You can never trust audience ratings during the movie theatre release window, because either the review websites themselves or the movie industry botnets will have manipulated the figures.
This has been the rule since these review websites gained prominence and were acquired by multi-million dollar mega-corporations.
Gamergate. Media review/news sites' customers are the media sites they talk about. If they talk poorly about the big players, ads get pulled and they go broke.
IMDB is owned by Amazon. It's become obvious by now that they curate their search results for products on their website, to push Chinesium garbage, and has tons of fake reviews to prop up bad products. There's literally no disincentive for corrupt companies to prop up their products with fake reviews, regardless of industry. With the decrease in social cohesion and trust, the increase in corruption and apathy only exacerbates the problem.
You can never trust audience ratings during the movie theatre release window, because either the review websites themselves or the movie industry botnets will have manipulated the figures.
This has been the rule since these review websites gained prominence and were acquired by multi-million dollar mega-corporations.
Gamergate. Media review/news sites' customers are the media sites they talk about. If they talk poorly about the big players, ads get pulled and they go broke.
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IMDB is owned by Amazon. It's become obvious by now that they curate their search results for products on their website, to push Chinesium garbage, and has tons of fake reviews to prop up bad products. There's literally no disincentive for corrupt companies to prop up their products with fake reviews, regardless of industry. With the decrease in social cohesion and trust, the increase in corruption and apathy only exacerbates the problem.