Fuck Duolingo and any other company that thinks it’s okay to comment all over social media. If you aren’t paying those people sponsorship deals to promote your brand, it should be illegal to hijack their page with your product.
Shit is disgusting and there is literally no worse offender of this loophole than Duolingo.
I recommend any time you see them in the wild telling them how disgusting it is that they think they can put up their billboards in other people’s lawns.
Fuck that bird. Don’t even support their entirely manufactured meme status. Just give them zero fucking attention
Bro I get company shills exist, but that’s a big level of paranoia right there.
I swear, some people on the internet act as if you even mention a company name, that you’re some sort of paid corporate shill. No, man, sometimes I just talk about every day things in my life lol.
I’m not saying OP is a shill, I’m saying that Duolingo manufactured the “Duo is coming to get you” meme intentionally, and people are happy to be stooges so happily accepted it. I don’t think OP has any affiliation to Duolingo, but they’re still normalizing their stupid trend so they can continue to leave meme comments on individual pages and get free advertising. It sucks.
Yes, I’m aware of that, but ubiquity doesn’t make it okay, and my ire for Duolingo is specifically because they have been the most successful exploiter of this circumstance
That’s not what I mean. What I mean is that Duolingo frequently comments on individual user posts on tiktok, which tiktok raises as a high-visibility comment because Duolingo’s size makes the algorithm think it’s quality content. This means that Duolingo isn’t just advertising on their own tiktok page, obviously that would be fine, it means that they get to piggyback on viral content from completely unaffiliated users massively spreading their brand while providing no compensation of any kind to the creator of those viral videos. It wouldn’t be okay for somebody to run an ad before your content without your consent (we aren’t talking about the ads you consented to run by tiktok/youtube/whoever), so it shouldn’t be okay to use the comments as free advertising space too.
I think you should take it up with them. I hear they’re super ethical and give a shit about what their algorithms do to people in the interest of farming data and profit
No, you should decide with your wallet, which is not to pay Duolingo, and decide with your choice of social media, which is not to use TikTok, and most importantly, you should petition your representatives and vote accordingly. What TikTok and Duolingo are doing is morally shitty, but it’s basic late stage capitalism, and excepting the nations that are actively fighting against the shittiness of using and selling user data, it’s not illegal
Yes, and I have. This solves me the personal grief of being reminded of their bad practices but does nothing to actually solve the problem. Not that I think “awareness” is a great or in anyway meaningful solve, but if talking about the issue leads to a few other people also blocking Duolingo then at least I won’t feel like I am forced to merely accept the situation as is with no protest.
Me remembering my wife telling me to get “just the essentials” at the grocery store eyeing up the ciggies, beer, and lottery tickets with our families last 20$ until payday in my pocket.
Occasionally they just give games updated graphics and audio. I’d be fine if that was how they remade it. They did that with Grim Fandango and it was just as fun as the original.
I can agree with that. In fact, I just played the System Shock remake and found it quite enjoyable. It kept the same vibe and feel while just updating the cosmetic aspects and having a few QoL changes for some of the mechanics. The maps and story felt the same, and I enjoyed the nostalgic feel of playing it again.
Maybe I wouldn’t mind an alpha centauri remake. They’d only have to update the cosmetics and the UI, after all.
That’s why you avoid them, and hope they’ll avoid you in return. It’s probably the least dickish thing you can do, and you can always just tell them you’ve been busy with other stuff if you do end up wanting to have contact again. Insults, offenses, betrayals, etc. are much harder to come back from.
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