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A few examples of how this looks in practice. Also read the follow-up tweets! https://twitter.com/borasaekfarmer/status/1337201494710476804
A solo account - always a rival fandom member - creates a controversy, then bots amplify it, until real accounts jump on the bandwagon. Below some examples:
Not saying this account is necessarily bad, but they misspelled maknae and link to a shop that also deals with SM merch. 10h ago this acc tweeted the above text, too, and 200+ accounts copypaste spammed it under the article.
Many of these accounts were created in 2020 and many are obviously fronting to be ARMY while being multifans.
For the record, I singled out this one Arab account BC I happened to stumble into them & can prove that they're involved with sales/shipping, but these exist in all languages in all territories & often have ties to unauthorized merch stores, etc.
Do you honestly believe that a fan of Jungkook would not care to correct the spelling mistake in "golden maknae", a word that is very frequently seen throughout Twitter? It doesn't make sense, nor that nobody messaged them about it.
So what does this all prove? It proves that controversies are driven by suspicious large accounts and amplified by suspicious 2020 accounts who are often sockpuppets. VET YOUR TIMELINE! Don't just follow big accounts, especially not solo member ones.
The cold-hearted truth is that not a single solo-focused account is innocent, and you have to stop mimicking their behaviour bc you're just embarrassing us & BTS.
