Can you tell the difference between a Trump University sales tip and one from a pickup artist?
There’s a gigantic ecosystem of marketing with this specific motive in mind, a murky, gross swamp of the Internet called “pickup artistry.” Perhaps you remember the exceptionally dumb show ““The Pickup Artist,”which aired on VH-1 in 2008. In it, a behatted man with a soul patch who called himself “Mystery” tried to tell dudes how to get a date. Mystery was marketing a bad product: the idea that telling women negative things about themselves (“negging”) is a good strategy toward building a relationship.