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This is the third attempt they’ve made to work with that guy that actually got routed to me because their salespeople don’t do their due diligence. Shocking.

Edit; a little extra context: I have an email alias on a domain similar to one he might use, and regularly receive email addressed to him. Reddit marketing folks reached out in a less cookie cutter manner a couple times last year, this is more of a mailing list outreach attempt.

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[-] camr_on@lemmy.world 182 points 1 year ago

they don't doom-scroll

Surely they can't say this with a straight face

[-] cm0002@lemmy.world 129 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

90% of users trust Reddit

I'm gonna stop you right there lolol

[-] dasgoat@lemmy.world 45 points 1 year ago

90% of Reddit are bots

Their coding says 'trust=1'

Don't know what else to tell you /s

[-] camr_on@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, I haven't trusted Reddit in 10 years lol. Redditors? Actually I suppose I also haven't trusted them in 10 years lmao

[-] HughJanus@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago

I used to trust Redditors and explicitly used it to research products and services to purchase. But that was before all the bots took over. And now Reddit has taken away moderation controls so I can only assume those bots have gotten worse.

[-] oDDmON@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Pre, or post the API debacle?

[-] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

That might be accurate. Everyone else already left Reddit. It's just 90% of what's left.

[-] LemmysMum@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I trust reddit to fuck up. So far that trust has been well placed.

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[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 127 points 1 year ago

Saying redditors don’t doomscroll is hilarious

[-] manapropos@lemmy.basedcount.com 15 points 1 year ago

The amount of content there is insane. When I was on there I would spend hours scrolling. As much as others complain about the lack of content here on Lemmy, I kind of like it because I don’t spend nearly as much time on the phone every day

[-] hillbicks@feddit.de 87 points 1 year ago

Wait a second. Reddit is reaching out to someone currently in jail because he is suspected to have run a human trafficking ring? And they want to work with THIS dude? Jfc.....

[-] seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org 80 points 1 year ago

Reddit is reaching out to someone currently in jail because he is suspected to have run a human trafficking ring?

"Human trafficking" sounds so much nicer than "rape and enslavement" which is what he's specifically charged with.

[-] AttackPanda@programming.dev 39 points 1 year ago

Let’s split the diff and go with: human trafficking, rape, and enslavement.

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[-] tdawg@lemmy.world 52 points 1 year ago

Ostensibly. OP hasn’t provided evidence about their claims

[-] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 38 points 1 year ago

This isn't a personalized email and it's laid out like a marketing email (600px wide, image header...)

so I doubt this is a 1:1 BDR trying to contact Tate.

[-] PixxlMan@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

OP put realtotallyreallymeandrewtate69420865357@gmail.com into Reddit's marketing newsletter and claims/thinks routine marketing emails is actual attempted communication by reddit

I love misinformation

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[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

He's everything all the admins, most of the mods, and the only truly welcome users aspire to be.

[-] fiat_lux@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

In jail

House arrest, unfortunately.

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[-] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

More stonks require more clicks, gotta get that engagement, gotta hold people's attention, and nothing quite does that like controversial assholes. All profit-based social media inevitably ends up hooked on rage, imo, as it's the best way to anchor a user's attention and get more ads in front of them.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 62 points 1 year ago

Why do you think they think that you're the infamous sex trafficker Andrew Tate?

[-] HonkTonkWoman@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

Cause our special big boy didn’t cry in the shower & has been allowed to use the illegal phone to check their emails! It’s a special day!

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[-] brax@sh.itjust.works 43 points 1 year ago

Hello,

Our site is almost dead thanks to our cancerous executive staff but we think we can really propel its death by encouraging cancerous members of humanity to join on and spread their garbage messaging.

Sincerely, Cancer

...

Joke aside, I'm not sure how we're supposed to believe what you said without any reference to the moron in the post? I assume your email is something like his name, but there's no way to confirm.

[-] andrew@radiation.party 10 points 1 year ago

I’ve received a couple less cookie-cutter emails directly sent to this email alias with the name field set to “Andrew Tate” and references in the body to him. Unfortunately I tend to mark them as spam and move on, and they get deleted over time. Last outreach was mid last year from one of their sales guys.

[-] doublejay1999@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago
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[-] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

My apologies if you’re unlucky enough to share the same name as that no talent ass clown.

[-] enkille@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

He could just go by "Andy" instead of "Andrew"

[-] harmonea@kbin.social 38 points 1 year ago

No way. Why should OP change? He's not the one who sucks.

[-] HughJanus@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

🤣🤣🤣 thanks Michael Bolton

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[-] grte@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago
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[-] Naatan@lemmy.one 22 points 1 year ago

ITT: People complaining about an automated email that gets send to a huge largely uncurated mailing list. This is so very obviously not an email someone at reddit personally addressed to Andrew Tate, let alone personally selected him to be added to the mailing list.

Seriously, people, there's plenty to complain about without making up new stuff.

[-] andrew@radiation.party 4 points 1 year ago

I’ve explained this in the description and various comments but I suppose I’ll repeat it here, but I have an email alias that is essentially almost a typosquat of one he likely does use, so some marketing company likely stuck it in their list on accident and fed it to loads of other companies.

This email is clearly automated but I did receive two more personalized outreach attempts last year, and I receive almost weekly personalized outreach from other companies due to the similarity in email. I know who they were intended for because they had a name set in the “to” field.

[-] rappo@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Can you share the older emails? I believe you, I'm just curious what they say if they're personalized.

[-] andrew@radiation.party 5 points 1 year ago

They’ve aged out, I typically mark as spam and they’re deleted after 30d or so. It was essentially “hey Tate, love the content! Have you considered partnering with Reddit ads to expand your viewerbase?” And the follow-up was the typical “you haven’t responded, hope I got the right email!” spiel

The most interesting ones I’ve seen are from the likes of SAP concur, recruitment agencies offering developers, and private jet companies like Fly Alliance offering million dollar discounts on multi-million dollar jet contracts.

[-] Naatan@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago

Those all sounds like generic automated emails to me.

[-] andrew@radiation.party 3 points 1 year ago

I mean, almost all outreach is automated until you get to a meeting. The point of the post is to show that Reddit is reaching out, either intentionally (possible, based on the previous outreach) or unintentionally, to somebody that many companies would rather not do business with.

[-] Naatan@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago

Why not then post the personalized emails? This particular email just doesn't look incriminating to me. Sure it is POSSIBLE that someone at Reddit specifically added him to the email list, but that's hardly the most likely explanation.

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[-] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Looks like somebody is so desperate for any kind of celebrity engagement they are willing to work with a shithead like Andrew Tate, eh?

Also, for future celebs trying to promote projects on Lemmy: I got here first, Lemonworld is MY turf, Margot Robbie and her awesome movies are the only allowed commercial interest here.

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago
[-] Wogi@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I'm willing to bet they simply emailed every address they think might be associated with Andrew Tate, rather than they're only emailing this one they think is Andrew Tate.

[-] andrew@radiation.party 3 points 1 year ago

Almost certainly the case nowadays

[-] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What kind of corpo bullshit is this

Basically they’re saying that they’re going to browse posts regarding applicable products and “recommend” those and boosts with fake upvotes

Basically you’re going to have advertisements penetrate through legitimate discussions in the form of a “random real person.”

[-] drekly@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Going to?

👨‍🚀🌌🔫👨‍🚀

Always fucking has been right? 😕

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