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normally I'm very suspicious of shilling and astroturfing, and you definitely do get it here on HN - especially wrt China and FAANG - but I don't think it's eve
by permo-w 3y ago
normally I'm very suspicious of shilling and astroturfing, and you definitely do get it here on HN - especially wrt China and FAANG - but I don't think it's even remotely out of place that a highly anticipated feministic Barbie film is having columns written about it, or that ... there's a popular youtube video about the subject of the new Christopher Nolan film?
Barbenheimer is vaguely suspicious though, especially this article, describing what is pretty much standard procedure wikipedia fare as if it's a split between the Obamas
- TechBro8615 3y agoBarbenheimer was almost certainly a pre-constructed meme, or at least one that was given a boost by the marketing team once they identified it from some early candidates of organic memes. But its subsequent popularity is (at least partially) organic, even if it was originally astroturfed. However, if Kotaku is writing about <dramatic event> regarding "the Internet's reaction" to <recent well-funded theatrical release>, it's not unreasonable to assume they were paid by a marketing agency to write the article.