Exposing the Honey Influencer Scam
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Was Honey a legitimate money saving tool? Or just an affiliate marketing scam promoted by some of YouTube's biggest influencers?If you have any inside inform...

🖕 Fuck PayPal

And fuck Linus Tech Tips for intentionally keeping quiet about this after they found out.

  • Paradoxvoid@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Yeah I don’t understand the faux outrage here, but maybe that’s because I’m not in a parasocial relationship with these influencers.

    I always wondered how Honey made any money, so this answers that question and is actually a pretty ingenious (if somewhat underhanded) mechanism.

    • i_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      2·
      1 day ago

      If you partnered with them as a sponsor and they took your commission money and paid you using some of the money that you would have otherwise gotten anyway, you’d probably be angry.