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Re:Vice files for Bankruptcy by pavlov on Monday May 15, 2023 @05:22AM (#35945562)
You do understand that riling up right-wing nutjobs is a deliberate marketing strategy?

Imagine you're a production company working on a low-budget docudrama for Netflix where you know it will be displayed as just one more UI tile among an endless tsunami of similar low-budget dramas from around the world. Which marketing approach do you think would work better:

1) Make a historically accurate show with the little money you have, release it, and watch it sink to oblivion with a slightly below average rating;

2) Add a provocative bait that you know the most bored unemployed crowd on Twitter won't be able to resist; watch everybody talk about your show; enjoy your 11% rating because it came with massive online notoriety and a fat Netflix royalty wire for a few months.

Re:Vice files for Bankruptcy by slaw on Monday May 15, 2023 @05:30AM (#35945615)
There are not enough right-wing nutjobs. It is strategy of insulting thinking humans.
Re:Vice files for Bankruptcy by pavlov on Monday May 15, 2023 @06:12AM (#35945902)
There obviously are enough of them because we've heard of this Cleopatra docudrama when normally this kind of production would have vanished without a trace.
Re:Vice files for Bankruptcy by throwaway2990 on Monday May 15, 2023 @06:00AM (#35945830)
There are just as many nut jobs on the left as there are on the right.
Re:Vice files for Bankruptcy by pavlov on Monday May 15, 2023 @06:13AM (#35945915)
Of course. Provoking liberals for visibility is a time-honored strategy in right-wing media.