Conspiracy of the day
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A marketer at a small publishing house is kicking around the warehouse. "Wow, we've got hundreds of boxes of unsold books. These boxes are so dusty, wonder what's in them." Opens some up. Lesser known titles from very famous authors. Checks sales records on his laptop. Zero sales of these titles last year. Zero the year before. Not an order on the books in years. "Should we through them out? Maybe." Takes a look in a book. Sees a drawing that might be considered racist. Hm. Goes home. Has dinner. Bangs his wife. Falls asleep. Wakes up in the middle of the night. Looks at twitter. Cancel culture raging at full velocity. People mad about something John Wayne said. That guy has been dead for years. They try to cancel him anyway. Has an inspired moment. Grabs a notepad and writes down:
Step 1: Anonymously leak some pics of the racist imagery from those Dr Seuss books that no one has bought in years.
Step 2: Company announce we won't be selling those titles anymore.
Step 3: Wait for the anti-cancel culture folks to go into full support mode, buying up new copies of all the other Dr Seuss titles.
Profit.
- Damn I spelled throw wrongnb
- This is good marketing strategyGnash
- Genius! lolMondoMorphic
- I think this is called PRtoemaas
- I was saying to friends this is totally what happening in “Mr Potatohead Land”...hardhat
- And the idiots bought a million copies of cat in the hatmonospaced
- The „bangs his wife“ part was not really needed for your story.SimonFFM
- ^right, further detail was neededfuturefood
- I’m just telling you what happenednb