Real creepy when Britney Spears EX manager tries to follow you on Instagram. Why? I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again #INVESTIGATELOUTAYLOR#investigatouisemarietaylor
This is a grown woman trying to@follow fans of Brit, i can’t 🤣
@ghoulia She has … issues which has always been clear from any interview she’s ever done. Who doesn’t have issues? Creepy she’d even decide to call someone’s job to say someone said she needs to lose weight ONLINE. She needs a computer break
Everything from the WWE to fandoms to fans the news cycle does this - rinse repeat recycle over and over - causing the surge engines to just be filled with nothing but AI slop and marketing campaigns ranking number one when there could be valuable information.
Joe Lim estimates that 90 percent of what you see on the internet is advertising in disguise, and he should know. For three years, Lim ran a company called Floodify, which at its peak operated 65,000 dummy social-media accounts used to drum up attention on behalf of paying clients.
The point of this kind of marketing is that nobody is supposed to notice it. But lately, the machinery has started to show.
In April, Justin Bieber headlined two consecutive weekends at Coachella. Coachella is the biggest stage in pop music save only for the Super Bowl, the kind of event that in theory generates its own attention. And yet on both weekends, a Discord server writer Lane Brown had been monitoring hosted paid campaigns for Bieber’s Coachella performances, offering clippers — people who are hired to turn a song, trailer, interview, stump speech, or whatever into short, social-media-friendly fragments — as much as a dollar per thousand views.
“On social media, popular opinion is being formed, measured, and manipulated all at once, and every signal the platforms produce — a trending song, a backlash, a talking point, the feeling that ‘everybody’ is suddenly talking about the same thing — can now be fabricated by unseen actors with hidden agendas,” writes Brown.
“Everybody is doing this now,” Lim says. “And if you’re not, you’re behind.”
Brown reports on how the same techniques are now being used to fool people on every app they go to in order to find out what other people think, not just in music but across entertainment, politics, consumer products, and celebrity gossip: https://t.co/hlcdfSmzPc
@jpdorota@ghoulia I’d say the opposite, we need this that way when attempted in the future, we have reference points as fans. Think about how much information has disappeared over the years that the media uses a rinse repeat recycle on repeat. Everyone knows it’s trash - it’s the pattern.
@DaniParisina@ghoulia IMO it’s important to have someone post these that way when they try to twist the story we have accountability and can see patterns. I’m appreciative of it being reposted & think it helps all fans know what falsities are occurring / marketing tactics