Soulja Boy Is Selling Cheap Emulators as His Own Consoles

Re:Soulja Boy Is Selling Cheap Emulators as His Own Consoles by Jaruzel on Monday December 10, 2018 @12:07PM (#18649323)

I'm semi-famous. Does anyone want to buy a raspberry pi running RetroArch with my name written on it? /s

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Re:Soulja Boy Is Selling Cheap Emulators as His Own Consoles by Loughla on Monday December 10, 2018 @01:04PM (#18649811)

Honestly though, I'm surprised we haven't seen this from well known 'celebrity' accounts on Reddit.

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Re:Soulja Boy Is Selling Cheap Emulators as His Own Consoles by erikpukinskis on Monday December 10, 2018 @01:42PM (#18650141)

Celebrities on Reddit don’t have great push marketing channels. And in general overt marketing doesn’t work well on Reddit. That audience likes to be tricked into buying things via clever organic “news”.

Other sites like Instagram are much more amenable to brand marketing like this.

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Re:Soulja Boy Is Selling Cheap Emulators as His Own Consoles by rasz on Monday December 10, 2018 @08:46PM (#18652747)

You can charge $400 if you are famous enough https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rxCD_bMhZA https://www.retromodding.com/collections/preconfigured-build...

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Re:Soulja Boy Is Selling Cheap Emulators as His Own Consoles by danmg on Monday December 10, 2018 @02:55PM (#18650698)

ok.

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Re:Soulja Boy Is Selling Cheap Emulators as His Own Consoles by erikpukinskis on Monday December 10, 2018 @01:41PM (#18650133)

It’s just marketing, I don’t see what’s so strange about it. He runs a public brand, and he looks for products that he thinks can be effectively marketed through that brand.

It’s no different than Urban Outfitters.

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