How fake accounts and an angry fan base brought back the Justice League

Dealing a crushing blow to the viability of the RestoreTheSynderVerse movement and winning the Flash Oscar for “The most joyful moment” rolling rock He released a surprising report earlier today detailing the ways fake accounts have fueled the #ReleaseTheSnyderCut campaign that devastated social media a few years ago and left us stuck longer version of Justice Squad.

As hard as it is to believe, a large part of the heroes of Snyder Cut were bots or fake accounts, some of which, according to rolling rockHelp Snyder rush into a frenzy between the first version of Justice Squad Even after Snyder’s release bowed to HBO Max. Two reports commissioned by WarnerMedia showed that “at least 13 percent of the accounts that participated in the conversation about Snyder Cut were considered fake.” The norm on Twitter is roughly three to five percent, so, as the outlet reported, “real situations have been inflated by a disproportionate number of fake accounts.”

One report concluded:

After researching online conversations about Snyder Cut of Justice Squadspecifically the hashtags ReleaseTheSnyderCut and RestoreTheSnyderVerse on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, [the analysts] Discover an increase in negative activity caused by real and fake authors. One community identified was made up of real and fake authors posting negative content about WarnerMedia for not getting “SnyderVerse” back. In addition, three key leaders were identified among authors scanned on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram – one leader in each platform. These leaders have received the most engagement and have many followers, which gives them the ability to influence public opinion.

But the report is more incriminating for Snyder, than rolling rock All but accusations of actively manipulating the media and arming his fan base against studio executives and journalists. As one source told the outlet, “Zack was like Lex Luthor wreaking havoc.” After 2019, when the popularity surrounding the Snyder Cut movement led to a standard series of death threats and memes depicting CEOs separated from Warner Bros. CEOs. Sent to the families of the aforementioned executives, Snyder continued to benefit from his fan base. In one case, he allegedly warned a reporter who published a story about a flash He declared that he objected that his fans were “beautiful, beautiful, too cruel”.

According to the report, much of Snyder’s anger is toward Warner Bros. Regarding the release of Justice League Zack Snyder It was on producers credit originally given to Jeff Jones and John Berg. Cyborg actor Ray Fisher previously accused Johns and Berg of enabling director Joss Whedon, Who Fischer alleged was abusive on the set Justice Squad. Snyder wanted their names removed from Snyder, and after they took so long to do so, he told one of the executives, “Jeff and John are dragging their feet to remove their names from my story. Now, I’m going to destroy them on social media.”

The piece also more or less accuses Snyder of paying for Snyder Cut publicity stunts, such Times Square Ad (the article states that these can cost over $50,000 a day) and Plane flies over Comic Con to announce Synder pieces. Snyder denied this and most of the allegations in the piece. But as one source put it, these stunts were “just more coordinated bullshit than Zack.”

The entire report is a great behind-the-scenes look at a movie that shouldn’t be, one that the studio deemed a “total failure” when the original movie was released in 2017. But one quote from an anonymous insider in the piece explains why: “$73 million While people were losing their studio jobs because of a director being cut out of a movie that had already lost hundreds of millions.”

Read the full reportwhich includes stolen hard drives, the web of conspiracy surrounding fake accounts, and the war to get Martian Manhunter into the movie.