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Marques Brownlee's ‘Panels’ Backlash, Explained (www.forbes.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Bro really tried to sell his subscribers a "50$ a year" subscription to a "wallpaper" app.

Interesting points about the "app":

the app has premium and free wallpapers
the free wallpapers are only available in sd quality and if you want hd youd have to subscribe
in order to unlock the sd quality you have to watch two 30 second ads.
theres a wallpaper called "orange" thats just the color orange

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[–] [email protected] 79 points 2 months ago (4 children)

A wallpaper app? What is this, 2008?

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

And there's people in the comments being like "its only $5 for my favorite wallpaper app" which I just shake my head and laugh at. What kind of idiot eats this shit up? There's nothing better you can spend $5 than a shitty jpeg?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

nothing better you can spend $5 than a shitty jpeg?

Two words: Star Citizen.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Granted, it's probably my favourite wallpaper app too and I only learned about it yesterday. It's also my least favourite for the same reason. I've never used it, or any wallpaper app, or even knew they are a thing so it wins by default.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

my phone tries extra fucking hard to sell me on its built in wallpaper app which has data-scraping permissions out to here also

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

every fucking time I swipe wrong on the cheapdroid used for work things, the $vendor crapware "GLOBAL SEARCH" shitware app permission prompt comes up

and it's always a bloody effortful nuisance to click no on it. I legit can't tell if it's rejecting the clicks, or just trying so damn hard to spin up that it's eating all cycles. malware fucking everywhere.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

honestly, samesies

I'm kinda taken aback at how many people are popping in saying they have such things. at almost all usage times I can barely see my bloody wallpaper, too much else going on/present

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I always have my windows tiled or maximized so I just keep an epty black desktop background.

My wallpaper is white and subtly stripe patterned and it was in a surprisingly good condition when I moved in.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

mine’s xsetroot -solid black so I don’t get a flash of the 80s in the moments before emacs loads and tiles its windows across my displays

it used to be a color I stole from the Amiga’s boot ROM for diagnostic purposes (I was going to do something like the Amiga’s diagnostics for my setup, where you could tell roughly what was broken by the color of the screen) and really I should revisit that one day

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

My wallpaper is the january page of a frieren themed calendar. From 2021. I only remembered what it was today after learning about all this

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

indeed. I have ... a photo of the family? It's fine and cool?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

My dad has a photo of a family photo, and I think it rocks.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

I have a wallpaper of the Internet Explorer anime mascot Inori Aizawa. No I will not explain.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

I was on interfacelift back then. Good site for beautiful backgrounds. Only background app I use is Wallpaper Engine