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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[–] 79 points 2 years ago (13 children)

A wallpaper app? What is this, 2008?

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  • [–] 36 points 2 years ago* (4 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?

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago* (2 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.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years 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.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (3 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

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years 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

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 79 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Way more than that.

    • requires crazy permissions like user location
    • wallpapers are in a publicly accessible s3 bucket
    • profit split for wallpaper creators is 50/50 which is worse than most app store splits
    • most of the creators actually seem to be current MKBHD employees
    • app is either built from a template or an old app that they bought

    Source: https://youtu.be/prZ7ZfdFrNs

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  • [–] 36 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Maybe I’m scarred but I have a reflexive distrust for any usage of “pumped” or “super excited” in a commercial context. No matter the subject.

    marques brownlee tweets: “And now - I'm so pumped to be launching this app! People have asked where I get wallpapers FOREVER, so this is the answer, now and forever: PANELS!”

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  • [–] 34 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    remember kids, if you take on responsibilities like renting out a studio space, and hiring employees, those costs are only going to go up, regardless of whether or not you continue to make the sort of revenue you've historically made from video views, which leads to having to rely more on merch sales, and patreon, and "other" revenue streams just to keep everyone paid. i mean, who knew, right?

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago*

    I rarely watch his videos, but that's because when I have, he clearly has direct financial entanglements and conflicts with the same major brands he's discussing or "reviewing".

    For a channel his size and reach, I can't imagine those aren't enough to cover his overhead, unless he's made some really terrible business decisions.

    This is, of course, entirely speculation and based off of calculations pulled from my brown star, so maybe I'm wrong about that.

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  • [–] 33 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    I use subscription services to get the best letters of the alphabet.

    For example, I use WinnrWinnrChicknDinnr to get access to the letter W (upper AND lower case!) for only $69 a month!

    No idea why they needed my SSN, but look I'm not some pleb that uses free letters.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago

    Ok but is the orange wallpaper better in HD?

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago

    Now that's a big L.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Nice to see everyone sharing their favorite wallpaper apps so here's mine: https://www.google.com/search?q=anime++imagesize%3A1920x1200&udm=2

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago

    For $12 per month, Panels provides a range of high-definition wallpapers for phones, a hefty price tag for something that has always been freely available online.

    Meanwhile, the bottled water industry... (⁠・⁠_⁠・)

    ತ⁠_⁠ತ

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I'll just stick with Wallpaper Engine, thanks.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Bro if your gonna buy a wallpaper app just get Wallpaper Engine on Steam, it's like less than $5

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    ppl paid more for a single NFT

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    I'll give my money to Variety ta

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    I've been using Clarity on iOS and macOS for wallpapers. Costs $5 a year. Wallpapers are high quality. My only complaint is the macOS version has less selection and features compared to the iOS version.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Respectfully, I'm honestly confused by this why are you paying any amount of money for wallpapers? I've never had an issue finding high quality images for my devices, phone or desktop. What exactly is the service doing that makes paying $5 the easier option?

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  • [–] -4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    It's so cheap that I haven't given it much critical thought. For me I suppose it's mainly convenience. The iOS version has some shortcuts and widgets I find convenient for discovering new wallpapers. The Mac version is a little menubar app. I change my wallpapers frequently and I don't necessarily want to open a website everytime to do that.

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    wallhaven.CC Free, automatically sizes the wallpaper for your device. No ads

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