>>tortil+(OP)
To me, RT turning to shit is just Goodhart's Law in action - "when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure"
Originally, RT was more or less a 'good faith' measurement of the general sentiment\quality of a film, but it is so easily manipulated it was inevitable that it would become meaningless.
>>smiley+hX2
I have to point to 2011 when Rotten Tomatoes went from being owned by news media companies, to literally being owned by Warner Brothers. I mean, with that