that astroturfing campaign to make putin look super cool was one of the weirdest fucking things i've ever seen on the internet. A lot of people fell for it, came out of no where, blew up on every corner of the internet and it worked extremely well till russiagate happened. Genuinely a interesting moment of internet history that is almost all forgotten today.
oh yeah I don't think it was all astroturfing but I do believe in the start it was at least some-what. It was popular on 4chan and reddit which are both super ripe for astroturfing but once the hiveminds all agree that they like it, their job is done. I could be completely wrong, but it just seemed that way looking back at it because of just how stupid it was and how popular it really was. i can't say for sure though
that astroturfing campaign to make putin look super cool was one of the weirdest fucking things i've ever seen on the internet. A lot of people fell for it, came out of no where, blew up on every corner of the internet and it worked extremely well till russiagate happened. Genuinely a interesting moment of internet history that is almost all forgotten today.
I don't even think it was astroturfing, just people saw photos of Shirtless Putin on a horse or throwing people around a Dojo and thought he was cool,
oh yeah I don't think it was all astroturfing but I do believe in the start it was at least some-what. It was popular on 4chan and reddit which are both super ripe for astroturfing but once the hiveminds all agree that they like it, their job is done. I could be completely wrong, but it just seemed that way looking back at it because of just how stupid it was and how popular it really was. i can't say for sure though
Still a thing in like, a couple manga I've heard of the past few years, where Putin is a big buff macho dude who wants to ride stuff like this one which is a Putin Isekai where he wants to ride a Dragon I think as well as being the antagonist of Golloseum
what the fuck ?? lol