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At least one, in any case.
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Found a sperg who wants people to send him videos of them hitting the radio seek button on a Hyundai Elantra in Ottawa, Ontario.
He's been spamming the subreddit every day for months. When people get annoyed with his spamming, he copies and pastes the same Engrish response to every comment:
Then the account gets banned, the posts get deleted, he makes another account, and on into infinity.
He's been spamming the subreddit every day for months. When people get annoyed with his spamming, he copies and pastes the same Engrish response to every comment:
Then the account gets banned, the posts get deleted, he makes another account, and on into infinity.
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The sperg manbaby "The Big Bad Critic"/u/IOughtToBeThrownAway on reddit
who thinks hes a werewolf but retroactively claims its all a LARP is pretty funny. He posted about how his one month old son got poop everywhere and he refused to clean it and ran screaming like a maniac to get his wife to help him. She was working in her home office and works fulltime while he is unemployed.
HE WAS ONLY PRETENDING TO BE RETARDED! He makes his tiny baby cry by wearing a crappy cheap plastic werewolf mask while feeding him.
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who thinks hes a werewolf but retroactively claims its all a LARP is pretty funny. He posted about how his one month old son got poop everywhere and he refused to clean it and ran screaming like a maniac to get his wife to help him. She was working in her home office and works fulltime while he is unemployed.
r/offmychest - I legit can't stand my baby.
162 votes and 355 comments so far on Reddit
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r/mildlyinfuriating - My son blasted disgusting poop all over the room while I was changing a wet diaper. That basket of clean laundry is probably 4 feet away from where he was. What. the. FUUUUCK
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Conservatives have families that love them, they don't need performative relationships with celebrities who only want plebs to pay their way via movie tickets / Netflix subscriptions.
Reddit is fucking strange. Constantly expressing how their lives are empty, aimless existences and then do nothing to give it meaning. Nothing is questioned on a structural level, instead they brag about how they're better than others because, why? They enjoyed a new videogame or movie which distracts them from the bleakness?
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So many mysteries. Is it a bot? If so, who made it?
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I think a lot of depression and anxiety would disappear if people developed actual individual personalities again instead of just being cringe amalgamations of corporate brands.
If the only facet of your identity is that you're Captain Marvel and Harry Potter consooming unit 590,123,456 how happy and fulfilled can you really be?
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The worst part is that that actually is more entertaining than the vast majority of the content on reddit, and it's actually the only time I laughed out loud at something from reddit.
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One of the core conceits of liberalism and the push for social and civic freedoms was that everyone had the capacity to make individual rational choices and would be living their best life if they could choose to do whatever they wanted. That hasn't been borne out by reality, and it seems like a large portion of people actually need rigid religious and civic authority to guide them, else they become bugmen or worse.
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Has this been posted before? I had this picture for a while, and I read the original thread about it (the one in the image) and it got me thinking, big time. FYI I'll be schizo posting a bit here, and yes, I did take my medicine. If you don't want to read my schizophrenic essay, just read the image then.
Have any of you heard of the "Dead Internet Theory"?
AFAIK it boils down to, since the development and innovations in the fields of AI, algorithms and software, a big portion of internet traffick has been entirely fake. Fake as in, bots, advertisements, even outright fake accounts having fake discussions with other fake accounts. Bots talking to bots and maybe even entire websites. And at this point I truly believe it.
Reddit has a "subreddit simulator" where bots will take words and sentences used frequently to talk with eachother, with each "user" being a bot that repressents a subreddit
And since we are at the point where bots and algorithms can create entire papers
And also realistic texts based on simple inputs
What's to say that internet forums like Reddit don't use anything like that? We know the technology is here. So why would they? First of all, shilling. We know companies like to use realistic accounts to advertise products,
www.reddit.com
Using an automated bot is much easier and can do multiple accounts at the same time.
Second of all, politics. We know that Shareblue for example spends millions on their online propaganda and political shilling.
