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X is left with advertisers pushing dubious cryptocurrency and AI 'undressing' apps, users say after Musk's outburst

  • X users are complaining about an influx of low-quality ads promoting crypto scams and AI "undressing" apps.
  • The decline in reputable advertisers on X has made the platform more reliant on less reputable ad buyers.
  • The exodus of advertisers, partially due to Elon Musk's controversial behavior, has left X with a growing revenue gap.

Archive link: https://archive.ph/sbOxS

Treczoks ,

Since when do "high quality ads" exist? I mean, the mentioning of "low quality ads" implies that those others might actually exist.

Diplomjodler ,

There's low quality ads, shit tier ads and then there's whatever Muskyboi is attracting these days.

ShustOne ,
@ShustOne@lemmy.one avatar

As a current Twitter user I would say there's actually a large void between normal ads and whatever the hell I'm getting served on that platform these days.

Possible_EmuWrangler ,

This is the last ad that had me paying full attention when it first came on. It was ran during the football finals season and they made two cuts, one for NRL and one for AFL. https://youtu.be/gbMeKMkE_mk

Whippen ,

And https://youtu.be/GY6uJlI-t14?si=isgeJeI1tZntpV8i

hannes3120 ,

Probably meaning ads for real products and travels etc.

ExLisper ,

Spanish national lottery has amazing ads. Like in the sense that the writing, direction and execution in general is always spot on. I know how it sounds but they are really little works of art.

Treczoks ,

Not many people in the world watch Spanish TV, so we might have missed the rare exception.

ExLisper ,

Actually, millions of people watch Spanish TV.

Buddahriffic ,

It's all relative.

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot ,

Head on! Apply directly to the forehead!

restingboredface ,

JFC, talk about blast from the past. this is all I will hear for the rest of the day now.

pycorax ,

Thai and Japanese TV ads are quite something else

Obi ,
@Obi@sopuli.xyz avatar

Hell yes time for another compilation video.

pete_the_cat ,

loong man

Notyou ,
@Notyou@sopuli.xyz avatar

Those YT "in video ads" on Internet Comment Etiquette is about as high quality as you can make it. I wouldn't want to skip Erik selling Nord VPN, Raycon, Nobleberry, or anything else he wants to make an ad for.

victoitor ,

How about we agree to call X/Twitter as Xitter. It avoids the confusion.

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Nope. I'm calling it Twitter. If he says it's okay to deadname trans people on his platform, I'm going to deadname his platform.

victoitor ,

Fine, but for those that call it X, there is Xitter as a better option.

Corkyskog ,

There is like one dude trying to call it x.

JustZ ,
@JustZ@lemmy.world avatar

Haha. Good one.

XTornado ,

Yup and tweets as xeets pronounced as "shits".

Semi-Hemi-Demigod ,
@Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social avatar

xeets pronounced as "shits"

I would pronounce that "sheeeeeiittts"

NIB ,

Fun fact, the greek far right, anticommunist group during WW2 and after were called "Χίτες"(Chites)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organization_X

wikibot Bot ,

Here's the summary for the wikipedia article you mentioned in your comment:

The Organization X (Greek: Οργάνωσις Χ; commonly referred to simply as X ("Chi" in Greek), and members as Chites (Χίτες)) was a paramilitary right-wing anti-communist royalist organization set up in 1941 during the Axis occupation of Greece. Initially an anti-Axis resistance organization, it gradually shifted its focus towards anti-communism. In 1951, X was officially recognized as a National Organization of Internal Resistance by the Greek Ministry of National Defense. Following the end of the Axis occupation, it played an active role in the persecution of communists during the White Terror and various military operations of the Greek Civil War, most notably the Dekemvriana.

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saintshenanigans ,

I find it particularly funny to call it X(formerly twitter) every time I have to mention it.

Also kind of love how Dubious X is as a name cause I always think it's a porn site before my brain clicks

Aceticon ,

I have very little doubt that in the mind of Elon Musk the people who after all this are still using X-Twitter are lusers.

BobGnarley ,

Didnt Netflix just start doing ads on there again?

ripcord ,
@ripcord@lemmy.world avatar

Hadn't heard that, do you have a source?

I'd be pretty surprised if most didn't start their ad buys again. Even if it's lower volume (and at discounts). As soon as everyone stops focusing on these things (after a month or whatever) things tend to go back to business as usual.

The article indicates they haven't yet, though.

Corkyskog ,

Eh, maybe if their MAU wasn't just on a continual decline. It's just not sustainable, especially when so much of the MAU are bots.

BobGnarley ,

https://www.thewrap.com/netflix-resumes-advertising-x-elon-musk-controversy/

Snapz ,

Wish I could cancel our Netflix subscription for a second time, but fortunately/unfortunately we stopped giving them money when they announced they would fuck around with accounts shared within a family. Eat shit, Netflix

MaxPower ,
@MaxPower@feddit.de avatar

Well he told advertisers to fuck off so they did.

To me as an average Joe it seems pretty dumb to tell your advertisers to fuck off when they provide a big chunk of your income but hey, I'm not a stable genius billionaire so I just don't get Elon's 5D chess moves. Right?

Fudoshin ,
@Fudoshin@feddit.uk avatar

Max? Is that you?

