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⌈ Secret Post #6021 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

I can ignore it when they put it at the end of the video or put time stamps so I can skip and I try skipping ahead for the people I really like anyways but ya, I kinda agree at this point. Especially since it's getting more and more obvious that they're all getting a script about how they're totally using this thing all the time and other things that keep using the same words across the bank.
Sure, it's probably in the contract to mention stuff like "America's number one meal kit" (funnily enough I saw someone get sponsered by a meal kit that wasn't Hello Fresh ALSO using that sentece) but it just really isn't hitting the authentic button it's supposed to hit for most influencers imo.
(And well, not being in the US renders 99.99% of them moot for me anyways.)

[(Anonymous)]

I've been so annoyed by that in recently published BOOKS, of all things. They're wasting so much page-space trying to get Americans to buy their pots and pans from this company and not that one, or fancy organic spices from here, or whatever, and their spiel (on top of just being time-wasting annoyance) is generally for a product that the business is not equipped to ship overseas. This goes double or triple for books about gardening that plug seed companies, after the ways various countries have cracked down on the seed trade, but my point is, if you actually go "okay, how much of this is using the fact that I bought one book to try to upsell me umpteen other products related to the same general subject, most of which aren't even willing to sell to my country?" you will be dismayed. While my older books uniformly don't do this. I checked. It's such bullshit.

[(Anonymous)]

I've never encountered this in books! That would be soooo annoying. What kind of books are you seeing it in?

[(Anonymous)]

I was seeing it the most in newer cooking books. I think the comment about organic spices was in relation to one for hommade ice cream making that dedicated lots of space - aside from their opinions on machines - to where they thought you should source your flavorings. ("Source" - another one of those trendy nouns-being-used-as-verbs that may age terribly.) The complaint about pan suppliers is from a book on baking that got really picky about how you should really only bake in aluminum, but if you're one of those people who got scared of aluminum leaching into your food "you shouldn't be, you should just look for anodized aluminum which is safe," and the best place to get it ... you get the idea. But it's all over the place. New book about making hommade pasta? Obligatory spiels about the pros and cons of pasta machines and how to pick a good one, plus recommendations on ravioli stamps and other sundries. New book about self-taught sewing? Matrioschka-doll style lists with illustrative pictures on what you "must have" (read: buy), versus what is nice to have, versus what is good gear once you reach such-and-such crafting milestones. I would elaborate on what I saw in gardening books, but I'm tired.

I will give the pasta book some credit for mentioning one machine supplier that is Italian rather than American, but in every other regard, no love for this trend.

Note also that I have no clue whether their take on aluminum is baldfaced industry propaganda. IIRC, aluminum leaching into food has been implicated in chronic illness and early onset dementia.