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Just watched Guy Walks Into an Advertising Agency for the first time...
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first time watcher so no spoilers after S3E6 please!
Holy crap!! That tractor scene was the most completely unexpected thing I’ve witnessed in this show (so far.)
When Peggy and Joan were talking and the mower was still going on in the background, I’m like “ok somethings gonna happen.” But I thought it would be like running into a desk or something, not taking off a man’s foot! Then you have the blood spraying on the people, and Lois crashing into the window and I’m sitting here laughing and looking slightly horrified like ...did that just fucking happen?!
Also I love how Joan just sprung into action and took control of the situation immediately. Asked for the first aid kit, applied a tourniquet...if she’s still looking for a job she should be a nurse or something haha.
I also liked how Pete was the one to catch Peggy when she fainted.
Top Comment: Believe me, somewhere in this business, this has happened before.
Guy Walks Into an Advertising Agency - what an insane way to move the story forward : madmen
Main Post: Guy Walks Into an Advertising Agency - what an insane way to move the story forward : madmen
was the modeling agency a scam?? why was the guy taking pics of her like that?
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this episode is probably one of my favs but it’s rlly concerning what happened
Top Comment: These were really popular in the 90s. They were "modeling agencies" (or sometimes "schools") and they charged a lot upfront. They were supposed to act like agents and get you jobs, but few people ever got sent to anything. Occasionally They'd send you to the mall for a fashion show. They'd have a couple of "workshops" and such where they'd teach you how to walk, pose, etc. And then they'd charge MORE fees to make your portfolio and comp card. Every major city and a lot of the midsized ones had them. Ours was in a mall. As far as the photos? It's hard to say. Taking a few Polaroids (I guess digital these days) of the girls on their first visit is normal. They want to see how they photograph, especially if they don't have a portfolio . (He said he wanted to take some shots of her to "see how they land".) It's not uncommon to have a couple of photos that show you in a bathing suit, but in this case it was, at best, wildly inappropriate for them to do it without Anna's parents in the room. It was obvious that Maya wasn't an adult and that they wouldn't be getting $3,000 out of them that day, so the fact that he didn't just send them home was suss. He was pretty sleazy and could have been planning on using them for nefarious reasons. (Also, he asked her about bathing suits but that was clearly a bra.) The "agency" itself might've been legit in a legal sense, but Anna's mom was correct: real agencies that actually book jobs for their clients don't charge the models. They make their money from the jobs they send their models on.
Iman Gadzhi is a Scam (please avoid this guy)
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Iman Gadzhi (SMMA Guru) came on my radar with his Tiktok videos -- initially I thought he was a Cobra Tate clone -- then looking into some of his content, I liked him. I thought he had some decent things to say -- BUT after looking further into him...
I think absolutely everyone should avoid supporting this guy and his products.
Why? He's a pathological liar and has zero moral compass... a few examples:
- His back-story is not legit whatsoever. He said he had "a rough childhood" and an abusive father -- you will notice though, he's never specific about this one topic. That's because as he admits on several podcasts, he grew up in the best neighborhood in London, went to one of THE most expensive schools... I can't confirm but have seen comments saying he was driven to school in a Rolls Royce. Not to mention he grew up around an extremely successful step dad...Even if he decided not to like him or credit his step dad, he moved him out of Russia and into not just England, but THE best zip code in the country. And gave him things were a top 0.0001% advantage. And frankly coming from someone who actually had an abusive childhood, with LITERALLY nothing (low income country, violent parents) -- he is extremely privileged.I think you can tell a lot about someone in terms of how much credit they give to other people vs take for themselves
- He claims his SMMA agency was massively successful, yet out of nowhere he completely shuts it down to "get to new levels of wealth" -- after just months earlier claiming "he could sell it for a $10 million valuation". You don't just shut down an agency that's profitable... you at minimum hand the clients off to a partner or co-founder or get acquired, even at a low 1-2x multiple. Anyone with basic biz knowledge would see call him out on this... but I don't see anyone doing it.
- He teaches zero technical skills and DOES NOT EVEN KNOW how to run ads. He even admits to "hiring other people to do it" and says that "ads don't work for his OWN course"... if he can't get ads to work for his product, how can he for other people? reason being, he doesn't actually know how to run ads, hence point #2, his agency was not legit and at best could not retain clients past 1 or 2 months, or even worse was completely fake.
- This point will maybe be unpopular and opinion based, but you can tell a lot about someone by their set of opinions. He's set up shop in Dubai, which you can make your own judgments on as a place. But he has moved purely for tax reasons which I think says something about you as a person (aka putting money above everything). He also completely trashes America and the western world on podcasts, where guaranteed 90%+ of his customers are. And lastly he said on a recent podcast "He is a big fan of Putin" -- now I will admit, I personally am Ukrainian so this one hurt me... as Putin is currently bombing our playground and my entire family are refugees or fighting in the war. Everyone is of course entitled to their own opinion but to say in such a brazen way you are a BIG FAN of Putin... again make your own judgments here about moral fiber.
- I could continue about how he was pumping crypto shit coins to his subscribers, specifically Luna, before claiming he "sold at the top", when anyone who took his recommendations lost a ton of money, or released an NFT which he completely stopped caring about after launching it (rug pull term here is subjective)...Mainly I'll just say this. I'm just bothered by how these sort of people are blowing up on YouTube, they can say anything to get clicks, fans, and shill to millions of people, and when they're unethical, dishonest, or lose people tons of money... there's no consequence. Society used to have consequences for this sort of stuff, Skin in the Game, eye for an eye and whatnot.
- EDIT just had to add one about his new "digital renaissance" video that just went viral on YouTube -- 90% of the comments below the video are fake (the structure and content is similar / the same between all of them) -- then entire thing is just him spouting off "globalism is evil" talking points and not backing any of it up with credible geopolitics or historical sources -- and then his main thesis "complete control is coming, where you won't have freedom of speech, they'll throw you in jail if you say the wrong thing" sounds pretty bad, if there was actual evidence of it... but wait, that already exists in Russia, the place he supports. But all that aside and the worst part: whether he believes any of it or not, he's just using it as a pitch to sell courses lmao, sleazy salesman doesn't come close.
But alas, I guess this is the world we live in now... but I'm trying to do my part to fight back with this write up and hope more people will start calling this sort of stuff out.
Top Comment: I’ve been in digital marketing, in some form or the other, since I first started getting paid to build websites back in 2004. I’ve seen the gurus go through an endless stream of trends: affiliate marketing, dropshipping, NFTs, and now the latest seem to be SMMAs. To date, I have never seen a single hustle guru actually deliver. They’re very good at regurgitation and inspiration. They’re good at making things sound awesome. But whether they’re dropshipping or starting an SMMA, I haven’t actually seen any of them do what they preach. Ignore the gurus, learn your stuff, keep your head down and keep working. There is no sustainable shortcut to lasting success. Why the SMMA Model Is Fundamentally Broken