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.

  • KIM_JONG_JUICEBOX@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Holy shit I completely forgot about that. So much irony.

    Now that this is the whole site, there should be a version of that sub where humans post.

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      1 year ago

      I greatly enjoyed SubredditSimulator’s bizarre nonsense. When that sub closed and the new GPT2-based one replaced it I didn’t find it particularly interesting because it was just regular nonsense. It was too normal.

      I guess the new bots are even more normal and therefore even less interesting.

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        1 year ago

        Tumblr has (had?) An auto responder bot that had just the right amount of fucked up if you need a fix.