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- Comment on The 1900s 4 weeks ago:
This may be a “loanword” from the student’s native language. In Swedish, they use “1900-talet” (1900s) instead of “twentieth century”
- Comment on This will be YouTube in 2025 5 months ago:
To be seriosuly, nobody would use that platform even there hadn’t been any ads, because competing with YouTube is not an easy fit.
I should probably be happy that Rutube and VK Video gain popularity as the regional alternatives to the monopolist which gets more aggressive each day… if not that popularity has just been inflated by bought-out bloggers and comics from Putin’s oligarch owned channels like TNT being directed to cease their YouTube presence, just so the government could have their own “YouTube without team Navalny”.
but yeah, being more shitty than YouTube at delivering ads is not an easy fit, too!
- Comment on This will be YouTube in 2025 5 months ago:
A Russian video hosting Rutube (which was totally dead until the govt decided to detract Russians from using YouTube, which made the platform semi-dead) actually tried to do that, having a quiz after each ad break, asking questions such as “what TV channel has been advertised in this ad?” and repeating the ad video if answered wrong
- Comment on Lots of times the restaurants won't even have milk 5 months ago:
Should be more than baby grapes!
Not sure about other countries, but the Russian branch of Burger King had some uniquely bad sense of humor when it came to their ads. The most known as was a world play between “Don’t get too spicy” and “Don’t shit yourself”, but there was another ad of chicken nuggets with a little chick in the corner telling something like “6 nuggets for 99 rubles!”. I found it hilarious to see a chick advertising their mom.