SO many companies would be fine if the didn't do anything and made a seperate product to pander to the left or any other demographic. It's by listening to the left who's theme is 'no it's not enough, EVERYTHING sound pander to me!' that they fucked themselves.
Its also a problem of the "infinite growth" model that all the governments and businesses of the world ascribe to. Where holding down a market and population unquestioningly isn't enough, you need to be constantly getting more.
Does it make sense in any world how you can have Bud Light appeal to both white rednecks AND dainty liberals? Nope, but they will certainly try because its an "untapped market."
Literally what happened with Star Wars and countless other franchises. The biggest untapped market for any product is always the people who don’t like the product.
I think the biggest problem is the word "untapped".
To "tap" is to syphon and remove something. Tapping maple trees for sap. Tapping barrels for wine. It implies it will dry up, run out.
But the thing is still there, it will always still be there. The act of taking its money does not cause it to deplete itself. If you sell oranges, people who like oranges will buy your product until the end of time, and people who don't, won't. If you make very specific formula action movies, people will buy it 'til the end of time if they like it, and those who don't, won't.
They are tapping markets, as in they know the market is not forever, and is just a quick cash grab. And to do this, they are untapping their existing markets to move those spigots. And then astounded when they have less maple syrup at year end, when they removed all those spigots from those old and poked-at maple trees and put them on birch instead.
The worst thing about these 'articles/Tweets/whatever' is that they keep accompanying them with pictures of these repellent creatures. The Daily Wire might as well be the Dulvaney ad agency by now, going by the sheer amount of pictures of him on that site.
My thoughts exactly. Right wing outlets and influencer Tweeting types get snared in the “free advertising for the enemy” trap too easily. Too many of them get obsessed with the issue of the moment and end up doing 20 stories, or putting out 20 Tweets, when like two or three will suffice to cover any actual developments in the story as it runs it course. LibsofTikTok lady does the game right, just shows the latest nuttiness and then moves on. She doesn’t writr seven follow-up articles about each new weirdo she highlights, doesn’t see a particular weirdo gets lots of “engagement” from her followers and then go back and post all of that weirdo’s videos to keep the weirdo in people’s minds, etc etc etc.
Meanwhile: LGBT group removes Anheuser-Busch from ‘Best Places to Work’ for not 'standing by' Mulvaney ad
Get fucked, you name-stealing, monkey-piss-brewing, corporate knob goblins.
I do enjoy listening to the sounds of their own extinction
SO many companies would be fine if the didn't do anything and made a seperate product to pander to the left or any other demographic. It's by listening to the left who's theme is 'no it's not enough, EVERYTHING sound pander to me!' that they fucked themselves.
Its also a problem of the "infinite growth" model that all the governments and businesses of the world ascribe to. Where holding down a market and population unquestioningly isn't enough, you need to be constantly getting more.
Does it make sense in any world how you can have Bud Light appeal to both white rednecks AND dainty liberals? Nope, but they will certainly try because its an "untapped market."
Literally what happened with Star Wars and countless other franchises. The biggest untapped market for any product is always the people who don’t like the product.
I think the biggest problem is the word "untapped".
To "tap" is to syphon and remove something. Tapping maple trees for sap. Tapping barrels for wine. It implies it will dry up, run out.
But the thing is still there, it will always still be there. The act of taking its money does not cause it to deplete itself. If you sell oranges, people who like oranges will buy your product until the end of time, and people who don't, won't. If you make very specific formula action movies, people will buy it 'til the end of time if they like it, and those who don't, won't.
They are tapping markets, as in they know the market is not forever, and is just a quick cash grab. And to do this, they are untapping their existing markets to move those spigots. And then astounded when they have less maple syrup at year end, when they removed all those spigots from those old and poked-at maple trees and put them on birch instead.
It's for the money, and nothing else.
Those people make up a fraction of a fraction of the population.
Hunting for razor thin market shares while abandoning your main purchasing group is never a good idea.
There isn't enough ESG money in the world worth the losses.
But hey, keep going by all means. Any company that would take ESG money, money that could evaporate tomorrow, isn't worth my dime.
To be fair, that is representative of the average Bud Light drinker.
The worst thing about these 'articles/Tweets/whatever' is that they keep accompanying them with pictures of these repellent creatures. The Daily Wire might as well be the Dulvaney ad agency by now, going by the sheer amount of pictures of him on that site.
My thoughts exactly. Right wing outlets and influencer Tweeting types get snared in the “free advertising for the enemy” trap too easily. Too many of them get obsessed with the issue of the moment and end up doing 20 stories, or putting out 20 Tweets, when like two or three will suffice to cover any actual developments in the story as it runs it course. LibsofTikTok lady does the game right, just shows the latest nuttiness and then moves on. She doesn’t writr seven follow-up articles about each new weirdo she highlights, doesn’t see a particular weirdo gets lots of “engagement” from her followers and then go back and post all of that weirdo’s videos to keep the weirdo in people’s minds, etc etc etc.
It gets worse.
I'm sorry.