Is this new to post-blackout reddit is or has it been this way for a while. Top post of r/all is a tweet from like 2 years ago about a “current event” that no one has talked about since then and 100% of the comments are talking about this like this topic is the focus of today’s or any recent time’s 24 hour news cycle. Nearly 30K upvotes. 100 comments. Feels like ai/bot cosplaying what an actual hot reddit post would be like but in a world without people.
Did you just discover repost bots? :) I feel like r/funny had been, for the past 5 years at least, 95% reposts and 5% new, original content. 3 or 4 posts per week on average were actually both new and funny.
If there’s a date in the image, the bot owners don’t even bother to redact it, so it’s easy to see whether an image is from 2012 or whenever. This is glaringly evident on r/WhitePeopleTwitter, for example.