There's an isomorphism or similarity that I've noticed between modern branding strategies and abusive intimate relationships,

especially ones that women tend to fall into.

So this is just a short little insight for you

that might make a few things click in your mind.

All right, so here's how this works.

So what do I mean by modern branding?

A lot of people, unless you've actually studied some marketing,

don't realize what's really going on in sort of the

marketing ecosystem these days marketing has evolved quite a lot in the last 50 years

and it's gotten pretty advanced and sophisticated to the point where they're like entire AIs and

teams of PR people who are crafting these various marketing campaigns and different brands.

And so basically in the modern business and marketing world everything is about

branding. It's all about creating a brand. Whether you're selling a service or a product,

you got to create a brand and this brand is not just about having a logo, but it's creating

a sort of an identity, then marketing this identity, making it popular amongst people, creating fans and subscribers to this identity,

whatever it is, might be an Apple identity, it might be a Tesla identity, it might be a video game franchise like Call of Duty or League of

Legends or HALO or Elder Screls, or it might be a movie franchise like Star Wars or Lords of the

Ring or Game of Thrones or basically anything.

It might be a brand of toothpaste.

Crest toothpaste.

And so the point is to create this brand.

The brand is supposed to be a marker for the quality of this product relative to its competitors in the industry. So when you see a Nintendo logo at the store on a video game. You expect something from that more than just

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