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That's what he gets for blabberin' to his mates.
Vik Drama: Round 3
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That's what he gets for blabberin' to his mates.
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I've been watching his page, he's only dropped 1000 likes. It's easy to forget our community's smaller than we think it is, and there are lots of 'casuals' who won't catch wind of any of this stuff because of how Facebook works etc.
And you actually have to encourage people to *do* something to unlike on Facebook, which is hard to do. If you can do that, you're worth a shit lot of money to someone haha.
But yeah, at last count he'd dipped around 1k out of 15k likes. I realise it's only been a day, but in social media a day's a long time. If he's not lost half his likes within a day, his count won't be hurt cripplingly badly, I wouldn't think.
And you actually have to encourage people to *do* something to unlike on Facebook, which is hard to do. If you can do that, you're worth a shit lot of money to someone haha.
But yeah, at last count he'd dipped around 1k out of 15k likes. I realise it's only been a day, but in social media a day's a long time. If he's not lost half his likes within a day, his count won't be hurt cripplingly badly, I wouldn't think.
Captain Butterscotch
Well-Known Member
And a lot of people (myself included) aren't going to unlike his page so we can watch this soap opera unfold. 
Wings of Obsidian
Banned
But how many of those 14K can actually afford a Vik? Or will actually purchase one?...
...exactly.
And a lot of people (myself included) aren't going to unlike his page so we can watch this soap opera unfold.
Well, even though I've been blocked on Vik's personal profile and banned from the business page, I can still see things unfold. So there' that... And majority of the unfolding is taking place on posts/statuses by others on Facebook, forums (like here), Twitter, Tumblr, etc.
hairychris
Hairy Old Bloke
Or his local (aka Belarussian) mates.
This sort of shit may well be accepted in a lot of social circles there. Note: I'm not an expert, however, I do know that the further east in Europe you go, the worse for LBGT equality it gets. "Traditional" is not a... simple term.
What has ....ed him up is that his audience is not simply local.
He is aiming for a western audience - they/we are the people who will spend cash on his work.
I'll just stop there.
JohnIce
Singlecoil Enthusiast
RoRo56
Well-Known Member
I think that part of the reason he made the page 17+ was that people were posting explicit pictures on the page's wall.
hairychris
Hairy Old Bloke
I could without too much trouble, if I put my mind to it and shuffled stuff around.
He won't be getting any custom from me.
Chokey Chicken
mouth breather
Yeah, I don't think this is the death of his business, unless it was already going the way of s7g. The fact that it turned anybody off from buying his shit is good enough for me. Especially with the likes of Nolly and Misha publicly voicing their distaste.
Wings of Obsidian
Banned
Saw that too.
See man, I thought Facebook was supposed to prevent nudity and pornography.
I guess not in this case...seen soooo much of it flooding towards Vik in the past 24 hours. (I actually reported a picture in my news feed to see what would happen...nothing happened and Facebook denied the report. So hey, maybe FB is against Vik too?)
My network probably consists of say 4-5000 people - friends, acquaintances and friends of friends willing to talk to me. Every single time I've advertised a guitar worth upward of $3000, often more, it's gone with a couple of days, and I've never sold to the same person twice.
Of those 14,000, if only half a percent are worth any money, at $4500 a piece he's got $315,000 worth of business just sat there.
Even if he has a fifth of that, he's in business another year, more than long enough for this to blow over.
xCaptainx
Dr Djodson
I admin a FB page with 15k and work part time with a digital marketing company. To drop over 6% of your social media reach in 24 hours is a marketing nightmare, regardless of size or scope. Google will have a field day with this and no doubt this information will be first page results for searches for years to come, based on the pages that are sharing it and discussing it. It's an absolute nightmare that absolutely no reputable marketing person would want to go near.
Necris
Bonitis.
I've reported probably around 10 pornographic images posted on Viks page now, it's ....ing ridiculous. How dumb can you be? Vik can now play the victim and feel justified in his beliefs since the mean old gays and their supporters are so immoral that they will post pornographic images on a public page that can be viewed by minors.
Good job guys, that was really well thought out. ....ing morons.
Good job guys, that was really well thought out. ....ing morons.
stevexc
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groverj3
Bioinformagician
I have a lot of respect for Nolly and Per for calling him out publicly.
Andromalia
Pardon my french
If I was an amercian citizen, I totally wouldn't tip off some LGBT associations about this so they make some noise so maybe his immigration visas don't get issued. I totally wouldn't do it.
On the other hand, these kind of people going elsewhere is a bonus for us europeans.
Mhhh. /ponder.
Anf about the "flamboyant gay folk", one, it's their life, two, judging all gays by them is like judging all straights by this:
Konfyouzd
Return of the Dread-I
Would or wouldn't? That was confusing...
Hah, tells people he's free to express his opinion and that if you don't like it you need to deal with it.
Starts deleting posts and banning people off of his profile and page.
I'll have one order of irony please.
Starts deleting posts and banning people off of his profile and page.
I'll have one order of irony please.
Andromalia
Pardon my french
I'll correct the above post.
I admin pages with over 100,000 likes between them outside of work and work in digital marketing full time for a well known electronics company haha. I hate myself for engaging in that, I hate Internet credentials, but just to reaffirm where I'm coming from...
It's a substantial dip for a day, but the lifetime of this kinda thing on this internet is measured in hours these days, not weeks, definitely not years. The articles will drop down the SEO food chain over the next month or so as people move on and google decides they're outdated, and people will have argued about whether or not they care about it more by then.
Nope. For a huge corp this could cost a hell of a lot of money, for a small builder who only needs small quantities to stay afloat - it's a small boat but with a cast iron hull, we're not witnessing the sinking of the titanic here.
