This is the third attempt they’ve made to work with that guy that actually got routed to me because their salespeople don’t do their due diligence. Shocking.

Edit; a little extra context: I have an email alias on a domain similar to one he might use, and regularly receive email addressed to him. Reddit marketing folks reached out in a less cookie cutter manner a couple times last year, this is more of a mailing list outreach attempt.

  • @camr_on
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    they don’t doom-scroll

    Surely they can’t say this with a straight face

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      90% of users trust Reddit

      I’m gonna stop you right there lolol

      • @dasgoat
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        90% of Reddit are bots

        Their coding says ‘trust=1’

        Don’t know what else to tell you /s

      • @camr_on
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        Yeah, I haven’t trusted Reddit in 10 years lol. Redditors? Actually I suppose I also haven’t trusted them in 10 years lmao

      • @oDDmON
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        Pre, or post the API debacle?

      • @[email protected]
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        That might be accurate. Everyone else already left Reddit. It’s just 90% of what’s left.

      • @LemmysMum
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        I trust reddit to fuck up. So far that trust has been well placed.

      • @[email protected]
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        Whatever survey they used to get that number was probably about something like how if you google for information about a product or service you’ll get spam garbage, but sometimes if you add “reddit” to the search you will get non-garbage information (which is true). No way people would be answering that way if the question was clearly about trusting Reddit the company.

  • @captainlezbian
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    Saying redditors don’t doomscroll is hilarious

  • @[email protected]
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    Wait a second. Reddit is reaching out to someone currently in jail because he is suspected to have run a human trafficking ring? And they want to work with THIS dude? Jfc…

    • @[email protected]
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      Reddit is reaching out to someone currently in jail because he is suspected to have run a human trafficking ring?

      “Human trafficking” sounds so much nicer than “rape and enslavement” which is what he’s specifically charged with.

        • slazer2au
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          My non legal opinion is trafficking involves moving people around, say from one town to another town or a country to another. While entrapment would be preventing them from leaving where they currently are.

    • DreamButt
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      Ostensibly. OP hasn’t provided evidence about their claims

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        This isn’t a personalized email and it’s laid out like a marketing email (600px wide, image header…)

        so I doubt this is a 1:1 BDR trying to contact Tate.

        • @PixxlMan
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          OP put [email protected] into Reddit’s marketing newsletter and claims/thinks routine marketing emails is actual attempted communication by reddit

          I love misinformation

          • @[email protected]OP
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            I have an email alias similar to an address Tate might use, so my email is on a few marketing lists under his name. I’ve had two actual attempts from Reddit marketing employees to reach out, this is definitely just automated mailing list garbage.

    • @Ensign_Crab
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      He’s everything all the admins, most of the mods, and the only truly welcome users aspire to be.

    • @[email protected]
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      More stonks require more clicks, gotta get that engagement, gotta hold people’s attention, and nothing quite does that like controversial assholes. All profit-based social media inevitably ends up hooked on rage, imo, as it’s the best way to anchor a user’s attention and get more ads in front of them.

  • @SpaceNoodle
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    Why do you think they think that you’re the infamous sex trafficker Andrew Tate?

    • HonkyTonkWoman
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      Cause our special big boy didn’t cry in the shower & has been allowed to use the illegal phone to check their emails! It’s a special day!

    • @[email protected]OP
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      The email alias they sent this to is similar to one he might have, just a different domain. If they did their due diligence they would have seen that we’re two different Andrews, and that my email domain has nothing to do with him

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        Cool story. So … why do you think they think that you’re the infamous sex trafficker Andrew Tate?

        • @[email protected]OP
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          My thoughts? They probably don’t, but they’re hitting the email address just in case. The mixup is somewhat common, I receive marketing newsletters and outreach a couple times a week to that alias that have the “to” name set to “Andrew Tate”- pretty good indicator of who they’re trying to contact

  • @[email protected]
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    Hello,

    Our site is almost dead thanks to our cancerous executive staff but we think we can really propel its death by encouraging cancerous members of humanity to join on and spread their garbage messaging.

    Sincerely, Cancer

    Joke aside, I’m not sure how we’re supposed to believe what you said without any reference to the moron in the post? I assume your email is something like his name, but there’s no way to confirm.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      I’ve received a couple less cookie-cutter emails directly sent to this email alias with the name field set to “Andrew Tate” and references in the body to him. Unfortunately I tend to mark them as spam and move on, and they get deleted over time. Last outreach was mid last year from one of their sales guys.