Another one, to fake traffick and make a website more desirable to users. Forums thrive on their users, they need them. We've seen so many forums die when something better pops up. Given how much money companies like Tencent invest in Reddit, I doubt they'd let their investment go to waste. Saidit, a reddit competitor deals with constant DDoS'. And they're not some far right site like /pol/ neither. The guy who runs the site claims it's most likely done because they're a Reddit competitor, and growing.
He also claims that the website has "cultural" attacks aswel, due to these websites having accounts that don't require an image or whatever and are thus easy to make and exploit. And unlike sites like 4chan, Reddit, Saidit and similair don't use captchas - making it easier for bots to spam. After all, even 4chan has spam despite the captcha.
So we know the techology exists to fake traffick on a forum, we know Reddit has the money and capabilities to do so and we know that Reddit/Tencent have very good reasons to dabble in that area aswel.
So now, I genuinly feel like some Reddit users are bots.
And there's proof of it too, sort of atleast.
Read through this:
Are most mods on Reddit automated bots? Software? Algorithms? Maybe even rudimentary AI? At the very least a big portion of Reddit moderators have no actual people behind them, that's for sure.
And if they are, what's to say the users are not? There's no capcha, and a plethora of reasons why Reddit would create fake traffick. Tencent gave them millions of dollars, they certainly don't lack the funds and the technology exists too.
What are you thoughts on this? I genuinly feel like a schizo typing all this but surely there's something fishy here, right?
Edit: This is the dead internet theory btw:
A bit more crazy than what I wrote, but it makes some interesting points
Have any of you heard of the "Dead Internet Theory"?
AFAIK it boils down to, since the development and innovations in the fields of AI, algorithms and software, a big portion of internet traffick has been entirely fake. Fake as in, bots, advertisements, even outright fake accounts having fake discussions with other fake accounts. Bots talking to bots and maybe even entire websites. And at this point I truly believe it.
Reddit has a "subreddit simulator" where bots will take words and sentences used frequently to talk with eachother, with each "user" being a bot that repressents a subreddit
And since we are at the point where bots and algorithms can create entire papers
And also realistic texts based on simple inputs
What's to say that internet forums like Reddit don't use anything like that? We know the technology is here. So why would they? First of all, shilling. We know companies like to use realistic accounts to advertise products,
r/HailCorporate
r/HailCorporate: /r/HailCorporate is to document times when people act as unwitting advertisers for a product as well as to document what appear to …
www.reddit.com
Using an automated bot is much easier and can do multiple accounts at the same time.
Second of all, politics. We know that Shareblue for example spends millions on their online propaganda and political shilling.
Another one, to fake traffick and make a website more desirable to users. Forums thrive on their users, they need them. We've seen so many forums die when something better pops up. Given how much money companies like Tencent invest in Reddit, I doubt they'd let their investment go to waste. Saidit, a reddit competitor deals with constant DDoS'. And they're not some far right site like /pol/ neither. The guy who runs the site claims it's most likely done because they're a Reddit competitor, and growing.
He also claims that the website has "cultural" attacks aswel, due to these websites having accounts that don't require an image or whatever and are thus easy to make and exploit. And unlike sites like 4chan, Reddit, Saidit and similair don't use captchas - making it easier for bots to spam. After all, even 4chan has spam despite the captcha.
So we know the techology exists to fake traffick on a forum, we know Reddit has the money and capabilities to do so and we know that Reddit/Tencent have very good reasons to dabble in that area aswel.
So now, I genuinly feel like some Reddit users are bots.
And there's proof of it too, sort of atleast.
Read through this:
Are most mods on Reddit automated bots? Software? Algorithms? Maybe even rudimentary AI? At the very least a big portion of Reddit moderators have no actual people behind them, that's for sure.
