Yes, and I have. This solves me the personal grief of being reminded of their bad practices but does nothing to actually solve the problem. Not that I think “awareness” is a great or in anyway meaningful solve, but if talking about the issue leads to a few other people also blocking Duolingo then at least I won’t feel like I am forced to merely accept the situation as is with no protest.

And for that reason we should turn a blind eye to any and all other broaches of ethics?

Yes, I’m aware of that, but ubiquity doesn’t make it okay, and my ire for Duolingo is specifically because they have been the most successful exploiter of this circumstance

I’m not saying OP is a shill, I’m saying that Duolingo manufactured the “Duo is coming to get you” meme intentionally, and people are happy to be stooges so happily accepted it. I don’t think OP has any affiliation to Duolingo, but they’re still normalizing their stupid trend so they can continue to leave meme comments on individual pages and get free advertising. It sucks.

That’s not what I mean. What I mean is that Duolingo frequently comments on individual user posts on tiktok, which tiktok raises as a high-visibility comment because Duolingo’s size makes the algorithm think it’s quality content. This means that Duolingo isn’t just advertising on their own tiktok page, obviously that would be fine, it means that they get to piggyback on viral content from completely unaffiliated users massively spreading their brand while providing no compensation of any kind to the creator of those viral videos. It wouldn’t be okay for somebody to run an ad before your content without your consent (we aren’t talking about the ads you consented to run by tiktok/youtube/whoever), so it shouldn’t be okay to use the comments as free advertising space too.

Fuck Duolingo and any other company that thinks it’s okay to comment all over social media. If you aren’t paying those people sponsorship deals to promote your brand, it should be illegal to hijack their page with your product.

Shit is disgusting and there is literally no worse offender of this loophole than Duolingo.

I recommend any time you see them in the wild telling them how disgusting it is that they think they can put up their billboards in other people’s lawns.

Fuck that bird. Don’t even support their entirely manufactured meme status. Just give them zero fucking attention

Which is interesting, because the point of the phrase is to imply something is so commonplace that it practically has no value. It’s so commonplace you can get a dozen of them for a dime!

So technically while the relative value of the dime in this phrase decreases, the relative value of the phrase itself increases as the dime’s value ever further approaches negligible, ever better emphasizing the point!

Words are fun.

Nah, I can give them p-r-------l at least.

Gotcha. Sounds like a blast, honestly. One of my most played games this past year has been Metal: Hellsinger, and I’m a sarcastic dark comedy metalhead, so it sounds right up my alley!

Never heard of that one so I can’t compare

I watched it with my child niece. The first two seasons are legitimately great for a children’s show with a surprisingly deep narrative.

But then season 3 of 4 the production team changed and it went from being deep like Adventure Time to just being generic “good enough” kid’s show.

Legitimately kind of a sad thing, actually

I’ve never played it, but I’ve heard from a friend that it is actually a total blast assuming your group has a good attitude and open mind going into it

Alice, apparently.

Meanwhile I have 3000+ hours in Civ6…

It’s a story that some random posted. Dude isn’t even a mod here.

Even then, a single person abusing the report function isn’t a genuine call for prohibition by anyone.

Edit: typo

There is not a single comment there asking for pizzacake to be banned.

I never asked for mods to ban pizzacake, I asked the potential audience to practice a little bit of discernment in their tastes.

I think this is an important distinction, personally.

I have zero thoughts or comments on this specific comic, but can we please leave pizzacake on reddit? They were already plenty inescapable enough there.

For those who choose the man and the bear

She’s trying to do ominous wide-eyes, like a manic character from a cartoon or something, the idea being that she would “scare away” the older gentleman with her “unhinged” look.

Of course to anyone who has lived even a week in the real world, instead it just looks like somebody trying to looking intimidating and failing