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Post by "Evil Brood" Jackson Vanik on Apr 11, 2024 21:23:25 GMT -5
There are definitely bots around to drive up engagement and I'm sure many attack AEW. There's definitely an incentive with content creators to produce more negative AEW content.
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Post by Hypnosis on Apr 11, 2024 21:24:17 GMT -5
I wish Negative One could ban them off the internet.
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Apr 11, 2024 21:31:01 GMT -5
AEW DISCOURSE IN BIO
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Apr 11, 2024 21:32:13 GMT -5
Me when anything bad happens: "This shit is worse than 2000 WCW." When Toxic Attraction disbanded and Lexis King loses
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Apr 11, 2024 21:34:30 GMT -5
It is wild when you go on any wrestling twitter and so many of the posts/responses seem are giving bot, like when you see a chain of responses to something all kind of barely being coherent with the same gif of the Rock in the gym. Bots were bad years ago but are probably exponentially worse under Elon for any topic/fandom ofc, but from that tweet and just the whole vibe of wrestling online it does seems like there's something fishy in the wrestle. I'd imagine whoever is making the bots gets more clicks and eyes on them ragging on AEW with them being the current uncool one in these wrestling console wars. There are two types of wildly negative AEW Discourse drawers out there right now Bots And the Blue Checks going for bait like "THERE'S NO STORY TO THIS MATCH" or something else shitty about the company or the wrestlers because they know they'll get 30 replies calling them a dick, and do And people wonder why people who are simply enjoying the product get really agitated or passive aggressive when negativity floods everywhere and so much of it is disingenuous. I feel bad for people who simply have negative takes, because these people and these "people" give you a really bad f***ing launching point right now.
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Post by This Player Hating Mothman on Apr 11, 2024 21:41:15 GMT -5
Yeah, there were. Of course there were. There adamantly, obviously were and everyone who acted like he was saying some outrageous back when he first claimed he had evidence of it was baffling to me. Like you'd have to not use social media to not know how big a probelm botting is on social media, and it is trivial for people to buy a bot farm for anything they want to run, it doesnt' edven have to be someone important or WWE doing it, it can literally just be some dipshit so broken as a person that they think it's a good use of $50 to get some bots posting bad about a wrestling show. And you'd be surprised how much juice you can get with $50 from bots. There's even ones now that will get into conversations with one another, set up a faux-disagreement, etc. It's pernicious as hell. THey're super common on Youtube and Discord now, too. Youtube especially they're loved by financial/crypto scammers to hold astroturfed discussions in the comments (and then use their botnet to artificially likespam their posts to the top) to try and get around the usual red flags of advertising shit that more people know not to fall for. The internet has never been more artificial than it is now, and the cost of whaty ou can do at scale is terrifying.
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Apr 11, 2024 21:50:00 GMT -5
There's even ones now that will get into conversations with one another, set up a faux-disagreement, etc. It's pernicious as hell. THey're super common on Youtube and Discord now, too. Youtube especially they're loved by financial/crypto scammers to hold astroturfed discussions in the comments (and then use their botnet to artificially likespam their posts to the top) to try and get around the usual red flags of advertising shit that more people know not to fall for. The internet has never been more artificial than it is now, and the cost of whaty ou can do at scale is terrifying. I see those all the time, shit like "Wow, breathtaking and beautiful performance that really touched the hearts of millions, much like GHEK657 will touch your life financially have you guys heard about it??"
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Post by 06vwgti on Apr 11, 2024 22:12:07 GMT -5
Yeah, it's only a question of who's behind them. I am going for the lowest hanging fruit, HHH
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Post by Demented on Apr 11, 2024 22:13:21 GMT -5
The massive surge in bots since Musky took over is objective fact. Though I haven't seen many "S P I C Y A E W H O T T A K E S I N B I O" posts. Yet. H A R L E Y I N B I O
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Post by yokohamacpfc on Apr 11, 2024 22:13:37 GMT -5
I first noticed them during the 2016 Ghostbusters film discussion where there were a noticeable number of bots both promoting and criticizing the film. Since then most movies, tv shows, politicians, any sort of social movement that gets popular enough to earn a hashtag has little bot armies both for and against it. TK was certainly correct to claim that a sizable amount of anti-AEW social media accounts are bots he just looked a bit whiny because it’s something everyone in the entertainment industry has to put up with.
Never really noticed much anti-WWE bot activity but think it’ll be just a matter of time now they have new corporate bosses who will attract the ire of whoever organizes this nonsense.
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Post by King (Super) Dragunov on Apr 11, 2024 22:16:28 GMT -5
It hurts my feelings when people say I've been a bot this whole time. Shhhh, now now, go back to your room and drink your oil.
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Post by Cry Me a Wiggle on Apr 11, 2024 22:25:05 GMT -5
Can’t believe AEW is ripping off Disco Inferno’s Martian invasion but with robots. This shit is actually worse than WCW 2000.
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Post by ASYLUMHAUSEN on Apr 11, 2024 22:28:02 GMT -5
I read a fascinating (and frustrating) breakdown of the whack-a-mole the mods on r/AEWOfficial have to play with the army of bots & spam posts they deal with the other day.
Long story short; the internet sucks and right now wrestling tribalism is the focus of the same “fine” people who gave us Gamergate and The Snyder Cut 🤦🏼♂️
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Post by IgnahtaSempria on Apr 11, 2024 22:39:17 GMT -5
I read a fascinating (and frustrating) breakdown of the whack-a-mole the mods on r/AEWOfficial have to play with the army of bots & spam posts they deal with the other day. Long story short; the internet sucks and right now wrestling tribalism isn’t a the focus of the same “fine” people who gave us Gamergate and The Snyder Cut 🤦🏼♂️ Same thing with Cagematch. Ever since Tony Khan made that off-hand remark that he uses Cagematch as a gauge for what fans did & didn't like, every single AEW show gets downvoted to hell, and every WWE show gets upvoted, to the point that the site hosts have had to put out multiple announcements saying "stop bringing your tribalistic bullshit onto this site".
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Apr 11, 2024 22:52:34 GMT -5
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Post by Doo Doo Dickhead on Apr 11, 2024 22:54:17 GMT -5
I read a fascinating (and frustrating) breakdown of the whack-a-mole the mods on r/AEWOfficial have to play with the army of bots & spam posts they deal with the other day. Long story short; the internet sucks and right now wrestling tribalism isn’t a the focus of the same “fine” people who gave us Gamergate and The Snyder Cut 🤦🏼♂️ Same thing with Cagematch. Ever since Tony Khan made that off-hand remark that he uses Cagematch as a gauge for what fans did & didn't like, every single AEW show gets downvoted to hell, and every WWE show gets upvoted, to the point that the site hosts have had to put out multiple announcements saying "stop bringing your tribalistic bullshit onto this site". It is kinda funny that Tony admitted this, though.
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Post by UN PLOMBIER NIGHTMARE #blm on Apr 11, 2024 23:07:44 GMT -5
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Post by Alice Syndrome on Apr 11, 2024 23:12:30 GMT -5
Honestly when people talk about bots hating them on social media they don't usually actually mean spam bots or anything like that.
Both old style spam bots and AI twitter accounts are usually hilariously easy to spot.
More likely, they mean bot farms, which are usually a smaller group of people running a larger amount of burner accounts that do not much else but hate or support one thing.
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