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by interesthrow2 2753 days ago
These campaign would never be successful without the copywriters on popular digital media promoting them because they are content farms looking for cheap "news".

Wired, CNET, and all these prominent outlets, when was the last time they issued a follow up when something turned out to be a scam? when did they ever put a disclaimer about the risk of crowdfunding in their article? and let's not even talk about the fact that they don't even state clearly that the product doesn't exist and they never even tried it. Without shills, scams can't be successful, they are the shills, literally by the definition of that word.