Fucking marketing

Guess it’s that time again, when something pisses me off and i can’t put all my anger into 164 characters, so i’m cleaning off the dust of my wordpress blog and making a post here. I already tweeted 3 tweets related to this topic, but i think i still have some stuff i want to say (yeah, i joined twitter. And i really like it).

This actually started with twitter, i was going trough my dashboard and i came across a tweet which says “save the world- sign up for a trip to Guatemala, to destroy Mayan calendar” (you can get more information here – izglabpasauli.lv). I looked into it and found out that this is some stupid marketing promotion for BalticMiles (loyalty program for AirBaltic). Newspeople say that AirBaltic possibly is on a verge of bankruptcy, or at least has serious problems, but seriously, do they think that by offering to destroy an important cultural heritage, about whom some people think it prophesies the end of the world (Mayans got tired of writing it. Get over it. Seriously, why do you need a calendar for thousands and thousands of years, no one lives that long!), is the best and most efficient way to promote your product? I understand that Hollywood takes this 2012 bullshit and tries to make money out of it, which, by the way, it didn’t (google it), so why do they think they’ll do better?
The fuck, right? What an illiterate, shallow, disrespectful assholes!

Here’s an idea to everyone who signed up for this, why don’t you check out Al-Queda, i’m sure if you promise to destroy a priceless cultural heritage, for example The Statue of liberty in NYC, they’ll pay for your flight to NYC. Who cares, right?! At least you get to go tao NYC for free. Pfhh. Assholes.

Btw, i don’t know what it is, but it seems i can’t get trough a post without cursing. Maybe it’s just one of those days.

3 Comments to “Fucking marketing”

  1. Ah, damn, I hoped you wouldn’t notice it. I think you probably saw my tweet and I regretted it as soon as I clicked on ‘post’.
    Luckily, there’s no way anyone will actually destroy the calender(as if that’s the one bringing on the doom), so no physical harm done. But even I had my doubts about the campaign, left that email unread for a good couple of weeks before I did the click.
    Don’t hate me too much, I promise to next time actually look at what I tweet.

  2. guess what, it wasn’t your tweet. some of my other friends (can you imagine, i have my other real life friends on the almighty internet too! i thought internet was just for the 4 of us.) tweeted this and made me angry. anyhow, i’m all over it. so it’s cool. :)
    cool, cool, cool.

  3. What a preposterous idea that there are more than 4 real people on Interwebs!

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