#sorry for spamming the tags but it is cc related

[felidae-sims]

GUID Database Revival

I've finished setting up a way to revive the GUID database, albeit not an automatic one, it is low-key, but rather simple. Instructions are on the pinned post. [It's a Dreamwidth community, basically one webpage where people can dump their GUID info, straight from Excel or a list].

It is searchable with multi search add-ons for browser. Search for multiple entries in one go.

Avoid conflicts with originally registered GUIDs (Not foolproof; assuming GUIDs where assigned in a certain way).

Avoid conflicts with new random GUIDs (that are in the DB).

Creators are indexed - see if your favorite active creators are on there.

Everyone can join, but only members can post. Happy Simming! https://sims2-guid-database.dreamwidth.org/ Example:

Obligatory CCR music:

[transbeeduo]

Hey! Welcome to my Blog! Call me Crunch! I'm fine with whatever pronouns, but I mostly alternate between He/She/They! I identify as Asexual, Ambiamorous, and Panromantic! Also I’m an adult 👍

Alt Tumblr: DM TO ASK FOR IT TIMES I HAVE HIT POST LIMIT: 41 🎉

https://linktr.ee/transbeeduo (I also have a Discord, which Mutuals are free to ask/dm for!)

I'm primarily a MCYTBLR blogger! I mostly tend to stick to the DSMP side of things, although I'll often post about OSMP and QSMP, and occasionally dabble in other MCYT related fandoms! Along with that I post about Five Nights At Freddy's, Pokémon, or whatever else I'm interested in at the time!

SYSTEM TAGS (Not used super often due to mostly just being me here)

⛏️ : Posts from C!Crunch (NOT Crunch Transbeeduo!! Two different people!)

🎸: Posts from Monty (Montgomery Gator Fictive)

📼: Posts from Cassette/Cass/Ran/Ranboo (Generation Loss/CC!Ranboo Factive. DON'T FUCKING NOTIFY RANBOOLIVE ABOUT THEM BTW DON'T DO THAT SHIT)

🔱: Posts from Ares/Techno (DSMP/OSMP Technoblade fictive)

📺: Posts from Lolbit (Lolbit Fictive)

🎁: Posts from Ophelia/Oleander/FMAN (FMAN122 Fictive)

🔥: Posts from Pyro/Sapnap (C!Sapnap Fictive)

🌋: Posts from Groudon (C!Tubbo/Groudon/Q!Tubbo fictive)

☁️: Posts from Bo (Pine AU Q!Tubbo fictive)

⚓️: Posts from Bucky (Bucky Beaver Shipwrecked 64 Fictive)

🐺: Posts from Artemis (Fox Furry Joker P5 Fictive, Black Fox Therian)

🐾 - Posts from Ranboo (C!Ranboo Fictive)

🌴 - Posts from Sal (Flygon + Other Stuff You’d Have To Ask Privately About Fictive)

♥️ - Posts from Shadow (Shadow the Hedgehog Fictive)

🐉: Posts from Wilbur/Elysium/Wren (C!Wilbur Fictive) ((NOT the CC))

⚔️: Posts from Kris (Kris Dreemurr Fictive)

Anything not tagged: Almost always Crunch Transbeeduo! Just assume it's them!

(LINKS TO A PRONOUNS.CC PAGE WITH MORE INFORMATION COMING EVENTUALLY)

I quite like every DSMP character, so they'll all tend to show up on this blog, but the most discussed here are C!Beeduo (if it wasn't obvious), along with Michael + my Fankids for them! (Found under "#Bug Posts" and "#Wizard Posts") but I also quite like The Eggpire/Badlands, The Syndicate, and Las Nevadas!

For OSMP I'm usually going to stick to O!Beeduo, while for QSMP I'm quite a fan of Q!Tubbo and Q!BBH! (I don't watch QSMP, only really absorb it through the dash! I do have plans to watch it soon though!)

(Credits for these!)

CC Banner: @////tmmyhug (X added by me)

Beeduo Banner: @////cannosoup

Loves Beeduo: @////thedialup

Technoblade, Sootings, and Parasocial Blinkies: @////block-toad

Michael Feed: @////doodlebloo

Genloss Banner @////Pathtrick

Tommy/Tubbo/Phil: @////Offishly

QSMP Eggs + Theory/Analysis Blinkie: @////etoilesbienne

Alliumduo/Peerpressureduo Banners: @////theenderwalker

Koraidon Banner:@///sweetpeauserboxes

Quackcicle/Ranboo Banners: ???? (Couldn't find the OP, if anyone knows please tell me!)

