a fetus online nearly baited me into a full on flamewar tonight over something i know like the back of my hand / they were factually wrong about (- and honestly, congrats to that fetus, it takes quite a bit to bait these days. think i've only heatedly argued online
twice in the past 15 years.) (it wasn't like,
zihark lore cough art censorship or an anti, but it was that level of like 'listen..... i've literally been paid to talk about this...')
that feeling of being an honest to god expert, and having the numbers RIGHT THERE and some bitch online all but mooning you over it ... well. needless to say, i
really understand the war thunder leakers seeing red in the moment, lol.
anyway, to make this not a complete waste of text, i think one of my favorite responses to this is from the father of advertising, Oglivy (
reading his book right now, y'all will definitely get a review). with a quote to some haters way back in 1960 or something:
"There have always been noisy lunatics on the fringes of the advertising business. Their stock-in-trade includes ethnic humor, eccentric art direction, contempt for research, and their self proclaimed genius. They are seldom found out, because they gravitate to the kind of clients who, bamboozled by their rhetoric, do not hold them responsible for sales results. Their campaigns find favor at cocktail parties in New York, San Francisco, and London, but are taken less seriously in Chicago. In the days when I specialized in posh campaigns for The New Yorker, I was the hero of this coterie, but when I graduated to advertising in mass media and wrote a book which extolled the value of research, I became its devil.
I comfort myself with the reflection that I have sold more merchandise than all of them put together."
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