SHILLING IS literally a crime!!!
Perhaps you've rheard (semi-)recent stories and lawsuits about celebrities making undisclosed endorsements on their social media? '
From the FTC:
>b) For purposes of this part, an endorsement means any advertising message (including verbal statements, [concernfagging], demonstrations, or depictions of the name, signature, likeness or other identifying personal characteristics of an individual or the name or seal of an organization) that consumers [or anons] are likely to believe reflects the opinions, beliefs, findings, or experiences of a party other than the sponsoring advertiser even if the views expressed by that party are identical to those of the sponsoring advertiser. The party whose opinions, beliefs, findings, or experience the message appears to reflect [Media Matters, JIDF] will be called the shill endorser and may be an individual, group, or institution.
>(c) The Commission intends to treat subversion endorsements and testimonials identically in the context of its enforcement of the Federal Trade Commission Act and for purposes of this part. The term endorsements is therefore generally used hereinafter to cover both terms and situations.
https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/ftcs-endorsement-guides-what-people-are-asking
https://web.archive.org/web/20180912065124/https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/ftcs-endorsement-guides-what-people-are-asking
tl;dr:
Shills and their [[[financiers]]] are executing a deliberate program to subvert, influence, distract, distort, demoralize, gaslight, etc
a bunch of anonymous shitposters
who (used to) assume everyone else did it for free too.
anons have thus been deceived by a company whose products are thought termination and destructive.
>identify shill methodology
>prove they are pushing a narrative
>they intend to influence anons by endorsing their company's message.
Why would anyone care about a Himalayan walking shoe forum?
>The shills' lazy and feigned sincerity proves the intent to deceive and hide behind "Anonymous" to blend in.