inTried calling my dad 'phone' as slang and he just hung up
Your dad hanging up is way funnier than any internet slang could ever be. Slang like that lives and dies online because it only works when everyone in the room knows it. Try it on a real person and you just sound like you lost your mind. Why would a 67 year old man from Corpus Christi know what some random corner of TikTok decided a word means this week?
15d ago
inSerious question, did anyone watch that streamer's tone shift after the LA panel?
Watched it live and yeah the change is super obvious. Back in March she would go off for like twenty minutes over one chat message and the clips would hit the front page every time. Now she just says something like "that one hurt, moving on" and keeps playing and it kills me because I kinda miss the chaos. Saw her at the LA panel too and someone asked her about it and she got quiet for a sec and said she was tired of being a highlight reel. That felt real to me, not PR. PR coaches make people sound fake and rehearsed, she just sounds tired of her own past self.