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Reggie Fils-Aime To Finally Receive His Aeron Chair After a Successful Petition By Fans
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So a fan jokes on twitter about Reggie having a sub-premium chair, the company who makes the premium chair, seeing a chance for publicity, gifts the chair to Reggie, everyone who follows the exchange has a good laugh about it... and people are upset about what was otherwise harmless fun? Let Reggie have his chair.
Since many are incapable of nuance...
If Herman Miller saw the internet dialogue of a longtime company president sitting in a subpar chair all his work life and offered to give him a chair of their own volition before a petition was made, it's all fine and dandy. Rich people of prominence get free stuff all the time, who cares. It's even a bit of nuanced PR!
Tens of thousands of Nintendo consumers championing a god damn petition to essentially coerce a corporation into giving a multi-millionaire a free chair is just god damn embarrassing. Your solution to the "problem" of a man worth tens of millions of dollars not having a great chair in his work life is to e-beg a company to give him one in retirement.
Am I missing something here?
If Herman Miller saw the internet dialogue of a longtime company president sitting in a subpar chair all his work life and offered to give him a chair of their own volition before a petition was made, it's all fine and dandy. Rich people of prominence get free stuff all the time, who cares. It's even a bit of nuanced PR!
Tens of thousands of Nintendo consumers championing a god damn petition to essentially coerce a corporation into giving a multi-millionaire a free chair is just god damn embarrassing. Your solution to the "problem" of a man worth tens of millions of dollars not having a great chair in his work life is to e-beg a company to give him one in retirement.
Am I missing something here?
Change.org petitions happen all the time, and are ignored all the time. This petition seems to have happened in jest and because Reggie is well liked. Unlike so many petitions online there is no anger behind it, just fans being fans. I saw the tweet about his chair a few weeks ago and chuckled but wasn't aware there was a petition as well.
The company giving away the chair controls all the cards here. They are doing it for the PR, fans didn't do shit.
I had already scraped it in the pre-post edits, accidentally pasted what was cut.
Hey, I have a 10+ year old Herman-Miller Aeron and it's a dope chair. I highly recommend them over that "Look at me I'm a gamer slash race car driver" bullshit.
Nah, that figure is a lot more meaningful because, as I said, my friend crafted it himself with clay and some techniques I have no idea about.
Fucks sake people, it's not like they made a gofundme for him.
Where's that No Fun Allowed pic.
Where's that No Fun Allowed pic.
A high quality, hand made statue is absolutely a luxury gift, my dude.
Good thing he has millions of dollars to buy chairs without thousands of people begging to give him one for free
Yeah, you're missing the bit where the chair company is doing this for PR and haven't had their hand forced by a petition nobody would have any reason to give a shit about.
If you can't see the difference between a unique and handmade figure that represents a game and a chair with nothing special related to gaming, then I don't think I can really say much to point out the obvious. Those who don't want to see won't see anyway.
Considering Herman Miller didn't act until the petition became a news story, you couldn't be more incorrect.
It was in response to the petition.
There's absolutely a difference. It's still a luxury gift though, that's all there is to it. The sculpture is more meaningful, but I really have no issues with a chair either.
Do you think Herman miller were scared of what would happen if they didn't do the fans bidding? Be realistic, dude. You honestly can't see that they're doing it for PR?
More thousands of people signing a joke petition because it was funny, and the chair makers capitalized on it for publicity.
I agree with these comments and understand them but at the same time Reggie is not Andrew Wilson he has not been an asshole, flaunted his wealth, monetized games and shit on his customers and he seems like a decent guy so I am willing to see this more as a people showing appreciation for the work he put in at Nintendo.
*high fives*
Sayl is sublime.
As for the aeron as the other person implied the build quality and warranty is so good I think chairs in the 1k to 1200 category usually functionally justify their price tag.
Your friend could have spent the time he worked on that figure on raising money for the needy instead. Why spend that time on someone who doesn't need his help?
I swear to god ERA is miserable sometimes. Outrage over every little thing.
I don't understand all the hate in this thread. Some people just don't like to have fun I guess.
You joke but that is exactly how a lot of people seem to talk about Reggie. It's very silly.
Maybe you tried the sub-par model, because Reggie's new one has saved me from a lot of pain. And it will last.
What I don't get is why any of us are expected to applaud this. A bunch of misguided fans campaigned for a wealthy, successful businessman to receive an expensive new chair free of charge.
No fan should feel this level of attachment to a guy they've never even met. The man isn't your friend, and he doesn't need you arranging gifts for him. It's freakin' weird.
Nah, Era is miserable for most people when things don't align to their company of choice. I do agree sometimes things go overboard, but this is not one of those times. I don't even know how to reply to the first "point" you're trying to make, is it supposed to be a counter argument or something?
This story would be lot more cute/fun if it was a Kirby chair or something. Without that element, it's just a rich dude getting a rich dude chair.
If you seriously think the only reason people aren't applauding and weeping with joy is jealousy, you're delusional.
Also, "Good on Reggie"? Good on him for what exactly? For being given a chair?
No, it's the usual Era shtick of "Hurr hurr having money bad" repeated ad nauseum.
Fans like Reggie, Herman Miller company gets free marketing, Reggie gets a chair, Reggie shares with the world and fans. Good for him then, free chair.
As yes, because Herman Miller getting free marketing and Reggie getting a chair is what's really important in my life.
I mean, apparently it's important enough to make you post here *shrugs*