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> Just because you're not the target audience doesn't mean there's not a real target audience.

Just because a target-audience has >0 members doesn't mean the target is plausible or good. :p

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To transcribe an old Dilbert comic, which I think captures the sometimes, uh, aspirational nature of "target audiences":

1. Dogbert, presenting a labeled circle: "Your target market is the high income group. They're the only ones who can afford your product."

2. Dogbert, adding circles to Venn-diagram: "More specifically, they must be rich, tasteless and easily amused. I've located a cluster of them for study."

3. Scene change to outdoor lawn, one suitably-dressed man confiding to another: "That dog's watching us golf again."

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Social media apps generally opened up new markets though of their existing user bases as sellers. Perhaps chatgpt could know everything in your house, if you don't actually use it, and pair you with a neighbor that needs it!
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What a distopian hellscape you've painted into my brain. I work long and hard to not interact with my neighbors.
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