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minus-squareGuidy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up21arrow-down4·19 days agoIIRC the unalive and grape garbage didn’t start out being an advertiser thing, it was a China thing because that who controls your brain aka TikTok. It might be an advertiser thing now, but it’s also always been a hostile foreign government thing too.
minus-square🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up27·19 days agoPeople were using “unalive” on YouTube before TikTok even existed.
minus-squareelephantium@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·18 days agoFor those keeping score in the audience, there was a 2013 episode of Ultimate Spider Man that used “unalive”, and Tik Tok launched in 2016. It kind of surprised me.
IIRC the unalive and grape garbage didn’t start out being an advertiser thing, it was a China thing because that who controls your brain aka TikTok.
It might be an advertiser thing now, but it’s also always been a hostile foreign government thing too.
People were using “unalive” on YouTube before TikTok even existed.
For those keeping score in the audience, there was a 2013 episode of Ultimate Spider Man that used “unalive”, and Tik Tok launched in 2016.
It kind of surprised me.