Dissatisfied fans brought to the top photo of the scriptwriters of "Game of Thrones" for the search "bad writers" in Google

Disappointed by the final season, Game of Thrones fans couldn't forgive the writers for their shattered expectations. They decided to explicitly communicate their opinion to the creators of the series using Google. Using the fairly popular "Google bombing" technique, also known as the "search bomb", Reddit members from the "/ r / Freefolkdecided to link the query "bad writers" (bad writers) with a photo of the writers of the series.

Dissatisfied fans brought to the top photo of the scriptwriters of "Game of Thrones" for the search "bad writers" in Google

In a discussion titled “Bad Writers. Vote this post to be the first result when you Google 'Bad Writers'." Weiss (DB Weiss) and David Benioff (David Benioff).

Dissatisfied fans brought to the top photo of the scriptwriters of "Game of Thrones" for the search "bad writers" in Google

The mechanism of the "search bomb" in this case is quite simple. Once a Reddit thread with the keyword "bad writers" and an image of two screenwriters got enough comments and upvotes, Google happily indexed the page and showed it in first place to anyone who searched for the relevant phrase.

"/r/Freefolk" is a Reddit community that is a splinter group from the main Game of Thrones discussion section. This is where "Freefolk" comes from - it's the name of a tribe of people in the world of "Game of Thrones" who live north of the Wall, and whom people south of it call "wild". The group identifies itself as a spoiler-free space. The group's description reads: "We believe that people here are mature enough to decide for themselves what content to view."



Source: 3dnews.ru

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