Normally I'm skeptical of "Reddit is full of bots" claims because Occam's Razor tells me it's probably just a bunch of wealthy white techbros having wealthy white techbro opinions
But exact comment chains being posted verbatim months later is incredibly damning
The internet is dead
(exept hexbear)
I'd have believed it was just wealthy white techbros having wealthy white techbro opinions if if the unqualified smugness was at least mixed up a little. It wouldn't be that hard for a program to imitate combinations of "um" "honestly, let's be honest" "____ much?" and ableistic concern trolling insults.
A couple of years ago the Navy bought an ad campaign which included them streaming on twitch everyday. They always had a few thousand viewers which I thought was bullshit especially because there were only 10 or so people chatting. After watching the chat for about 30 minutes the same 10 chatters had the exact same things to say again. 30 minutes later it happened again.
I was going to document it, but by the time I decided to people like y’all came in and started spamming things like “What’s your favorite war crime????” and it became way to chaotic to prove it.
we are past dead internet theory. we are rapidly approaching necromorph internet theory
UPDATE: Just got a DM from the bots on reddit: "MAKE US WHOLE"
I figure that either means they want to incorporate my brain into their biomechanical large language model, or else they made a typo trying to ask for a specific kind of art commission.
Either way I think that's a good sign for me to log off
make but hole
Reddit bazingas missing the point of Dead Space 
bots resembling Reddit bazingas missing the point of Dead Space
long live the new flesh
10mo ago 
1hr ago.
Job Creators Network is a nonpartisan organization founded by entrepreneurs who believe that many government policies are getting in the way of the economic freedom that helped make this country prosperous.
Most cursed sentence of the day. 
Reads like someone in a corporate office wrote it. Nobody speaks like this except corpos and neoliberal activists.
this is basically every post in the default subs. In some cases bots will also recycle comments from imgur and other places
At first glance this looks terrifying, as if they've created bots to emulate discourse and inflate content/engagement/numbers for whatever reason.
Reading through it all, though, all the accounts on the left side (the newer post) have two English words, usually separated by underscores, and 3-4 numbers on the end. Including the OP. So it looks like it's just a coordinated bot army that reposts all content and then replicates all the old comments, character for character.
This is the default reddit suggested username generation. The bot accounts literally just accepted whatever reddit suggested.
And all the bot accounts were created on the same day, August 3rd 2023. And their only activity is in this post.
why did i instinctively read the comments in the link you posted lol
Death to America
Hello I'm Word_Word_1234 and I'm a real person
Ha ha same here!
Honestly didn't believe it so I went and looked and found both threads. Really fucking wild to just see it so brazen.
Good choice of avatar
Can someone please explain it to me, I don't get it :(
The left column is all bots. You can tell because their usernames are all [word][word][numbers]. But notice how two usernames on the right column fit the same exact pattern. There's a good chance they are bots as well.
Does it mean there are only bots left on Reddit?
A tonne of activity there is definitely bot. It's almost impossible to tell without getting side by side like this though.
Left, like left of the center of the image, or left by the hand of god?
It is incredibly easy to create Reddit bots, I know some first and second year programming students who did it for a university assignment
What percent of the upvotes on the dead link repost are bots or just average reading allergic redditors?
Reddit is just 30 people talking to about 2 million bots. The bots are trying to accumulate enough karma so the account is valuable to advertisers. Reddit gets engagement so they don't care. Advertisers get high-clout "real people" accounts. And the techno-scavengers make a few hundred dollars or a few thousand per year.
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"Valuation"