Economy is fake, marketing is gay, I'm Not Even Human teaser is lame
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by Troler
Free Software fundamentally misses the point. It fails on a practical, ideological, economic, and political level. Let’s examine precisely how (in a slightly different order for the purposes of presentation).
In school people are taught with increase of supply, the price of a product drops. ↩ Reply
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X axis represents quantity (Q), while Y depicts price (P) ↩ Reply
Therefor any extra competition decreases the price. Yet it is true only when the customer knows of every product's price and can compare them. That is quite literally impossible, since it would require them to spend travel through the entire world, looking at every single deal, not to mention the secret, back-alley market. To a certain point, the investment cost is greater than returns of the bigger discount. For this reason clever people created this thing called marketing, which tricks the consumer to thinking they are being presented with the best deal out of all. It's not like someone is going to go and meticulously verify every single claim with hard data or proof. c:0 ↩ Reply
In the real world, the classic model of supply of demand is dictated by how well researched the customers are. Most are not. It comes to reality, that these pretty graphs are gross oversimplifications of the actual market and are more useful to wrap the head around the world, without having to confront the messy reality, rather than actually be applied. ↩ Reply
Once a person told me one of the bigger lessons learned in making good advertisements is to not put that much effort. That is not to say the worse the advertisement is, the more effective it is. Although, when the ad goes completely of the rails, the disdain comes circles around to interest. That's why the terrible mobile game advertisement compilations receive millions of views. Which is quite paradoxical, since no one likes people who only talk about themselves. Nobody enjoys being with Narcissus. ↩ Reply
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Narcissus (1763) by Francesco ↩ Reply
How is it possible to convince anyone to care about a product if it is singing to itself how great is is? One way is to make it so trashy, it becomes good. The other is acknowledge it is marketing and go all in on it. ↩ Reply
For instance, the movie Dominykas the Horse's Journey to the Stars, aware that the adults are the ones who're going to buy the tickets, made stupidly meta-teaser: https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=SQ55TgfB16Q ↩ Reply
The expectation is already set when there is a white stallion having an argument with the producer. Although I cringed watching and rewatching the teaser, the imagery stuck in my head. I perceived the film as more flavorful than it was. ↩ Reply
Such is not always the case. Putting characters from the film in a world they do not belong to leads to jarring results. I'm not even human is a stupidly blatant propaganda piece. As such, there is this expectation for the film to not take itself seriously, since if one does, the film is less enjoyable. That's why a teaser for the movie being only slightly serious is jarring: https://odysee.com/@BlenderDumbass:c/interview-with-characters-from-i-m-not:a c:1 ↩ Reply
The viewer is set up for some silly fun, but when they actually set out to watch the movie, there is this drama out of sudden. It's like expecting to watch Spy Kids and ending up with Planet Terror. The natural result is disappointment. c:2 ↩ Reply
I'd advise the director to make his advertisements more in line with what he is selling. Since I've seen a preview of the pitch for The 8 year olds, I can say attest, the lesson was learned. ↩ Reply
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Blender Dumbass
c:0 March 21, 2026 It's not like someone is going to go and meticulously verify every single claim with hard data or proof.
⤴ ViewThe link is just lol.
Blender Dumbass
c:1 March 21, 2026 Such is not always the case. Putting characters from the film in a world they do not belong to leads to jarring results. I'm not even human is a stupidly blatant propaganda piece. As such, there is this expectation for the film to not take itself seriously, since if one does, the film is less enjoyable. That's why a teaser for the movie being only slightly serious is jarring: https://odysee.com/@BlenderDumbass:c/interview-with-characters-from-i-m-not:a
⤴ ViewThis is not a teaser. This is a sort of interview. There is a normal trailer for it as well.
Blender Dumbass
c:2 March 21, 2026 The viewer is set up for some silly fun, but when they actually set out to watch the movie, there is this drama out of sudden. It's like expecting to watch Spy Kids and ending up with Planet Terror. The natural result is disappointment.
⤴ ViewSpy Kids and planter terror have a surprising amount of similarity.
Troler
c:3 March 21, 2026... c:2
Blender Dumbass c:2 March 21, 2026 The viewer is set up for some silly fun, but when they actually set out to watch the movie, there is this drama out of sudden. It's like expecting to watch Spy Kids and ending up with Planet Terror. The natural result is disappointment.
⤴ ViewSpy Kids and planter terror have a surprising amount of similarity.
@blenderdumbass Maybe because it's the same director?
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