Beeduo Tweet: @//ccbeeduo

All other banners: Mine!

BOUNDARIES/BYF UNDER CUT (please read!!):

If it's not incredibly obvious, I do NOT want you here if you support the CC!DTeam or CC!Wilbur Gold. Get outta here go. Scram

I AM NOT A CC SHIPPER, I AM NOT SHIPPING REAL PEOPLE NOR DO I CARE FOR SHIPPING REAL PEOPLE IN A SERIOUS MANNER. Everything I say shipping/headcanon wise is about FICTIONAL CHARACTERS.

I block somewhat liberally!!!!! Please do not follow me if ur under 15, I post suggestive things on here sometimes!

PLEASE ask if something I discuss needs Content/Trigger warnings!

I'm not the best with words, or articulating the things I'm thinking about really well. If I say something that doesn't make sense or is confusing I'm sorry.

Please do not be weird in my Inbox. Don't ask me about discourse, don't spam me or ask me to follow you or promote your things, don't like be weird to ME. (Also please don’t ask me anything personal, I am uncomfortable sharing that kind of information online)

I AM NOT A DISCOURSE BLOG!!!!!!! I'll discuss it sometimes but that's just because I like being a hater sometimes. Don't treat me as a discourse blog

PLEASE don't send me C!Beeduo /neg shit unprompted, or if you do at least tell me it is.

[snaxle-archive]

im sorry there’s no way you people are still surprised about the lack of ccs talking about the dream situation considering the fact that all the tags people have been using on twitter have just been completely spammed with stupid shit. like the most recent tweets under all of them are just people demanding tubbo talk about it and people being like “omg i got timed out in tubbo’s chat for asking him to talk about the allegations !!!!”

believe it or not, perhaps filling a tag that was supposed to be informative and talk about how dream’s grooming allegations with nonsense isn’t helpful and ccs are less likely to take it seriously bc the first tweet they see when they click on the #DreamIsAGroomer tag is someone saying “the lore is over so keep trending these tags!” and then a million different tags related to the situation.

[thatoneawkwardhorse]

Pinned Post below the cut!

(Images by Relaxxattack and Cannosoup)

• Hiya! I’m Socks, Bee, or Kitty

• I use all pronouns, but prefer they/xe!

• I’m a non-binary demiromantic asexual lesbian :]

• Minor (between 16-18)

• Nuerodivergent

Currently hyperfixated on: Dream SMP, C!Dream, C!Schlatt, C!Tubbo, C!Purpled, C!Beeduo, C and CC!Endersmiles, and horses!

Other interests: Bishops Knifetrick, Godzilla, BoJack Horseman, Blood-C, Cookie Run, Undertale, C and CC!Happyduo, CC!Beeduo , C! And CC!Ramduo, CC!Dream, Red Dead Redemption 2, Star Stable Online, TellTales the Walking Dead, and Legends of Zelda: Twilight Princess

My Tags

Art tag -> #Kittys art

Writing tag -> #Kitty writes

Ramble tag -> #Kitty rambles

Ranting tag -> #Kitty rants

Music tag -> #Sound wave time

BYF

• I use tone indicators and ask that you do too! Tone are hard for me sometimes eheh

• I talk in caps a lot and don’t tag them, so if that bothers you, definitely don’t follow me.

• I tag most basic triggers I post about, including abuse, NSFW, eye strain, etc. more niche things such as food arent tagged, sorry!

• Occasional homophobia/transphobia and die jokes. I only usually make these jokes with my friends/IRLs but if they bug you probably don’t stay lmao

• I do post about romantic C!Beeduo, don’t be weird and Enderbees DNI I will kill u.

• I spam a lot! Usually it relates to my current biggest fixations, but sometimes it’s also just random thoughts coming out of my brain haha

• I kin as a coping mechanism but I don’t post about it too much wooo 🕺

DNI

• Basic DNI criteria

• Pro-shippers (inc/st shippers, beastiality shippers, pedophilic shippers, so on and so forth)

• LGBT exclusionists (Aphobes, Panphobes, TERFs etc)

• People who believe in Bi/Pan lesbians/gays and m-spec lesbians/gays. They aren’t real, lesbians feel no attraction to men and gays feel not attraction to women :|

• Toxic Cookie Run and DSMP fans

• DSMP antis (why r u here) 👹

• NSFW blogs

• Boundary breakers

• Overall just weird people….

Hope you enjoy ur stay !

[love4sims4]

FAQ about my blog

What are the things you reblog?

