Geese are responding to claims that having a TikTok marketing budget made them some sort of psyop.
“Come to the show, man,” bassist Dominic DiGesu told Rolling Stone in a new interview. “Just come to the show, and fucking tell me how many bots you see.”
The rumors began at the end of March, when singer-songwriter Eliza McLamb posted a Substack titled “Fake Fans.” It was followed by a Wired story with a controversial headline, “The Fanfare Around the Band Geese Actually Was a Psyop,” thought the contents of the article described a conventional modern marketing budget.
Frontman Cameron Winter explained that the stories even sowed doubt in the minds of the band. “That seemed like a reasonable explanation,” he joked. “We were just like, ‘Oh, my God. The whole fucking thing is fake.’ We were having a meltdown. Then we marched up to our label over email, the relevant team members, like, ‘How long have all our fuckin’ fans been fake, you sons of bitches?’”
Winter added, “We learned that we should show up to Zoom meetings about how our record’s going to be advertised,” but that the hired company was just sharing and reposting live clips. “It wasn’t comments or fake fans or bots or anything,” he said. “It was low-effort TikTok posts that were used to boost the algorithm. They showed us samples, and it made me feel better because they were so shitty.”
“I’m glad that people have thoughts about our stuff at the end of the day,” DiGesu said. “At least we’re not boring and mid.”
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