- X users are complaining about an influx of low-quality ads promoting crypto scams and AI “undressing” apps.
- The decline in reputable advertisers on X has made the platform more reliant on less reputable ad buyers.
- The exodus of advertisers, partially due to Elon Musk’s controversial behavior, has left X with a growing revenue gap.
Archive link: https://archive.ph/sbOxS
“The fact that X has made it abundantly clear that it has no desire to create a brand-safe environment has only solidified our recommendations to move to growing platforms with better opportunities for organic discovery,” he added.
This is how you say “fuck you too” in corporatespeak
I would personally go with:
“Some may say that Mr. Musk was a visionary, and further to the road map laid out by Mr. Musk during the Dealbook Summit, our organization is happy to assist with bringing said business forecast into reality.”
- Past tense on visionary
- brings up him telling companies to “fuck off”
- rubs it in that his financial people have clearly told him that this is how Xitter goes belly-up, and that when he tries to fix it, he just makes it worse.
Well he told advertisers to fuck off so they did.
To me as an average Joe it seems pretty dumb to tell your advertisers to fuck off when they provide a big chunk of your income but hey, I’m not a stable genius billionaire so I just don’t get Elon’s 5D chess moves. Right?
What’s much more interesting to me is when Facebook and YouTube told advertiser’s to fuck off? Because it’s the exact same type of ads but people pretend they see Disney and coca cola ads on everything except twitter…
Max? Is that you?
You advertise to your audience. Ads targeting the perverse and the stupid seem perfectly suited to twitter.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the far right wing christofascists start seeing CP AI generators adverts suddenly, it would fit their preferences so well.
I’m starting to think that telling your customers to “go fuck themselves” may not be a sound business decision.
You couldn’t have posted this twenty minutes earlier? Fuck!
I still use Twitter but I have no idea what the quality of ads is like since they’re long blocked. I could well imagine that there is some absolute bottom of the barrel garbage and scams a plenty.
That’s what happens when you cater to a bunch of right-wing extremists and literally tell mainstream advertisers to fuck off.
Hail adblock!
404 Media report[ed] last month that ads promoting “semen stealing” were showing up on the site.
Wait what now
Yep, I’ve seen that, along with ads for “jack-off pants”:
Yea this guy is the hero of the thread, I would have just not bothered with the article if it wasn’t for you pointing that line out
Couldn’t find that username or email is my favourite person!
I mean, where do you get your semen?
I make my own.
I wanted to see what kind of ads that might actually be since I have zero concept. I do not recommend typing “semen stealing” into Google innocently and hoping for an answer.
I’m going to have some weird ads now…
If you don’t want to search it up, here are the first 3 DuckDuckGo results for “semen stealing”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_fatherhood
https://news.yahoo.com/spurgling-stealing-sperm-pregnant-121820779.html
https://www.refinery29.com/en-gb/2022/01/10831906/baby-trapping-illegal
Here’s the summary for the wikipedia article you mentioned in your comment:
Forced fatherhood or imposed paternity, occurs when a man’s semen is used, against his will or without his knowledge or consent, to inseminate a woman, it includes deception by a partner about their ability to get pregnant or use of contraceptives, birth control sabotage, and sexual assaults of males that result in pregnancy. “Sperm theft” (also known as “unauthorized use of sperm”, “spermjacking” or “spurgling” (a portmanteau of sperm and burgling), refers to a specific form of forced fatherhood where a males semen is collected without his consent. Although the term uses the word “theft”, it more closely falls under a state of fraud or breach of contract. Stealing of sperm in itself without using it for successful insemination is not illegal and is difficult to prove. It usually has no bearing on issues like child support.
Say what now? Stealing sperm isn’t illegal unless you use it?
AI undressing apps you say? AI’s about to make that video of Elon telling advertisers to fuck off a lot more surprising.
“What’s that melting refrigerator? I thought this was an undressing app!”
“Oh, my God, that’s disgusting! Software that makes naked pics online? Where? Where did they post those?”
Didnt Netflix just start doing ads on there again?
And it’s only a matter of time until those AI undressing app get banned by law. Good.
What’s that you say? Advertisers took his advice at that event seriously?
How about we agree to call X/Twitter as Xitter. It avoids the confusion.
I find it particularly funny to call it X(formerly twitter) every time I have to mention it.
Also kind of love how Dubious X is as a name cause I always think it’s a porn site before my brain clicks
Yup and tweets as xeets pronounced as “shits”.
xeets pronounced as “shits”
I would pronounce that “sheeeeeiittts”
SUCH GUD BIZNESS MAN
Too bad, so sad
I’m calling it now. Even if his aim was to not destroy Twitter from the inside, he will absolutely say that was his goal when it eventually happens.
People like this never, pathologically, ever, ever admit making a mistake.
Haven’t met the undressing bots yet. But my account somehow ended up in a bot list and I get @ by at least 3-5 crypto bots daily. Quite annoying.
