Don, glad you made great effort reaching out to me. My assistant over at Local Success.org forwarded your message to my inbox and boy, it reminds me how much time we spent on discussing about this one particular article that always attracted millions of views back in the day. My time at CPG blog is limited now since I handed over the role to another member of the team but here's what happened.

The original articles were put together by a couple of editors and one of them inserted an image of a Samsung female rep standing at their SSD booth with no intetion other than it was used to illustrate the big marketing event that Samsung invested in to promote the new SSD series. As you know, Samsung is from Korea and if you have ever gone to any of the PC cons in Korea, Vietnam or South Asia in general you will find many of these models present for the participated brands. It's the norm there, similar to how a car show or a UFC/wreslting event in the U.S is. The difference is it is not viewed as sexism in our culture. These models are usually well-known singer and actor who got a side gig and do it for the fans, they don't wear bikinis or act indecency even it's a beach photo session like you saw. They represent an atractive, clean image for the brand which is a total opposite of what we often see here, where models sometimes don't even know the company they represent and just be there posing for the job with rated R outfit. At first when I read your messsage I thought it was another fedora troll comment since you're in the U.S and are more open minded than the East; but I think you are genuinely upset and I see your point. But don't stress on the difference view of another culture when it's not the same as your perspective.

When we saw the high view counts on that the Samsung SSD reviews, we scratched our head wondering why it's always more popular than https://www.custompcguide.net/the-differences-between-sandis... or https://www.custompcguide.net/the-best-and-fastest-mainstrea.... Though we know Samsung SSD is more sought after but if anything google analytic shows that the search volumes for other brands are just as equal. Only the Samsung SSD reviews are being shared more. It slowly dawns on us when many of the local customers casually mentioned how they found the article online and joked how they fall in love with the female rep in the photo before ending up buying a Samsung SSD and recommend another friend to check it out. Since then, we decided to just put a random image of samsung girl into an article to subliminally make fun of how many young readers these days seem to remember photo more than the actual information the article provides. We expected someday someone will discuss about it again but on the other end of spectrum and you did. Another day in the future, someone will probably send me a message about https://www.custompcguide.net/5-best-budget-ssds-crucial-mx3... making fun of Donald Trump too, maybe?

On another note, please don't be too serious about the small jokes in the review, they make the information stands out and people remember the whats and whys of the product better. I probably give a note to the current editors to work their translation better since a handful of posts are first written and published in another language.