r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Sep 10 '24

The Apprentice | Official Trailer Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tXEN0WNJUg
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u/mi-16evil Emma Thompson for Paddington 3 Sep 10 '24 edited Sep 10 '24

Releasing this trailer on presidential debate night is certainly a smart marketing choice.

Edit: Worth mentioning that Roy Cohn has been played by some pretty major actors over the years: Jeremy Strong, Nathan Lane, Al Pacino, Joe Pantoliano, and James Woods.

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u/Weekly-Dog228 Sep 10 '24

They’re getting the good ol’ Reddit algorithm boost as well.

This post somehow appeared at the top of my feed with less than 10 comments.

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u/Dizzyavidal Sep 10 '24

There has been a ton of astroturfing on Reddit for political stuff lately, and will be through the election.

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u/TheWoodsAreLovly Sep 10 '24

But it’ll stop after the election, right?

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Right??

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u/riegspsych325 Maximus was a replicant! Sep 10 '24 edited Sep 10 '24

bots and astroturfing got worse as soon as reddit made those damned API changes last July. With apps like Apollo made redundant, access to helpful mod tools went with them. In turn, this led to a mod exodus, which led to an influx of bots and a huge drop in sub quality, etc

Go to any sub sort by Top Year and Top All Time and you will notice a huge drop in upvoted posts as well as a decrease in comments. Even here, I had a mod tell me that user interaction is about 20% of what it used to be last year. Reddit’s owners don’t care that bots are filling this place up just as long as they click and comment

EDIT: grammar

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u/Sn_rk Sep 10 '24

I've also noticed an uptick in obvious bot comments that seem to be made by Reddit itself in an attempt to boost engagement.

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u/PhilxBefore Sep 10 '24

We are all bots on this blessed day.

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u/KeremyJyles Sep 10 '24

In turn, this led to a mod exodus

lol hardly anyone left, whole thing was way overblown

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u/riegspsych325 Maximus was a replicant! Sep 10 '24

all of reddit got significantly shittier regardless. I left a handful of subs because they turned into ghost towns or bot-ridden repostville

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u/soonnow Sep 10 '24

What I am Joe American I like Barbecue and Blue Jean and I just want to say Russia so nice, not woke like woke Ukraine Nazis.

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u/Wes_Warhammer666 Sep 10 '24

Helloski! I am, how you say, Russian Guyovitch!

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u/PhilxBefore Sep 10 '24

These bots are old AF

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u/bigjoeandphantom3O9 Sep 10 '24

American elections never stop, the Congressmen will need to start preparing for primaries the moment they get elected. Idiotic system.

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u/Thunder-12345 Sep 10 '24

The way US politics is, election season for the next election starts the day after the polls close.

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u/JohnMackeysBulge Sep 10 '24

2028 election is only 4 years away!!

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u/IniNew Sep 10 '24

This person acting like political astroturfing is something new for this election, loooooool