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I think that's very much the case. Especially if a lot of the PD fans were young teens (not much older than 14 maybe) who really didn't have the cognitive sense to take a moment and think about the flaws in the films that the older fans abhorred. They're kids hopped up on the Transformers Action Train who went way overboard on their excitement, and when they got screamed at for being "plants", they couldn't handle it. Because they're kids.
No matter how bad the films are, there are still people who like the films - even those who take them as a guilty pleasure.
It's far more likely that they were young fans who didn't know any better. I don't see much financial logic in hiring people to plug the movie on some message board no one in the Big Leagues would know about. Is it possible on Twitter and Facebook? Of course. But I don't think it would work in a low-tier social media platform like a messageboard - which is a dying medium as it is.
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