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Last.fm's Bot Removal Angers BTS Fans Who Used Automated Accounts to Boost Streaming Numbers

Tom Breihan

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Summary

Last.fm, the long-running music-scrobbling platform, recently became an independent company after being owned by CBS and Paramount Skydance for about 20 years. The new independent management promised the site would continue functioning as before, but one significant change has been implemented: the removal of bot accounts. This decision has sparked controversy, particularly among the BTS fan community (the "BTS Army"), who had been using bots to artificially inflate the band's streaming numbers on the platform.

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StereogumLast.fm's Bot Removal Angers BTS Fans Who Used Automated Accounts to Boost Streaming Numbersstereogum.com

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The people who ran Last.fm promised that the website would continue to work the way that it always did.

There's been one significant change, though: No more bots.

At least among one fan community, that's a controversial decision.

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For about 20 years, the long-running music-scrobbling website Last.fm was owned by CBS and its assorted corporate overlords. Last month, as Endgadget reported, Last.fm became an independent company, breaking away from the larger Paramount Skydance umbrell

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