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“It Was Low-Effort TikTok Posts that Were Used to Boost the Algorithm”: Geese Had Their Own Doubts About How ‘Real’ Their Fans Actually Were

Cameron Winter said the band thought the whole thing was fake before learning the campaign used low-effort TikTok posts, not bots or fake fans.

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Geese have responded to accusations that have been floating around for the past few months that they are ‘industry plants’ or part of a major label ‘psyop’.Yes, daft as it may seem, this moderately successful New York indie band have been accused of being part of a dastardly psychological operation to use social media to create fake fans and thus a buzz around the band. The allegations stemmed from Geese’s relationship with PR firm Chaotic Good.…

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Interesting article by Rolling Stone, then taken up by many other American and non-American publications, in which the Geese have a chat with Simon Vozick-Levinson. A salient point touches the alleged help of a marketing agency called Chaotic Good to the success of the band, creating false fans accounts on social media. Polemica that was born [...]

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Consequence broke the news on Thursday, September 10, 2026.
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