I really doubt that "putianshihanjiangquyumeizhangmaoyiyouxiangongsi" has much of a brand reputation to protect. These type of social media enabled algorithmically targeted products are probably really profitable.
According to Google that translates as 莆田市涵江区与每张贸易有限公司 or Hanjiang District, Putian City, Mei Zhang Trading Co., Ltd. Seems like your average reseller Chinese company.
You can get there by searching for 涵江区六一西路899号. The name baidu attributes to the location, 骏乘亿发城 jun sheng yi fa cheng, is a good match for the "business address" of yifacheng.
This is almost certainly the owner's home apartment, not what you might think of as a commercial office.
I'm guessing that meizhang indicates some other characters than 每张 ["every sheet"]. Could be anything; that's the part of the name that is actually the name of the business.
> I really doubt that "putianshihanjiangquyumeizhangmaoyiyouxiangongsi" has much of a brand reputation to protect.
I mean, the guy seems to have provided his own home address. He's not hiding a lot.
The name you seem to think is so ridiculous would appear to say 莆田市涵江区域 mei zhang 贸易有限公司, or "Mei Zhang [?] Business of the Hanjiang region of Putian [the city in Fujian], LLC". It's kind of like if I tried to emphasize how untrustworthy Amazon was by calling them "Amazon.com, Incorporated, the Delaware C-Corporation in the Denny Triangle of Seattle".
The symbol itself has, to the right audience, some self-affirmation-like implications for those who appreciate it or find it useful.
The more modern "evil meme" thing is also less relevant for people who have come to research or understand the symbol in specific contexts. I used to be in a cult, and my mom sent me a pentagram ornament for Christmas one year. She meant it to be understood in one of these specific contexts.
It's like, some people wonder why a techie would ever call themselves a scary and obviously criminal name like "hacker"...well, in the right contexts it carries meanings across the entire spectrum from good to evil and more.
Also there are people who think this kind of "obvs evil" thing is harmless and on top of that, funny. You may see them organizing horror movie parties and choosing superficially evil decor for their homes...
Think the baby appearing to be fending off a speeding motorcyclist (next product thumbnail) works as a record cover too. The Nirvana/Meatloaf crossover I'd never anticipated
Neither did the folks with the Auschwitz Christmas ornaments (these here: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50625558) They probably thought "souvenir from Poland", pretty local architecture.
I have to admit I was assuming the algorithm would have done something as crass as those ornaments, or something overtly racist, not just a baby on a pentagram, which probably looks very sweet to people that like pentagrams
(Then again, there's a subset of the internet that would have bought the Auschwitz ornaments for the lolz if they hadn't been taken down, and I suspect algorithmically generated product shots that appear racist probably are more likely to sell crappy no name products than most)
For anyone not interested in clicking on clickbait, it's a rug with a pentagram pattern, positioned in "homey" situations, e.g. with a baby on top of it.
autogenerated product listings are my favorite genre of internet. another classic are the "don't tread on me" doormats. there's also some software apparently used by several retailers that automatically edits various flag designs into a stock photo of a trump rally, with predictably amusing results.
Can someone with more background knowledge explain how an ad like this gets computer generated? Is it that this company probably has like 50 circular doormats with different designs, and they use the same imagery for all of them, or is there something deeper going on?
they probably don't have ANY designs premade, they have the ability to print on demand and went trawling the net for likely-looking round images to offer.
More than most things, the spirit with which the design was laid down counts here.
What if they've put their own runes on it first? Could match the color of the fabric or bury it under a layer and the end user would never know until things go wrong.
Think that chinesium torque wrench was a disappointment when it bent into a full circle? That's nothing compared to what you're likely to get when your orders to the Underworld are subverted by lax quality controls.
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[ 5.1 ms ] story [ 120 ms ] threadAnd the city on https://www.amazon.com/sp?_encoding=UTF8&asin=&isAmazonFulfi... at least is real. I couldn't get Google to find the building though, and I don't know Chinese well enough to use Baidu.
You can get there by searching for 涵江区六一西路899号. The name baidu attributes to the location, 骏乘亿发城 jun sheng yi fa cheng, is a good match for the "business address" of yifacheng.
This is almost certainly the owner's home apartment, not what you might think of as a commercial office.
I'm guessing that meizhang indicates some other characters than 每张 ["every sheet"]. Could be anything; that's the part of the name that is actually the name of the business.
I mean, the guy seems to have provided his own home address. He's not hiding a lot.
The name you seem to think is so ridiculous would appear to say 莆田市涵江区域 mei zhang 贸易有限公司, or "Mei Zhang [?] Business of the Hanjiang region of Putian [the city in Fujian], LLC". It's kind of like if I tried to emphasize how untrustworthy Amazon was by calling them "Amazon.com, Incorporated, the Delaware C-Corporation in the Denny Triangle of Seattle".
The more modern "evil meme" thing is also less relevant for people who have come to research or understand the symbol in specific contexts. I used to be in a cult, and my mom sent me a pentagram ornament for Christmas one year. She meant it to be understood in one of these specific contexts.
It's like, some people wonder why a techie would ever call themselves a scary and obviously criminal name like "hacker"...well, in the right contexts it carries meanings across the entire spectrum from good to evil and more.
Also there are people who think this kind of "obvs evil" thing is harmless and on top of that, funny. You may see them organizing horror movie parties and choosing superficially evil decor for their homes...
(Then again, there's a subset of the internet that would have bought the Auschwitz ornaments for the lolz if they hadn't been taken down, and I suspect algorithmically generated product shots that appear racist probably are more likely to sell crappy no name products than most)
what kinda dimensions are we talking about, here?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_universes_in_fiction
Hail Satan!
What if they've put their own runes on it first? Could match the color of the fabric or bury it under a layer and the end user would never know until things go wrong.
Think that chinesium torque wrench was a disappointment when it bent into a full circle? That's nothing compared to what you're likely to get when your orders to the Underworld are subverted by lax quality controls.
I wonder if it comes in other colour combos...