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>>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
Which became more and more obvious with the plethora of examples today of disconnected Audience and Critic scores.

While they definitely measure on different metrics, the goal of a critic is supposed to be to measure films worth watching (even if only for a subset of the total audience). When 95% of critics tell you to see a movie that only 10% of people enjoy, something's broken.

>>deaddo+263
I feel the need to point out that the issue is usually the opposite. Looking at 2023 only three wide release films have had a discrepancy where the critics were more than 20% higher than the verified audience score (Infinity Pool, You Hurt My Feelings, and Skinamarink if you were curious).

There are far more where the verified audience score is way higher and they tend to either be religious films or films with very low numbers of audience reviews (aka selection bias)