Comment on Mina The Hollower Is Now Metacritic's Highest-Rated Game Of 2026
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 1 day agoOh no, not even because they’re feeling guilty. If anything, those same YouTubers who get their audience angry for a living would have a monetary incentive to present proof if it existed. Actual astroturfers advertise their services on LinkedIn.
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
But by that logic, astroturfing simply wouldn’t work, when we know for a fact it works very well.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Astroturfing works where everyone is anonymous, but I don’t know how you expect it to work when every reviewer has a byline and an incentive to reveal corruption.