Lin Xia even saw dozens of accounts controlled by Z skillfully starting flame wars.
Using snarky, passive-aggressive language that looked incredibly familiar—as if it had graduated from the darkest corners of the internet—they instantly set off a few doubters, kicking off flame wars that stretched for hundreds of replies.
Lin Xia: "..."
'Pretty good, it's adding to the hype! And the comment section isn't entirely just flame wars...'
To be fair, most manufactured comments have a distinctly bot-like feel to them.
On many social media platforms, you can tell at a glance that the comments are being deliberately controlled... That kind of cookie-cutter praise is just too obvious.
But now, anyone who saw the comments under these trending topics... would never think it was astroturfing! They'd never think they were bots.
It was too chaotic.
