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This was fantastic. Deep diving a weirdly fraudulent digital media company using cool analytics tool to trace out the digital paper trail? Heck yeah! I'm here for that sort of Garbage Day!

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Great piece—but please, please, for the love of everything decent, stop using "though" as a weakening adverb at the beginning of sentences. It's extremely annoying. https://www.google.com/search?q=dictionary%3A+though

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It really starts with naming your company by deliberately misreading a poem that cautions against ego, and oh your name is also the name of a Watchmen villain. What could go wrong??

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Thats not where the bullshittery ends! In the front page promo for The Carlos Watson Show, Terry Crews saying his name is from a fucking TWITCH DONATION. Not for actual praise lmaoo.

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This was great, nice work on the deep dive Ryan.

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As Brian Morrissey puts it about digital media in general; bullshit is a feature, not a bug. In Ozy's case the shenanigans, including, but not limited to impersonation of a YouTube executive on an Investor call, might just have reached epic proportions, but these tactics are pretty much endemic in the entire "ecosystem".

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