And if they are, what's to say the users are not? There's no capcha, and a plethora of reasons why Reddit would create fake traffick. Tencent gave them millions of dollars, they certainly don't lack the funds and the technology exists too.
What are you thoughts on this? I genuinly feel like a schizo typing all this but surely there's something fishy here, right?
Edit: This is the dead internet theory btw:
A bit more crazy than what I wrote, but it makes some interesting points
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Here's an interesting thought:
Have you ever seen or heard of any of your IRL normie co-workers post anything on the internet?
Throughout all my years I've seen like 3 people confirmed publically posting on the big websites. Everyone else just consumes.
Have you ever seen or heard of any of your IRL normie co-workers post anything on the internet?
Throughout all my years I've seen like 3 people confirmed publically posting on the big websites. Everyone else just consumes.
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I would say that a majority of social media content is bot driven. It's blatantly obvious in some cases, like political support for certain candidates and astroturfing for certain causes, alongside a heavy dosage of paid, human shills.Has this been posted before? I had this picture for a while, and I read the original thread about it (the one in the image) and it got me thinking, big time. FYI I'll be schizo posting a bit here, and yes, I did take my medicine. If you don't want to read my schizophrenic essay, just read the image then.
Have any of you heard of the "Dead Internet Theory"?
AFAIK it boils down to, since the development and innovations in the fields of AI, algorithms and software, a big portion of internet traffick has been entirely fake. Fake as in, bots, advertisements, even outright fake accounts having fake discussions with other fake accounts. Bots talking to bots and maybe even entire websites. And at this point I truly believe it.
Reddit has a "subreddit simulator" where bots will take words and sentences used frequently to talk with eachother, with each "user" being a bot that repressents a subreddit
And since we are at the point where bots and algorithms can create entire papers
And also realistic texts based on simple inputs
What's to say that internet forums like Reddit don't use anything like that? We know the technology is here. So why would they? First of all, shilling. We know companies like to use realistic accounts to advertise products,
r/HailCorporate
r/HailCorporate: /r/HailCorporate is to document times when people act as unwitting advertisers for a product as well as to document what appear to …
Using an automated bot is much easier and can do multiple accounts at the same time.
Second of all, politics. We know that Shareblue for example spends millions on their online propaganda and political shilling.
Another one, to fake traffick and make a website more desirable to users. Forums thrive on their users, they need them. We've seen so many forums die when something better pops up. Given how much money companies like Tencent invest in Reddit, I doubt they'd let their investment go to waste. Saidit, a reddit competitor deals with constant DDoS'. And they're not some far right site like /pol/ neither. The guy who runs the site claims it's most likely done because they're a Reddit competitor, and growing.
He also claims that the website has "cultural" attacks aswel, due to these websites having accounts that don't require an image or whatever and are thus easy to make and exploit. And unlike sites like 4chan, Reddit, Saidit and similair don't use captchas - making it easier for bots to spam. After all, even 4chan has spam despite the captcha.
So we know the techology exists to fake traffick on a forum, we know Reddit has the money and capabilities to do so and we know that Reddit/Tencent have very good reasons to dabble in that area aswel.
So now, I genuinly feel like some Reddit users are bots.
And there's proof of it too, sort of atleast.
Read through this:
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Are most mods on Reddit automated bots? Software? Algorithms? Maybe even rudimentary AI? At the very least a big portion of Reddit moderators have no actual people behind them, that's for sure.
And if they are, what's to say the users are not? There's no capcha, and a plethora of reasons why Reddit would create fake traffick. Tencent gave them millions of dollars, they certainly don't lack the funds and the technology exists too.
What are you thoughts on this? I genuinly feel like a schizo typing all this but surely there's something fishy here, right?
I remember that one day on Reddit when literally every subreddit was flooded with the same Net Neutrality post doing some doommongering, and the vote counts were atrociously incongruous with the subscriber counts for the smaller subreddit. I'm talking tens of thousands more votes than users for city/state focused subreddits.
