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'''Falseflagging''' refers to the act of posing as a supporter of a certain contestant while creating posts that paint said character or/and its genuine supporters in a negative light, either in an attempt to get the character to lose or simply for the sake of trolling. Examples of common tactics used by falseflaggers include spamming fat fetish or otherwise unpleasant art, "campaigning" with AI generated images, attempting to frame the character as being trans, and generally being a nuisance in the threads in the name of their target. It can be synonymous with the common phrase '''psyops''' (psychological operations).

'''Metagaming''', also known as '''Strategic Voting''', is a concept in which anons will vote to manipulate the bracket rather than for who they actually prefer, typically in the hopes of eliminating perceived strong characters in their main's bracket in favor of weaker picks for a better chance of their main's success. This can also be done to try and force a "fitting" match-up. A commonly referred to example of metagaming is [[Ms. /co/ 2021]], in which many anons found the Elite Eight of that tournament to be underwhelming due to their favorites having been strategically voted out by rampant metagaming.