gamerdudeNYC

gamerdudeNYC OP t1_je8he2f wrote

It creates validity because someone i.e. the owner of a store could create multiple accounts to falsely inflate the reviews of their company

That small amount of karma on Reddit could mean that the account was just created to give a positive review

And if you never heard that artist’s name and had no idea who it was, there’s no way anyone could see that name in a random link sent to an anonymous message board

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gamerdudeNYC OP t1_je8ffov wrote

It was a link to a store, that was the only response

It could’ve said “the artist is THIS and this is the Store”

A person sending a link to a store could’ve been anything, it could be a bot trying to steal that person’s work from the actual artist.

When a completely anonymous, random thing on the internet sends you to a site to buy something, do you always do it without question?

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gamerdudeNYC OP t1_je841c9 wrote

Of course, so basically the title was the original question I asked:

My sister is a Disney nut and I live in JC but what is this?

And the first and only response I got was a link to a store, nothing else, no context at all.

I do like it, I never said it was shitty or the artist was shitty, I just thought it was very weird that the first and only post I got was a link to a store

And as soon as I responded that “it must be an ad” it snowballed

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