So what was the momo biz plan anyway?

nomadh · Sat May 30, 2020 3:44 pm

Just trying to figure this out.
Maybe momo was clueless to think we'd all just roll over and sign up and continue on but even tom knew us well enough to know he wouldn't get more than 10% participation at best. And tons of bad press.
What data was momo going to mine? Our email addresses? He could have just bought those from tom and then out? Continued data mining our phones from the app? Like I said 10% at best.
It could be tom screwed momo ,took the money and ran. If he got an equity stake then that's hilarious about both of them. Is it the continued future ad revenue. I dont think our guitar reviews and pithy comnentary are worth all that much. But if momo is going to a closed board where google wont find it then there isnt even that?

Basically we aren't worth enough to rob. What happened?

mozz · Sat May 30, 2020 3:53 pm

I think a lot was based on the way Asia interacts with these social forums, doesn't work that way here. Maybe Tom got layed-off and momo made a offer of a few grand and he took it. Any post by Tom may not even be him.

Mossman · Sat May 30, 2020 4:07 pm

I think they just grossly overestimated our willingness to comply. I don't know how well Major Dickface could have known us. He never interacted with us, and let the mods run the show. At best, he may have been aware of our sentimentality for the forum, and reckoned that sentiment would compel us to cling to it, no matter what form it took.

JeffBeck · Sat May 30, 2020 4:07 pm

Guys, I've been wondering the same thing. I'm no financial whiz, even a cursory glance at my bank accounts will clue you in to that - but I don't see the upside of this for anyone. Again - I'm no corporate bigwig and freely admit my ignorance - but this just seems like a shit storm for no good reason.

And @mozz I've been wondering if they're spoofing Major Tom's online ID. I feel like they probably had him on some sort of contractual obligation to stick around for a month or so to ease their transition, though. I think when we see his name, it's probably the real deal.

Mossman · Sat May 30, 2020 4:08 pm

Mossman wrote: ↑Sat May 30, 2020 4:07 pm I think they just grossly overestimated our willingness to comply. I don't know how well Major Dickface could have known us. He never interacted with us, and let the mods run the show. At best, he may have been aware of our sentimentality for the forum, and reckoned that sentiment would compel us to cling to it, no matter what form it took.

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They also thought that we would have nowhere else to go.

Chocol8 · Sat May 30, 2020 4:19 pm

Best guess?

The business plan (number 3 or 4 likely, after the first few failed) was to make a new forum/chat/dropbox type app that would attract a lot of users to be data mined, to sell premium subscriptions to, and to sell advertising. This was initially rolled out in early 2019.

As of early 2020, it wasn't really catching on organically. In order to grow, I think they decided to purchase an existing community to quickly boost numbers and daily activity quicker than the same advertising dollars would have. We were the guinea pigs and it turns out this medicine failed the first trials as the MOMO app and web interfaces proved to be lethal even in small doses.

LancerTheGreat · Sat May 30, 2020 4:29 pm

I just posted hundreds of goatse images on the momo, so be careful if you go there lol

Chocol8 · Sat May 30, 2020 4:30 pm

LancerTheGreat wrote: ↑Sat May 30, 2020 4:29 pm I just posted hundreds of goatse images on the momo, so be careful if you go there lol

Uh yeah...warning received about 30 seconds too late!

LancerTheGreat · Sat May 30, 2020 4:38 pm

Chocol8 wrote: ↑Sat May 30, 2020 4:30 pm Uh yeah...warning received about 30 seconds too late!

lmao my bad

I posted it between 700 and 1000 times through the momo site, they made it super easy to spam one disgusting pic hundreds of times in a few minutes

Chocol8 · Sat May 30, 2020 4:42 pm

I have a feeling they are going to either ban you...OR REALLY LIKE YOU!

peskypesky · Sat May 30, 2020 6:01 pm

As someone who worked in corporate America for over 20 years, I can assure you that people running businesses are often complete morons. Lots of fools in high places. Lots of bone-headed decisions.

Sat May 30, 2020 6:09 pm

To use old military terminology either:

They shit in their messkit.

or

They screwed the pooch.

Sun May 31, 2020 1:45 am

Well, I think you guys finally got them to throw in the towel. I'm surprised the old site is still up:

Tonray's Ghost · Sun May 31, 2020 2:06 am

many times online / marketing oriented businesses will acquire as many properties as possible as their growing portfolio is what lenders and investors look at when assessing financing....in short a pyramid scheme that likely will die out in the next crisis...but various principals Maj Tom, Momo stakeholders, will pocket their piece along the way.

Bubba Zanetti · Sun May 31, 2020 2:48 am

tobijohn wrote: ↑Sun May 31, 2020 1:45 am Well, I think you guys finally got them to throw in the towel. I'm surprised the old site is still up:

So, as it stands now, Major Tom and MoMo succeeded in stealing and ultimately destroying the original AGF, taking our now stolen profiles and histories

but leaving them with no active forum members and really no hope to grow the user base because we’re all here. They ended up with a dead forum and a ton of animosity directed towards them. On paper, it really couldn’t have gone any worse for them, regardless of what their original business plan was.

LancerTheGreat · Sun May 31, 2020 6:35 am

So how do you delete your account and posts related to it now?

Cuz uhhh, someone (

) got banned for spamming some of the worst shit on the internet before deleting their old account

Sun May 31, 2020 6:39 am

LancerTheGreat wrote: ↑Sun May 31, 2020 6:35 am So how do you delete your account and posts related to it now?

You don't.
You email them and request they delete your account.

or you could just act like peskypesky did.

LancerTheGreat · Sun May 31, 2020 6:45 am

I just don't wanna be providing those cunts free content

But also I feel like I'll start getting a ton of spam if I email them... Or if I don't

PsychoCid · Sun May 31, 2020 7:29 am

I figured it out. LancerTheGreat = LookingDownTheCross ??

Took me a while to remember that avatar.

JeffBeck · Sun May 31, 2020 1:40 pm

LancerTheGreat wrote:I just posted hundreds of goatse images on the momo, so be careful if you go there lol

They soooooo deserved that. I, for one, salute you.

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Sun May 31, 2020 2:23 pm

LancerTheGreat wrote: ↑Sun May 31, 2020 6:45 am I just don't wanna be providing those cunts free content
But also I feel like I'll start getting a ton of spam if I email them... Or if I don't

You could try emailing from a throwaway email account, it doesn't necessarily have to be the one you used when you opened your initial AGF account...