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