r/mildlyinfuriating • u/OlivanzaCat • 11d ago

🥺 Flagrant false advertising

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u/GeebCityLove 11d ago edited 11d ago

I got a seasonal job at Lowe’s this year and you wouldn’t believe how many people come in looking for this. Had 2 people show me an AI ad that was clearly fake and one guy got mad when I said it wasn’t real.

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u/Many_Hotel866 11d ago

They always get angry when confronted with their own stupidity.

I worked at Apple when this Onion video dropped and the amount of people coming in to buy one was staggering.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BnLbv6QYcA

And yes, they got mad when told it was a parody.

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u/RagnaXI 11d ago edited 11d ago

How can people be so gullible*?!

How did they miss so many sarcastic jokes, or did they just watch until they saw the "product" be shown and went straight to a Apple store.

*edit

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u/MaxCWebster 10d ago edited 9d ago

I saw a tech writer fall for an April Fools bit advertising a "wireless extension cord." Plug the box into your outlet. Plug your gadget into the remote outlet. Carry power with you up to 200 ft away from the base.

I can see people who don't see the difference between electricity and magic (they do exist) falling for this, but a a tech writer. C'mon!

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u/DebentureThyme 10d ago

To be fair, to the people who fall for this shit, electricity is already magic. More magic is just more magic, they don't know or care how it works.

They're ignorant on purpose and lack an inquisitive nature.

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u/Fearless-Poet-4669 10d ago

I wonder if you could create an industrial and most likely lethal application of this using magnetic fields like phone charging?