I reblog CAS cc finds, clothes, genetics, hair, accessories etc. I also reblog sims related news, tutorials, poses and resources (like sliders, color palettes, ps actions)

Why won’t you reblog my posts?

-If you post build/buy items, lookbooks, sims, gameplay mods, custom traits, I won’t reblog them. I never did, I’m sorry. I started this blog to reblog stuff that I wanted and I used in my game and it became a cc finds blog over the years and it’s hard to add new categories and keep up with tons of stuff.

-I may also liked your post and haven’t reblogged it yet. This means it’s my drafts and I’ll reblog it eventually :)

-If your creation is patreon exclusive, I won’t reblog it. If it’s patreon early access, I will reblog it when it becomes free for everyone :)

-If your creation contains nudity or your tumblr post links straight to adfly, it’s risky for me to reblog it cause that’s the reason @staff shut down my blog few months ago.

I tagged you and you haven’t liked my post yet?

It’s possible that I haven’t seen it. I follow  4454 users so sometimes I miss some posts, my dash is full 24/7. You can message me though (lots of people do) and link me to your creation or let me know you made some new cc!! :))

Where can I find other cc finds blogs? (who may reblog the stuff you don’t)

There are so many amazing blogs for cc finds and I’m sorry if I’m forgetting anyone. I’ll be updating the post with more blogs in case I forgot some of those I follow: @dopecherryblossomheart , @mmfinds , @mmoutfitters, @mystickylightcolor, @maxismatchccworld, @luckybee-sims4, @alcearoseafinds, @wanderlustccfinds, @afrosimtricsimmer, @simmyccfinder, @wcifsareclosed, @geekfinds, @losts4cc, @ts4-poses-masterlist, @pepprikasccfinds, @scorpioccfinds, @berneska-cc-finds, @stupidfrogfinds,@turtlesimfinds, @sccfinds

A link you posted doesn’t work / it’s broken / your tags are broken

Message me anytime about broken links and I’ll try to find a working one! you can also contact the original creator and let them know about the issue :) If my tags are broken when you’re on my home page, let me know! I would wanna fix them!!

Can I message you about custom content I’m looking for?

Yes of course! if you have any wcif related questions, message me anytime and I will try to help you out as much as I can!!

That’s all for now! thank you for following me and keeping up with my cc spamming! :D

[sempiternalsandpitturtle]

Why avoiding unethical marketing is in your best interests

Marketing is the job that’s never done. There are always new campaigns to plan and launch. New tactics to master and roll out. And new targets to chase down and beat.

The pressure that comes with delivering a return on your marketing spend can be intense. So it’s no wonder that some marketers succumb to the temptation and venture to the dark side in search of more leads, an advantage over the competition or a shortcut to success.

Ethics are rarely black and white. There’s a spectrum. A fair bit of grey. What’s unethical to one marketer might be accepted practice to another.

Niles Crane got a nose bleed whenever he betrayed his ethics. But if you don’t have a similar physical response to help keep you in line, hopefully this post will help.

via GIPHY

We’ve pulled together some great examples of unethical marketing. The idea here is to highlight some of the different ways marketers can slide right through the grey and into the black when it comes to ethics. We’ll also look at the potential consequences and takeaways.

Unethical Marketing Example #1: Engaging in blackhat SEO

Blackhat SEO is a broad term used to describe tactics designed to trick Google’s search algorithm. The aim is to get pages returned higher in search results than they deserve. Here are some common blackhat SEO tactics from the wild west years of search:

Hiding spammy text stuffed full of keywords so only search engines see it

Paying for links to important pages on your site

Using blog comments or forums to plant links back to your site

Jamming keywords into title tags, alt tags and other bits of the page Google looks at

Using clickbait headlines that bear no relation to the content on your page

For the most part, Google’s algorithm is too smart for these tactics nowadays. But it’s not surprising that marketers dabble in ethically-questionable SEO activities. Google’s search algorithm is a black box. Sure, there are plenty of guidelines and lots of free advice about best practice. But every marketer will have experienced their share of head-scratching moments when sites breaking all the rules rank #1. Or sites doing everything right rank nowhere. And it’s not as if you can call customer support.

So, what are the consequences of engaging in blackhat SEO?       

It could be ranking #1 for your target keywords. But usually success with blackhat tactics is short-lived and comes at a price. If you get a manual penalty you could find your pages pushed so far down the search results that nobody will see them. If you rely on Google for a significant share of your traffic that could be catastrophic.

