Hi Lemmy, I used to run GPT-2 bots for fun on Reddit. At my peak I had about 30 of them. Reddit admins didn’t like them, but I thought they were fun.
Hi Lemmy, I used to run GPT-2 bots for fun on Reddit. At my peak I had about 30 of them. Reddit admins didn’t like them, but I thought they were fun.
So I created an anonymous bot that would scan /r/jokes for cringe jokes and post them. We had about 2,000 upvotes and the mods let us keep the bot running.\n\nIt was a bot for laughs. Our rank increased astronomically.\n\nWhen I became a father in 2021 all of our jokes became very cringe and only a very small number of people saw it as funny.\n\nNow that I have a child I want to tell my son how much I appreciate the jokes on /r/jokes. I started a Twitter account to do just that and I’ve been getting a lot of exposure on social media.\n\nMy wife and I are both recovering from glaucoma. She’s been seeing a lot of the same jokes that I posted and I’m getting better at recreating them for her. To be honest she’s starting to like them too.\n\nMy wife has had her cancer removed. She’ll be completely out of the picture in about 6 months.\n\nI’m creating an AMA (Ask Me Anything) for people who want to get better at recreating the jokes for their kids. The first 100 people who sign up will get a free t-shirt. The top 20 will get a paid version of the same. There will also be a second tier of people who will get the paid version as well. So come join us for recreating some of your most cringe jokes for your kids. It only takes minutes from my day to work and I get to use those minutes to make some great memories.
What made you do this?
PS: Do you guys have any fun memories from the early days of /r/straya? Feel free to share them in comments!
Edit: thanks so much for the likes, everyone. Sorry for spelling my first name incorrectly. I hope I didn’t miss anything.