mbappein.com
Mbappein.com is an unofficial fan-made website that uses a fake petition counter to show why viral football polls should not be treated as real public opinion.
What is mbappein.com?
Mbappein.com presents itself as a campaign asking Kylian Mbappé to stay at Real Madrid.
The home page has a large vote counter, a target of five million supporters, and a button marked “Sign the petition.”
Its simple design makes the page look like a normal online petition at first.
However, the About section explains that none of its votes are real.
The site says, “It’s all an illusion,” which makes its purpose clear (MbappeIN).
It identifies its creator through the social media name @ArobaseGiovanny.
The site is not owned by Mbappé, Real Madrid, or an official supporters’ group.
Real Madrid’s actual player page lists Mbappé as a first-team forward and sits inside the club’s verified website (Real Madrid).
Mbappé also has a separate official personal website at kylianmbappe.com (Kylian Mbappé).
Why was the website created?
Mbappein.com was built as an answer to a viral “Mbappé Out” petition.
That earlier campaign claimed that millions of Real Madrid fans wanted the club to sell the forward.
The numbers grew so quickly that major sports websites began reporting them as evidence of a serious fan revolt.
Sports Illustrated reported more than 52 million signatures while also describing growing criticism of Mbappé’s work rate, team fit, and conduct (Sports Illustrated).
FOX Sports later reported that the anti-Mbappé counter had moved close to 70 million signatures (FOX Sports).
Those totals would represent an enormous global movement, but a large number on a screen is not proof that the same number of people voted.
Mbappein.com claims the opposing petition had weak controls and allowed bots or repeated requests to create huge totals.
A technical discussion among Reddit users made a similar point, with commenters saying the voting interface could be called many times and that visitors could not confirm how the displayed counter worked (Reddit).
These comments are not a formal security audit, but they show why the totals deserve doubt.
Are the signatures on mbappein.com real?
No, because the site directly says that its votes are not real.
Pressing the petition button may change what appears on the page, but the resulting number does not measure verified people.
The site does not ask for an account, email confirmation, membership number, or other proof that each signer is unique.
This means one person, an automated script, or the website itself could produce many apparent votes.
The counter should therefore be read as part of the demonstration, not as survey data.
Its real message is that an impressive visual counter can influence people even when the underlying figure has no clear source.
This is a useful lesson because readers often trust a precise number more than a vague claim.
A figure such as 12,461,152 looks measured, even when it may be generated by simple code.
Is mbappein.com a scam?
There is not enough public evidence to call it a financial scam.
The visible page does not appear to sell goods, request a donation, or promise a reward.
It also discloses the false nature of its counter in its About section.
That disclosure makes the project closer to satire, protest art, or a media experiment than a genuine petition.
Still, it can mislead visitors who press the button without opening the explanation.
The safest description is that mbappein.com is intentionally fake but openly admits it.
Users should still avoid sharing private data with any unofficial fan page unless they can see a clear privacy policy and understand who runs it.
They should also confirm the address carefully because copycat domains can use a popular site’s name for a different purpose.
Does the website represent Real Madrid supporters?
It represents one creator’s response to an online argument, not the verified view of Real Madrid supporters.
Neither the “Mbappé In” counter nor the “Mbappé Out” counter can establish what millions of fans truly think.
A credible poll needs a defined group, a fair sampling method, limits on repeat entries, and published data about how responses were checked.
These petition pages lack those safeguards.
Real fan opinion may still be divided, but its size cannot be calculated from these counters.
The strongest insight from mbappein.com is therefore not whether Mbappé should stay.
It is that viral numbers can become news before anyone checks how those numbers were made.