Fri. 09/02 - Crappy Musicians Profiting From Kids’ Alexa Commands

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Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Society & Culture, News, Tech News, Science

4.6 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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The musicians getting paid anytime a preschooler makes a poop joke at an Alexa device. Plus, why Labor Day is a cursed weekend for movie releases. And the Artemis I launch is officially maybe happening on Saturday. Sponsors: Kolide, Got Slack? Got Macs? Get Kolide: Device security that fixes challenging problems by messaging your users on Slack. Try Kolide Today! https://l.kolide.co/3aVdR90 BetterHelp, Get 10% off your first month at betterhelp.com/COOLSTUFF Links: Kids Yell “Poop” At Alexa, And These Musicians Profit (BuzzFeed News) Why Do Movies Avoid Releasing on Labor Day? The History of the Cursed Holiday Weekend Explained (Collider) Why movie studios should start thinking differently about Labor Day (The Week) National Cinema Day Kate Bush to Reissue “Running Up That Hill” As CD Single (Consequence) Artemis 1 moon mission is 'go' for Saturday launch, NASA says (Space.com) NASA Sets Coverage for Artemis I Moon Mission Next Launch Attempt (NASA) Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:41.4	The musicians getting paid anytime a preschooler makes a poop joke at an Alexa device.
0:48.2	Plus, why Labor Day is a cursed weekend for movie releases and the Artemis 1 launch is officially maybe happening
0:56.6	on Saturday. Here's some cool stuff for your ride home. Over the years, certain
1:05.2	entrepreneurial artists have become particularly adept at hacking SEO trends to make a decent chunk of change. Follow
1:13.4	Google Trends. Think about the sorts of related keywords that might pop up in autoplay after a popular
1:19.3	video, or imagine the kinds of things people commonly search for, and make videos, songs,
1:25.5	or whole social media accounts using those keywords as inspiration.
1:30.3	Depending on how it's executed, the final product might be a completely transparent money grab
1:35.6	that leaves you feeling a bit slimy just having stumbled on it.
1:38.9	Or it could be a clever way to leverage an unusual source of inspiration
1:43.4	and make you enough revenue to support
1:46.0	making the art that you're more passionate about. And sometimes the art that you're passionate about
1:51.7	accidentally becomes one of the creations picked out by the algorithm for enormous success.
1:58.2	Katie Natopoulos, BuzzFeed News's resident weird niche internet culture reporter,
2:03.6	recently revealed one particular example of this SEO hacking, musicians whose songs are making
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