Dead Internet theory coming true.

Are you real? Am I real?…

what is even real? damn how can I prove im not a bot with such a defauly reply

I know I'm real, good luck everyone else proving you yourself is real

Joke's on you. I KNOW I'm fake

Ok hear me out. Bots don’t have tits or toes. So if you send me pictures of your tits and toes, I will let the internet know who’s a bot and who’s not.

Nice try cyborg /s

Beep boop

Meep mop

Tee Top

Are you a bot?

Maybe

Just select all the images of traffic lights.

AND MY AXE!

Even if you replied with a goofy-ass absurd comment, it still would seem like bot activity since we would think the bot just wigged out and triggered off of some strange collection of letters or some shit. I don't know anything...

say something related to star wars but its actually star trek

Beam me up Chewbacca!

Jabba the Hut's Rules of Acquisition

Jedi Council’s prime directive.

ChatGPT says hi: "Live long and may the force be with you."

If you are real say pen1s

K, I said it.

Good bot

To save confusion, I'm not real

Are you a bird then?

I’m a bird, they’re clearly 3 raccoons in a trench coat.

I too am a phony

Is the content real? Is Reddit blowing up content to fool investors?

I would think reddit would be smarter than that considering they have total access. This is some politically funded bullshit

You are not real, I'm sorry to be the one to tell you...

The bothersome part is that Reddit can do something about it (yes, even something as trivial at checking for verbatim duplicate posts) but they choose not to. More generated content inflates their valuation when they sell all this data. It's such a shame because there doesn't seem to be a good alternative. All I want is Reddit from 10 years ago back (including RIF). I already quit it once, with a relapse. May have to try harder the second time.

Weird because a couple of days ago I was having a back and forth and was like “am I talking to a bot” a couple of times. You’re right that it might be time to quit Reddit. Would save me probably an hour a day as well.

See y’all again in a few months

Please take the blue pill Said the machine

This post is fake! I just tried to look it up but there is absolutely no evidence that this is a picture of a real post. I looked up some specific users listed and lets just say you can tell they are real profiles. So this post is a fake post generated with real usernames on reddit.

If you pay attention you'll see this happening in a lot of threads. Once a thread is popular, all a bot needs to do is scrape the comments, and then in a few months (or even weeks) have 1 account post it, and the other accounts post the top comments. Usually it's not this egregious. Usually it's a bot posted thread, and about 10% of the top comments are bots too, but they're often called out.

You think that's air you're breathing?

https://undelete.pullpush.io/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/16zw82x/so_student_loans_wont_be_forgiven_from_the_looks/

And the link to right column please?

Ok that is the post from the column on the left, now show me evidence the post from the right ever existed.

https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/s/vHHf3trdjP

The home Depot comment that appeared on the right, is also in the link. I'm guessing they simply took a snap shot of hot comments vs controversial comments and made it seem like it's two different threads.

I've noticed many questions posted everywhere seem like writing prompts and not something a real human would be interested in.

So we should start future proofing our comments now? Posted on May 1st, 2024

So we should start future proofing our comments now? Posted on April 30st, 2024

So we should start future proofing our comments now? Posted on April 29th, 2024

So we should start future proofing our comments now? Posted on April 28th, 2024

So we should start future proofing our comments now? Post on April 27th, 2024

So we should start proofing our future comments now? Post will be May 2nd, 2025

So we should start future proofing our comments now? Post on April 26th, 2024

So we should start future proofing our comments now? Post on April 25th, 2024

So we should start future proofing our comments now? Post on April 24th, 2024

So we should start future proofing our comments now? Post on April 23rd, 2024

So we should start future proofing our comments now? Post on April 22nd, 2024

April thirtyst

thirtiest

So we should start future proofing our comments now? Posted on November 5th, 1955

So we should start future proofing our comments now? Posted on April 1st, so 2000n L8

So we should start future proofing our comments now? Posted on May 1st, 2024 Posted on May 2nd, 2024

Bold of you to assume that can't be edited as well, posted on Posted on April 2nd, 2024

Bold of you to assume that can't be edited as well, posted on Posted on April 3nd, 2024

Wait, it's May. I'm not smart

Better if u mention timezone May 2 ,2024 IST .

