By that metric of getting shared on social media, it was extraordinarily successful

You missed a spot:

> hopefully saying something good about

dwringer 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Fair enough, but I was interpreting it as "hopefully, but not necessarily". Some would say there's no such thing as bad publicity!

	▲	gaigalas 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You need talented people to turn bad publicity into good publicity. It doesn't come for free. You can lose a lot with a bad rep. Those talented people that work on public relations would very much prefer working with base good publicity instead of trying to recover from blunders.

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