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Marvel's Spider-Man Rumor Machine Became Spectator Sport
Friday, June 26, 2026
Marvel stopped dropping trailers and started orchestrating conspiracy theories. The internet now treats every Spider-Man announcement as a puzzle to decode rather than marketing.
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