Geese in an interview: "Our fans aren't bots"

Geese have openly addressed the rumors that in recent months have cast doubt on the authenticity of their growing popularity. In an interview given to Rolling Stone US, the New York band revisited the accusations that part of their fanbase had been artificially built through fake accounts and strategies designed to manipulate social media algorithms.

The controversy had erupted last March, when rumors began circulating about the role played by Chaotic Good, a marketing agency allegedly involved in promoting Geese by creating fake fan profiles. The suspicion was that behind the so-called "geesemania" and the success achieved by the band — further amplified by the reception given to the album "Getting Killed" — lay a promotional operation far more engineered than it appeared. Bassist Dominic Digesu dismissed the matter with a fairly blunt reply: "Come to the show. Just come to the show and tell me how many bots you see." Cameron Winter, on the other hand, admitted that the accusations had initially hit the group hard, already disoriented as they were by the scale that "Getting Killed"'s success had reached.

The musicians had gone so far as to wonder whether some of the enthusiasm surrounding them was really the result of manipulation. The concern had grown so intense that it pushed the band to contact their own label directly with a decidedly undiplomatic email: "How long have all our fucking fans been fake, motherfuckers?" A conversation with the promotional team apparently cleared things up, though. According to what Geese have said, Chaotic Good had not been hired to create fake fans, comments, or bots, but simply to share and repost some clips of their live shows on social media, with the goal of boosting their circulation through the algorithms.
"It wasn't comments, fake fans, bots, or anything like that. It was minimum-effort TikTok posts used to feed the algorithm. They showed us some examples, and I actually felt better because they were really bad," Winter explained.

With the controversy over the supposedly artificial fanbase now at least partly put to rest, Geese are turning the page toward new music. The band has already worked in the studio with producer Kenneth Blume, although it's far from certain that the recorded material will end up on an upcoming album. Drummer Max Bassin called it "extremely high-quality idea demos," but noted that the sessions were mainly exploratory in nature: "We were just trying out a bunch of random stuff to see what worked."
Meanwhile, Cameron Winter is also working on a new solo record. The project is still in an open-ended stage, and the musician doesn't seem to have precisely settled on either its sound or its direction, still weighing how much "musical difficulty and weirdness" to bring into the new songs.
Geese also recently passed through Italy: on August 19th they played at Circolo Magnolia in Segrate.

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