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Why Is Instagram Running Ads for a "Pet Incinerator"?
BrikoXhttps://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/instagram-pet-incinerator
One Reddit user spotted an Aliexpress ad for a “pet incinerator” on Instagram, a macabre encounter that raises plenty of questions.
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Whats_your_reasoningImportant question - can it be used for billionaires?
Why would anybody have so many pets they need an incinerator?!? Serial killer starter kit?
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jumping redditor [they/them]could be useful for disposing of diseased small livestock, like goats, chicken and rabbits
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HM King Charles III DG FDThey don’t have any noise level specs. That’s important in case you live in a tight housing situation. That’s how I would start my search for the perfect fit for me. But sure ease of use is also important. Don’t want be messing around with pilot flames and tank connections and timing buttons for the perfect char color control.
Because it gets views, and now you’re inadvertently advertising for AliExpress too.
I’m really tired of the “commentary on advertisments is forbidden” people in every thread about an ad. No, this thread is not an advertisement, we’re laughing at an advertisement for a weird thing we aren’t buying.
Ads exist. This one is ridiculous. If you don’t want to talk about it, fine, but let the rest of us have a laugh. Nobody in this comment section is about to impulse-buy a pet incinerator. This thread has no effect on AliBaba’s bottom line.
No one likes a scold.
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I don’t see why it ever would be a good idea to advertise this on social media. Must be a way to target only clinics.
And the pics are fucking horrible.
Or it’s just an automated ad pulling a random product onto some one’s feed based on viewing history. Which then got passed around which caused the algorithm to start spreading the ad
I suppose if your viewing history includes bulk orders of veterinary supplies, this is probably a decently targeted ad.
It’s Ali Express, they could have viewed anything vent related and it pulled an item with the same tag. I viewed a customized tshirt with a funny saying and the name KIM on it (I’m not Kim nor do I have any one close named Kim)
I now get a million ads for stupid customized everything with KIM as the customizable name, just because I viewed one item to read what the joke on the shirt said
’One of em’s gonna die eventually’
Shit, I’m glad I don’t see ads (if you take injected medications it’s a lot easier to just buy syringes in bulk from veterinary suppliers)
Phrasing here is what’s weird. Who exactly is the target audience of buyers?
If they called it “animal crematorium” or “carcass incinerator”, it would make sense for veterinary clinics and farms. Who tf searches for “pet incinerator”?
The fact that they added the word “custom” to a lot of the ads also raises the question of who’s out there pimping out a pet incinerator.
Since this is Alibaba, I think it’s meant for resellers getting their logo stamped onto a white label product like this one.
I’ve gotten some weird ads for random industrial machinery
I don’t want people to get the wrong idea and click away thinking this is for incinerating the family dog or cat.
It also works on rabbits.
But how are you supposed to add potatoes and onions?
Are these targeted at FBI recruits?
No, FBI wants them for sex, homeland security is the group who wants them dead. All probably to keep any dead pets out of RFKs mouth
Of course it’s aliexpress. I suspect it’s automated. I’ve received ads for dental chairs, diggers, skincare lasers, and everything in between while shopping for electrical connectors (deutsch).
Meta needs to be destroyed for so many reasons
Maybe the target audience is serial killers?
“Let’s send mixed messages. Be sure to include lots of healthy, well-groomed, cute pets in the ad. Also, make sure the animals are sized oddly relative to one another, to give potential buyers no sense of scale. If we don’t know how big this thing is, then neither should they.”
How much?
I have no need for one, but I am curious how much an impulse buy like this is going to cost.
What do your pets have Ebola? Just bury them like a normal person…
Most people in cities don’t have a garden and it’s prohibited in many places
we had our dog cremated. granted we did not do it ourselves.
May I ask why?
it was an option and it allows us to have her ashes.
I think they were asking why you didn’t do it yourself
I did not own a device like in the OP and would not want to. I mean I would love to have a car lift but that at least would be practical and useful throughout the year.
I wanted them to be somewhere I was and they would want to be. But that’s not now. One day it will be our place and the space will be his forever. That’s not here.
Didn’t own one of these beauties, obviously.
Enter Ricky Bobby’s new garage business.