Current mood:	mmm...bento
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All over plastic lunch boxes
Every time I think I've seen it all, I see something new and stranger.

Over on bentolunch ss_biggie makes a post about how one of their members, thejenn1, has been selling bento lunch boxes from her website bentoyum. The fact that she is both a small business owner and writing articles about her viral marketing makes her...something. I don't know what. This sends the community into an uproar of scandal as people are not happy that she didn't tell them she was in business to make money.

thejenn1 posts in her defense and it snowballs from there. Sockpuppeting accusations, social experiments, just JELUS, and general outrage over if her being a business even makes a difference.

Sit back, pull up some sushi. Kinda small, but tasty, lulz.

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	ravenousbunny 2007-06-23 02:47 pm UTC (link)
	I should add that even the "I dun wanna be an experiment" part was kind of... odd? The whole thing is just dumb in my humble opinion. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

wrongly_amused
2007-06-23 03:31 pm UTC (link)

I think somebody hit the nail on the head when they called the majority of the post's negative responses as "bending to popular opinion."

ss_grace went in there guns blazing over nothing, formatted her report to look professional, researched, condemning - she tried and sentenced

thejenn1 before anybody else could formulate their opinion so people would have to agree or disagree. And nobody wants to be the one stirring the kettle, and everybody loves to be a victim (especially of capitalism!), so they jumped on her.

Personally, I think these people really need to get out and experience the world beyond their lunch boxes if they think this is slimy corporate handling.

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	ravenousbunny 2007-06-23 03:44 pm UTC (link)
	I can agree with that. If this was slimy corporate handling at its slimy-est (and you'd think it was from how these people talk about it), I think that overall the world would be an awesome place of rainbows and delight. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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