we are marshall food truck
― just a couple of assholes having breakfast (slothroprhymes), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 15:59 (nine years ago) link
corny-indie-fuxx-hating
he's a corny indie fuck who hates corny indie fuxx
probably just supporting the "ott is a distorted ilxor" theory here
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 16:00 (nine years ago) link
xp to myself (the sequel, with a hot soundtrack full of tunes from the most unknown boston DIY bands possible & a bit of shoegaze for nostalgia)
― just a couple of assholes having breakfast (slothroprhymes), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 16:00 (nine years ago) link
but when ott goes on his true indie ad-free music journo crusades he overwhelmingly targets women which imo is gross and fuck him
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 16:01 (nine years ago) link
WHY can you people not ignore this clown? i am sure that no one outside this thread gives a fuck so you are probably the only people keeping him alive
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 10 December 2014 16:02 (nine years ago) link
Yeah I always understood that as the reason ilx gets upset not because he in general carries himself like the ilx strawman
xp
― Evan, Wednesday, 10 December 2014 16:03 (nine years ago) link
It's just silly to say "hey ilx you give him shit when he's just like one of you" as if ilx isn't happy to give shit to its own when they get ott-ish as well.
― da croupier, Wednesday, 10 December 2014 16:11 (nine years ago) link
also i feel like ilx doesn't care enough to get fired up about corny indie bullshit anymore. i could be way off there but it seems like those battles were fought long ago. though i guess the pitcfork is dumb thread still gets plenty of action. also i've kind of avoid the year end critics poll thread
― marcos, Wednesday, 10 December 2014 16:14 (nine years ago) link
― lex pretend, Wednesday, December 10, 2014 10:02 AM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
always weird to me to see some crude or just incomprehensible tweet of his have a dozen or so likes and RTs. he has his fans, i guess
― goole, Wednesday, 10 December 2014 16:15 (nine years ago) link
also i just will always lol @ call all destoyer's instruction to always imagine a loaded gun on the table during ott's monologue videos
― marcos, Wednesday, 10 December 2014 16:18 (nine years ago) link
though i guess the pitcfork is dumb thread still gets plenty of action.
It has apparently become the "spot the typo and run-on sentence in today's reviews" thread
― Evan, Wednesday, 10 December 2014 16:19 (nine years ago) link
he has his fans, i guess
And about 10,000 paid-for bots.
https://www.twitteraudit.com/shallowrewards
― Position Position, Wednesday, 10 December 2014 17:06 (nine years ago) link
huh i didn't know about that site
looks like about 1000 of my 6500 are fake but i'm not super surprised i get a lot of fakey looking accounts replying to me sometimes
― you say tomato/i say imago (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 17:10 (nine years ago) link
My followers are 94% real.
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 17:11 (nine years ago) link
yeah idk about "paid for" there. I have 33k fake followers and nobody in my camp paid for that because lol be serious
― The Complainte of Ray Tabano, Wednesday, 10 December 2014 17:12 (nine years ago) link
but are the bennies real?
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 17:12 (nine years ago) link
the realest
yeah looking at some co-workers most media ppl w/decent-ish followings are gonna run between 80-95 percent real....
as two somewhat applicable comparisons, jessica hopper is 94 percent real and whiney is 84 percent real....i'm 84 as well, lots of it you can't control obviously who spam accounts' algorhythms decide to follow
but yeah ott's 6% real rating is pretty drastically low to the point where there's gotta be something up
― you say tomato/i say imago (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 17:17 (nine years ago) link
ray how many total do you have?
just under 100k
― The Complainte of Ray Tabano, Wednesday, 10 December 2014 17:20 (nine years ago) link
well yr still running 75 percent-ish real then....i feel like you hit certain levels and more bots start to attach themselves, i noticed that around 5K...so i'd imagine if you're closing in at 100k there's gonna be more bot activity....
but ott is running 650-ish real and 10K+ fake i don't see why that many bots would randomly decide to attach to it, or at least i don't see any evidence that it happens often
― you say tomato/i say imago (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 17:22 (nine years ago) link
maybe bots just like him. they crave the authenticity they can never achieve
― The Complainte of Ray Tabano, Wednesday, 10 December 2014 17:29 (nine years ago) link
botts be hott for ott
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 17:32 (nine years ago) link
maybe he name-drops brands a lot more than most
― da croupier, Wednesday, 10 December 2014 17:32 (nine years ago) link
ottbotgate
― Brio2, Wednesday, 10 December 2014 17:36 (nine years ago) link
I like that answer, still <1000 real followers and 10k fake is pretty weird
OTTOH for him to get caught buying followers would be so rich it's hard for me to imagine him risking it
― The Complainte of Ray Tabano, Wednesday, 10 December 2014 17:37 (nine years ago) link
for every sensitive nerdlinger who shakes their head when ott at-replys a pitchfork scribe about bacardi for the 80th time, eight bots just see the word Bacardi, and assumes he's on the street team.
