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This feels so wrong to laugh at but lowkey it's true.

It's kind of silly in a way, should be Natives doing it in all honesty but it's good that Bitcoin is growing somewhere.

We need to find a way to utilize fiatism to our advantage without slipping into the fiat behaviors.

It obviously helps to have attractive, and wealthier individuals talk about bitcoin rather than some pale MIT nerd.

It's a fine line, wish society at large was more open to learning so we wouldn't have to propagate information by using cheap tactics to get them to pay attention.

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These marketing tactics are the lowest tier 2010 Instagram influencer stuff that is rightfully considered as quite obvious spam/borderline scammy(-looking at least) by everyone who sees it. Including, perhaps especially the very normies it is allegedly aimed. The only people impressed by this are bitcointwitter simps.

So I'd probably argue a lot of it is counter productive, but perhaps some of it is well intentioned.

(There's a lot of bitcoiner brand-building, which can be a mixture of gift and good intent.)

Perhaps, it's hard to propagate complex information right now in our society.

Usually it has be quick, simple, or exploit basic desires like hunger, or sex.

Maybe repetition, who knows.

The chief brainwashers in The Bitcoin Advertising Department know this stuff.

We need to copy The Gaza strategy since that seems to work pretty well, probably even better than the "pretty woman" tactic which historically seemed to work good.

I find it a bit off-putting and gay, to be honest. Like a Christopher Street Day parade.

Lol I don't know what that is. But I think I can imagine.

It's a bit like a party political broadcast aimed at gay young adults

They're those gay pride parades, where everyone prances around nude with body paint and stuff.

Yes, I see... and perhaps Barclay's Bank have made a quick video to promote that they're partnering with the event.

These videos do feel like that to me lol

They're also banking commercials for the perpetually woke. 😂

Same difference.

Gigi's writing worked better on me, but I like that high-brow philosophical shit.

"Now, moving on to the chapter, where I explain how Bitcoin is like mitochondria..."

🤩

> 'It obviously helps to have attractive, and wealthier individuals talk about bitcoin rather than some pale MIT nerd.'

I wonder if this is true? The 'sex sells' thing still needs some thought around aesthetics/optics/delivery etc etc. which is why you get an ironic take on it sometimes. It seems to not be as attention grabbing, it's not the 50s after all. (Yes, it might still work on some horny boomer uncles on Facebook, but that's not really the target audiemce ...perhaps lol).

The authencity-theough-autism seems to be the marketing strategy of eg Ethereum, cardano. They put their nerds at the forefront. ( Not saying this isn't just another scam, just commenting on the strategy). Perhaps that doesn't stand out any more, people learn and gloss over the hackneyed. I think it is perhaps a bit more dignified.

The world has evolved a lot since 2016 to 2021.

That's when I started getting into Bitcoin, and Cryptocurrencies it was just nerdy dudes explaining shit, and personally I liked it that way, people who wanted in knew what they were getting themselves into.

Now it's all this Michael Saylor shit, timechains, digital gold, and we need hot women because if hot women aren't in Bitcoin then everyone will think we're creeps; and other delusional behaviors that probably wouldn't exist had we just kept it about the blockchains 💀.

For me, I don't care what someone looks like, or sounds like when explaining interesting stuff, and yes it's nice to know that there are attractive people who are also interested in privacy, foss, tech, etc. but I enjoy their content because they talk about that stuff not because they're attractive.

I should just have AI create videos of fake-blonde-bikini-babe-me talking about novel event-driven data structures and the performance advantages of cohosting your buildserver.

Then everyone would suddenly care. LOL

Aren't some of the biggest Instagram influencers just AI?

mike 9mo ago

We’re all getting AI girlfriends 😂

https://whatsthebigdata.com/ai-boyfriend/

Where's my AI boyfriend, with red hair, wide shoulders, dry wit, a nice suit, and a computer genius, who can spend hours enthralling me with his knowledge of European history and orthodox philosophy?

mike 9mo ago

It’s a thing 😂

💯 😂

Mr. AI Boyfriend, please explain the Trinity.

mike 9mo ago

Bitcoin, Lightning & NOSTR.

They solve everything 😂

I would say that you are attractive personally speaking.

That being said it would be interesting if you made videos about technical stuff.

I like technical stuff, unfortunately for me I'm a entry level economics, and HTML pleb.

I don't fiddle with none of that actual smart people like Rust, Pyhton, Javascript, C++, Basic, Fortran, Binary, Machine code, etc.

I just play with my little ol' bios once every five years, and boot a flashed copy of Linux to feel smart like a little techfluencer who knows the difference between an SSD, and an HDD.

I'm mid-maxxing. Big eyes, big tits, big ERM diagrams.

"Mid" Women are the hottest thing right now 🥵, hot girls are so last year.

Personally maybe I'm a little weird, quirky, or gay, whatever but I think something about women who don't use a lot of makeup, and rely on a more natural look are more attractive.

The fake eyelashes, books, lips, and pounds of makeup just don't do it for me.

Something about a plain looking woman is just more attractive to me, Idk 🤷‍♂️.

Not calling you "mid", or "hot", you're not ugly, so you're in the 5 to 8 range but I don't know a respectful way to express that 😅.

That's very mid. Mid is good-looking! 😂🤷‍♀️

It's a curve and is highly affected by age and health, so being in your 40s and mid is like winning some sort of generic lottery.

I've thought about doing videos, for Alexandria, but they'd probably be screencasts. 😜

Achilles 9mo ago

How can I identify bots on Nostr best? Someone know?

This is not possible. Even the people you've met IRL could be having AI post stuff for them.

Achilles 9mo ago

That’s a risk for Nostr 🥲

Less so, for Nostr, than for most social media.

Achilles 9mo ago

True