RE: Let’s Make Some STEEM Marketing Memes!! - Social Media Campaign
Actually I googled for that meme and found most people took it and posted (re-memed) it in the negative light that it really is. When I mention abuse my take is that if a woman feels compelled to stay with a man who'd publicly shame her what else is she putting up with behind the scenes. As far as my little experiment went I fully intended to share the thoughts of those who decided to participate, the consensus among those who choose to overwhelmingly, regardless if man or woman, felt it a bad decision if this was a business decision. That's how I laid it out, I didn't put Steem's name on it, I just merely asked the question, why? because this site is always asking for people's opinions then continues on without regard to what anyone said. I guess you could say there's a time and place for everything but when you are trying to attract people or change people's perceptions you don't go for something that is questionable in how people will take to it. In that regard, this meme's time and place is not now.
For those interested in the sampling of those who replied/voted on my question, post on the subject you can go here and take a look:
Okay fair enough.
It is still a small sample size compared to the number of people who have shared that and a google search for me nets results of listicles of funny uses of the meme and articles discussing the conception of the meme, so our google results differ as does my experience seeing it online, plus you got the opinion of the people on whether it should be used as an ad as opposed to posting it as a meme to the potential audience who may or may not be offended, so I still don't feel that means much as what people think is a good idea or not, doesn't necessarily correlate with how the audience it was aimed at feels about it. Anyway though, I wasn't debating if it was a good idea - I was debating your idea that the potential audience on other social media sites would find it offensive.
As for "a man who'd publicly shame her", no one was publicly shamed in the making of this meme. The original picture is a stock photo and the people in it are models. No one was publicly shamed to make this meme. And it is downright wrong to act like a meme is in the same league as abuse.
Again though, we can agree to disagree on whether this meme is offensive. You just really should stop accusing people of basing their humour and opinions on money and of being a different sex than what they are.