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PeakMetrics grabbed a sample of 52,000 posts made on X within the first 24 hours of Cracker Barrel’s announcement that it would be modernizing its logo to an admittedly very plain and generic design. In that timeframe, it found that 44.5% of all mentions of Cracker Barrel were flagged as likely or higher bot activity. Those numbers climb even higher when a boycott is mentioned. About 1,000 posts in that first 24-hour period called on people to stop eating at Cracker Barrel, and 49% of those posts got flagged as likely coming from bots. In its report, PeakMetrics states that the boycott was unlikely to be an organic grassroots response but a “bot-assisted amplification seeded by meme/activist accounts.”
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Pretty much all the out rage was on Twitter and Twitter is 90% bots so this is a big fat DUH!
People are easily convinced to choose a view based on what everyone else around them is doing. This is why Ai is such a threat right now because a single actor can flood social media, comment boards and other online groups with comments arguing a point to convince everyone theyre the ones with the alternative view. It’s programmed social manipulation.
Makes sense, never met somebody actually mad about it.
My parents are the clowns that eat up bot manipulation posts. I have never seen them go anywhere to eat. But somehow they were CB masters. Their friend group is just as stupid to. They buy into rage bait like children and most of us kids are just done with them. It’s pathetic.
Be that as it may, its the only thing the right actually banded together for this year aside from using Charlie Kirk’s death as a call for genocide.
The point where I realized it was fake was when nobody was complaining about the font or going “Uhm, aktually it’s ‘typeface’!”
lol, people really do care about the fonts.
No surprise. And next week, something new.
Sounds about right, not even (most) rightwingers are stupid enough to care about that shit.
So, bots automatically detect the sensitivity for emotional response in humans, then they repeat and amplify this response toward sensitive issues until it becomes a movement, a roiling positive feedback loop or anger
I’ve noticed that they’re adjusting this way of doing things. It’s not just anger anymore, they’re using boredom. They’ll go into long diatribes that have a hint of a point, but they’re so long that people give up. This gets people to either be bored and leave or get distracted into a mental vacation. It also can bury the things they want buried.
Makes sense, couple first times they use the weapon, they are clumsy, hamfisted about it and they leave obvious clues of inauthenticity. But each time they learn how to blend in and become more and more subtle until it becomes impossible to prove that is not authentic, that something isn’t “happenning”.
And when the nuance is so blurred anyone trying to point to it, gets diagnosticated
“paranoid delirium disorder type persecution”
And given anti-psychotic pills until they agree, it was just a delusion,
“nothing ever happens actually doctor”
At this point. I wouldn’t be surprised if we found our Cracker Barrel was outrage farming, paid the botner to manufacture it for them so they could change it back and reap the boost from conservatives.
TLDR: Conservatives got big mad because Cracker Barrel wanted to take the cracker and the barrel off the logo.
That is not the tldr, lol.
😂
Modern internet for you.
It may be far from perfect, but it’s why I have such a soft spot for alternative to modern social media. If I’m going to put my through a slog of keeping these sorts of official social media accounts ip and running, I might as well make it a nicer experience.
It’s me, I’m bots.
