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PatheticGroundThing@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Wait a moment, did anyone actually think those were robots? Did anyone claim they were actual robots? I saw the videos going around and people were generally just impressed at the makeup and costume work.

Replies in the twitter link make me laugh though.

@VicBeeSee: Full on idiotic post, the company didn’t pretend they were robots.

@Byron_Wan: It did… it didn’t tell others that those were human beings.

This either sounds like someone trying to make an issue out of nothing, or someone who got momentarily tricked and is embarrassed about it.

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tardigrada@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
@PatheticGroundThing

It’s in the article:

Why the company chose to hire human cosplayers for last week’s World Robot Conference remains unclear. Were they hired as “booth babes,” an outdated and sexist form of promotion? Or were they purposefully there to trick attendees into thinking they were robots?

Given the reception of the videos on social media, it’s possible it’s a mix of both.

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- altima_neo@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Asian countries are still going all in on “booth babes”, so that’s probably it.
  
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  - Comment105@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I mean it still works for getting attention, but it’s not exactly respectable and there are some people who really don’t like them.
    
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- PatheticGroundThing@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  So nobody actually claimed they were robots. This article is just sensationalist clickbait garbage for people who really want to see a chinese company get “BUSTED!” for something. Twitter replies are full of racism.
  
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  - tardigrada@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    @PatheticGroundThing It really helps if you read the entire article before posting.
    
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