doublepepperoni [none/use name]

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Cake day: July 26th, 2020

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  • I was wondering why so many product reviews on AliExpress have random unrelated pictures attached or why they're just something like "It's good" copy pasted 30 times.

    Turns out it's incentivised by gameification. AE has a currency of "Coins" that you earn by shopping and doing various things on the app, like checking in daily, browsing specific categories of products, playing its awful minigames, etc. Imagine a battle pass but for shopping for cheap knockoffs.

    Theoretically these coins can be used for discounts but the maximum percentage is capped to like 1 percent so it usually translates to just cents per item, making them largely pointless.

    Anyway, one of the things you earn coins for is-you guessed it- writing reviews, but you only get the full amount if you attach photos, hit certain word counts and so on so people just lazily game the system and pad their reviews with pointless crap to get pointless coins, making the reviews worse as a whole.

    You can find some really good stuff on AE if you know what you're looking for but the whole site and app are such a fucking depressing encapsulation of everything wrong with the modern internet








  • I saw an interesting comment by a presumed Japanese chud on a GTA video of all places the other day

    Slur for South Koreans are the cancer of Asia. They have been brainwashed by a false historical narrative that seeks to whitewash the white people's colonisation of Asia (translation mine)

    Western imperialism bad but it's the South Koreans you should hate for it, apparently. I also wonder what this guy thinks of the time Japan tried to join the imperialism club