― da croupier, Wednesday, 10 December 2014 17:40 (nine years ago) link
OTTOH
lol
― gr8080, Wednesday, 10 December 2014 17:41 (nine years ago) link
I don't even think you'd need to "buy" followers to corral that number at this point, just (knowingly or unknowingly) get their attention
― da croupier, Wednesday, 10 December 2014 17:43 (nine years ago) link
can we just turn this thread into a twitteraudit thread, because I'm finding that way more interesting than ott-talk (Ray's Ott puns notwithstanding)
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 17:44 (nine years ago) link
(sorry, nottwithstanding)
maybe he's just really deep undercover blowing the lid off the whole corporate marketing takeover of indie rock and he has to buy bots to fit in, like when Rust Cohle had to do meth in True Detective
― Brio2, Wednesday, 10 December 2014 17:47 (nine years ago) link
loooollllllllllll
― just a couple of assholes having breakfast (slothroprhymes), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 17:49 (nine years ago) link
love from a bot don't startle wry ott
― da croupier, Wednesday, 10 December 2014 17:50 (nine years ago) link
Doesn't Ott work in IT? Paid or not, he's figured out how to manipulate the system. Either way he's rallying to almost no one.
― Position Position, Wednesday, 10 December 2014 17:53 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3RjtmOeDhA
― gr8080, Wednesday, 10 December 2014 17:53 (nine years ago) link
There are over 1700 posts in this thread. I wonder how many would be here if you removed all "bennies" references.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 18:46 (nine years ago) link
4 or 5
― Evan, Wednesday, 10 December 2014 18:46 (nine years ago) link
Why does the perennial WGW "this is what ILX is" argument follow up with a description of himself and only himself
― fgti, Thursday, 11 December 2014 00:29 (nine years ago) link
Ott-watchers take note he is in the midst of launching into a harrowing first person account of the first time he saw Boogie Nights:
https://twitter.com/shallowrewards
― Badmotorfinger Debate Club (MFB), Thursday, 11 December 2014 00:43 (nine years ago) link
zing-centric,
check
belly-button-gazing,
check, though less than some, who's not guilty on this count
nit-picky,
two checks
narc-of-small-diff music,
check check check
need I say check
think goon tie merits an otm from you here my man
― The Complainte of Ray Tabano, Thursday, 11 December 2014 00:44 (nine years ago) link
caught up on Ott's twitter feed, he's been on quite a run lately. telling a female writer he's almost ready to file his libel suit against her, defending the Pomplamoose guy's essay, taking great satisfaction in the downfall of Wondering Sound.
― some dude, Monday, 15 December 2014 03:51 (nine years ago) link
ok, i'll bite, why the hell is he threatening a libel suit on twitter
― call all destroyer, Monday, 15 December 2014 04:01 (nine years ago) link
It's that DIY spirit
― Evan, Monday, 15 December 2014 04:07 (nine years ago) link
Ott also started a fight with one of the human cocaine baggies from DIIV, apparently dude's misogyny is bad because he looks old (?)
― cucked by steely dan (Andre Gunder Frank 3000), Monday, 15 December 2014 04:23 (nine years ago) link
ott saying that DIIV's singer is actually 10 years older than they say he is is my fav ott conspiracy
― J0rdan S., Monday, 15 December 2014 05:15 (nine years ago) link
threatening someone during the holidays, over twitter, publicly, that "you're about to have really, really bad new year" is slimy as fuck
― katherine, Monday, 15 December 2014 05:17 (nine years ago) link
not that there's a great time to do this, mind you (even if it's just a libel suit, which anyone who knows the remotest amount of media law knows is pretty toothless), but still
― katherine, Monday, 15 December 2014 05:20 (nine years ago) link
all his recent DIIV tweets are 9.0 classics
― J0rdan S., Monday, 15 December 2014 05:25 (nine years ago) link
i can't believe this thread is 11 years old.
i heard a long-ass time ago that grimes/james bought ott a bunch of fake followers as a joke. true or false, i still remember his count exploding overnight
― soyrev, Monday, 15 December 2014 12:52 (nine years ago) link