Comment on Scared the shit out of me ngl

orphiebaby@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Personally all it did for me was make me uninstall the app years ago (this picture has been appropriated for comedic use)

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  • orphiebaby@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Fair.

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• FeatherConstrictor@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I mean, of all the ways to manipulate people into paying money on an app, I feel like changing the app icon to draw attention is fairly benign?

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  • orphiebaby@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s a (accidentally? nightmare-fuel) sad face designed to get you back in so you spend money. It might not be the worst thing ever, but it’s still pretty gross. Also the app is used by children.

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    • 520@kbin.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Also the app is used by children.

      It's not scary in any way though? Or inappropriate for kids in any way?

      Calling it nightmare fuel is quite the stretch tbh. It's like calling a 6ft basketball player incredibly tall.

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      • Rubanski@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Wrinkly people are nightmare fuel apparently

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• vox@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  well it’s a language learning app so a little bit of motivation can be a great thing for the user

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  • orphiebaby@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Emotional manipulation wouldn’t be a good way, especially not a face that scares the shit out of people (I can’t even look at it, as I’m sensitive to uncanny valley and distorted faces, especially the kinds of sad or scared faces 1940s cartoons used to freak you out), especially not so that it can get you back to spending money, and doubly-especially not so that it can get you back to spending microtransactions.

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    • Lumisal@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I, uhh, I think you need desensitization therapy. But just so you know, most people don’t find that face scary.

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      • orphiebaby@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Twisting faces-- especially to look morbidly-depressed or horrified-- is a common tactic in horror. In fact, it works because of the uncanny valley effect-- a psychological phenomenon that exists to protect us from disease and from breeding with deformed people. And you know who’s more sensitive to uncanny valley than average? Autistic people. Like me. There’s no therapy for this because it’s neither weird nor solvable.

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