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De-influencing? Or the ultimate sales funnel?
De-influencing has mutated into yet another high-converting Trojan Horse for modern product placement. The corporate machine has done exactly what it always does with human resistance. It's absorbed the scepticism, repackaged the anger, and turned anti-consumption into a sales funnel.
What happens when the fictitious economy stops breathing?
We live inside the volatile endgame of what economists call the Fictitious Economy. To understand how we arrived at a point where the once-prosperous middle class is struggling to buy butter, you have to trace the multi-decade cannibalisation of our physical infrastructure.
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Flavor Flav invited the disrespected US Women's Olympic Hockey team to Vegas after Donald Trump shat on them. He called on brands to help and they flooded in with support for flights, hotels, entertainment, and beauty needs. This proves marketing doesn't need year-long campaigns to do good. Sometimes the most powerful response is seeing injustice and using your platform to fix it immediately.
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