u/whatisthisposture

I feel for them as I saw some of the nasty comments people were leaving, while others were trying to have a respectful discussion.

I do think they should maybe take a social media break rather than fully engaging with all the discourse if it is having a really negative effect on them. Surely they knew uploading that video would likely have some backlash, and alert lots more people to their account?

Unfortunately the Internet will always take it to a place of minority abuse and death threats, but I AM disappointed to see fatphobia, homophobia, racism, etc. coming out of the Below Deck fandom.

That said it’s a little disingenuous to say their only error was being Black, queer and joyful on vacation. I don’t think we’ve really seen much of that joy yet…

ETA: also, ultimately at the end of the day I find it hard to have much sympathy for someone who is earning 7 figures and renting luxury yachts. Death threats and hate speech are disgusting but if we’re talking about privilege…

Company is called “Minutes” and makes literally countless of these Instagram reels from random accounts all saying the exact same thing, advertising their note taking product.

I also found a similar ad campaign from a job search company called “Zenfy”, posting a ton of the exact same videos about being forced to leave their corporate laptop at home.

I’ve also seen a lot from the company “Sprout”, another job search platform, that makes copy and paste corporate rage bait videos to advertise their companies.

It’s mildly infuriating because ads are supposed to be clearly declared but these are just made to look like normal reels. I wouldn’t even have noticed if I wasn’t seeing the exact same reel over and over again. So much of my feed is just sneaky advertisements lately, it makes me just not want to use Instagram at all. It definitely doesn’t make me want to use their products lmao.

There are tons of others as well, it’s so sad to see people comment and respond to this content genuinely instead of realizing it’s a whole ad campaign. Shame on these companies for not disclosing advertisements.