alt Hacker NewsI know its just a joke, but Bill Hicks also constantly marketed himself and branded himself as an anti-marketing comedian. In his mind it was okay to promote yourself as a comedian but not promote your own business.
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red-iron-pine • today at 12:54 PM
he's a comedian; his entire job is standing up in front of people and saying shit and having a message. thats... the point.
it's not nameless widgets or whitelabel switches where you can just ignore it.
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thinkingtoilet • today at 1:51 PM
He didn't take out ads or anything. He lived his life the way he wanted to and spoke his mind. That's not 'marketing'.
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bandofthehawk • today at 12:45 PM
I don't think this is true, do you have a source for this? What does it even mean that he constantly marketed himself, is doing lots of shows considered "marketing yourself"?
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There's a different between 'promotion' and 'bait and switch'. There's also the matter of the externalities of the products you're promoting.
If Hicks marketed his shows as life-changing experiences which'll give you a bigger dick, then just ran normal stand-up, it'd be right to criticise him.
Just as it's right to criticise companies who claim to sell 'food', show ads of nice happy, healthy families, and throw buzzwords around to manipulate customers at the detriment of their own health and lives.
The hijacking of language by megacorps is sad. Words have meaning, backed by history, tradition, and culture, and shouldn't be used as marketing tools to get consumers addicted to slop.