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      I happen to have an email alias on a domain similar to one that Andrew Tate might have an email account on, so I get emails that are intended for him pretty often.

      No need to believe me, I’m just amused Reddit reached back out after being ghosted months ago- whatever list they use has bad data on it, shocking.

      • @doublejay1999
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        I’m not saying I don’t believe you. I’m saying that assuming Reddit thinks you are Andrew Tate because you have [email protected] is quite unlikely, as is the fact that they would knowingly reach out to him in particular.

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          The key detail that made their intent clear is that to “to” name on the earlier correspondence had his name on it.

          The email alias ended up being an almost-typosquatted version of one he would have, so I’m guessing some marketing agency stuffed it on their list of potential email addresses for him.

  • @NOT_RICK
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    My apologies if you’re unlucky enough to share the same name as that no talent ass clown.

  • @[email protected]
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    ITT: People complaining about an automated email that gets send to a huge largely uncurated mailing list. This is so very obviously not an email someone at reddit personally addressed to Andrew Tate, let alone personally selected him to be added to the mailing list.

    Seriously, people, there’s plenty to complain about without making up new stuff.

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      I’ve explained this in the description and various comments but I suppose I’ll repeat it here, but I have an email alias that is essentially almost a typosquat of one he likely does use, so some marketing company likely stuck it in their list on accident and fed it to loads of other companies.

      This email is clearly automated but I did receive two more personalized outreach attempts last year, and I receive almost weekly personalized outreach from other companies due to the similarity in email. I know who they were intended for because they had a name set in the “to” field.

      • @rappo
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        Can you share the older emails? I believe you, I’m just curious what they say if they’re personalized.

        • @[email protected]OP
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          They’ve aged out, I typically mark as spam and they’re deleted after 30d or so. It was essentially “hey Tate, love the content! Have you considered partnering with Reddit ads to expand your viewerbase?” And the follow-up was the typical “you haven’t responded, hope I got the right email!” spiel

          The most interesting ones I’ve seen are from the likes of SAP concur, recruitment agencies offering developers, and private jet companies like Fly Alliance offering million dollar discounts on multi-million dollar jet contracts.

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              I mean, almost all outreach is automated until you get to a meeting. The point of the post is to show that Reddit is reaching out, either intentionally (possible, based on the previous outreach) or unintentionally, to somebody that many companies would rather not do business with.

      • @[email protected]
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        Why not then post the personalized emails? This particular email just doesn’t look incriminating to me. Sure it is POSSIBLE that someone at Reddit specifically added him to the email list, but that’s hardly the most likely explanation.

        • @[email protected]OP
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          Because I wanted to share something I found humorous because of the context preceding it, but don’t have copies of that context anymore because it was so long ago.

  • Margot Robbie
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    Looks like somebody is so desperate for any kind of celebrity engagement they are willing to work with a shithead like Andrew Tate, eh?

    Also, for future celebs trying to promote projects on Lemmy: I got here first, Lemonworld is MY turf, Margot Robbie and her awesome movies are the only allowed commercial interest here.

    • @Wogi
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      I’m willing to bet they simply emailed every address they think might be associated with Andrew Tate, rather than they’re only emailing this one they think is Andrew Tate.

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    What kind of corpo bullshit is this

    Basically they’re saying that they’re going to browse posts regarding applicable products and “recommend” those and boosts with fake upvotes

    Basically you’re going to have advertisements penetrate through legitimate discussions in the form of a “random real person.”

    • @drekly
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      Going to?

      👨‍🚀🌌🔫👨‍🚀

      • @[email protected]
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        I remember some post that featured a kitchen appliance, and underneath were people talking about, “Is that [brand] [product]? It’s so good!”

        Then replies like, “Yes, I also have [brand]'s [other product], I love it!”

        “Did you get [product] with [feature] and [other feature]?”

        They were naming products and features, but I didn’t care enough to remember them. It was so blatant though, just ad-copy formatted like a conversation. You could see the massive gleaming fake smiles through the text.

    • @Airazz
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      In specialised subs you can find genuinely good advice.

      • @[email protected]
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        Do you trust reddit or the people that post there? I think that’s a big distinction. This is Reddit misusing poll results.