I can’t imagine anyone being horny and dumb enough to fall for some robotic AI voice advertising a porn game about overwatch. And I can’t imagine boomers get horny over 3D characters. Same with those weird TikTok-esque porn sites. The only explanation I have is that these companies know very young and gullible people are on there and are trying to profit off them
I once saw one that claimed Russian supermodels were desperate to meet fat middle aged Minnesotans which I think is the boldest and most obvious lie I have ever heard in my life
Gen-X gamedads can and do fall for those fake porn ads. I had chud relatives that have done exactly that. The sweet spot seems to be 40+ to 55 or so, where they're just young enough to be bazinga about bideo bames but also old enough to have kicked down the ladder and found some greybeard niche that still pays well enough to throw it away on Star Citizen or Evony or whatever.
Evony
first I've heard of this particular disgusting skinner box. but hey at least it's an actual released product compared to Star Griftizen
Those ads were all over the place back in the late aughts. They used to pretend to be some kind of sexy thing. Now they use that fake pin-pulling game ad.
It is. There are actually ads for it with people saying the actual game (that pull-the-pin puzzle you see in ads) is real.
Only problem is that you have to go through a 30 second ad every time you complete one of those stupidly easy puzzles.
Yeah this immediately made me think of my friend's "cool" gamer step-dad.
It's all boomers. My coworker was asking me if I thought something was a scam and just clicked on a link from her texts right in front of me before I could say anything.
You won't last five minutes
What's the fun in that? :bern-disgust:
Uh, actually I don't know what you're talking about, please don't call the volcel police.
I heard that scams are often obvious so that it preselects people who are likely to fall for the scam.
Exactly. Why waste time getting a streetwise target 25% of the way there before they realize it's a scam and drop you? Better to separate the chaff from the wheat from the get go to make your operation more efficient
It's me. I'm very lonely and sometimes I see that a hot young single or ugly milf wants to talk to me and I can't help it.
You assume there is a strategy beyond shotgunning it all over the Internet and catching a few bites
Reminds me of how there are entire YouTube channels dedicated to contentless, mislabeled softcore porn where they make a sandwich and describe out loud how to make a sandwich, but like, bend over repeatedly and pull their clothes around.
Which sounds innocuous enough, but who needs that? Anyone who has to rely on a YouTube video that slips past the filters instead of going to a porn site is necessarily a kid. And the creators know it. Which means YouTube has people who knowingly do near-nude dancing for 10 year olds
Often I’ll see advertisements for porn games and they say, “Try Not To Cum”, but when you play the gams, it seems like the objective is to cum. So yes, I would call that bad game design
One other aspect to consider: money laundering. Would you be shocked if some kind of human trafficking, drug smuggling, campaign ad, Ukrainian oil money, Afghani poppy sales, fractional reserve, Epstein crowd, trillion dollars from the Pentagon on 9/11 scheme was going down in the hub? I wouldn't. They go, "yeah, haha, we sell to those whacko genXers. I guess they got a lot of money from expensive houses loooool" Then the IRS agent who smells bullshit comes home one day to see an FBI agent reading a picture book to their child before telling them to stop investigating.
Y'know?
They probably COULD run a scam that would make most people think it's legit for a while. The problem there is that it would be a lot more effort on their part, and most of the people who were swayed at the beginning would figure out what's going on at some point. They're trying to find the easiest marks.
You thinking "who would fall for this obvious shit" is already proof you're not a mark, so you eliminate yourself quickly. It's the people who continue despite how obvious it is that they're going after.
A similar thing is how there are still Nigerian prince scams, despite the fact that it's probably the most well-known scam. They know that, and they know most people will delete any of those emails as soon as they get them. They're after the people who would still continue despite how well known those are.
