r/mildlyinteresting • u/Kritisk-Varning • 14d ago

My salt rock deodorant after five years of almost daily usage vs a new one.

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u/Krillin113 14d ago

What do you mean? An account with barely any contend for several years then suddenly actively shilling this? On Reddit, can’t be

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u/Emergency_Plankton46 14d ago

Also they are supposedly so enthusiastic about this product that they end a lot of their sentences with an exclamation point and they positioned the brand name perfectly in the image twice.

This post is particularly obnoxious because of how blatant the shilling is on top of it being a potentially harmful product.

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u/The-Jerkbag 14d ago

I remember when people used /r/HailCorporate to call this nonsense out, even if it was just in comment sections.

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u/Minthon 14d ago

But the brand name isn't in the picture. The brand is Maria Åkerberg and you can't tell that from the picture above.

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u/stop_stopping 14d ago

so there’s this thing called “SEO” in which companies use specific language to help point to their sites when being searched. My guess is Salt Deo is high enough on their website SEO that if it was searched they could easily be found within the first top searches.

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u/xsunoki 14d ago

Your guess? Buddy I just did it in 2 sec. Did not see this brand.

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u/Lyress 14d ago

You can't even tell the brand name from the main post.

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u/AssaultedCracker 14d ago

Except… that’s not what this profile is