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r/mildlyinfuriating • u/TSnow6065 • 3h ago
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Companies are moving to mascots to avoid paying people and not taking a risk their human spokespeople will embarrass them. Enshittification marches on.
15 u/Rexitoxal 3h ago I thought it was because they thought having some sort of "cute" mascot would draw people in, like cereal brands do 2 u/Procrastinating-Elf 1h ago Whatever the reason, they're not "moving" to mascots, that's been a part of marketing forever. • u/OrganizationSuch3940 37m ago theyre just trying to replicate what geico did with the gecko. geico's had a mascot for almost 30 years now • u/opulentdream 19m ago Mascots have always existed? This isn’t new? • u/Renway_NCC-74656 10m ago Yes, but the AI has now taken it over. When before it was a human behind the mask
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I thought it was because they thought having some sort of "cute" mascot would draw people in, like cereal brands do
2 u/Procrastinating-Elf 1h ago Whatever the reason, they're not "moving" to mascots, that's been a part of marketing forever.
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Whatever the reason, they're not "moving" to mascots, that's been a part of marketing forever.
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theyre just trying to replicate what geico did with the gecko. geico's had a mascot for almost 30 years now
Mascots have always existed? This isn’t new?
• u/Renway_NCC-74656 10m ago Yes, but the AI has now taken it over. When before it was a human behind the mask
Yes, but the AI has now taken it over. When before it was a human behind the mask
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u/ROMMELBOT 3h ago
Companies are moving to mascots to avoid paying people and not taking a risk their human spokespeople will embarrass them. Enshittification marches on.