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Marques Brownlee's ‘Panels’ Backlash, Explained (www.forbes.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Bro really tried to sell his subscribers a "50$ a year" subscription to a "wallpaper" app.

Interesting points about the "app":

the app has premium and free wallpapers
the free wallpapers are only available in sd quality and if you want hd youd have to subscribe
in order to unlock the sd quality you have to watch two 30 second ads.
theres a wallpaper called "orange" thats just the color orange

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Maybe I’m scarred but I have a reflexive distrust for any usage of “pumped” or “super excited” in a commercial context. No matter the subject.

marques brownlee tweets: “And now - I'm so pumped to be launching this app! People have asked where I get wallpapers FOREVER, so this is the answer, now and forever: PANELS!”

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

pumped: artificially inflated

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

And remember kids, pump always comes before the dump