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This is the third attempt they’ve made to work with that guy that actually got routed to me because their salespeople don’t do their due diligence. Shocking.

Edit; a little extra context: I have an email alias on a domain similar to one he might use, and regularly receive email addressed to him. Reddit marketing folks reached out in a less cookie cutter manner a couple times last year, this is more of a mailing list outreach attempt.

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[–] [email protected] 183 points 1 year ago (1 children)

they don't doom-scroll

Surely they can't say this with a straight face

[–] [email protected] 129 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

90% of users trust Reddit

I'm gonna stop you right there lolol

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago

90% of Reddit are bots

Their coding says 'trust=1'

Don't know what else to tell you /s

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, I haven't trusted Reddit in 10 years lol. Redditors? Actually I suppose I also haven't trusted them in 10 years lmao

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

I used to trust Redditors and explicitly used it to research products and services to purchase. But that was before all the bots took over. And now Reddit has taken away moderation controls so I can only assume those bots have gotten worse.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Pre, or post the API debacle?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I trust reddit to fuck up. So far that trust has been well placed.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

That might be accurate. Everyone else already left Reddit. It's just 90% of what's left.

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[–] [email protected] 127 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Saying redditors don’t doomscroll is hilarious

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

The amount of content there is insane. When I was on there I would spend hours scrolling. As much as others complain about the lack of content here on Lemmy, I kind of like it because I don’t spend nearly as much time on the phone every day

[–] [email protected] 88 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Wait a second. Reddit is reaching out to someone currently in jail because he is suspected to have run a human trafficking ring? And they want to work with THIS dude? Jfc.....

[–] [email protected] 80 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Reddit is reaching out to someone currently in jail because he is suspected to have run a human trafficking ring?

"Human trafficking" sounds so much nicer than "rape and enslavement" which is what he's specifically charged with.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago

Let’s split the diff and go with: human trafficking, rape, and enslavement.

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ostensibly. OP hasn’t provided evidence about their claims

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This isn't a personalized email and it's laid out like a marketing email (600px wide, image header...)

so I doubt this is a 1:1 BDR trying to contact Tate.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

OP put [email protected] into Reddit's marketing newsletter and claims/thinks routine marketing emails is actual attempted communication by reddit

I love misinformation

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

He's everything all the admins, most of the mods, and the only truly welcome users aspire to be.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

In jail

House arrest, unfortunately.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

More stonks require more clicks, gotta get that engagement, gotta hold people's attention, and nothing quite does that like controversial assholes. All profit-based social media inevitably ends up hooked on rage, imo, as it's the best way to anchor a user's attention and get more ads in front of them.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why do you think they think that you're the infamous sex trafficker Andrew Tate?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Cause our special big boy didn’t cry in the shower & has been allowed to use the illegal phone to check their emails! It’s a special day!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The email alias they sent this to is similar to one he might have, just a different domain. If they did their due diligence they would have seen that we’re two different Andrews, and that my email domain has nothing to do with him

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Cool story. So ... why do you think they think that you're the infamous sex trafficker Andrew Tate?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

My thoughts? They probably don’t, but they’re hitting the email address just in case. The mixup is somewhat common, I receive marketing newsletters and outreach a couple times a week to that alias that have the “to” name set to “Andrew Tate”- pretty good indicator of who they’re trying to contact

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hello,

Our site is almost dead thanks to our cancerous executive staff but we think we can really propel its death by encouraging cancerous members of humanity to join on and spread their garbage messaging.

Sincerely, Cancer

...

Joke aside, I'm not sure how we're supposed to believe what you said without any reference to the moron in the post? I assume your email is something like his name, but there's no way to confirm.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I’ve received a couple less cookie-cutter emails directly sent to this email alias with the name field set to “Andrew Tate” and references in the body to him. Unfortunately I tend to mark them as spam and move on, and they get deleted over time. Last outreach was mid last year from one of their sales guys.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My apologies if you’re unlucky enough to share the same name as that no talent ass clown.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

He could just go by "Andy" instead of "Andrew"

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (3 children)

No way. Why should OP change? He's not the one who sucks.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

🤣🤣🤣 thanks Michael Bolton

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

https://piped.video/watch?v=ADgS_vMGgzY

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

ITT: People complaining about an automated email that gets send to a huge largely uncurated mailing list. This is so very obviously not an email someone at reddit personally addressed to Andrew Tate, let alone personally selected him to be added to the mailing list.

Seriously, people, there's plenty to complain about without making up new stuff.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I’ve explained this in the description and various comments but I suppose I’ll repeat it here, but I have an email alias that is essentially almost a typosquat of one he likely does use, so some marketing company likely stuck it in their list on accident and fed it to loads of other companies.

This email is clearly automated but I did receive two more personalized outreach attempts last year, and I receive almost weekly personalized outreach from other companies due to the similarity in email. I know who they were intended for because they had a name set in the “to” field.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can you share the older emails? I believe you, I'm just curious what they say if they're personalized.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They’ve aged out, I typically mark as spam and they’re deleted after 30d or so. It was essentially “hey Tate, love the content! Have you considered partnering with Reddit ads to expand your viewerbase?” And the follow-up was the typical “you haven’t responded, hope I got the right email!” spiel

The most interesting ones I’ve seen are from the likes of SAP concur, recruitment agencies offering developers, and private jet companies like Fly Alliance offering million dollar discounts on multi-million dollar jet contracts.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why not then post the personalized emails? This particular email just doesn't look incriminating to me. Sure it is POSSIBLE that someone at Reddit specifically added him to the email list, but that's hardly the most likely explanation.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Looks like somebody is so desperate for any kind of celebrity engagement they are willing to work with a shithead like Andrew Tate, eh?

Also, for future celebs trying to promote projects on Lemmy: I got here first, Lemonworld is MY turf, Margot Robbie and her awesome movies are the only allowed commercial interest here.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm willing to bet they simply emailed every address they think might be associated with Andrew Tate, rather than they're only emailing this one they think is Andrew Tate.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

What kind of corpo bullshit is this

Basically they’re saying that they’re going to browse posts regarding applicable products and “recommend” those and boosts with fake upvotes

Basically you’re going to have advertisements penetrate through legitimate discussions in the form of a “random real person.”

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Going to?

👨‍🚀🌌🔫👨‍🚀

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Always fucking has been right? 😕

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I remember some post that featured a kitchen appliance, and underneath were people talking about, "Is that [brand] [product]? It's so good!"

Then replies like, "Yes, I also have [brand]'s [other product], I love it!"

"Did you get [product] with [feature] and [other feature]?"

They were naming products and features, but I didn't care enough to remember them. It was so blatant though, just ad-copy formatted like a conversation. You could see the massive gleaming fake smiles through the text.

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