I mean, the ads on Reddit were so irrelevant that I might as well have been boycotting the companies anyway.
True. But still, marketing teams are pretty skittish and a couple of dozen negative tweets or something is often enough for them to bail just to avoid even the potential for getting caught in a controversy.
Particularly as, unlike political controversies, there's nobody to get pissed off with them for bailing...
Particularly as, unlike political controversies, there’s nobody to get pissed off with them for bailing…
Thankfully there are plenty, plenty political controversies associated with Reddit that people can - and should - bring up from the grave. It's all about contextualising them to show that Reddit Inc. still has the same "corporate values" as back then, and that it would likely do the same crap as it did before. (For example, have you heard about TD?)
What companies advertise on Reddit? I don't use an app that shows ads, so I have no idea who I would be boycotting.
I don't even know who advertises on Reddit. I block ads.
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