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How Rotten Tomatoes Gets Skewed by Paid Critics

May 14, 20262 min
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Speaker 1

They had a channel on serious and I was like, oh, and I listened to it, you know, because I love movies and everything, And there was one program in particular. There were like five people on that show, and we're talking about.

Speaker 2

The newest movie, this news movie that Da da da da, and all five of them would have the exact same opinion about the same damn movie.

Speaker 1

It's just like, that's statistically impossible unless you are all in on this together and you're sitting saying the same crap. Let's just say, oh god, when that first Star Disney Star Wars movie came out, they're all saying the same things.

Speaker 2

Oh my god, it's so amazing all this oh time, God, it's so perfect for a new installation.

Speaker 1

And I'm just like, okay, they're hyping it up. Because I was on the fence. I went and saw it and I was just like, no, this is a remake of the original. And like the trusted guys I listened to on YouTube and some of my friends I trust with movies, we had a similar opinion. This movie is just a remake of a new hope, that's it. Why is this girl this way? How how can she do this? No? No, no, no, no, we were actually talking about it and you couldn't get

that out of Rotten Tomatoes. It's just like you fraught because because they they they're they bow down to their company overlords.

Speaker 2

Yeah.

Speaker 1

Found out later, oh, Rotten Tomatoes actually has paid critics on there, not paid for their thoughts, but paid to say this, save that

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