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kalph09 said:
Same goes for automotive industry where reviewers are given free trip to some exotic location to review their new product.
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Isn't that true for every industry? Talk to someone who has worked in the pharma industry. B grade Bollywood celebrities were recommending vaccines during Covid.

At least, what these phone reviewers are doing is harmless. Sometimes, it is even fun. They didn't create the rules of the game.

When I see Amitabh Bachchan peddling Cadbury chocolates to a diabetes stricken country, I know we have fallen.
 
dpandey said:
Amitabh Bachchan peddling Cadbury chocolates
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Theres a huge difference between advertising and so called "reviewing"...

When you say you are reviewing a product, you create a false picture that you are going to analyse the pros and cons of the product....

instead What celebrities do in advertisements is they dance with the product...

theres a huge difference between endorsing and "reviewing"... reviewing in todays world is a blatant lie to fool gullible consumers...
 
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bigb123 said:
Theres a huge difference between advertising and so called "reviewing"... When you say you are reviewing a product, you create a false picture that you are going to analyse the pros and cons of the product....instead What celebrities do in advertisements is they dance with the product...theres a huge difference between endorsing and "reviewing"... reviewing in todays world is a blatant lie to fool gullible consumers...
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I second that !
 
See Faisal and his car reviews. Full blown moron. The way he speaks, and his mannerisms. Reviews who have hit influencer status, just ramble and talk to themselves while recording. Gogitech seems so funny too. With a sofa, desk, lamp. Literally just opens the product, says what he sees, blends in the sponsor's script. No opinion what so ever. None. Tech wiser, is also annoying as anything. Purposed Indian accent (why), grimace for all lines said, slamming cartons for affect. Motor mouth.
 
asingh said:
See Faisal and his car reviews. Full blown moron. The way he speaks, and his mannerisms. Reviews who have hit influencer status, just ramble and talk to themselves while recording. Gogitech seems so funny too. With a sofa, desk, lamp. Literally just opens the product, says what he sees, blends in the sponsor's script. No opinion what so ever. None. Tech wiser, is also annoying as anything. Purposed Indian accent (why), grimace for all lines said, slamming cartons for affect. Motor mouth.
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Faisal is an annoying little prick. God, he makes me wish bullying was legal.
 
bigb123 said:
theres a huge difference between endorsing and "reviewing"... reviewing in todays world is a blatant lie to fool gullible consumers...
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Technically yes, but persuasion takes many forms and it almost always involves a misuse of trust. If we are OK with newsmen shilling for political parties and celebrities endorsing products they will never use (e.g vimal gutka) , we should cut these 'reviewers' some slack.

Aaliya Bhatt is on records saying she doesn't eat anything sweet. Good for her. Yet, she has no qualms about asking your kids to eat Cadbury chocolates for money. Can her 'endorsement' be classified as creating a 'false picture'?
 
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dpandey said:
Technically yes, but persuasion takes many forms and it always involves a misuse of trust. If we are OK with newsmen shilling for political parties and actors endorsing products they will never use (e.g vimal gutka) , we should cut these 'reviewers' some slack.

Aaliya Bhatt is on records saying she doesn't eat anything sweet. Good for her. Yet, she has no qualms about asking your kids to eat Cadbury chocolates for money. Can her 'endorsement' be classified as creating a 'false picture'?
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When we see advertisements we are made aware thst it is an advertisement. Even youtube shows "ad" "sponsored" tags on advertisement...here most of the common folks are made aware that these are paid advertisements...

Whereas when you make a entire youtube video/episode naming it review and unboxing, majority of common folks are made to believe that it is genuinely a review video wherein they will be made aware of the pros and cons of the product.


See this situation like this for instance ....we see toothpaste ads on tv ...we know the dentists shown there wearing white gowns are just paid actors and everything is make believe.

On the other hand if a real life munnabhai style hospital is setup and patients are told that real treatments take place there and doctors nurses everything there is real, the common folks or patients following and going there are going to die. Why.... because the common folks were not made aware that this bogus hospital was all a gimmick.

"Cutting these reviewers some slack .." has led to this widespread plague of "paid by brands" style reviews on youtube.
 
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dpandey said:
Isn't that true for every industry? Talk to someone who has worked in the pharma industry. B grade Bollywood celebrities were recommending vaccines during Covid.
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Everybody with 2 or more brain cells was recommending covid vaccines during covid.
dpandey said:
At least, what these phone reviewers are doing is harmless. Sometimes, it is even fun. They didn't create the rules of the game.

When I see Amitabh Bachchan peddling Cadbury chocolates to a diabetes stricken country, I know we have fallen.
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Just because Amitabh Bachchan is doing something wrong does not mean these guys can also do wrong and not be criticised. The subject of this thread puts the focus on the "tech reviewers", that's all. We don't even have to mention Cadbury, AB is directly involved in a gutkha brand's ad stripping him from all moral authority.
 
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