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Saturday, September 9th, 2023 5:40 PM

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Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War and all its episodes are being reviewbombed

Over the last few weeks ever since the One Piece Gear 5 episodes, and especially since this last week after One Piece 1074, Bleach TYBW's series rating as well as all its episodes have been reviewbombed with sudden mass 1/10s, as well 2/10s in order to bypass the IMDb rating protection system, and lower Bleach's score very clearly out of envy and an inferiority-complex because it has been airing alongside those Gear 5 episodes and doing better. These ratings are not natural, they are obviously an organized botting campaign hence the recent high activity of 1s and 2s and their abnormally high percentage. We already know One Piece fans went after Attack on Titan in this same timeframe and Attack on Titan just saw a sudden drop in multiple ratings well. Reviewbombing continues to be a massive plague on IMDb and I find it disappointing how the site continues to be so defenceless against it. Ozymandias faced this same reviewbombing problem in the past and when its fans informed IMDb of it, it was resolved within 24 hours. Other popular titles should receive the same privilege.

So I urge the staff to investigate Bleach: Thousand Year Blood War's ratings. Attack on Titan and One Piece fans have recently complained about their episodes being mass-downvoted, and there is an open ticket for them; please put Bleach: Thousand Year Blood War under your radar as well as it is also a victim of this recent wave of artificial downvotes.

And this is not the first time that Bleach TYBW and all its episodes have been mass-downvoted either. Last year when season 1 was airing, sometime in mid-November it started to see a massive surge of 1s, 2s and 3s, all of which significantly lowered every rating for the title. Along with the recent wave of downvotes, if you can please investigate that past incident as well. 

Here are the episodes so far that I've noticed a sudden drop in ratings in the past few days:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt28478473/ Went from 9.8 to 9.5 in the span of a few days 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt28478472/ Went from 9.6 to 9.3 in the span of a few days

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt28478476/ This one already has almost a hundred 1s and 2s collectively despite just being released today

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt25056416/ Went from 9.4 to 9.3 all of a sudden

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt17073864/ Went from 8.9 to 8.8 all of a sudden

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt24251056/ Went from 8.9 to 8.8 all of a sudden

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt28478474/ Went from 9.4 to 9.2 in the span of a few days

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt28453350/ Went from 9.3 to 9.2 in the same time

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27876700/ Went from 8.8 to 8.7 in the same time

Take a look at the statistics for the first 3 in particular to see what I mean by "abnormally high percentage of 1s and 2s"

For all the other episodes, such as:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt23471800/

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt23731504/ 

As well as the series' rating itself: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14986406/

...their ratings have all of sudden seen the percentage of 10s decrease whilst the 1s and 2s increase.

Proof that an organized discord raid is responsible for this act:

https://imgur.com/8VzaT8d

https://imgur.com/1bs5FqG

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And if it couldn't be any truer that Bleach TYBW is being review bombed with mass 2/10s just like AoT, just take a look at the statistics for the latest Bleach episode: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt28478477/ratings/

It went from 9.2 to 8.3 all of a sudden. The highest-rated episode, which was released almost a year ago, also just fell to 9.5 all of a sudden.

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Hi @KS701 !

Thank you for bringing this to our attention.

Our voting system already detects and defeats attempts to stuff the ballot and skew the rating, as demonstrated by the difference between the weighted average and the arithmetic mean on the vast majority of titles in the database.

For additional information about IMDb ratings and weighted averages, please refer to our FAQ.

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