Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for April 25, 2023

Will the product that MiKim has created be mentioned in this buzz?

Like the ad outside my apartment for “The hamburger everybody talks about.”

Bernie, and maybe Garry Trudeau, has such low regard for the general public. And he’s not wrong.

Kinda like the claim that “4 out of 5 doctors (or dentists) recommend” the product being peddled.

It’s the “bandwagon” strategy! I remember it now from the marketing 101 class.

Marketing genius!! This is why Bernie is a millionaire and Mike isn’t!

I see Bernie understands marketing in Silly Valley.

So, just lie and get their attention. Sounds like the business plan for Theranos. I guess some people did read this comic.

Bernie wants his money back.

Second-wave buzz, aka metabuzz.

Nowadays called FOMO – Fear of Missing Out

That strategy worked for cabbage patch dolls

Unfortunately, they are talking about it using that new buzzword “vaporware”.

I think I’ll wait for the buzz about the buzz about the buzz… ☺

Recently in the comments section there was a lot of ridicule of J.J. for being an artist whose work the readers in question didn’t like (or else they didn’t consider being an artist to be legitimate “work”). Unlike Mike, however, J.J. provides a real product that customers see, like and actually pay for. (She also doesn’t have Mike’s gift of summer day dreams that come true along a ready source of funding like Bernie – she just had to put in the work as well as doing taxi driving gigs during the down time.)

Bernie created FOMO?