• Kurroth@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I was using reddit less and less, but when the furry subreddits made their way into /r/popular and /r/all that was it for toilet browsing/squat’n’surfing… Seeing a sign for ‘werewolf breeding zone’ was enough for me.

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      1 year ago

      I’ve never cared for furry stuff, but hell, I probably would’ve stayed if I’d gotten anything nearly as hilarious as “werewolf breeding zone” instead of all the religious and techbro crap I was getting through their ads.

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          I’ve been wondering that too, since I found the campaign to pester my kids constantly. Tried to clean their browser history and change the algorithm but it keeps popping up.

          Basically it’s a disgusting attempt to brainwash kids.

          From Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/He_Gets_Us

          The campaign primarily targets younger demographics and religious skeptics

          He Gets Us has faced criticism over the extensive spending by the campaign, its donors’ support of anti-abortion and anti-LGBT groups, and disputes over claims that the campaign is apolitical.

          most of the individual donors who provided the money have chosen to remain anonymous.

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            Maybe ‘he gets us’ is not the best thing for religions to be saying to kids considering all the sexual abuse scandals…

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          Apparently even the omniscient and omnipotent don’t know who their followers are and have to advertise to find them.

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      I now have the mental image of Spez frantically struggling to explain to advertisers why their posts were appearing besides werewolf breeding zone memes. So thanks for that.