average reddit user - Lemmy.World

Its crazier going back to reddit and asking if each post is really just an advertising for someone’s product. Its surprising how often a post is a commercial vs real content.

I saw one yesterday for a water bouncing scooter thing where a guy rides across a river and delivers a beer. Water scooter gets placed perfectly to showcase the name. Multiple comment chains of “cool this looks fun what is it how does it work” along with explanations and hype threads like its a ginsu knife at a Florida flea market

That doesn’t line up with my experience at all. I wonder if it might be that the subreddits a person follows make a big difference.

It definetly does. Small niche subs dont attract advertisers the way the massive subs do.

It makes sense advertisers are going to target spaces with the most people