On Twitter there's a lot of bots astroturfing hashtags and boosting tweets, and a lot of "catchphrases" being repeated by a bunch of bot accounts.
I even wouldn't be surprised if certain videos and channels on YouTube were artificially boosted by bots.
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Yeah no one is on the internet. I'm just a bot. Kiwifarms doesn't actually exist and neither do all the internet lolcows. They are just actors.
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I think kiwifarms is different, because the website is just not comparable. Reddit accounts are mostly just names, accounts here have profile pictures and text underneath them too. The nature of this site is also different, there's less shills (atleast in threads like this) and I doubt shareblue takes the time to shill in a "reddit general thread".
Nor would a company like Tencent fuck with the Kiwifarms, because Kiwifarms aren't a Reddit alternative, and thus not really competition. Whereas sites like Saidit are. Kiwifarms and Reddit just don't appeal to the same demographic.
If Kiwifarms was filled with accounts with no profile pictures and no text underneath them too, all while posting same-y hivemind-tier posts then I'd agree. I don't think 4chan is filled with bots neither, since you need to fill a captcha when you post. Which Reddit doesn't have.
All in all, how would you explain the experiment in the image if not bots?
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Some madlad on /r/okbuddyretard uploaded a whole spongebob episode, suprisingly hasnt been fucked by Viacom yet
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Had it been uploaded to youtube, it wouldnt had lasted a minute.
r/okbuddyretard - You guys can have this spongebob episode i dont need it anymore
16,403 votes and 490 comments so far on Reddit
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Had it been uploaded to youtube, it wouldnt had lasted a minute.
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Fucking based but holy shit I think I was six years old the last time I saw that one. Ooooh...Some madlad on /r/okbuddyretard uploaded a whole spongebob episode, suprisingly hasnt been fucked by Viacom yet
r/okbuddyretard - You guys can have this spongebob episode i dont need it anymore
16,403 votes and 490 comments so far on Reddit
Had it been uploaded to youtube, it wouldnt had lasted a minute.
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Has this been posted before? I had this picture for a while, and I read the original thread about it (the one in the image) and it got me thinking, big time. FYI I'll be schizo posting a bit here, and yes, I did take my medicine. If you don't want to read my schizophrenic essay, just read the image then.
Have any of you heard of the "Dead Internet Theory"?
AFAIK it boils down to, since the development and innovations in the fields of AI, algorithms and software, a big portion of internet traffick has been entirely fake. Fake as in, bots, advertisements, even outright fake accounts having fake discussions with other fake accounts. Bots talking to bots and maybe even entire websites. And at this point I truly believe it.
Reddit has a "subreddit simulator" where bots will take words and sentences used frequently to talk with eachother, with each "user" being a bot that repressents a subreddit
And since we are at the point where bots and algorithms can create entire papers
And also realistic texts based on simple inputs
What's to say that internet forums like Reddit don't use anything like that? We know the technology is here. So why would they? First of all, shilling. We know companies like to use realistic accounts to advertise products,
r/HailCorporate
r/HailCorporate: /r/HailCorporate is to document times when people act as unwitting advertisers for a product as well as to document what appear to …
Using an automated bot is much easier and can do multiple accounts at the same time.
Second of all, politics. We know that Shareblue for example spends millions on their online propaganda and political shilling.
Another one, to fake traffick and make a website more desirable to users. Forums thrive on their users, they need them. We've seen so many forums die when something better pops up. Given how much money companies like Tencent invest in Reddit, I doubt they'd let their investment go to waste. Saidit, a reddit competitor deals with constant DDoS'. And they're not some far right site like /pol/ neither. The guy who runs the site claims it's most likely done because they're a Reddit competitor, and growing.
He also claims that the website has "cultural" attacks aswel, due to these websites having accounts that don't require an image or whatever and are thus easy to make and exploit. And unlike sites like 4chan, Reddit, Saidit and similair don't use captchas - making it easier for bots to spam. After all, even 4chan has spam despite the captcha.
