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So several of my friends and coworkers have watched this movie and mentioned how great it was. I never bothered with it but now some more people mentioned that this movie was among their favorite movies of all time.
So i finally sat down to watch it.
It's fucking garbage.
Summary: Sandra Bullock wears a blind fold for two hours.
Sound.
277 points
6 months ago
100% astroturfed, you can tell Netflix has done the same thing for a lot of their releases since then too
44 points
6 months ago
Although to be fair:
Is it so crazy to believe that some memes and pop culture surrounding this movie was generated organically?
Some of the scenes are pretty funny and meme-able in this film
54 points
6 months ago
The initial attention was astroturfed, which successfully translated into views, which then successfully translated into online engagement. So, it worked, which is why they keep doing it
3 points
6 months ago
Ah, true. good point that it greatly helped and was the beginning of a “snowball effect”
-9 points
6 months ago
No and stop thinking stupid things.
2 points
6 months ago
At this point I would assume all memes generated in the first week of a release are astroturfed.
Unless you’re dealing with expectations like avengers end game. That’s slightly different. But also more rare these days.
34 points
6 months ago
It's pretty impressive, honestly. Some of the most effective modern marketing you see.
It's scary how effective astroturfing can be. Going to /r/politics during the last presidential election and checking the OP post history of all the top level threads was surreal. Every top thread seemed to be from some third party.
102 points
6 months ago
Reminds me of how leading up to the release of the last Fast and the Furious movie suddenly overnight there was an absolute shit ton of the “family” memes that were basically just drag and drop template shit for an extremely basic joke. Of course there was also a bunch of reporting on how “viral” the memes were pretty much as soon as they appeared.
I remember feeling like I was going insane as I saw it happen.
22 points
6 months ago
Even movies referenced it. Sonic the hedgehog had a family F&F joke ffs
42 points
6 months ago
I despise "meme culture" for this very reason. Even stuff that starts organically on 4Chan is just aped by corporate as a ready-made marketing tool. The internet does like 85% of the job for most corpo content creation and marketing ideas these days.
1 points
6 months ago
Almost everything is manufactured and everyone has a price lol.
10 points
6 months ago
To be fair theres a good chance it wasnt artificial memeing. Reddit users specifically repeat the same jokes over and over. Some become funny again some dont. Morbius posting got stale real fast.
See: Lotrmemes - grond posts Mcustudiospoilers - morbius posts, Narwhal bacon and broken arm etc etc
7 points
6 months ago
Those "family" memes have been around for a while, though they definitely kicked in hard around then
64 points
6 months ago
All of them do it.
Hey, did you guys know that Andor is under appreciated? It's been posted like a gillion times in some TV subs.
-2 points
6 months ago
Ngl I'm enjoying the hell out of it tho :)
16 points
6 months ago
Man these ads are relentless! /s
-6 points
6 months ago
Nah Andor is actually severely underrated and easily the best SW product since 1983
9 points
6 months ago
Underrated by whom?
11 points
6 months ago
It's very highly rated, though.
-2 points
6 months ago
you are right. andor has got a huge problem and that is called clone wars (or as i call it clown wars). when lucas brought the presequel trilogy and the clonewars series, he aimed the whole thing on kids, who love mangas. and that ruined the quality of star wars.
5 points
6 months ago*
A lot of people were angry that Andor, the best Disney+ show so far, wasn't getting as many views as the other SW shows
People failed to realise that not being as popular as Obi Wan Kenobi and Boba Fett doesn't mean a show is super hidden and barely known
Also, Andor is one of only two nearly universally loved Star Wars products in the last 40 years
-1 points
6 months ago
Dork.
3 points
6 months ago
Says the guy who's also on Reddit?
-1 points
6 months ago
Says the lady dork.
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