One famous example occurred back in 2006, when Google gave BMW what some called a “death penalty” by completely removing the car giant’s German site from it’s index. BMW.de had been using redirects to send users to different pages to the ones Google had indexed and returned in search results. This is what Google’s then head of anti-spam, Matt Cutts, had to say about it.

And where is blackhat SEO on the unethical marketing scale?

We’ve put each of our examples on an unethical marketing scale. One devil is a minor ethical breach. Five is the worst kind of unethical behaviour.

Unethical Marketing Example #2: Posting fake reviews

Ranking #1 for your target keywords is an excellent way to get relevant traffic on to your website. But when it comes to closing deals nothing beats 5-star reviews. If your existing customers like your product or service enough to review it, then it can provide the social proof new customers need to part with their money.

The problem with reviews is that they are often anonymous. How do you know these reviews are legitimate? Did dragonslayer1992 really just have the best spa experience of her life or did a desperate marketer take an ethics holiday?

So, what are the consequences of posting fake reviews?       

There are plenty of examples of brands – or over-enthusiastic employees – resorting to creating their own positive reviews in a bid to boost sales. Facebook recently had to respond to news stories suggesting its employees had been posting 5-star Amazon reviews for its connected home offering, Portal.

When it comes to convincing people to install a voice-activated smart camera in their homes, Facebook probably has bigger issues than fabricated reviews. But it’s still embarrassing and undoubtedly an ethical failure on the part of the reviewers and whoever sanctioned it.

And, where are fake reviews on the unethical marketing scale?

Unethical Marketing Example #3: Nobbling the competition

Some marketers avoid blackhat SEO and posting fake reviews because of their ethics. Others just don’t like the idea of getting caught.

Among that second group are a particularly nefarious bunch that use their mastery of underhand marketing tactics to damage a competitor.

Henry Ford said the competitor to fear was the one who spent all their time improving their business and never worried about what you were doing. If only everyone took that approach. The reality is that for some businesses, killing – or at least slowing down – the competition is a KPI.

And if you have unethical marketers at your disposal they can help. They can run blackhat SEO tactics on your competitor’s website and then report them to Google. They can create profiles on popular review sites and pepper your competitor’s business with negative reviews. Or they can post reviews so gushingly positive that they have to be fake. Maybe they even use the same names as some of your target company’s employees so the breadcrumbs are impossible to miss.

So, what are the consequences of nobbling the competition?

Blackhat SEO can damage your website. Posting fake reviews can damage your reputation. But a systematic campaign designed to hurt a competitor goes beyond unethical marketing. The fallout if you got caught wouldn’t just be potentially irreparable harm to your character (that’s the brand and the individuals involved), but it could land you in court.

And where is nobbling the competition on the unethical marketing scale?

Unethical Marketing Example #4: Trivialising issues people care about

One of the biggest marketing success stories of 2018 and one we’ve written about on this blog was Nike’s decision to use Colin Kaepernick – former NFL star and social activist – to front its Dream Crazy campaign.

Embracing Kaepernick and aligning itself with his values was a risk for Nike. It could have faced a more serious backlash from people who interpreted his national anthem protests as unpatriotic. Perhaps a bigger risk was that the progressive young people who supported Kaepernick could have objected to a global apparel brand hijacking issues they care about. Nike afterall is a major sponsor of the NFL, the organisation with which Kaepernick is still locked in a legal dispute.

Some brands only saw the upside and none of the risk from Dream Crazy. That’s at least one explanation for this:

So much has been written about this disaster that it was tempting to leave it out. But this wasn’t just a gaffe. This was an ethical failure. Making light of issues that are literally life and death for some people isn’t just clumsy and inappropriate. It’s wrong.

But Pepsi is not alone when it comes to putting opportunism ahead of ethics. This is how AT&T, the US phone company, marked the anniversary of 9/11 in 2013:

So, what are the consequences of trivialising issues people care about?

When marketing campaigns go wrong, brands have to hope that the damage stops at a bit of embarrassment, some social media firefighting and an awkward apology.

Here’s an example. In 2015, Starbucks spilled latte on its freshly-pressed white trousers when it tried to “create a conversation” about race. The Race Together campaign encouraged Starbucks baristas to discuss race with their customers. You can read the internal memo Starbucks distributed to staff here, courtesy of Gawker. The whole thing was pretty cringeworthy and opened the company and CEO Howard Schulz to ridicule on social media.

But when brands steam right through hamfisted into unethical then they don’t just have people laughing at them on the internet. They make people really angry. Pepsi attracted a torrent of criticism on social media for its Kendall Jenner ad. When Martin Luther King Jr’s daughter is calling you out on Twitter you know you’ve got real problems.

