Pitchfork's Chris Ott takes No Prisoners

My followers are 94% real.

yeah idk about "paid for" there. I have 33k fake followers and nobody in my camp paid for that because lol be serious

but are the bennies real?

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

ray how many total do you have?

just under 100k

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

maybe bots just like him. they crave the authenticity they can never achieve

botts be hott for ott

maybe he name-drops brands a lot more than most

ottbotgate

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

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.

OTTOH

lol

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

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)

(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

loooollllllllllll

love from a bot don't startle wry ott

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3RjtmOeDhA

There are over 1700 posts in this thread. I wonder how many would be here if you removed all "bennies" references.

4 or 5

Why does the perennial WGW "this is what ILX is" argument follow up with a description of himself and only himself

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

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

corny-indie-fuxx-hating

need I say check

think goon tie merits an otm from you here my man

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.

ok, i'll bite, why the hell is he threatening a libel suit on twitter

It's that DIY spirit

Ott also started a fight with one of the human cocaine baggies from DIIV, apparently dude's misogyny is bad because he looks old (?)

ott saying that DIIV's singer is actually 10 years older than they say he is is my fav ott conspiracy

threatening someone during the holidays, over twitter, publicly, that "you're about to have really, really bad new year" is slimy as fuck

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

all his recent DIIV tweets are 9.0 classics

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

Lmao can you do that??

I'm gonna do that right now

*Dips into my bennies and extracts $20 which I use to buy Ott 10,000 fake twitter followers*

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

quite a bit of discussion of ott's follow count being 94 percent fake upthread, as determined via twitteraudit, so yea that combined with this tidbit adds up

yeah i meant to be replying to that, hah sorry :B

also, why is he threatening lindsay zoladz with a label suit? cld not find any explanation lol

haha wow. is he friendly w/ Grimes or is she on his enemies list? Murgatroid pointed out to me recently that Ott refers to his daughter as "Baby Grimes" repeatedly in tweets which just seems so odd and creepy.

Hahah that is so http://www.theonion.com/articles/cool-dad-raising-daughter-on-media-that-will-put-h,26132/

SD I would guess that she's too hyped by pitchfork to not(t) be on his enemies list.

Wait what did the DIIV dude do? I can't keep up

Wait what did the DIIV dude do? I can't keep up
--you say tomato/i say imago (upper mississippi sh@kedown)

some member of the band (not heroin-casualty zach cole himself) went on a tear of misogynist and sexist bullshit via 4chan

correction to above redundancy: misogynist and racist (and anti-Semitic! and homophobic) bullshit

grimes has tweeted anti pitchfork things, inc. "fuck pitchfork" and "pitchfork sucks"

He doesn't "hate people hyped by pitchfork", that's like really stupid thing to say, you clearly know nothing of the Ott

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