The trailer for Spider-Man: Brand New Day has surpassed the previous 24-hour benchmark set by Grand Theft Auto VI (475 million views) in under 12 hours.
Not to be a shit here, but, isn’t there simply no way to determine if this is actual buzz or inflated by bots? I’m not saying there isn’t hype or interest, I just also immediately thought, well these are the people who control the machine. They could set a taxpayer funded data center to drive the views up and just create interest.
There are entire companies who “try” to determine what it’s genuine or bots. So it definitely isn’t easy. However there are also financial advantages to getting it right, but there are also financial reasons to get it wrong.
Not to be a shit here, but, isn’t there simply no way to determine if this is actual buzz or inflated by bots? I’m not saying there isn’t hype or interest, I just also immediately thought, well these are the people who control the machine. They could set a taxpayer funded data center to drive the views up and just create interest.
There are entire companies who “try” to determine what it’s genuine or bots. So it definitely isn’t easy. However there are also financial advantages to getting it right, but there are also financial reasons to get it wrong.
So yes, it could be made up.