Hat Tip - Ace of Spades blog
The CEO, Bob Iger, had a recent shareholder meeting statement, in which he buffaloed investors with a lot of bullshit. DEIsney's share price rose from something like $92 to $110.
But it might not have just been Bob Iger's unbelievable bullshit that caused the rise -- there is a persuasive case that an army of bots has been assembled to constantly talk up how attractive DEIsney's stock is, and how, allegedly, it is exceeding analyst expectations.
It’s easy to make a few fake reddit accounts and engage in guerilla marketing. All you need is one account that’s big enough to create a subreddit and then you can set it to allow brand new accounts to post on that subreddit and just make hundreds of bots if you need to market something and just them chatting about the thing you want advertised.
Yeah, but you still need to eventually do real "pr" and get it noticed by actual people who touch grass. Because if they are just bots who find it...and your bots are just the lure....then you just spend time thinking you are "influencing" people when you are just honeypotting yourself.
It’s called SEO. Reddit has pride of place on the normie search engines so a bunch of accounts all posting glowing things about something will keep it turning up when people search your product.
Basically all a company has to do is get a fake Reddit account, karma farm by posting on catsstandingup or some other karma farm subreddit, and then create a subreddit and allow in the settings of that subreddit that new accounts can post. Reddit accounts don’t require email verification so you can just create hundreds of accounts using private browsers and different vpns and then just enhance the message.
Somebody now searches your product on a search engine and your subreddit turns up.
Even really tiny subreddits like r/ethanliming turn up on search engines lol.