This is just drama that doesn't belong in a technology community.
this post was submitted on 19 Aug 2023
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Correct. Should be over at c/ltt
I wonder what their company culture is like.
If your whole brand is based on being an asshole, I don't see why it would be any different internally tbh
I thought their full name was "douche brand".
Just me or did their weird way of communicating ("go fuck yourself" and whatnot) get old and cringe very fast?
That's on brand. When in doubt be a dick to everybody.
This doesn't really belong here IMO, why isn't it posted on the LTT community instead?
Well I do think ltt was(?) A big influence on the tech sphere.
"being weird, rude and cringy is their whole thing" does not make that thing any less weird, rude and cringy.
Classic dbrand.
Wow, I would never think a brand could be so harsh, like geez I'd call that the opposite of brand protection.
The irony is that it is on brand for them to be off brand
Their whole thing is to do this stuff with Linus. It's a constant friendly back and forth. Linus will make fun of and trash Dbrand in videos they sponsor, while Dbrand makes fun of him. In a vacuum, this looks really weird/bad, but if you are familiar with the back and forth it very much comes across as two really good friends taking the piss and just having fun.
There is basically no piece of content Dbrand isn't willing to sponsor with LMG because they don't give a fuck.
To me it’s hilarious. Who knew Lemmy would be filled with so many puritans
Being a puritan is different than not liking the "Hey kids, aren't swear words cool?" schtick
Yeah, I'm less interested in buying dbrand products now. I'm still very much displeased with LMG/LTT, but this was unprofessional.
I'd prefer if they just said something like this:
We're cancelling all sponsorships/relationships with LMG until the SA allegations have been resolved, at which point we'll reevaluate.
This kind of nonsense is just childish.
How do you feel about Karen's Diner? Their whole shtick is to be rude and unprofessional to customers. Same goes for dbrand. It is their brand to be unprofessional.
I've never been there, nor am I interested in going there (and I live nowhere close anyway), but I'm okay with the marketing fitting the product. If their wait staff is rude, their marketing being rude sets the appropriate expectations, and I'd probably recommend them to anyone who may be interested.
But that's quite different from what dbrand offers. Dbrand sells skins, cases, and other related products, so their marketing should focus on their products. Maybe if their skins were largely meta in nature (e.g. they sold pictures with Linus' face and a big cross through it), I could understand it a bit. But their website doesn't match their social media presence.
If a company's branding isn't consistent, what does that say about their products and product direction? So no, I'll look for a company I find more consistent and reputable. I don't buy products based on hype, but I certainly will avoid brands that seem inconsistent.
What says about them is market performance. Year over year growth for the past 3 years, 60th in top ecommerce sites for electronic-related domain.
https://ecommercedb.com/store/dbrand.com
We can judge all we want by their approach, but their performance numbers don't reflect your theory. Perhaps you're not their target demographic, and that's ok.
This is them condoning the behavior and showing their support for the channel in their weird cringey way. Not a condemnation.
So they're saying that if Linus suffers a bit then all is forgiven? They're not worried about the SA charges or intense deadlines that results in lower quality videos?
If true, that's much worse.
Worse than that. It's more along the lines of asserting that they are happy with the financial arrangement and "jokes" as per the status quo, and that they stand by him and his decision to advertise their product for money on the "apoplogy" video. They're making fun of the ones raising the issues, not linus. Even further they're trying to milk to controversy for attention.
I thought it was just the "milking the controversy" part, but I don't know dbrand's marketing well enough to know if this was approval or disapproval of how he's handling things.
Regardless, it turns me off from dbrand.
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Oh God, I tapped on the cat and my eyeballs are still struggling to focus again. I only saw it for a second!
wait what happens when you tap on the cat? it doesn't do anything for me. I wanna see the cat in it's full glory.
Step 1. Imagine a cat
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The Sickos party parrot is incredible
Talk about trying to keep the coals hot.
Is this something that Linus does normally? Or is this a joke that a sponsor will make him do this?
The joke is that dbrand does weird shit all the time, usually to annoy the people they sponsor. They use edgy humour in most of their marketing.