Gather round, Silicon Valley’s finest. The LettsCartoon PR Helpdesk is open for business. Free of charge. Because, frankly, you need it (the PR bit, probably not the free part).
🎬 Tip One: The Marlboro Moment
Tip One: Do not — we repeat, do not — tell your customers your product will kill them. Marlboro tried it. Benson & Hedges tried it. They spent fifty years and fifty billion dollars in litigation before anyone lit up the obvious: death is, surprisingly, a tough sell. You chaps seem to have managed to achieve the same PR catastrophe in about eighteen months. Impressive efficiency, at least.
🎬 Tip Two: The Hack and the Hug
Tip Two: Hacking your customers is generally frowned upon. But doing so, then watching your frenemy Nvidia swoop in to buy the very victim — Hugging Face — while looking like the White Knight? That’s not just bad PR. That’s weaponised PR. Nvidia thanks you. Enormously.
🎬 Tip Three: The Infinite IPO
Tip Three: If you announce an IPO, try, try, to actually do it. Postponing indefinitely, presumably because your product will kill people while Chinese competitors are giving theirs away free, creates what industry insiders call a “doom loop.” Your doom loop. Of your own making. Majestic.
The PR Helpdesk is now closed. We need a lie-down.
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