People on all social media, but especially on twitter, are tearing him and this trash app apart. Turns out the images are stored as web links or something crazy like that and folks have essentially downloaded them all already and uploaded for free. Because it’s the internet, and this is a scam cash grab attempt from someone who “should’ve known better”.
@@Ryzza5 “Researchers have defined confidence tricks as "a distinctive species of fraudulent conduct ... intending to further voluntary exchanges that are not mutually beneficial", as they "benefit con operators ('con men') at the expense of their victims (the 'marks')" - Wikipedia. This app falls squarely under “not mutually beneficial” in my book. Feel free to disagree if you wish. The amount of backlash he’s got over this crappy app and a greedy cash grab attempt speaks for itself.
@@Frytech the amount of backlash goes to show how no-one fell for this. MKB is getting the raw end of whatever deal he signed. Maybe he got scammed lol.
m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-HqXkHBMIj1I.html Done in less than 15mins from someone with low coding experience. Yeah it doesn't have the fancy transitions and UI but I'm guessing a days work from someone with intermediate experience in coding will probably get you there. Not sure why I'm surprised at this point but it's been kind of disappointing seeing the slow descent of MKBHD from honest review based content to just more content more money. Seems he picked up a few traits from all those exclusive CEO interviews
@@checito2742 The fact that he literally did that and does 50/50 split with artists, instead of like 20/80 or 10/90 is absolute madness. The world keeps surprising me with how low people can fall and how crappy things can go year after year after year.
Absolutely! Feels like a way to funnel money to his buddies, most of which happen to be those “artists” featured in the app. Didn’t know that while making the video.
I dont understand, how is it a scam? If you don't want to use it then just uninstall it and use your own wallpapers. Can you elaborate how this app is defrauding its customers?
Oh yeah, just saying, this isn't a super easy app to make and you can't just "prompt chatGPT" to create it. Even the best developers would need to spend hours on this app to make it, think about the billing, authentication, obtaining licences for the images and collaborating with artists, creating a good UI. This does not happen in 5 minutes of chatGPT prompting bro.
@@ethanl7722 Haha “bro”, there’s NO good UI in this app, it looks and feels either like “ai” written thing or just a template someone finds for free online. And most of those “artists”, at least initial ones, just happened to be mkbhd’s close buddies. You do you, ppl, it’s your money, but I’ll just be calling spade a spade.
@@Frytechok, but where is the scam? Shit app? Sure. Not worth the cost? Fine. Where is the scam? You left two responses here but didn't answer the question.
If you don’t consider such wallpapers subscription apps a scam in and of itself I can’t explain this to you. If in your head you can justify Subscription to download JPG files for $12/m & 50/y, and do correlate it with the same value as Spotify, which basically has most of the music in the world, or Netflix, which has thousands of films and TV shows that take actual millions of dollars to produce - you’re a lost cause and I’d politely ask you to stop wasting my time. It’s so blatantly obvious that one of those things is not like the others, that you can describe it in two words, “Value proposition”.
