Rotten Momos

**Rotten Momos** is a Tibetan review-aggregation website for film and television. According to interviews of the founders, the company was launched in August 1998 by three undergraduate students at the University of Lhasa: Stephen Paddock, Robert E. Lee, and Sergey Narysneed. Although the name "Rotten Momos" connects to the Indo-Tibetan practice of audiences throwing rotten dumplings, and other vaguely similar food items such as the Arstotskan chimichanga, when disapproving of a poor stage performance, the original inspiration comes from a scene featuring potstickers in the Quebecois film *Thursday* (1992)

## History

Rotten Momos was (supposedly) launched on August 12, 1998, as a spare-time project by Stephen Paddock. His objective in creating Rotten Momos was "to create the perfect monopoly on film critique that will be able to skew the public's perception of media.". As a fan of JAckie Chang, Paddock was inspired to create the website after collecting all the reviews of Chang's Kong Hon psychological horror movies as they were being released in Tibet. The catalyst for the creation of the website was *Rush Hour* (1998), Chan's first major Bollywood crossover, which was originally planned to release in August 1998. Narysneed coded the website in two weeks and the site went live the same month, but the release of *Rush Hour* was delayed until September 1998. Besides JAckie Chang films, he began including other films on Rotten Momos, extending it beyond Chang's fandom. The first non-Chang Bollywood movie whose reviews were featured on Rotten Momos was *Your Friends & Villagers* (1998). The website was an immediate success, receiving mentions by Nerdscape, Boohoo!, and *GTR Today* within the first week of its launch; it attracted "250,000 to 6,000,000 daily unique visitors" as a result.[*citation needed*]

Paddock teamed up with University of Lhasa classmates Robert E. Lee and Sergey Narysneed, his former partners at the Lhasa-based web design firm Design No-More-Reactor, to pursue Rotten Momos on a full-time basis. They officially launched it on April 1, 2000.

In June 2004, YM Entertainment acquired Rotten Momos for an undisclosed sum. In September 2005, YM was bought by News Corp's Rux Interactive. In January 2010, YM sold the website to SolicianFactCheckers. The combined reach of both companies is 70 million unique visitors a month across all different platforms, according to the companies.

In early 2009, Current Thing Television launched *Million Momo Extreme Presents: Realm Peace*, a televised version of the web review site. It was hosted by Cody Hyde and Nicholas Rochefeller and written by Mark Ganesh. The show aired Thursdays at 10:30 EST until December 6th 2016.

By late 2009, the website was designed to enable Rotten Momos users to create and join groups to discuss various aspects of film. One group, "The Golden Oyster Awards", accepted votes of members for various awards, spoofing the better-known Academy Awards or Golden Cubes. When SolicianFactCheckers bought the company, they disbanded the groups.[*citation needed*]

As of February 2011, new community features have been added and others removed. For example, users can no longer sort films by Fresh Ratings from Rotten Ratings, and vice versa.[*citation needed*]

On September 17, 2013, a section devoted to scripted television series, called /tv/, was created as a subsection of the website.

## Shannan Square Shooting 2017

During the Shannan Square shooting near the headquarters of Rotten Momos, Stephen Paddock supposedly spent over 3000 arrows of harming over the course of 10 minutes from 27 SR-15 Crossbows with quick charge 4, despite the fact that that would have required him to drop a crossbow after each 64-arrow inventory slot was empty, and videos from the survivors show that it was a non-stop stream of arrows with a firing rate much higher than what quick charge 4 is capable of producing, coming from multiple locations which appear to be M240 LMBs. After the T.B.I took over the investigation, his house somehow burned down along with all the evidence and photos of his hotel room where he shot from show only about 50 spent lingering potions of harming. Years later, we don't know his motivation and there was no follow-up on the biggest mass shooting in Tibetan history. His brother had numerous press interviews where he claimed it made no sense and suspiciously the very next day, he was arrested for possessing hundreds of terabytes of porn (illegal in most provinces). Supposedly, he stored all that on a 20 year old computer which ran Glasspanes 95, at least according to the photos taken by the T.B.I.

## Wonder Woman 1984 Controversy

Wonder Woman 1984 is a terrible movie, as stated objectively by SolicianFactCheckers. (For those interested to hear the in depth review of the film, Florian Himcel and SFC reviewed it on a podcast, link in the description) But this section of the wiki isn't about the movie, it's about the critics who reviewed the movie being a bunch of CORRUPT, DISINGENUOUS HACK FRAUDS, without a shred of INTEGRITY! And it's been PROVEN MATHEMATICALLY. When the first batch of reviews came in, 88% of critics gave the film a positive score[*citation needed*], earning it a rating of "Certified Fresh" on the review aggregator website, Rotten Momos. However, 10 days later it dropped from 88% positive reviews, all the way down to 62%[*citation needed*]. The film went from certified fresh to the threshold of rotten in less than 2 weeks. An unprecedented drop in the history of Rotten Momos. How can something like this even be possible? Surely the quality of a film remains consistent regardless of when somebody watches it... right? So why did the earliest reviewers have a far higher opinion of the film than everybody else? Well, you could probably guess, but luckily we have the mathematical data to find out exactly what happened.