What's going on with RottenTomatoes?

8 months ago by kn0wmad1c to c/movies

"Verified" audience scores
All audience scores

Do they not have any protection against fake reviews after all this time?

YoFrodo 165 points 8 months ago

You think maybe the guy known for trying to cheat voting systems did a little vote cheating?

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Sibbo -71 points 8 months ago

Allegedly about 50% of USAians have voted for Trump. So most likely there's not even anything shady going on here.

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Zorque 46 points 8 months ago

*30%

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HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 16 points 8 months ago

now that i think about it, did that percentage figure in the fact that 25% of most populations are unvoting minors? or was that embarrassingly high 30% just eligible voters?

edit: turns out the number is closer to 20%

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Gathorall 10 points 8 months ago

Well okay 40% were still ambivalent regarding politics which isn't much better.

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VindictiveJudge 6 points 8 months ago

Don't forget that there's a whole hell of a lot of voter suppression going on in red states, too. Remember when Georgia voted for Biden in 2020? Or when Paxton said he was certain Texas would have gone to Biden in 2020 if he hadn't prevented mail in ballots from being sent to certain counties? Republicans are actively preventing people from voting because they can't win if everyone votes.

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UnderpantsWeevil 68 points 8 months ago

I'm certainly sensing a theme to these reviews

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Gullible 33 points 8 months ago path: 0 21895884 21896212, hotness: undefined, score: 33, children: 0
sp3ctr4l 3 points 8 months ago

My headcanon is that they trained the LLM/bot that made these on Trump's tweets.

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LordMayor 63 points 8 months ago

I think the “verified audience” are people who bought tickets through Fandango. So, either they were the kind of people who wanted to see and like it or they bought tickets but didn’t actually go and are astroturfing.

Either way, the high ratings are definitely bullshit.

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LodeMike 14 points 8 months ago

The purpose of the audience rating is "how people who thought they would like the movie thought of it" which is approximated via the verified views thing. So this makes sense.

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hansolo 51 points 8 months ago

The "verified audience" aspect is the issue. Only people that paid for tickets are giving these reviews. One review:

It was a magical awesome experience starting with the first song.

Uh....yeah.

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p03locke 6 points 8 months ago

"VeRiFiED"

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hansolo 1 point 8 months ago

Someone spent money to buy tickets and make bots write reviews. I don't think they got it for free.

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p03locke 4 points 8 months ago

Doesn't make it any less not verified. A bot is not a verified user. They are bots.

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pulsewidth 44 points 8 months ago

I checked 10 reviewer accounts from the first few pages. Literally all of them had only one rating on their account: Melania, 5 stars.

At least try to look like you're not astroturfing, lol.

See for yourself: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/...

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Shadow 43 points 8 months ago

Amazon spent $35m on it, I'm sure they can spend a little bit of that on buying some positive reviews

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jpreston2005 23 points 8 months ago

russians

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betterdeadthanreddit 13 points 8 months ago

I'm used to RT brown-nosing the bastard until they're neck-deep but it's usually not this RT.

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aemilrex 2 points 8 months ago

or Slovenes maybe?

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paraphrand 8 points 8 months ago

Audience score has always been nonsense.

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MotoAsh 6 points 8 months ago

They've both been nonsense.

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unexposedhazard 8 points 8 months ago

Only the tomatometer is actually a valid score. The site is called rottentomatoes not rottenpopcorn...

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itisileclerk 7 points 8 months ago

Trump can't do nothing without vote fraud.

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CitizenKong 3 points 8 months ago

RT is owned by Versant, a spin-off company of NBC-U. With a 25 percent share by WBD. It is not impartial.

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Ilandar 2 points 8 months ago

1.3/10 on IMDB. Rare Amazon W?

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Melonpoly 1 point 8 months ago
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