Kingpin wrote:After quieting down, the Ghostbusters hate train has started up again with news that angry fans are teaming up to artificially drive up the YouTube “dislikes” on the film’s official trailer. When we first broke that story last week, the trailer had 507,610 thumbs down votes. Today it has 734,351 thumbs down votes, an increase of 226,741 dislikes in just seven days for an average of 32,391 per day. That means the Ghostbusters trailer has more dislikes in one day than the Captain America: Civil War trailer has total. The trailer is still the most disliked movie trailer on YouTube* and has jumped from the 23rd most disliked all-time to 11th on the all-time list in one week.
As we noted at the time, the thumbs down votes aren’t organic, they’re part of a coordinated attack on the film by people who are opposed to its very existence. There have even been reports across the web that angry fans are using bots to artificially drive up the “dislikes” on the trailer. When you realize what is going on, it’s hard not to agree with Feig.
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To put the number of down votes per day into context, Ghostbusters Fans has 26,283 members, you'd be looking at every single member of this forum voting at least once(some folks twice or more) to get a similar result in the space of a week.
There is definitely something fishy if the information Screen Crush is presenting is accurate. Youtube has apparently confirmed that the numbers aren't naturally generated, but the person who mentioned Youtube didn't link to that source.
Something is definitely fishy about the numbers.
From day one, Sony has deleted numerous comments, and the likes vs. dislikes have fluctuated so much (the dislikes should have been a lot higher), that it's not even funny.
I, as well as a few more people noticed that on the third or fourth day, the dislikes were at around 480,000+. Then, a few hours later, they were around 450,000?
I also think it's funny that Sony/Paul Feig are resorting to accusing people of launching a calculated attacks against them. Sounds a little paranoid, if you ask me?