A YouTuber has accused Sony of using bots to defend its decision to end physical PS5 discs, and while the theory is compelling, it stops well short of proof. The claim comes from the insider channel Moore’s Law Is Dead, who argues that a small number of accounts cheering on PlayStation’s digital-only future behave more like automated engagement than genuine fans.
Why has this claim surfaced now?
The allegation follows a backlash that has refused to die down. Since Sony announced it would scale back PS5 disc production in 2028, critics have piled onto the marketing efforts of both the company and its partners, and the outrage has shown no sign of fading. Against that backdrop, MLID says he struggled to find anyone genuinely defending the move — and when he did, the defenders looked suspicious.
The reaction has been broad and loud. We covered how PlayStation went quiet on social media after announcing the death of physical discs, a silence that only fed the sense of a company caught off guard by its own audience.
What did the YouTuber actually find?
MLID investigated three accounts he considers likely bots, and the pattern he describes is the same each time: dormancy, then sudden, oddly enthusiastic activity. The first account praised the shutdown of the PS3 and PS Vita stores, a development almost impossible to spin positively, and liked a post about The Odyssey film days before Insomniac Games confirmed screenings would feature a Marvel’s Wolverine trailer — timing MLID called a “smoking gun”.
The second account had been dormant for six years before it began praising Rockstar Games and GTA 6 in what he described as “corporate” language, with its X profile linking to an unused TikTok account that looked primed for paid promotion. The third, the one he is most confident about, went quiet for three years, then jumped between religious, political, and gaming topics, posted an odd line about giving up on owning any digital or physical games, followed many deleted accounts, boosted other obvious bots, and shared a likely AI-generated image of itself.
How much of this can be proven?
None of it, by MLID’s own admission. He cannot be certain PlayStation hired bots to confront disc supporters, and concedes it would be difficult to prove either a coordinated PR initiative or the involvement of a third party with its own motive. What he leans on instead is the wider reality that services selling fake engagement survive precisely because large companies use them to promote products and shape opinion.
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