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by sausajez 784 days ago
Accidentally? How can something be intentionally/ unintentionally popular?
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Marketing makes something intentionally popular.

Accidentally, seems harder. It kinda smells for people to intentionally make it not popular by actively working against fame, or something like that..

> Accidentally, seems harder. It kinda smells for people to intentionally make it not popular by actively working against fame, or something like that..

It's not harder; it's the only thing that works for tools. Tools cannot be good for long because of marketing. Marketing is the thin layer of paint over the Ferrari. Very nice paint, but if the car doesn't work or go very fast very quickly then that's that.