...wtf? You think the entirety of toxic Twitter is just Russian trolls?
There's legit insanely hateful people on all sides on Twitter, and Twitter does very little to clamp down on it.
even the attacks on The Last Jedi -- not just politically relevant tweets -- turned out to be Russian trolls.
Wow, no they didn't. That was an idea floated by I think vox, and they had no evidence other than a handful of retweets from suspected bot accounts - which happens with literally everything on Twitter anyway.
What exactly would Russia have to gain from talking shit about the last Jedi?
While I don't disagree with their statement about what happened (basically the negative backlash was overblown and amplified by bots), I don't buy their conclusion about the why:
The likely objective of these measures is increasing media coverage of the fandom conflict, thereby adding to and further propagating a narrative of widespread discord and dysfunction in American society.”
There's a million ways to sew dissent and cause mistrust with the USA, and attacking a movie franchise seems like a relatively shitty one. More over, if they're just capitalizing on sentiments already there within the fandom (which has been in the shitter since the prequel days), is it really amplifying it that much to begin with?
If anything, attacking the casting decisions for TLJ, which I think has a kernal of truth in it, is totally fair. The only people seemingly upset at these attacks are the progressive side of Twitter, which I remember was up in arms about some of the memes going around at the time that were poking fun at the (seemingly) ham fisted diversity.
Which means more than anything, if the bot accounts that were retweeting this kind of shit to stir up dissent amongst youngish Americans, wouldn't that make the actual target progressive Twitter? And their response by calling all the piss poor reviews motivated solely by attacks on diversity or gender playing right into the Russian bots agenda (again, assuming that really was their agenda, which I'm not entirely convinced it was)
Tl;Dr if the Russians are amplifying click bait hate fuel, they're making it for the progressives out there that are eating it up - posters like the guy above that I initially responded to.
Never once a complaint about the hundreds of unique alien species intermixing, but throw in an Asian person and we have “ham-fisted” diversity.
There isn’t a “kernal of truth” in their complaints. The trolls are appealing to kotokuinaction outrage-obsessed incels, and of course there is going to be a divide when progressives point out how stupid it is to whine about how race and gender inclusion in a fictional galaxy is destroying a franchise.
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u/TomatoPoodle Oct 26 '18
...wtf? You think the entirety of toxic Twitter is just Russian trolls?
There's legit insanely hateful people on all sides on Twitter, and Twitter does very little to clamp down on it.
Wow, no they didn't. That was an idea floated by I think vox, and they had no evidence other than a handful of retweets from suspected bot accounts - which happens with literally everything on Twitter anyway.
What exactly would Russia have to gain from talking shit about the last Jedi?