Talk:One weird trick

Latest comment: 1 year ago by Bumpf

Why does this article even exist? 128.61.13.96 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 14:23, 3 November 2017 (UTC)Reply

Seconding this guy. This should be deleted — Preceding unsigned comment added by 218.212.153.154 (talk) 10:13, 5 November 2019 (UTC)Reply
It's got a reasonable number and quality of citations for what it is, and it speaks about something specific that (however trite or banal) a significant number of people know about. If you make a joke about these ads in a modern English-speaking country, most people would probably know what you're talking about, so you could argue it has a small but appreciable amount of cultural significance in the background of our advertising-dominated society. 69.172.176.96 (talk) 06:36, 29 June 2020 (UTC)Reply
It's also a warning that helps to prevent people being conned out of their money, which may be why some people would like to see it deleted. Philafrenzy (talk) 08:33, 29 June 2020 (UTC)Reply
The intersections of people who are likely to read this article with people who are vulnerable to or perpetrating these scams are probably vanishingly small. More likely is that there's an instinctive bias to discount small annoying ads as trivial and unimportant because of how ubiquitous they are, without realizing that that same ubiquity actually makes them noteworthy as a feature of your society. 69.172.176.96 (talk) 20:40, 21 July 2020 (UTC)Reply

What's with the huge spike mid-February of pageviews??--Bumpf said this! ooh clicky clicky! [insert witty meta-text on wiki-sigs here] 23:44, 20 April 2022 (UTC)Reply