It’s kind of an ad. More so a scam. Like on Reddit, bot accounts will post an image of a product such as a t-shirt, a coffee mug, various tchotchkes, etc., then they will post a scam link in the post description, in their user profile, or most often in the comments, especially after an unwitting real user or an associated bot account lauds the products in a comment. This is an example method of drop ship scamming. One thing to notice about the image in this post is that it doesn’t need to be on a t-shirt — the t-shirt is the “product”, if you were to even get a package delivered from the so-called store. The Threadiverse needs to wisen up to spam and scam methods or else it will become as bot infested as Reddit, which many people left because of the bot infection.
nocturne@slrpnk.net 2 days ago
Do you even look at what you repost? This is from a spam ad.
cm0002@lemmings.world 2 days ago
I do, but I don’t get how this is an ad? There’s no branding
s@piefed.world 2 days ago
It’s kind of an ad. More so a scam. Like on Reddit, bot accounts will post an image of a product such as a t-shirt, a coffee mug, various tchotchkes, etc., then they will post a scam link in the post description, in their user profile, or most often in the comments, especially after an unwitting real user or an associated bot account lauds the products in a comment. This is an example method of drop ship scamming. One thing to notice about the image in this post is that it doesn’t need to be on a t-shirt — the t-shirt is the “product”, if you were to even get a package delivered from the so-called store. The Threadiverse needs to wisen up to spam and scam methods or else it will become as bot infested as Reddit, which many people left because of the bot infection.