Airbnb doubles down on douchebaggery

[aaronbrethorst]

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2015/10/airbnb-doubles-down-on-douchebaggery/

[behaviorism]

This may have been a work of marketing genius: https://medium.com/@jhreha/why-the-tone-deaf-airbnb-ads-migh...

[rajacombinator]

Yikes. I'm a fan of the anti-tax message and - very rare - corporate use of free speech to rail against the rampant kleptocracy. But they really missed the mark on tone here. (As with most of their own-kookaid-sipping marketing efforts.) This does nothing but galvanize the opposition.

[lingben]

I wonder how much they spent (wasted) on the advertising that achieved nothing but make them come across as tone-deaf a-holes?

[aaronbrethorst → lingben]

You have to also factor in how much lost business this'll end up costing them. Might be a little, might be a lot, but it'll be nonzero.

[rdancer]

You have to love how posts critical of these cunts get buried almost immediately. Kudos to the astroturfers, whoever you are, hope you get paid well!