I don't invect or fuel bullshit drama threads... although I'm playful like a lot of others here, and it's all in good fun.
I know there's something of a "bro" club around, and though I don't think I'm considered one, people who are put down as being in that club are usually good, cool and even great in my book.
Most of the time the "bro" term is thrown out there as a put-down by people who are rejected or rejects because of their negative attitude and/or resentfulness fueled by failure.
First off, NALEM, your board posting is annoying and mostly pointless. Even shit like my own "dream of jeannie" thread
https://gfy.com/showthread.php?t=1028758 is more entertaining and somehow edifying than most of your threads.
I'm sure most regulars here (and the other boards you repost at), like myself, when they see another thing you start just groan and moan to themselves "Oh no..."
Yet we click the damn link and give you a view.
I don't know if I'm a bro and frankly don't care. I do shows some years, some years I don't. I know and have met some of the best people around through this business.
Anyone here though will back me up when I say my posting is not overtly annoying, pointless or disrespectful.
There are many who post all kinds of shit, start pointless threads, and are more playful and pointless than business - though of course there's always the underlying business aspect of signature views, etc....
Still I click and enter and dismiss or groan and chuckle and move on. Somehow, those posts still have some validity to me, there's a sense they're done with some measure of passion, caring, perverse amusement or just "GoFuckYourself" attitude.
But your marketing template just comes off cold, uncaring and completely devoid of any purpose, as if you really don't know "us", our business culture, or... something. It's like you're really not implicated or invested in any way, and figure we're idiots who can be approached in any slam-bang way and the easiest is badgering.
And this impression I had was before you proferred ICM and .XXX a platform for exposure, implicit support and another point of access to the industry, leveraging onto us a sort of involuntary exposure to the brands through thread views.
I was annoyed just by your name appearing in a thread listing because of the pointless and heartless aspect of your board campaign.
I know, as you "accuse" JFK, you probably have a family to feed, yadda yadda, but taking on ICM and XXX just proves my initial impression that there is no actual caring or passion on your part for the business outside of the money.
ICM and especially .XXX will wither if nobody buys their domains or otherwise supports them.
This is the first and last time I post in any thread you start, and the last time I click into one also. Hopefully, if everyone else does the same, your campaign will wither and you'll have to come up with a better way to advertise your wares.
Nothing personal, really. I'm sure you and your photographer are good people to have a drink with. But your approach is not cool, and pollutes my environment.
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