Rolling Stone says bots led campaign for Snyder Cut

Well, okay. How many burner accounts did Zack himself fire up everyday with breakfast?

I love ZSJL & whatever it took was good with me.

"...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. 

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 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. 

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.

Could be fatigue, but this made even less sense the second time I read it.