# Pitting Amateur Barbarian

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-amateur-barbarian/724554>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [July 8, 2015, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-amateur-barbarian/724554 "2015-07-08T08:05:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2015, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-amateur-barbarian/724554/140 "2015-07-16T00:14:35Z")

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> [@erysichthon](#):
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> Of course not! After all, this is the guy who says that using a rewards credit card is like [“getting $1,000 for pushing a button that kills 1,000 random people.”](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=16543074&postcount=27)
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> He is also privy to the [highest, Illuminati-level secrets of the marketing industry](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=18252049&postcount=27), including why some people think Flo is irritating. (Spoiler alert: she’s _supposed_ to be irritating!)

What an asshat. My response at the time:

> [@Advertising - impact of pitch on your buying decisions?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advertising-impact-of-pitch-on-your-buying-decisions/716290/35):
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> This is utter, Illuminati-quality nonsense. Flo has nearly 5 _million_ likes on Facebook, and \*more than \*5 million friends. That’s because Progressive has spent a fantastic amount of money to create brand engagement around Flo, not to make her unlikeable.
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> Or, more succinctly: “Imagine the number of Facebook likes if they’d tried to make her likeable!”

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