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Has a Famous Person Done an AMA on Lemmy Yet? If Not, Who Do You Think Will Be the First? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by puppy@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

AMAs on Reddit used to be magical. No PR, no advertising, if you tried to "stay on message" you would become a laughingstock (see Woody Harrelson's infamous AMA).

Then they fired Victoria and celebrity AMAs rapidly became boring and obvious parts of the promo circuit for any new media.