Re:Guns, Drugs and Viral Content: Welcome to Cartel TikTok
by swiley on Sunday November 29, 2020 @10:31AM
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You could see this kind of thing happening with macro images on imgur and reddit 6 years ago. So much of this "organic" social media is just submarine PR. It's awful.
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Re:Guns, Drugs and Viral Content: Welcome to Cartel TikTok
by TheAdamAndChe on Sunday November 29, 2020 @10:59AM
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What does "submarine PR" mean?
Re:Guns, Drugs and Viral Content: Welcome to Cartel TikTok
by searchableguy on Sunday November 29, 2020 @11:10AM
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I think they are referring to the submarine from pg's essay here: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
Re:Guns, Drugs and Viral Content: Welcome to Cartel TikTok
by KineticLensman on Sunday November 29, 2020 @11:21AM
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"... the existence of the PR industry, lurking like a huge, quiet submarine beneath the news".
I agree, this interpretation seems more likely than submarine patent [0]: "Analogous to a submarine, therefore, submarine patents could stay "under water" for long periods until they "emerged" and surprised the relevant market. Persons or companies making use of submarine patents are sometimes referred to as patent pirates"