UN Zodiac | Happy Pride!

[kaisoumods]

WHO: Everyone!
WHERE: Libra App
WHEN: June 1st
WHAT: Zodiac Network Post
WARNINGS: None!

[The lovely summer weather continues as the night begins to lighten. In the sky, the Spirit Vein will shift into the Light element and become a dazzling cascade of colors - just in time for Pride. Everyone's devices will emit a soothing wind chime sound as a new Zodiac post appears. The chime will sound even if you have your phone turned off or on silent, and will not stop until you read their message and comment to it.]


Thera has joined the app. Say hi everyone!



[The post then continues on.]

Hello and thank you for using the Libra app.

First we'd like to promote once again, our new exciting features on our premium accounts? Did you know with the paid accounts, you can have your posts algorithmically rearranged based on your preferences? Not only that, but you can have animated userpics! Think how fun and creative you can get with those!

Second of all, some good news! Our seer department have indicated we have another peaceful month ahead of us! They did complain about a sheer amount of plastic, but we're not entirely sure what that's about. We don't believe it's anything to worry about though.

And last but not lease- Happy Pride everyone! We're aware this is an important time of year for many of our app users, so we at Zodiac wish for you to have a wonderful celebration. For those unaware or new to this world, Pride Month is when identities that fall underneath the LGBTAQ+ umbrella (such as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, asexual, etc) get celebrated. This is done through parades and different festivities. Pride month and the history of LGBTAQ+ has a long history in this world, which there's resources available at the library and online if you wish to learn more.

Also for this month, any paid users of the Libra app will get free pride-themed userpic decorations and emojis! Show your pride now! 🏳️‍🌈

And with that, we'll finish things off with the ever popular icebreaker!



This post is sponsored by Big Donut! Now selling rainbow donuts for pride. Check them out today!

[Users will have the option to choose their own display names and userpics if they haven't already. If nothing is chosen, the app will use their real name and a quick photo taken of them from their camera's phone.

Like always, there'll be no responses from Zodiac.

OOC Note: If you haven't responded to AC, you still have until 11:59am EST today to do so! Once you do, you'll be removed from this post. ]

Comments

un: shineon; text

[onahairtrigger]

Soooooo

In more interesting news than this app's stupid bullshit, now that it's Pride Month, I can show off a little something I've been working on for a while

[A photo is attached of a few stickers and keychains of Vivillon, but instead of their typical patterns, each one has pride flag inspired patterns. A few even have patterns involving two pride flags! (One on particular display has the ace flag on the upper wings and the gay flag on the lower wings.)]

I was going to make a few of these featuring puns with other Pokemon, but these were easier and I thought they were more fun. I was thinking for people on the app it'd be "pay what you want"

UN: hikari-vi | Text

[whiteshroud]

Those are beautiful, Josuke!

I know I'd like to take one. How much are you going to charge for them to other people?

[Because that's fully what he intends to pay]

[drewthetower]

how much for a pan, a gay, a lesbian, a bisexual, and a general inclusive pride one?

[onahairtrigger]

Individually, I'm thinking $5 for the stickers and $15 for the keychains

[whiteshroud]

Perfect! Then I'll take a genderfluid one please.

[onahairtrigger]

For a set of stickers, that'll be $22
For a set of keychains that's $65

[drewthetower]

can do

I'll paypal you the money?

[onahairtrigger]

Sure thing! Stickers, keychains, or both?

[onahairtrigger]

Absolutely! Do you want a sticker, a keychain, or both?

[drewthetower]

both!

text: UN: hotgoss

[bebest]

OMG I LOVE THEM!!! I want a MILLION.

If you wanna put a box of them on the Vogue's bar in June to sell them, you TOTES can. I'll be getting a lot of footfall. You could probably make a pretty penny off them.

[whiteshroud]

How about both?

[onahairtrigger]

Both it is! I'll give them to you at Cygnus?

[onahairtrigger]

You got it, I'll bring them by later when I come in for work.

[onahairtrigger]

Oh, *hell yes*
That'd be fantastic, thanks, Zulius!

[bebest]

YW honey! I wanna see you go far. These are amazing and DESERVE a great selling spot.

[thewarriorqueen]

So the total number of people with this app is what, dozens? It's got to be less than a hundred or so, right? Which means that even if every user paid for the most expensive subscription plan, there's no way that would even be enough to cover all the costs of running the thing.

I'm sure I can guess the answer but I still have to ask: are these people really that stupid?

[illucesco]

yeah, pretty much.

short-term profit makes an imaginary line go up faster.

[thewarriorqueen]

That's just the thing, you do the math, there's not even a profit. Unless they're somehow magically making money just from the app existing.

UN: musicologyminor

[youwouldntdownloada]

oh my god they're adorable...

I don't know what flags I should even consider though?

(honestly I thought I was straight but I'm self-aware enough to realize that might not be the case...)

text · un:vinviv

[mehjin]

🙄

[whiteshroud]

Works for me! I should be there at my usual times this month.

Text ✧ UN: dragonne

[connecteur]

[Something stirs in Alex when she reads Josuke's username. An inexplicable sense of... nostalgia, almost? How strange. That aside, though...]

Oh, that's so cute! Do you take requests for combinations?

[onahairtrigger]

Sure do! What would you like?

[onahairtrigger]

I mean if you're unsure, you could just get a rainbow flag? That one's for the entire community after all...

[Attached is a photo which shows two of the rainbow flag Vivillon keychains--one with plain rainbow, the other for the Progress variation.]

[connecteur]

I'd like one set with nonbinary above and pan below, and another with nonbinary above and bi below, if that's alright? Let's say three stickers and a keychain for each.

[onahairtrigger]

You got it! Luckily, both of those combos were ones I thought to make ahead of time, so I can get those to you quickly!!

[connecteur]

Nice! What's the going rate for all of it?

[illucesco]

wouldn’t put it past them. i don’t rate their intelligence all that highly considering they think people would pay for targeted ads and non-chronological timelines.

[thewarriorqueen]

It's like they took the list of worst possible marketing decisions and used it as their playbook.

[onahairtrigger]

Let's see... $57 for everything sounds fair!

[connecteur]

Got it! So where should I send the money?

[youwouldntdownloada]

[Give her a sec-]

I really should've thought of that huh...

Can I get two keychains and a sticker? With the progress version!