Exosus ,

What's much more interesting to me is when Facebook and YouTube told advertiser's to fuck off? Because it's the exact same type of ads but people pretend they see Disney and coca cola ads on everything except twitter..

tigeruppercut ,
@tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip avatar

AI undressing apps you say? AI's about to make that video of Elon telling advertisers to fuck off a lot more surprising.

creamed_eels ,

“What’s that melting refrigerator? I thought this was an undressing app!”

nymwit ,

"Oh, my God, that's disgusting! Software that makes naked pics online? Where? Where did they post those?"

werefreeatlast ,

Be careful with undressing apps...do not point them at your really weirdo friends.

halva ,
@halva@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

might have more fun with my weirdo friends than with those apps tbh

iAvicenna ,
@iAvicenna@lemmy.world avatar

Elon gets what Elon deserves

treesquid ,

But he unfortunately also gets what he doesn't deserve, like billions of dollars

Mikina ,

And attention. Can we finally stop talking about him? Who cares at this time.

Holzkohlen ,

And it's only a matter of time until those AI undressing app get banned by law. Good.

SpaceCowboy ,
@SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca avatar

I'm starting to think that telling your customers to "go fuck themselves" may not be a sound business decision.

MagicShel ,

You couldn't have posted this twenty minutes earlier? Fuck!

afraid_of_zombies ,

So that's why my boss won't let me do it.

GlendatheGayWitch ,

We learned in D.A.R.E. that X is bad for you. Seems like X in its digital form is also bad for you and for its dealer.

ShaggySnacks ,

I was told to test your X to make sure it wasn't laced with something else. Pretty sure the online X is laced with a lot of racism, transphobia, homophobia, sexism, and everything else that makes a fascist get their dick hard.

Snapz ,

I was told X gon give it to you

Kolanaki ,
@Kolanaki@yiffit.net avatar

X just told me to suck it 😭

leo ,
@leo@lemmy.l0l.city avatar

Just say no

dejected_warp_core ,

I'm calling it now. Even if his aim was to not destroy Twitter from the inside, he will absolutely say that was his goal when it eventually happens.

People like this never, pathologically, ever, ever admit making a mistake.

CobblerScholar ,

He has too much money to give a shit, he lost more money than anyone has literally ever on this deal and he still has more money than almost anyone who's ever lived. Only way he stops being like this is if he drops dead from the inevitable overdose he's queuing up for himself

SpaceCowboy ,
@SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca avatar

Eh most of that "money" is actually leveraged Tesla shares. Tesla shares that are overvalued. If he runs Tesla into the ground it's not actually implausible he goes bankrupt.

Of course for the billionaires "going bankrupt" isn't the same as it is for you an me. He'll still live a life of luxury we can't even imagine, he just won't control as much of the economy as he does now. And he can always scam his true believers out of some money by creating a startup promising to to build robot dolphins or whatever (it doesn't matter he's a hype man) which he'll never deliver and idiots will throw money at him.

CileTheSane ,
@CileTheSane@lemmy.ca avatar

Even if his aim was to not destroy Twitter from the inside, he will absolutely say that was his goal when it eventually happens.

Could that open him up to lawsuits from investors?

adrian783 ,

he owns Twitter

ComradeKhoumrag ,
@ComradeKhoumrag@infosec.pub avatar

At that point, he could just deactivate the entire platform

Mikina ,

I though Twitter is publicly traded and has stocks? That would mean that he definitely has a duty towards investors who bought the shares to lead the company in a responsible way, and if he claimed that he destroyed it on purpose, it should lead to a lawsuit from them. But I ain't no lawyer, only vaguely remember hearing something like that. Or does he own 100% of the shares himself and is the sole investor?

dabaldeagul ,
@dabaldeagul@feddit.nl avatar

Fafaik he bought 100% of the shares.

efstajas ,

It used to be publicly traded, but it went private when he acquired it.

Which doesn't mean he doesn't answer to any investors anymore, of course. He got quite a lot of assistance with that acquisition.

Mikina ,

Oh, I see. I guess that means there's basically no-one who can sue him, if there aren't any investors.

As long as he can repay any loans and stuff, then I suppose he can do whatever he wants with the company. If, however, he bancrupts it to the point of not being able to pay back anything the company owes, then he should be in trouble. I hope.

andros_rex ,

His investors wanted this. Twitter was a huge threat to a few oil rich autocratic regimes.

unreasonabro ,

ooh, juicy accusation

andros_rex ,

Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Larry Ellison (Oracle) were the biggest backers in the buy out deal. Saudi Arabia’s princes want to keep a tight control on information - remember how they butchered Khashoggi? With Qatar it was probably to prevent any slave labor deaths associated with FIFA from going viral. Larry Ellison probably just wanted all that juicy data, idk, he’s quiet but he gives a lot of money to right wing American causes.

butterflyattack ,

Doesn't mean they won't sue.

thecrotch ,

"The fact that X has made it abundantly clear that it has no desire to create a brand-safe environment has only solidified our recommendations to move to growing platforms with better opportunities for organic discovery," he added.

This is how you say "fuck you too" in corporatespeak

DerisionConsulting ,

I would personally go with:

"Some may say that Mr. Musk was a visionary, and further to the road map laid out by Mr. Musk during the Dealbook Summit, our organization is happy to assist with bringing said business forecast into reality."

  • Past tense on visionary
  • brings up him telling companies to "fuck off"
  • rubs it in that his financial people have clearly told him that this is how Xitter goes belly-up, and that when he tries to fix it, he just makes it worse.
afraid_of_zombies ,

I can't with this guy anymore, I just can't.

Haha ,

We don’t have to

leo ,
@leo@lemmy.l0l.city avatar

Maybe one day he'll climb into his Telsa, hit the stage 69 autopilot button and fly back to Mars where his people are from

arc ,

I still use Twitter but I have no idea what the quality of ads is like since they're long blocked. I could well imagine that there is some absolute bottom of the barrel garbage and scams a plenty.

fne8w2ah ,

Hail adblock!

ours ,

That's what happens when you cater to a bunch of right-wing extremists and literally tell mainstream advertisers to fuck off.

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