Let me know if you ever find an entertainment review medium that isn’t actually comprimised ok. If you do, I bet it’s crowdsourced, not made by a company.
RedLetterMedia
Red Letter Media is like working class Roger and Ebert. When they discuss things they do a great job of clarifying their personal preferences separate from their criticisms.
I would agree with you to until I saw the cobweb review last night. That movie is absolutely garbage, I think they are getting some kind of kick back
Crowdsourced won’t work either since the crowd is compromised.
It costs pennies a review to get a bot army going.
If you want a real answer find a YouTuber with a moderate following that you enjoy and listen to them.
There are plenty of them that are genuinely fun to watch but not big enough that studios try to influence them. They are also all Canadian for some reason.
I don’t watch youtubers, fuck Google sorry
Piped, friend. Watch Youtube without supporting google.
Use ad blockers so you’re just a drain on their servers.
It happened to the Better Business Bureau, Yelp, Google Reviews, Amazon Reviews. If you google random products + reviews, you’ll get limitless “review websites” with the product you are looking at, with lots of suspicious “affiliate” links.
All reviews on the internet are BS. In the past, Consumer Reports was seen as legitimate, it’s the only one who might be legit now.
The Better Business Bureau was always a protection racket. Businesses pay (a lot) for membership. If you aren’t a member you can’t respond to complaints and it impacts your business negatively. Members can respond to a complaint and no matter what the response is, or if the customer is satisfied, the complaint gets marked as resolved.
Temu is pretty blatant about buying reviews on play store as well as it’s own.
Not all reviews are BS–all review sites are BS. Plenty of real people post real reviews mixed in with the fake ones.
That’s fair. The signal-to-noise ratio makes it hard to determine truth.
Hey remember a few years ago when people were talking about film critics being bribed by Disney?
Explains why critics will rate movies a 10 and users a 4
Looking at both critic and audience reviews scores on these sites is often a good indicator.
If there’s a large disparity between the two, someone made some money (and interestingly, it happens most often with AAA games …).
Depends. This was more often done for indie movies. The audience score can be prone to brigading.
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