Alright, we all know the subreddits and social media's outside Reddit are plagued with shills. Over time they are evolving, but their traits are starting to put together a puzzle I think I may have solved part of. This is all tin foil just so you know. TLDR at end.
At the beginning, in early 2021, they used bot accounts. They were failures. Bots simply cannot deliver their narritvive properly and those issues were proving to people that their sheer existence meant Apes were correct. The coding script errors after comments, the profiles and names of the victims from the Vegas shooting, the word-for-word identical text string from 10+ bots, etc... bots were unreliable at best, but they contained one major flaw - liability. Someone has to be programing them, which is a direct and liable action to comit market fraud. One cannot simply say, "It's all the bots opinion, they did it themselves". No. They are directed to do what they did, and the liability risk was too much untop of the bots unreliability, so they moved on to people. The big non-conformance here is Liability
Shortly after, in 2021, they were making offers to just about anyone with a Reddit account to downtalk AMC using their words. We have multiple screen captures of these and they were rampant in 2021. Because a lot of people were innocent and confused, Apes are loyal, and well-versed people did not like the manipulation attempt, these messages got shared and made visible. This once again was a proof of their position and the threat against AMC. They didn't know who they could reach out too and trust with this kind of information, and even if someone agreed, how could they police them? They couldn't! The big non-conformance here is Trust
A small time frame after they stopped getting those with characteristics mentioned above, they targeted and made new accounts to diatract people from AMC. The most apparent ones at this time were Clove and Blackberry. Accounts out of nowhere started fueling up reasons to buy these for a squeeze. Blackberry got crushed and Clove was a pump and dump coordinated by them to detract money away from AMC. I think they quickly learned it was far too much effort for a distraction that can't be measured? How would they know how much money left AMC and if Apes made money on the pump and dumps, they would invest it back into AMC! The effort was not worth the intrinsic return and once the canary in the coalmine was dead, they couldn't do the trick with other stocks. The big non-conformance here is time required to manage shills and coordinate a direction for them. Micromanagement is a nightmare.
Approaching 2022, they started reaching out to accounts with longer histories, broader subredit use and put effort into either buying profiles or simply paying with bitcoin to have people say what they wanted. They seemed to go after profiles with people commenting on posts about their money issues. That's just what I noticed. They then used these accounts to build rapport, posting pictures of Apes and memes and basically being a plant in the community. Staying off the radar so they have the illusion of community. Then, when they needed too, they skilled. This is still common now, I believe, but the main non-conformance with this is 'all-or-none' risk. Once the account is marked as a shill, it's useless. They block people and use the clown emoji as a response, but this is a high risk account tactic because it takes a long time to build rapport and it can all be a waste in seconds. People have an incredibly developed sense of 'who is in our tribe, and who isnt'. The SHF shills are fighting two of the most developed senses we have as humans - pattern recognition and our tribe mates.
Further into 2022, they started simply making new accounts and blasting everything negative on the shotgun approach. If an account that's 5 days old gets burnt, oh well. Go after everyone and cause strife in the community. Guns blazing! The non-conformance with this is that with no rapport, and a new account, the battle hardened Apes know within seconds that people are shilling. This is why they changed their tactic to 'loving AMC, but wanting to leave because_____'. This was most noticeable with company events because they had time to instill fear. That's their main tactic. That's what their play is with the lawsuit, buy time and instill fear. They know endurance is hard for people, but they dont know how tough you millenials and Gen Zs are. All of you tough 'children of tragedy' have experienced is 9/11, dot-com bust, Swine flu fears, 2008 great recession, 2011 recession, housing bubble, university/college bubble, Ebola fears, Healthcare expense bubble, Microcephaly for the pregnant women in 2017, pandemic in 2020, inflation in 2021/22 and the disappearance of so much good in-between... good fucking luck scaring you people! Haha man, I would not want that job! You simply can't be scared of whatever they can use the fake news and shills to say. Anyway, the non-conformance here is that these accounts come and go and can be spotted a mile away, only scaring off the new Apes and inexperienced people who don't have accounts. Note that they are still doing this.
So! They maintain the shotgun shills, but for the evolved shill of 2023! Their big struggle is this:
'How does one find a shill that they can transfer liability too, instill trust in a new person to not report the act of them paying for malicious intent, have that person policed and managed, build rapport with the community, potentially have karma with a broad account to seem 'real', and shill' for payment off record?
I believe the answer is SHF and Market Maker employees' family members.
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The liability is on their employees - "This staff member acted alone". "We don't condone these actions and that member has been released. The SEC can deal with them accordingly". They say this verbally to their staff and the staff take the risk on their family memebers.
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The trust is subcontracted to their staff - Blood is thicker than wine and family will not rat you out. "If you say anything, I will get fired or fined or charged". The potential family memebers will keep their mouth shut. Especially if they are getting paid because then they have added liability now!
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Family memebers would be policed and managed by the staff memebers themselves. So quality remains constant to a degree without the requirement for additional management.
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Build rapport and have a broad range of their account complete with Karma to appear 'real' - Many people probably had Reddit accounts before, now they simply redirect them. If one gets flagged as a shill, they dont give a fuck? "It's ______'s brother's time, account and effort that was wasted! Not ours!"
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Payment - that is probably a bonus on the staff memebers cheque that they can pay out to their family memeber. This cuts down on accountant time and adds to the risk of liability being pushed onto their staff.
That's my 2 cents. If anyone is in the Chicago area or knows people who are related to anyone in the SHF or Maker industry, you should ask then if they have been talked to about anything pertaining to this. I am sure at least 1 Ape knows someone who can add fact-based evidence to this theory and slip up. That's the risk with this to them!
Cheers Apes!
TLDR: The new shills are SHF and Maker employees' family memebers because it transfers risk and human resource management to the employees and makes the payment process easy with no liability.
