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Post by darkpast on Jul 19, 2022 4:14:48 GMT
'How To Weaponize A Fan Base': The Insidious Implications Behind The Snyder Cut Social Media Blitz
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Post by twothousandonemark on Jul 19, 2022 4:45:35 GMT
Well, okay. How many burner accounts did Zack himself fire up everyday with breakfast?
I love ZSJL & whatever it took was good with me.
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Post by Hauntedknight87 on Jul 19, 2022 15:15:16 GMT
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Post by politicidal on Jul 19, 2022 15:27:20 GMT
"...According to two reports commissioned by WarnerMedia and recently obtained by Rolling Stone, at least 13 percent of the accounts that took part in the conversation about the Snyder Cut were deemed fake, well above the three to five percent that cyber experts say they typically see on any trending topic. (In public filings, Twitter has estimated that the percentage of daily active accounts on its platform that are “false or spam” is less than five percent.) So while Snyder had scores of authentic, flesh-and-blood fans, those real stans were amplified by a disproportionate number of bogus accounts."
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"....Avneesh Chandra, a data analyst at Graphika, tells Rolling Stone. As examples, Graphika points to accounts that seemed to exist only to barrage Twitter and the replies of WarnerMedia social media accounts with constant pro-Snyder hashtags.
Chandra downplays the effectiveness of that inauthentic activity, noting that “many of those accounts are spammy and failed to cut through the noise,” but he says it’s clear there is some manipulation occuring. “The bulk of this activity was made up of real and passionate users taking direction from influential figures in the pro-Snyder community,” Chandra says. “We regularly see these types of adversarial social media campaigns that are driven by real people coordinating online. When you kick the hornet’s nest of a large, engaged, and confrontational fan community, that can be just as, if not more, scary as facing down an army of fake accounts.”
So it was still mostly a bunch of angry neckbeards? At any rate, this whole behind-the-scenes drama is far more fascinating than the theatrical cut.
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Post by leesilm on Jul 19, 2022 16:11:12 GMT
They were good bots doing the geeks' work so I've no issue. Maybe it was Victor Stone trying to get the movie out.
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Post by thisguy4000 on Jul 19, 2022 16:22:25 GMT
Wait, is this article trying to suggest that the accusations against Joss Whedon were orchestrated by Snyder?
Honestly, this whole article comes off like a really weird hit piece. I can certainly believe that a lot of the accounts that pushed the hashtag were bots, but the painting of Snyder as some evil mastermind, right down to comparing him to Lex Luthor, is just weird. All this because of a superhero movie?
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Post by politicidal on Jul 19, 2022 16:54:23 GMT
Wait, is this article trying to suggest that the accusations against Joss Whedon were orchestrated by Snyder? Honestly, this whole article comes off like a really weird hit piece. I can certainly believe that a lot of the accounts that pushed the hashtag were bots, but the painting of Snyder as some evil mastermind, right down to comparing him to Lex Luthor, is just weird. All this because of a superhero movie? I would agree. It doesn't surprise me that bots were involved but yeah, this does sound like WB just trying to do some damage control and give Snyder the finger.
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Post by thisguy4000 on Jul 19, 2022 16:59:16 GMT
Wait, is this article trying to suggest that the accusations against Joss Whedon were orchestrated by Snyder? Honestly, this whole article comes off like a really weird hit piece. I can certainly believe that a lot of the accounts that pushed the hashtag were bots, but the painting of Snyder as some evil mastermind, right down to comparing him to Lex Luthor, is just weird. All this because of a superhero movie? I would agree. It doesn't surprise me that bots were involved but yeah, this does sound like WB just trying to do some damage control and give Snyder the finger. I don’t even understand why they feel the need to do it. The Snyder Cut is in the past now. Snyder has moved on to Netflix. If they’re mad that they spent $70 million on his cut, they should blame the higher ups at AT&T.
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Post by politicidal on Jul 19, 2022 17:44:43 GMT
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Post by thisguy4000 on Jul 19, 2022 19:04:22 GMT
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Post by CrepedCrusader on Jul 19, 2022 23:45:14 GMT
Ray is just mad that he got exposed. Every time Snyder had a beef with somebody, Ray immediately ran to Twitter to accuse them of being racist. I think we know why Ray's career is toast. It isn't because he "exposed racism in Hollywood", it's because he used claims of racism as a weapon against his friend's enemies.
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Post by leesilm on Jul 23, 2022 14:54:21 GMT
I just think, overall, it is a shame that the Snyderverse will never work out and we will never get to see what he wanted to do as a whole, in his original vision. Perhaps, someday, he can co-author a comic book or something that will allow him to do all he wanted without worries about the usual constraints in filmmaking (budget, actor schedules, keeping the CGI realistic, etc.) so he can still get to show off whatever his vision was.
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Post by Hauntedknight87 on Jul 29, 2022 18:21:17 GMT
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Post by Cat on Jul 29, 2022 18:59:52 GMT
Could be fatigue, but this made even less sense the second time I read it.
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Post by darkpast on Jul 29, 2022 22:57:36 GMT
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Post by thisguy4000 on Jul 29, 2022 23:28:13 GMT
“The best American film of the century” Armond White really is a professional shitposter.
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