The world of Real Madrid will also be a difficult one, there is no doubt about it. But to think of getting rid of the star of the team after only two years, the striker who should lead a winning cycle, one who has scored 85 goals in exactly 100 matches, perhaps is too much even for the demanding fans of the Blancos. And yet, there are those who wanted to start an online petition to push the club to part ways with the strongest player in the world, Kylian Mbappè. An online petition is now started for anything, and so this one would be inconsequential, if it weren’t for the fact that it has reached 31 million signatures from fans around the world. A monstrous figure that would show a ruthlessly fierce animosity towards the Frenchman, who was welcomed two years ago in Madrid with a triumph reminiscent of a Roman emperor. And indeed, probably, something is not right.
Also, it must be said that this sort of “repulsion” towards Mbappé did not arise yesterday. In recent weeks, a website had been created with a countdown indicating the days, hours, and minutes until the end of the former PSG’s contract, but the new petition has something different. Not just in the numbers. As reported by L’Équipe, the impressive number of signatures has quickly raised doubts about the actual reliability of the data. Several social media users claim that the signature counter has been artificially manipulated through bots or fake profiles. Some hackers have pointed out – attaching screenshots of the code on social media – how it is possible to imagine that an automatic system has been implemented to constantly inflate the number of signatures. The counter would operate in a loop with the aim of artificially inflating the figures.
❌❌ J’ai cliqué sur le site et les signatures allaient extrêmement vite.
Je me suis dit que c’était bizarre.
En examinant le code j’ai trouvé : c’est codé pour que les signatures augmentent de manière constantes.
Aucune grosse variation, aucun creu, aucun pic.
FAKE. https://t.co/wyFQdioKrj pic.twitter.com/wUaQrbIL49
— Gio CR7 (@ArobaseGiovanny) May 5, 2026
The numbers recorded in recent hours have further fueled doubts: between yesterday afternoon and evening, the signatures reportedly increased from about 14 to over 19 million. And now, as mentioned, they stand at 31 million. Even the platform used to host the petition, Replit, has been deemed less secure, as it is less traceable compared to other portals that offer similar services. Just to give an example: the newspaper Le Parisien interviewed a hacker who claimed to have managed to vote “100 times in less than a second.” According to the expert, bypassing the system’s limitations would be extremely simple: “Just ask a normal artificial intelligence how to do it,” he explained. Not as simple as signing, but easier than collecting 31 million signatures.