The Army Bet $11M on The Rock and UFL Ginning Up Enlistments. It May Have Actually Hurt Recruiting Efforts.
The high-dollar, high-profile deal likely didn't lead to a single new Army recruit and may possibly have had a negative impact on finding new enlistments, internal documents and emails reviewed by Military.com show.
They paid The Rock and UFL $11 million, and he didn't even make as many social media posts as he agreed.
I don't know how they came up with a negative number here, but they found a way.
Excellent. More and more people are tuning out.
They can't advertise to their target audience because they've been captured by a Chinese platform, what a shit show. If they push for something major like a regime change in Iran, it's going to be a huge disaster.
They probably counted anyone who signed up for the free hats and shit but didn’t sign the devil’s contract. I did it to fulling knowing I couldn’t join due to my health and still got patches and hats from all 4 branches.
Eighty fucking percent of millennials watch live sports? Eight zero? I thought sportsball was a meme.
This is statistics. You aren't been given the question or the parameters, which means those are likely why the number seems so wild.
I'd wager its because the bar is so low that "watching the game a little while at the bar for something else" qualifies. Or that even esports matches do.
Great point. I just realized the guy I know who only cares about F1 would technically be in that 80%. Still, I was really scared for a moment.
Nascar would also count, and I think that's an entirely different demographic compared to what the word "millennial" conjures up for us.
Heck anyone who is watching the Olympics right now would qualify, even just for the memes.
As a full grown 32 year old that the closest I’ve ever gotten to “sports” is pro-wrestling to think I’d also be included in that 80% is scary…
Millenials are basically middle aged at this point if not older. Gen x is old. Boomer is ancient.
My point is that most millenials are part of the old order.
You misread. It isn't 78% watch, it's 22% don't watch.
The affirmative statement, statistics-wise, is important.
Someone who says "I don't eat asparagus" as a declaration is very different than someone who just doesn't generally eat asparagus in their life's flow.
How dare the chynese interfere with recruitment of our zogbots, they must be punished!
Part of zoomers not watching live sports is probably because they don't watch broadcast TV, and there's no option to watch live sports for free online that's as simple as Youtube or Tiktok and allowed on the app stores.
Zoomers don’t watch sports for the same reason they don’t watch movies or television, let alone read: tiktok brain. Short form video content is like concentrated sugar for your mind. It’s horrible for your mental faculties.
I’ve done it before. I’ve gotten stuck in the video shorts blender on YouTube. It’s an insanely deleterious experience that impacts your brain for hours. I can’t imagine what happens to kids with still-developing brains.
I feel like they're a little incentivized to scapegoat the rock for more of the falling recruitment than is really true. Because he can be replaced and they can just go "whoopsie, let me try that again!", whilst the alternative is admitting the army's own behavior has tarnished it's reputation so badly that nothing they can do will salvage the generational bad blood they have created.
Maybe defend our borders and remove everyone that's come here since Hart-Cellar and I'll consider.
Don't be so sure. A lot of them pull up the ladder behind them, so to speak.
They need to bring back the"Emma with two moms" army recruitment ad.
I mean I could easily say how they COULD get more people interested in joining...but:
I ain't doing it for free
I ain't recommending ANYONE join the military so long as Dems in charge and Trump hasn't purged them of the degenerate traitors.
Even with the military's "generous" sign-on bonus, when you crunch the numbers you make less than the average wagie. On the bright side, you don't have to pay rent for your rat-and-mold-infested barrack.
Generally you are getting paid less for a bunch of "step ups" when you get out, like GI Bill and a bunch of skills/discipline you learned. And it used to be that society respected you so highly it was a huge benefit.
The problem is that the negatives you walk out of it with usually cancel all of that out and often cost you even more. Even outside of the wartime scars one can get, even in relative "peace" way too many guys walk out with high ass disability counts and a VA that is barely worth even engaging with to deal with them.
So you basically sign up to hope you survive unscathed enough to get free college and some home loans and that's about it. Its all you can guarantee of value.
That's before you even talk about the political angles.
Even the free college is increasingly not worth it, as all the globohomo corps prioritize hiring DEI blacks and wahmans. You don't need a degree to start a business, which is where I see veterans actually leverage their service at all by advertising it's veteran-owned. That's assuming they come out unscathed and aren't homeless and addicted to painkillers, as you alluded to.
Plus you have the Dems constantly dangling loan forgiveness, which cheapens the fuck out of the GI Bill. Why get shot at for a piece of paper when you can game the system like all the other fuckheads?
You are correct, but there are still a handful of industries where those degrees are still necessary and you won't go anywhere otherwise. A lot of Engineering subsets come to mind, especially as a lot guys I knew who enlisted had passions and dreams in those types of fields.
And the Military knows that is its biggest value. Back when I was fresh out of high school and getting the Standard Daily Calls from every branch that was their first question and pitch. They pushed it so hard that it actively pushed me away from possibly joining out of pride at the implication I couldn't pay for fucking college without them (paid off my degree 2 months before graduation, fuck anyone who needs forgiveness).
But if you don't have one of those specific dreams, it offers basically no value for you that isn't a huge trap.
I'd say that he VA can eat the peanuts out of my shit, and they'd still find a way to fuck it up.
Just defend our own border for once. That will help a lot.
If they recruited with border defense as the promised deployment, half the country would sign up.
yOu DoN't sAy?
Was Dumbwayne Johnson promising recruits they could go to Hawaii and help burn it?
Has there ever been a bigger sellout than the Rock? Holy shit.
It just gets sadder and sadder as the years go by.
»be The Rock
»hired by military to recruit, paid millions for it
»don't post as much as you agreed to
»cause less people to sign up than otherwise
»refuse to elaborate
Who would WANT to serve under a Biden/Harris administration?
They only view a recruit as a potential useful idiot, nothing more.
The Trump campaign has been very hawkish, too. I wouldn't want to serve under either.