Keep in mind the most engagement in threads is in the ones that get posted 4-5 times a day, every day.
I feel like the jannies were doing it to farm site activity but I've got no proof of that.
Just suspicious.
Some of the threads I remember on /v/:
1. ps1 aged like milk
2. have you ever physically stolen a videogame
On /pol/:
1. white guys can't get dates
2. some weird atheist statistic chart
Been seeing these for literally years. I hate seeing the bot threads. Even more annoying than the threads is the users that would keep replying to them and nobody mentioning the thread is posted constantly. It'd make me feel like a basement virgin loser to be active enough to notice while the normie posters are just blissfully posting away in them.