PeakMetrics grabbed a sample of 52,000 posts made on X within the first 24 hours of Cracker Barrel’s announcement that it would be modernizing its logo to an admittedly very plain and generic design. In that timeframe, it found that 44.5% of all mentions of Cracker Barrel were flagged as likely or higher bot activity. Those numbers climb even higher when a boycott is mentioned. About 1,000 posts in that first 24-hour period called on people to stop eating at Cracker Barrel, and 49% of those posts got flagged as likely coming from bots. In its report, PeakMetrics states that the boycott was unlikely to be an organic grassroots response but a “bot-assisted amplification seeded by meme/activist accounts.”
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.
The point where I realized it was fake was when nobody was complaining about the font or going “Uhm, aktually it’s ‘typeface’!”
lol, people really do care about the fonts.
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.
Pretty much all the out rage was on Twitter and Twitter is 90% bots so this is a big fat DUH!
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.
Any apparent outrage over anything except fascism is inevitably fabricated in some way, whether by bots or paid shills
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.
No surprise. And next week, something new.
Makes sense, never met somebody actually mad about it.
My parents are the clowns that eat up bot manipulation posts. I have never seen them go anywhere to eat. But somehow they were CB masters. Their friend group is just as stupid to. They buy into rage bait like children and most of us kids are just done with them. It’s pathetic.
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.
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