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.

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        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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          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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      Sounds like a song…

      Bots who like posts who like posts who like bots who write posts from the bots who like bots who like posts…

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        Like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grWgQChzDqQ

        I like you and you like him and he likes somebody else
        The three of us, so full of votes
        And yet, we’re all on the shelf
        ‘Round and ‘round we keep on clickin’
        There’s only bots left in this frickin’
        Subreddit that’s slowly come unglued
        A circle of snoo

        I wish that we could take a break
        ‘Cause even bots get bored
        But redditors keep fucking off
        To the Fediverse or Discord
        So on and on we keep on postin’
        To hide that users have been ghostin’
        Who wants spam that isn’t even new?
        A circle of snoo

        A circle of snoo
        That’s filled with so much glurge
        A circle of snoo
        Can’t someone do a purge?

        But on and on we keep on postin’
        To hide that users have been ghostin’
        Who wants spam that isn’t even new?
        A circle of snoo

        (edited to finish the song because if you’re going to set something to an Archies tune, why not go for maximum suffering?)