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By April 2020, Bombas had donated 35 million pairs of socks. [8] In June 2020, Bombas released a collection of socks for which the company would donate an apparel item to a charity supporting LGBT youth for each item purchased. [9] As of October 2023, they’ve done $1.3 billion in retail sales. [10]
A negative review bomb can also backfire and incite a positive review bomb of the same target. For example, AI: The Somnium Files was review bombed on Metacritic in February 2020 by a single person through the use of numerous sock puppet accounts. The individual initially claimed that this was meant to highlight the flaws of Metacritic's user ...
Pump and dump (P&D) is a form of securities fraud that involves artificially inflating the price of an owned stock through false and misleading positive statements (pump), in order to sell the cheaply purchased stock at a higher price (dump). Once the operators of the scheme "dump" (sell) their overvalued shares, the price falls and investors ...
When it comes to crime, not all criminals are reckless—some are incredibly calculated, leaving investigators puzzled for years. From meticulously planned heists to loophole-exploiting scams ...
"Socks for Sale": When Chacho chews holes in the socks that Alma was planning to donate for the Community Center's Bomba Drum Fundraiser, she has to figure out a way to transform the holey mess into a new success. Alma thinks about it, and realizes that she can turn the socks into something new.
A sock puppet, sock puppet account, or sock is a false online identity used for deceptive purposes. [1] The term originally referred to a hand puppet made from a sock . Sock puppets include online identities created to praise, defend, or support a person or organization, [ 2 ] to manipulate public opinion , [ 3 ] or to circumvent restrictions ...
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Strawman socks: Creating a separate account to argue one side of an issue in a deliberately irrational or offensive fashion, to sway opinion to another side. Circumventing blocks, bans or sanctions : Sanctions apply to individual editors as people , not to accounts, unless specified otherwise.