The state of reddit

The internet is dead

(exept hexbear)

It's a bit surreal to see tbh

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.

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

Reddit bazingas missing the point of Dead Space bots resembling Reddit bazingas missing the point of Dead Space

long live the new flesh

Reads like someone in a corporate office wrote it. Nobody speaks like this except corpos and neoliberal activists.

This is the default reddit suggested username generation. The bot accounts literally just accepted whatever reddit suggested.

I think that kind of name formatting is the default suggested by random when you make a new account, so that does make sense

And all the bot accounts were created on the same day, August 3rd 2023. And their only activity is in this post.

Ha ha same here!

He did go about doing it in the worst way which opened it up to a challenge in court.

Good choice of avatar

The right is the original post, with a selection of comments from 10 months ago. The left is a repost of the same image 5 hours ago with a bunch of bots reposting the same comments from 10 months ago.

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.