In Protest to the Persona 5 Spoiler Policies and Threats Made by Atlus, People Are Intentionally Spoiling the Game Using Twitter Bots
If you want to save the ending of Persona 5 for yourself, you might not want to look up anything having to do with the game on social media outlets for a while. In protest to the Persona 5 spoiler policies and threats made by Atlus earlier today, upset gamers are intentionally spoiling the game by using hordes of bots to flood Twitter and Facebook with plot-sensitive material. These bots are pros at filtering through posts to find anything Persona 5 related, most notably replying and sending quoted tweets to anything that’s been tagged with “#Persona5” (or anything affiliated with the series) with, well, the ending of the game.
Getting to the aforementioned ending of Persona 5 is not an easy task to accomplish, and it takes about 80 hours to get there, so it’s easy to see why gamers are getting pretty upset about this. If you don’t want to completely trash the ending for yourself, it’s in your best intentions to stay away from the angry bee hive that the official Persona 5 Twitter account has become, because it’s been swarmed with Tweets that are heavy with spoilers and sensitive material. Atlus hasn’t made any efforts to remove the Tweets either, so you can probably expect them to be there for a while.
All this is in response to Atlus not only blocking PlayStation 4’s native UI, but also making a post on their official website threatening players with content ID claims or a channel strike/account suspension if they stream too far into the game’s storyline, making the cut-off for streaming the in-game date of 7/7.
Although Persona 5 has been available in Japan for nearly half a year, and there are plot spoilers a-plenty for any gamer who actually wants to find out what happens in the story, people are calling actively spoiling the game via social media an active form of “protest.”
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