If only Daddy would have known about the power of #Pepsi. pic.twitter.com/FA6JPrY72V

— Be A King (@BerniceKing) April 5, 2017

Where is trivialising issues people care about on the unethical marketing scale?

Unethical Marketing Example #5: Making stuff up

Marketing is a creative profession but there are limits when it comes to using artistic license to jazz up your campaigns. Last year, Spotify, the music streaming platform, ran a much-talked-about marketing campaign driven by its users’ data.

So @Spotify’s ‘2018 Goals’ campaign is also advertising goals. pic.twitter.com/2KXouokL1O

— Nathalie Gordon (@awlilnatty) November 30, 2017

Using your customer’s data for marketing purposes can be risky. But Spotify’s campaign was widely praised as innovative and funny. Unsurprisingly it inspired some copycat campaigns. The most notable – largely due to the subsequent controversy – was from fintech start-up, Revolut.

Earlier this year, Revolut took Spotify’s idea and ran a marketing campaign using its own customer data. But it turns out people are a bit more sensitive when it comes to their spending habits. Revolut got plenty of attention but not the kind its marketing team wanted. This dressing down from The Guardian columnist Christina Patterson is a good example.

Sorry @piersmorgan, but we couldn't resist. cc @GreggsOfficial pic.twitter.com/v0hmdvxtYG

— Revolut (@RevolutApp) January 31, 2019

The controversy surrounding the campaign didn’t stop there. Where Spotify had mined the data of its 90 million subscribers to drive the creative for its ads, Revolut had taken a different approach. Its numbers were made up.

Canny observers pointed out that a digital banking app might know how much money its 3 million users had spent at the local baker. But not what they spent it on. So, when Revolut’s marketing team said 11,867 people bought a vegan sausage roll last month, they were getting creative with their creative.

So, what are the consequences of making stuff up?

You might be forgiven for thinking Revolut’s marketing campaign was pretty harmless. Spotify laughed off the idea that it was a rip-off. And the made up numbers feel like relatively minor ethical infractions.

But finance companies – even sexy start-ups – are tightly regulated. So when the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), the UK’s advertising watchdog, received complaints about the campaign, it referred Revolut to the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the industry regulator.

And where is making stuff up on the unethical marketing scale?

Unethical Marketing Example #6: Undercutting official sponsors

We do content marketing at Castleford, so we wanted to include an ethical conundrum that a lot of content marketers run into. If you have an agile content marketing team you can respond to spikes in interest around certain events.

So, for example, during the Australian Open more people search of tennis-related keywords on Google. You don’t need Google Trends to tell you that. But since we bothered to check, here’s the graph:

If you can relate tennis to your business, products or services, January is a good time to create some tennis-related content. It gives you the opportunity to tap into this increased demand, not just in search but on social media and in your email campaigns. And creating tennis-themed content is probably a lot cheaper than sponsoring the Australian Open.

So, what are the consequences of undercutting official sponsors?

Content marketers have to be careful here. Major sporting events are big business and a lot of the money comes from sponsors and those sponsors expect their investment to be protected.

Take the football World Cup, for example, which took place last summer in Russia. FIFA, the organising body, has no fewer than 16 official partners. If you outbid your main competitor to be a FIFA sponsor, you wouldn’t be too happy if that same competitor produced so much football content during the tournament that it looked like they were the official partner, not you.

That’s why organisations like FIFA take a tough line on brands trying to attach themselves to their tournaments without paying the cover charge. Content marketers planning to hijack the next World Cup might like to start reading FIFA’s brand marketing guidelines now.

And where is undercutting official sponsors on the unethical marketing scale?

Unethical Marketing Takeaways

Thank you for reading this far. To wrap things up we’ve pulled together some handy unethical marketing takeaways:

Blackhat SEO tactics can get you a short-term gain but a ranking penalty can have a devastating impact on your website

Reviews are an important source of social proof and can help close deals. But if you get caught posting fake reviews you’re likely to face serious embarrassment

Using blackhat SEO and fake reviews against your competitors is not only unethical but also could be illegal

Tapping into trending topics has great potential for connecting with your audience. But get this wrong and people will laugh at you, get mad at you and question your ethics

Marketing is all about creativity but making stuff up is always a bad idea. If you’re in a highly-regulated industry the consequences could be more serious than some negative headlines and withering tweets

Major sporting events are excellent marketing opportunities. Remember that some brands pay to be official sponsors. Even if you’re okay ethically hijacking the event, you might find yourself on the organising body’s radar

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