So we know the techology exists to fake traffick on a forum, we know Reddit has the money and capabilities to do so and we know that Reddit/Tencent have very good reasons to dabble in that area aswel.
So now, I genuinly feel like some Reddit users are bots.
And there's proof of it too, sort of atleast.
Read through this:
View attachment 1629775
Are most mods on Reddit automated bots? Software? Algorithms? Maybe even rudimentary AI? At the very least a big portion of Reddit moderators have no actual people behind them, that's for sure.
And if they are, what's to say the users are not? There's no capcha, and a plethora of reasons why Reddit would create fake traffick. Tencent gave them millions of dollars, they certainly don't lack the funds and the technology exists too.
What are you thoughts on this? I genuinly feel like a schizo typing all this but surely there's something fishy here, right?
Edit: This is the dead internet theory btw:
A bit more crazy than what I wrote, but it makes some interesting points
Yes, there is no doubt that bots are used to shill propaganda, among other things. Most platforms try to fight people creating fake user accounts, as it erodes trust in advertisers which pay them to display ads to real users. It s a constant back and forth cat and mouse game.
However reddit doesnt seem equipped to do the same, which is probably why they banned that guy. Why would an advertiser pay reddit to display their ad, when most of them are only going to be displayed to bots and fake users. Reddit just tries to sweep such accusations under the carpet.
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Advertising and politics aren't the only reasons why they'd dabble in automated bot accounts.
Last year, Tencent invested 150 milion into Reddit (and another 150m from other investors) - upping their worth to 3 bilion
Reddit valued at $3 billion after raising $300 million in latest funding round
Social media network Reddit Inc said on Monday it raised $300 million in its latest funding round, led by Tencent Holdings Ltd, giving it a market valuation of $3 billion.
www.reuters.com
Tencent has big stakes in Reddit, and I doubt they'd let their investments get to waste. Alternatives like Saidit are constantly under attack, not just from DDoS' but from random new accounts whose only purpose it is to fuck with the user culture and make the website unappealing (from using its freedom of speech to promote fucked up shit, to outright spamming certain viewpoints). And no, I'm not talking about any /pol/ raids
Atleast, that's according to the owner of Saidit, they also mentioned how it increases everytime they get an exodus from Reddit. Are they paid by Reddit or Tencent? Maybe, although I don't know for sure obviously.
Ofcourse this is all conjecture, but that experiment did prove that Reddit is filled with bots, both their top users and a big portion of their mods. This is hard to deny when there's proof of it.
So why would they do it? To make the website seem more alive than it is. People don't use dead sites or forums, and dying sides will just continue to bleed users. A few fake users here or there will be indistinguishable, especially if they just reply to eachother. But it makes a comment section seem much more alive than it is. And upvotes are even easier to fake, obviously.
How many times did Reddit mass ban subreddits? They do it all the time. Users too. They should be bleeding users, yet they seem to be growing and growing. More posts keep getting more upvotes and Reddit seems more alive than ever. Maybe those banned subs were just smaller than I remember them being, or those people made new accounts and accepted being part of the soy hivemind. I do know that more people are on the internet now than, like, 10 or even 5 years ago but I doubt that Reddit is somehow filled with random third worlders these days who just gained access to the internet.
You're right that the advertisers would be pissed, but this is Tencent we're talking about. I doubt they're ethical enough to not do this, especially if they can get away with it.
300 milion dollars, Tencent support and 3 billion in worth is not nothing
I don't think the majority of Reddit users are bots, that would be insane and too obvious. Just a high amount. I can't even give a percentage really. Maybe 10? idk
And about the advertisers, like I said, I doubt Reddit cares if they can get away with it
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I have some bad news for you about Reddit. Let me tell you about the day that bots got deployed on THE WRONG subreddit and everyone noticed.
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