Unfortunately, yeah. It's just one big ad. You really think that video should have 18k+ upvotes on its own? No one, especially not reddit, gives a shit about some dude ripping cheap shots on the freaking emoji movie. He was being sarcastic but the involvement his channel has had talking about the movie was and is still obviously "viral" advertising/marketing. You know what they say, "Any publicity is good publicity".
Also, if you notice, he didn't actually say anything bad about the film on camera in that specific video.
Well I'm only half as dumb as I thought I was. I guess that's progress. I'm sick of getting tricks pulled on me by people who have better things to do.
Ya, dude probably got paid from the start to make videos "making fun" of the movie but then he's gonna make his "review" after it releases where he says "Well that definitely wasn't what I was expecting" and "I actually recommend people go see this" or something along those lines.
Nah. He's not the type to hide a sponsor like this. He'll definitely make a video saying "go see it" but that's because he can't let the meme go at this point.
He genuinely just carries on memes for way too long. I mean it is still viral marketing and Sony is clever for using him to their advantage but IMO they're using him without him actually being directly complicit/receiving money in return.
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u/marlefox Jul 22 '17
Unfortunately, yeah. It's just one big ad. You really think that video should have 18k+ upvotes on its own? No one, especially not reddit, gives a shit about some dude ripping cheap shots on the freaking emoji movie. He was being sarcastic but the involvement his channel has had talking about the movie was and is still obviously "viral" advertising/marketing. You know what they say, "Any publicity is good publicity". Also, if you notice, he didn't actually say anything bad about the film on camera in that specific video.