An incident occurred in which an amateur unrelated to the cast of the movie information database 'IMDb' was registered



The movie information database ' IMDb ' is convenient when you want to see who the staff and cast of a certain movie are and what kind of works they have worked on in the past. However, it has been reported that not all the information was accurate and completely unrelated amateurs were in the cast list.

#16: The case of fake IMDb credits - by pb - Pea Bee
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Mr. pb , who runs the column site “Pea Bee” that explores and writes articles about things that interest him on the Internet, casually watches IMDb. I noticed that there is an unfamiliar person named 'Subhankar Bagchi' in the upcoming work 'Animal'.

Mr. pb, who was concerned about Mr. Bagchi, checked the filmography, and found that more than 20 movies and music videos released from 2021 to 2023 were credited.



When Mr. pb, who suspected that ``It's impossible, IMDb can add and edit pages, so it's vandalism?'' Searching for Mr. Bagchi, the information was displayed as a singer on the Google Knowledge Panel.



Mr. Bagchi certainly had an account on YouTube and uploaded music, but Mr. pb judged that it was like mixing existing music so that it would not be caught by the content ID. Since the Google Knowledge Panel only collects and displays information on the Internet, I thought that by posting such information on multiple SNSs, I was deceiving Google.



Mr. pb admires the ingenuity. However, I thought that it was not a method that Mr. Bagchi came up with alone, and when I confirmed the other cast of the movie that Mr. Bagchi appeared on IMDb, he registered a profile in the same way. I found multiple people.



The feature was that everyone had a similar 'exciting career', and their careers were distributed through a press release distribution service called 'IssueWire'.



Mr. pb also confirmed that such tricks are spreading on YouTube.



Mr. pb warns that there are many cases where the information posted on this kind of platform, including IMDb, has not been adequately screened, so we need to be careful when viewing the information. increase. In addition, the blog 'Pea Bee' concludes with 'It's a crazy world, be safe!'



In addition, 'Pea Bee' has a comment from a person who claims to be Mr. Bagchi, and although he actually made music and registered a profile on IMDb, he did not register information as if he appeared in a movie. I am making excuses.

Mr. Bagchi's IMDb profile page itself remains at the time of article creation, but all information such as photos and appearances has been deleted. Also, all of Babchi's YouTube and Instagram accounts are gone.

However, for other people who seem to have used the same method as Mr. Bagchi, although they have disappeared from the cast column of the work, we have confirmed cases where photos etc. on the profile page of IMDb remain.

Regarding the inaccuracy of the information on IMDb, when Michael Madsen , an actor known for his role as Mr. Blonde in the movie ' Reservoir Dogs ', was interviewed in 2015, he said, 'From a person who shared an elevator with my brother-in-law I have a proposal written by ', and I think 'it looks interesting', and the next moment, I'm appearing in IMDb, participating in post-production, and so on. If you help shoot for two days for young people, your name will appear, and it will be like shooting 75 movies in just 10 minutes, 'he said, asking IMDb to correct it. also reveals an episode that was refused as 'because it is a public service'.

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