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Pretty much all the out rage was on Twitter and Twitter is 90% bots so this is a big fat DUH!
Of course it was. It never made any sense to me that anyone would GAF.
The thing is people were persuaded to GAF. We hear “driven by bots” and we think “oh so it was fake.” But bots are merely the PR mechanism of choice in 2025. In prior decades it might have been AM radio and a bunch of press releases faxed around or influence networks pumping the talk shows for airtime or church networks getting people riled up from the pulpit. But the game has always been the same. It’s only the tools that have changed.
Yes, but that’s like saying cutting trees is the same game when it went from handsaws to today’s harvesters. Technically they do the same thing, but the scale and efficiency is a world apart.
Oh I completely agree. My point is that just because it was driven by bots doesn’t mean it was fake and therefore we can ignore it (I believe some people have that perception when they hear that some online uproar was driven by bots).
Absolutely!
I thought it was stupid but not stupid enough to boycott
Yes. It's incredibly stupid. But I don't see why anyone cares.
That said, I could absolutely believe that the rebranding was to deliberately destroy the brand, as part of some rich people destroy Toys R Us / Gamestop type of crap.
I could see that as it was such a stupid logo
TLDR: Conservatives got big mad because Cracker Barrel wanted to take the cracker and the barrel off the logo.
That is not the tldr, lol.
😂
People are easily convinced to choose a view based on what everyone else around them is doing. This is why Ai is such a threat right now because a single actor can flood social media, comment boards and other online groups with comments arguing a point to convince everyone theyre the ones with the alternative view. It's programmed social manipulation.
God, that was such a weird controversy. I don't like oversimplified Silicon Valley culture-esque logos, but this was blown out of proportion (and surprisingly partisan, for some reason?)
When you strip away real people caring, this is what it looks like when you're left with just the bots. They chose bi-partisan for this, because they always choose bi-partisan. Someone screaming alone isn't worth much.
Sounds about right, not even (most) rightwingers are stupid enough to care about that shit.
My uncle blew a lid at dinner over Cracker Barrel. They believe whatever their media tells them.
My solace is I know what gift card to get him for Christmas.
Be that as it may, its the only thing the right actually banded together for this year aside from using Charlie Kirk's death as a call for genocide.
stock price manipulation? idk could be likely. just have a botnet for hire and then buy the manufactured dip
Any apparent outrage over anything except fascism is inevitably fabricated in some way, whether by bots or paid shills
No surprise. And next week, something new.
At this point. I wouldn't be surprised if we found our Cracker Barrel was outrage farming, paid the botner to manufacture it for them so they could change it back and reap the boost from conservatives.
Modern internet for you.
It may be far from perfect, but it's why I have such a soft spot for alternative to modern social media. If I'm going to put my through a slog of keeping these sorts of official social media accounts ip and running, I might as well make it a nicer experience.
What? You think flat earthers are real? It’s a great topic to use to see how far down the believability about other people will go.
It’s me, I’m bots.
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