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There’s a Discord server paying people to spread hate against Marathon (faked screenshots again)

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This is insane.

A Discord server is actively paying people to push hate and negative narratives around Marathon.

Not only that, they're giving detailed instructions on how to:
  • Manipulate engagement
  • Use multiple accounts
  • Blend in as "normal users
  • And even maintain specific political viewpoints to appear authentic.
  • This isn't "community criticism.
This is coordinated manipulation.

People always wonder why certain games suddenly get flooded with negativity out of nowhere, this is exactly how it happens.

And the craziest part? They're literally paying for it.

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There was already a thread about the opposite shared with the server name missing and no proof that any of it is actually real.

This is the exact same thing in the other direction.
 
Plot twist: that's a screenshot from Bungie's employee Discord and this is reverse psychology marketing lol
 
There's a discord paying people to spread positive messages about it.

There's a discord paying people to spread negative messages about it.

I'mma sign up for both.

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This is the world we live in where people get paid to display fake outrage. Just look at what's happening to America and all the stupid people protesting that happened to be older and frankly the same kind of looking people. These people try to do like a psy-op on you
 
People have to do be more critical about the stuff they consume on social media. So much misinformation and fake bullshit out there, like the OP.
 
Esquie said:
People have to do be more critical about the stuff they consume on social media. So much misinformation and fake bullshit out there, like the OP.
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But does objective reality even exist or is it all in the eye of the observer?
 
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Esquie said:
People have to do be more critical about the stuff they consume on social media. So much misinformation and fake bullshit out there, like the OP.
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There's a thread about Marathon here where people with no interest in the game spend hours daily for the past few weeks just constantly observing its concurrent users on Steam so they can bash it and try to predict its death. You could not pay me to do that for a game I have no interest in, let alone spend so much time and energy for free. Based on that alone, the OP seems at least plausible.
 
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Skifi28 said:
There's a thread about Marathon here where people with no interest in the game spend hours daily for the past few weeks just observing its concurrent users on Steam so they can bash it and try to predict its death. You could not pay me to do that for a game I have no interest in, let alone spend so much time and energy for free. Based on that alone, the OP seems at least plausible.
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Skifi28 said:
There's a thread about Marathon here where people with no interest in the game spend hours daily for the past few weeks just observing its concurrent users on Steam so they can bash it and try to predict its death. You could not pay me to do that for a game I have no interest in, let alone spend so much time and energy for free. Based on that alone, the OP seems at least plausible.
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Zacfoldor said:
But does objective reality even exist or is it all in the eye of the observer?
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Esquie said:
People have to do be more critical about the stuff they consume on social media. So much misinformation and fake bullshit out there, like the OP.
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We are way past that and there's honestly no going back. Especially now that you don't need photoshop skills to edit/create fake images.
 
Merline said:
This is insane.

A Discord server is actively paying people to push hate and negative narratives around Marathon.

Not only that, they're giving detailed instructions on how to:
  • Manipulate engagement
  • Use multiple accounts
  • Blend in as "normal users
  • And even maintain specific political viewpoints to appear authentic.
  • This isn't "community criticism.
This is coordinated manipulation.

People always wonder why certain games suddenly get flooded with negativity out of nowhere, this is exactly how it happens.

And the craziest part? They're literally paying for it.

vXiHmlT.png

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It's funny if people think this is the first game to have this happen. Literally almost all major releases have this. I have a conspiracy that discord was literally created for the sole purpose of shitting up and ruining all online discourse/message boards with shit posting and bots. I can't prove it other than a few screenshots floating around on /v/, but they don't call it discord for nothing. Can't say who exactly funds it or why but it's pretty clear it's been happening for a while. DD2 was targeted by a similar group as well.
 
Is this how we find the bot accounts?

See if the same people reply to this thread with the same shock that they did to the earlier thread.
 
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