If you have any doubt whatsoever, you're an idiot. And you don't seem like an idiot.

I could envision a scheme in which the buyers are the sellers with fake identities, as part of a money laundering scheme.

I'm more inclined to think it's a pump-n-dump stock scam.

Which succeeded.

Not true at all. Advertisers want that (of course, you might be classifying them as "nobody," and I won't quibble over that).

They also don't see that as an "or" choice. Why not both?

Raising the price of ticket really only benefits the studio, who get most of the box office.

Lots of people like the trailers. But ads aren't trailers, they're ads. The ones they run before the official start time, no problem. Most people are talking to their date/kids/whatever and ignoring them anyway. But once the lights go down, there should be no ads.

That you are looking for alternative facts, instead of actual facts, says everything that anyone needs to know about you.

People take this drivel seriously? Two tabloids of the "Bat Boy has love child with Hillary Clinton's horse" school?

No, you really can't.

Note that article is eight years old.

Nothing new here at all.

Upload a random photo to Facebook and see how many people it tags for you.

That barn door has been wide open for a long time.

How is that different from any camera bolted to the side of a building? Or any dashcam?

Hint: It's not.

Copy & paste, right? I mean, really, it's trivial to close a bot.

Look at the pretty stock certificate. Isn't it pretty? You should buy a whole bunch of them. No, we don't have anything else to sell. Why would we need anything else to sell when we have these pretty stock certificates.

GIVE US MONEY!!!

Don't forget the titanium cubes. Which are free.

So it was trained to act just like the tech bros who developed it? Who probably considered that aspect as part of the good news.