Hate Mail Monday (0)
January 25th, 2010 by Deviant Advice, under Hate Mail.
To: badadviceforgoodpeople@gmail.com
From: XXX@live.com
Subject: Boycott!
I just got done reading your terrible site. If anyone advertises on here, I’m going to boycott every one of them and tell all of my friends to do it too. No one should support you.
Oh my. A boycott? Against us? Wow. We don’t really know what to say. Aside from, you know, THANKS for the FREE PUBLICITY!
You see, dear idiot, boycotts rarely ever work. They really only seem to excel in giving the people that are being boycotted a SHIT TON of free publicity. And it’s great. Because people will invariably want to come see what the fuss is about, which typically ends up working out to about a 50/50 ratio of disgust to slobbering approval. And I can damn sure guarantee you that the slobbering fans will far outstrip the disgusted fans’ ability to spread the word. Despite what you hear about negative stuff travelling faster, the reality is that “omg this is sooooooo cool!” travels exponentially faster than “these people are just terrible.”
The simple reality here is that people will ALWAYS like sarcasm. Before we started the site, we were the people who would scour flamewars for hours looking for choice bits of smartass and sarcasm. It was like big-game hunting for us. And we always got this evil sense of satisfaction when someone laid out a point that just slammed the other person, leaving them with no real way to respond. It was enjoyable and made us always walk away with smirk on our lips and tons of good quotes in our Notepad.
And that also gives us plenty of material to draw some of our best insults out of (what? you thought we were giving them away here? just gotta keep on comin back to read em!). We also regularly peruse forums like FARK and SA in order to glean new material. Who knew we were the ultimate recyclers?
So bring on the boycott. I’m sure the eventual advertisers would LOVE for their ad to be seen by as many people as possible. Plus it’ll give us damned good incentive to raise our rates! After all, that Bugatti Veyron won’t buy itself…
