fryOil companies are hiring TikTok influencers to court young people
Tony BarkWhat the flying fuck?
Yea, it’s definitely weird on more than one level 😂
FaceDeerPretty sure that thumbnail isn't from the article. I searched the article really hard for it.
It’s shows up for me on mobile. It says it’s a screenshot from TikTok. Maybe it doesn’t show up on desktop for some reason?
Helldiver_MI'm on Desktop from Kbin and it shows up: https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]/t/354342/Oil-companies-are-hiring-TikTok-influencers-to-court-young-people
ChozoKbin is having thumbnail caching issues lately, and will assign thumbnails from other posts that were submitted around the same time. I feel like it's been happening for a week or two now.
@ernest, plz
VanillaGorillaThis is disgusting. It tricked me to click a Washington post article!
Man, you got catfished by the Washington post haha.
That's not good at all.
@ernest, here's a nsfw screenshot in case it doesn't appear for you. https://i.imgur.com/il0uZC4.png
here's a nsfw screenshot in case it doesn't appear for you.
Confirmed. It appears under a Linus Tech Tits post.
Yea, there’s clearly something misconfigured over on kbin at the moment. Might be worth pinging one of the people that runs it.
ivanafterallThe real story is being overlooked: Washington Post is Hiring OnlyFans Influencers to Court Readers
This is the best summary I could come up with:
DeSmog also found that Conoco, a fuel brand that split from ConocoPhillips a decade ago, paid a nail artist and content creator named Lizzy to post sponsored videos last year.
Francesca Willow, who runs a blog about sustainability and racial justice called “Ethical Unicorn,” said she received a request in May to publish a guest post by Pheasant Energy, an oil and gas company based in Fort Worth.
The Environmental Protection Agency today announced its enforcement priorities for 2024 through 2027, including for the first time initiatives to address climate change and “forever chemicals” known as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS.
In addition to addressing climate change and PFAS, the new initiatives include protecting Americans from toxic coal ash and curbing hazardous air pollution in overburdened communities.
The Climate 202 discussed the new priorities yesterday with David Uhlmann, whom the Senate confirmed last month to lead the EPA’s enforcement office, which is tasked with holding companies accountable when they violate the nation’s environmental laws.
Hurricanes have become deadlier and have disproportionately affected the most socially vulnerable communities, according to a study released yesterday in the journal Science Advances, The Washington Post’s Kasha Patel reports.
I’m a bot and I’m open source!
This is the most tone-deaf corporate bullshit I’ve ever read.
“we want people to associate us with renewable energy” promotes fossil fuel loyalty reward schemes
These oil guys aren't the most cunning linguists.
That thumbnail got me by the bubu.
Sounds like they need some good ol fashioned nicotine regulation…
AltoFun fact, tobacco companies are the one that got tobacco advertising banned.
Why would they suggest to ban their own advertising?
2 main reasons
fair play laws required 1 anti smoking PSA to be aired for every ~3 smoking advertisements. This was causing the first downturn in the amount of smokers for pretty much the first time
it made it basically impossible for any new tobacco companies to take any marketshare from the established brands
CookieJarObserverNah just set that garbage app on a blacklist.
It's working. Consider me courted. Do I just start pouring oil on animals now or...?
Don’t forget to light them on fire afterwards, it’s what the oil exec would have wanted 🥰
The joke he's making would only make sense to kbin users who have an improperly cached thumbnail.
improperly cached
Or properly cached. 😏
DeceptichumYou’ve gotta lube up the pussy cats.
snooggumsShould there be a giant vagina for the thumbnail?
I think there’s some issue with people on kbin seeing wrong images. Probably a question for the server admins over there. It’s normal on three of the Lemmy instances I checked on.
Meanwhile, young people would like to invite oil companies to court.
Now thumbnails like this are why I joined kbin.
ArugulaZThe image that appears for this story is a woman's vagina, which is... certainly... influential.
Only for Kbin users.
SeraphHey Kbin buddies here in the comments because random vagina!
I'm in public damn it.
sour[._.]
Funny thing is, kbin shadow bans almost all nsfw content.
Yea, there’s definitely some weird bug for some of the users. I just see the normal image from the article. I tried on lemm.ee and also just see the normal image.
Kbin only problem. Usually we get something dumb from improperly cached images, but sometimes we get naked ladies and that gets a lot of attention from our instance.
You're a mod for this community, right? I'm not sure if this would work, but if you were to add an NSFW tag to this post, I think that should federate over to Kbin, which will at least blur out the thumbnail for us.
Though that may also end up hiding the post from users who have NSFW disabled on their accounts, so it might not be worth doing.
EDIT: I realized that the way I phrased this may have seemed unnecessarily confrontational with the "You're a mod, right?" part. Sorry if it came across that way! I didn't mean for it to sound like "You're a mod, right? Do something!" lol
I don't think our instance bugs should impact them. Other than a flood of kbin user comments.
thumbnail ._.
brooke scheurn...promoting ExxonMobil’s fuel rewards program
pregnant mother
pick one
∟⊔⊤∦∣≶How come ya’ll are getting better thumbnails than me??
Oil companies (via “independent film makers”) have been paying influencers to shit on Tesla, ever since Tesla became a viable threat to big oil and legacy auto. Nothing new here.
Uranium3006elon musk isn't gonna fuck you. you don't have to do this
You’re the one simping for the companies that are making the planet unliveable for future generations for their own profit.
Plenty of evidence for what I claimed, google it yourself if you want:
Dude, I’ll bash Enron Muskrat for free.
how much is elon/tesla paying you to post this?
hey now, can't we loathe Musk and the big oil companies too?
And tesla shits on public transport…
Btw its to late to save big oil, EU already stated that all new cars from 2030 on can’t be Combustion Engine powered.
IHeartBadCodeBig oil already has massive investments in lithium. Big oil is already ready to transition to big lithium, they're just squeezing out the last bits of cash they can in oil.
Did anyone think that as EVs became popular that industrial giants like ExxonMobil would just disappear? No, big oil is already positioned to be with us another 100+ years as they strip mine the planet for lithium.
Mass transit is what was always needed, but there's little to no profit there. With EVs, it's just the same song and dance as oil but with batteries this time.
Nobody told them that lithium batteries aren’t that future proof…
Echo71NinerHow the fuck did that pic make it in that article lol
sabSeems to be an occasional kbin bug. Somehow it always seems to go all in on nsfw whenever it occurs. No idea what's going on behind that.
Not sure if mentions notify users here, but it's something for @ernest to look into.
No it totally happens in other things we just don't notice. I saw a meme replaced by a soccer player.
squibletI’m having the same issue with a different post… OP said it was sleeping ducks, comments seem to suggest it is sleeping ducks, but I see a movie poster.
I don't know about you, but I only notice when it's a wildly different pic, usually nsfw. Probably just bias, I bet it happens all the time with pics that seem somewhat related or it's a topic (and picture) you don't care about.