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Sometimes it feels like that with social media and related platforms. Both Zoom and TikTok seemed to go from something I’d never of to things that everyone was talking about overnight. In Zoom’s case, it definitely seemed like guerrilla viral advertising. Like when everyone was talking about Stanley™ cups for a while, not flasks or water bottles but Stanley™ cups.

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Thunderbird4@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
The craziest thing about all of your examples is that they weren’t even revolutionary. We already had Vine, Skype, and YETI cups. How the hell did they get everyone to believe that TikTok, Zoom, and Stanley cups were game-changing new ideas?

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- Deathray5@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I’ve used both zoom and Skype and I can confirm zoom is far better
  
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  - Rusty@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Yeti caps are better than Stanley though.
    
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SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Meanwhile, there’s me wondering why hockey is all of sudden so popular in the middle of the summer.

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frostysauce@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

In Zoom’s case, it definitely seemed like guerrilla viral advertising.

So you’re saying Zoom did COVID?

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- bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  I sometimes imagine some introvert developer at Zoom getting a monkey’s paw: “I wish I worked at one of the most well-known companies in the world, and I wish I didn’t have to keep going out and meeting people!”
  
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dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Those Stanley cups were so expensive 😂. I don’t get it. It’s a flask.

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