EA Sports FC's Twitter Is As Fake As Real Twitter

I’ve never liked social media feeds in video games. They are the dullest part of world-building, a false and sanitised rendition of a highly toxic experience we are all accustomed to. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Marvel's Midnight Suns did 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:a decent job of making it seem real by restricting it to superheroes alone, but mostly, they feel like a waste of space and time. In 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:EA Sports FC 25, a social media feed has been more prominently integrated into Car𓆉eer Mode, and all it has done is remind me that the social med✅ia I once knew is dead.

There are two versions of the Dead Internet Theory: the crackpot one, and the 'actually that makes a lot of sense' one. As you may have guessed from my framing, I am a casual believer in the latter - and video games have helped show me the way. The crackpot version is that most things you see on the internet are fake🅰, generated by bots to feed algorithms, designed by a cabal of governments to keep the population docile and easily manipulated. The sensible version of the theory is much the same, but without the cabal of governments part.

We can see, very ♏clearly, that a lot of content on social media is bot generated. On Twitter, I think this is more commonly found in replies, while on Facebook, we see more bot posts (often nonsensical AI images designed to draw gullible replies from Facebook's less tech-savvy audience). Of course, even on Twitter, TikTok, and all the other platforms, many real people post things so asinine and generic that they are near indistinguishable from bots.

At that point, it barely matters what the motivation is, or whether it's actual bots or real people acting like 🌠them - the platform🔴 is dead. This has been a rapid downhill slump since Elon Musk took over Twitter.

The double header of making people buy verification to monetise it, and inorganically boosting verified responses to the top of threads means most accounts with anything close to a substantial following now have their replies flooded with bot phrases repeating other bots, repeating the tweet, posting several times with a string of emojis, guessing at 𒈔madlibs, advertising adult content, or any other number of non-responses designed to make a sliver of a penny off each post rather than engaging with what is being said.

EA Sports FC 25 Bruno Guimaraes tackling Iwobi

Playing EA Sports FC 25, I was suddenly struck with how much we had lost. Aside from the (these days, minor) benefits I feel a Twitter account gives me as a games journalist, my main use of Twitter was as a network of football fans. Twitter allowed me to see the different conversations that various fan groups w♛ere having, keep up with the news, see some highlights, keep up with other leagues, and maintain a closeness to my own club and its fanbase.

These days, there's very little hope of much of that. Between 'influencers' making themselves into the main character and the bot responses, football Twitter is awash with fire emojis and replies that feel like they were written by Data from Star Trek. Check out these fake, in-gam🀅e responses to Angel Gomes' (unfortunately, also fake) debut for Newcastle, and these real replies to the Premier League, TNT, and NUFC's posts about Anthony Gordon's equaliser against Man City at the ♔weekend.

All Of These Tweets Seem Fake

It's not entirely ruined. I follow a lot of active Newcastle fans, and their replies are generally full of real people. Some hyperbolic morons, but still, real people. As annoying as it is to hear about transfers eight times before they go through, Twitter does remain my main news source during th🦩e window - not that it did me any good as a Newcastle fan, but if a p♒layer I'm less familiar with signs for anyone, I no longer bother checking the replies for insight.

It's a🍎n odd thing to lament the death of Twitter, because I suppose I never really liked it anyway. Musk has made himself the face of this new direction, and that makes its slump indelibly his too - after many private failures he has spun into masterful gambits, here we see the car door slamming shut in slow motion, for the world꧅ to see. Maybe that's satisfying too.

But for all I rarely posted and even when it was active, disliked most people who did, the complete erosion of any sort of comment section means Twitter is now just a series of beggars with bullhorns trampling over everything you liked. There was an 'inventor' recently who devised an all AI social media, where fake characওters would reply to your inane posts, but all you need to do is buy a blue checkmark and you can hav🐻e that experience on Twitter.

EA Sports FC 25 has put real effꦆort into its social media feed, getting ꩲreal accounts from notable figures like Fabrizio Romano and The Athletic involved. But it can't break through the barrier that every fake social media feed in video games faces, of coming across as painfully false and corporatised. Fortunately for EA, the real Twitter is just like that too. By making it so fake, it’s the most real a social media feed has ever been.