• glimse@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Sponsoring streams isn’t even close to the same thing as hiring shills

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            Yes, someone who promotes a product while hiding the fact that they’ve been paid to promote the product. Streamers generally say “this is a sponsored stream” to avoid lawsuits.

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              someone who promotes a product while hiding the fact that they’ve been paid

              Streamers generally say “this is a sponsored stream”

              So by your own definition streamers are generally not shills?

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                If someone starts off saying “this is a sponsores stream” then yes, that is correct. It’s illegal to not disclose when media is an advertisement in most of the world. I’m pretty sure it’s against the TOS of most streaming sites, too.

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      Isn’t it though? They’re being paid to promote a game right? That seems like a shill to me. I’m not sure I understand the difference to you.

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        A shill doesn’t disclose that they’re being paid to promote a product. The secrecy is what makes them a shill

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          Well I’ve certainly never heard that before and that’s not what the definition of the word is from what I’m seeing but I guess I can understand using that as a distinction.