Saturday, 10 November 2018

‘Fake band’ Threatin just played a UK tour to… pretty much no-one

quote [ Paid-for Facebook likes and YouTube comments from a 'fake band' called Threatin have led to one of the strangest stories of the year. ]

Paid to fake it in a traveling band
[SFW] [music] [+6 Funny]
[by ScoobySnacks@6:19amGMT]

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straw said @ 6:15pm GMT on 10th Nov [Score:4 Informative]
I too got the redirect error, but I'm guessing the link eventually ended up at Metal Sucks.net: L.A. Band Threatin Faked a Fanbase To Land a European Tour No One Attended.

And dayumn...
ComposerNate said @ 10:12am GMT on 10th Nov
... thereby receiving international media exposure plus 900,000 views of his music video, etc.
rylex said @ 11:51am GMT on 10th Nov
Its like i tried to tell some dipshit social media influencer the other day. Online presence does not always translate into real world market sales.
backSLIDER said @ 5:18pm GMT on 10th Nov
Well duh... but on the other hand this does give us some out of bounds data. Most people would expect this but with out actually testing we still have an outside chance of being wrong. I never thought people would be stupid enough for but coin to work in it's current form but I was wrong.
arrowhen said @ 1:49am GMT on 11th Nov
Wat
dolemite said @ 5:23pm GMT on 10th Nov
Not really surprising. For a fake band to have a successful tour they'd really have to turn it up to 11.
steele said @ 5:51pm GMT on 10th Nov
Does this link actually work for anybody? I just keep getting redirected.
Ankylosaur said @ 5:56pm GMT on 10th Nov
It was working, but not anymore.
rylex said @ 11:55pm GMT on 10th Nov
It was a fake link. Paid to be posted by steele. He paid me $5 to fake comment too
steele said @ 1:09am GMT on 11th Nov
Dude didn't take it far enough. He should've paid for some "fans" to show up, record the packed shows, use the new footage for legit videos, etc. Could've astroturfed his way into stardom if he hadn't gotten lazy.
arrowhen said @ 1:47am GMT on 11th Nov
After watching their video, I'd say they could have a promising career in getting people to pay them to stop playing.
moriati said @ 9:44am GMT on 11th Nov
Been done.

"We are the four horseman of the rock apocalypse ..."
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C18H27NO3 said @ 7:35pm GMT on 11th Nov
Is this like the fake restaurant? Man, fake is en vogue nowadays. We even have a fake prezid*nt.

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