|
|
|
|
|
|
by notmypenguin
1147 days ago
|
|
|
Yes, I see this whenever anyone posts something critical about someone’s cash pony, said pony’s owner and their pals gang up on the person. I don’t think it’s anything high level like y-combinator related, but rather low level sock puppetry |
|
|
Sometimes it feels like the only reason people are “going to bat”/rationalizing/etc. (glorified simping) for corporations/people of wealth or power/etc. is because they have a financial incentive to maintain good publicity else the stock they hold would be in jeopardy.
I know there’s been sock-puppetry on smaller scales; but for things like FAANG/MAANGA/Elon/$latest_bigco_doing_layoffs you have people coming out of the woodwork to sing praises and “ackschtully”s, perhaps because they work there/know people that work there/or have stock in the parties involved.
But other times it might just be a rationalization to preserve ego. F.e. on Blind, outright saying that FAANG et al. Might be overrated is a quick way to get a bunch of Googles and Microsofts to tell you off.