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Re:Woman ‘dehumanised’ by viral TikTok filmed without her co... by notriddle on Thursday July 14, 2022 @04:33PM (#32101096)
> I already gave you one: this very site.

Hacker News is almost entirely influencer marketing, and has been from the very beginning. The whole point is to push Y Combinator the angel investment company.

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Re:Woman ‘dehumanised’ by viral TikTok filmed without her co... by pdonis on Thursday July 14, 2022 @05:30PM (#32101694)
> Hacker News is almost entirely influencer marketing

Really? That's what this discussion is? Or, for that matter, every discussion I have participated in in the 10 years or so I have been posting on HN? Are we both posting on the same site?

I get that the existence of HN gives publicity to YC, and that every so often pg or sama posts a new essay and those always make it to the front page. But to call the site itself "almost entirely influencer marketing" seems to me to be, to say the least, highly inaccurate.

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