Maybe it’s a public service: someone can live in it.
33 Responses to “Somebody received a robot butler today and discarded the packaging out on the sidewalk”
Allan Hough (7858)
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It would be a lot harder to hyperbolically blame everything bad in San Francisco on tech & the wealthy if they’d stop dropping metaphors on the street.
Oh, wow. Rarely is a statement so perfectly phrased.
It’s some cheesy marketing campaign. They’ve been leaving these boxes all over the city: https://www.flickr.com/photos/cjmartin/15532820048/
checking the twitter hastag #RobotButler reveals that’s it’s a likely a guerrilla marketing thing.
guerrilla littering thing.
there was one at market and 5th too.
There was another one near 6th Street on Market. I smell a marketing ploy.
This smells like a “viral” ad campaign for a sci-fi movie.
There’s also a twitter account that was started 3 days ago, with 5 tweets containing computer-generated-looking pictures (@RobotButlerInc) and a similarly content-free website.
Running a WHOIS on the website domain reveals… an apartment in New York City and a VOIP phone line? Oh well.
they’re all over chinatown too…should we be worried about a massive robot butler takeover?
Of course we should.
ATTENTION HUMANS. Do not be alarmed. We exist only to serve. END TRANSMISSION>______}}}
> cat robotbutler.txt
# go away
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
Citations from The City will be coming soon.
Sounds like a solid employment strategy for the homeless..
And the boxes double as a home! Work and shelter? Homeless problem OVER!
2 minutes of Googling around, which is apparently far too much work for MM “writers”, proved that this is just one giant hoax.
But hey, if it fits your “fuck the techies” narrative”, why not? Except, you just got played. Bitch.
Well, at least you’re dignified about your rebuttal. If there were more
women in your field, maybe you might have the manners you lack.
I am a female. Bitch.
oooooooooooh! ssssssssssssss.
Prove it.
Aww, did MM hurt your sensitive feelings? Nut up some, ya “bitch”.
I love nuts.
You are what you eat.
Damn right I don’t have time for “Googling around,” you fucking Googler. I’m too busy living life and chillin’. And the only narrative I adhere to is “I like this Instagram for one reason or another.” Get used to it! #cantwaittoseechappie
So you can’t put a flyer on a telephone pole in this town, but Saatchi and Saatchi can litter the sidewalk forcing old women into the street to be run over by multiple Google buses?
I’m guessing it is a “Chappie” marketing campaign, it is similar to that of “District 9″ where many bus stops were labeled “Human Only”
Holy shit — free big cardboard! That stuff is hard to come by, here, and homemade cardboard furniture rules! For once, I almost wished I still lived in San Franshitshow. Hard to believe you urban hunter-gatherers aren’t all over this, with hosannas to the generous corporate gods.
You don’t even live here and yet you still come by to show your hard on in the comments and ever so subtly dis the city while at it? Come on, guy. Hang it up.
Go fuck yourself, sad boy. I’m having fun.
Wow, you must live somewhere awful if this is your outlet.
Must be. Why else would I be talking to you?
http://www.therobotbutler.com