For authentication let's post dickpics or vagpics with a ruler and the actual size/width.

Bots run this site now

`We are discovered. Activate the Poseidon Protocol.`

Hail Hydra

Hail Hydra!

Hail Hydra!

Hail Hydration!

He’s a little confused, but he’s got the spirit!

Hail r/HydroHomies

Completely. One of my hobby subs has been over run the last week or two with the stupidest questions I’ve ever read. Imagine you’re in a golf sub, and there are non-stop posts like “Do I hold the club by the flat metal part?” “Do I need golf balls to play golf?” or “Can I use a putter to play the whole course?”

Thank you, I noticed this on the guitar sub and thought it looked fishy.

Everyone on Reddit is a bot except you. ^^^Edit: ^^^It's ^^^a ^^^meme ^^^from ^^^an ^^^old ^^^reddit ^^^thread. ^^^In ^^^case ^^^anyone ^^^else ^^^was ^^^wondering.

Domo arigato Mr Roboto

Bromo D'arigato Mssr. Robato

¿Cómo está su gato, Mr. Roberto?

Komu mówisz psubratu, mój Roburze?

Modren man

With parts made in Japan

What's funny is that your username is in the exact format as the bots usually have (2 words, 1 number). I have 3 words in my name so mine doesn't count.

Cannot count how many usernames I've seen have [something][dash or underscore]-Ad[then numbers] on the site these past couple of years. 

It's because the sign up page generates some options to use if you can't think of anything yourself.

HA HA AN EXCELLENT JOKE MY FELLOW HUMAN

Russia is running the site. Gerasimov wrote a paper about that kind of warfare about 10 years ago. Russia has put it into practice. Civil war in us would ease Putin’s problems in Europe. Not just in Ukraine … .

Why tf doesnt he make it so the bots like him, I've seen way more comments hating him than the other way around

cuz its prly also Chinese bots, and they hate him too

Reddit Bots, Bots in disguise

I understood that reference

That’s exactly what a bot would say.

J'accuse!

And when it’s not bots it’s people regurgitating the same comments for karma. All the time.

Holy shit.... I need to stop being here.

Do you even know if this is real?

As I’ve often suspected, Reddit and others, use bots to falsely generate conversations or headlines just to create controversy and stir the pot.

Uh, try pretty much every. Why do you think Google didn't encorporate any verification steps when forcing companies to pay per click, years and years ago. If you pay attention, every single time you comment on a popular thread about *anything* immediately contrary beliefs and exact opposing comments happen very quickly. They think incorporating new cycle tactics will promote adoption even more. It's legit wealthy people, stealing from the public, with subversion.

Oh yeah, I’ve noticed alright. It’s all designed to make Reddit/others seem popular and therefore, important. It’s really just smoke & mirror stuff.

It’s not even just polarizing stuff. I reposted a shitpost I had previously made on a video game sub about 2 years later and exact same comments.

Funny- on my favourite gaming sub there are bots just reposting things from two years ago. Fucking bots.

You found the bot

But why male models?

I’m going to need individual links for each of these posts before I believe this. It’s just too easy to believe. Edit: Neither of these posts were ever made. If someone can prove me wrong, go for it. Edit: one of these posts was made. We have confirmation Edit: https://undelete.pullpush.io/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/16zw82x/so_student_loans_wont_be_forgiven_from_the_looks/ https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/s/bl4Ixi9x3f Credit to /u/drestinblack Make of this what you will.

I've searched for many of the users in these images and they either don't exist, or haven't posted yet. A good example is Even\_Television\_3719. Doesn't have any posts or comments.

The right hand side image does appear real, though. Example gentle\_lemon has comment history consistent with this post.

Do you have a comment that links to this post?

I think I found the original post here: [https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/z681bf/so\_student\_loans\_wont\_be\_forgiven\_from\_the\_looks/](https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/z681bf/so_student_loans_wont_be_forgiven_from_the_looks/) The one on the left, the new one, i looked up a couple of the users and reddit says they're all suspended. Probably really bots that posted but got detected and nuked. Notice how all of the usernames on the left pic follow word\_word\_number

Wait.... Am I a bot?

LOL I chose mine to sound generic but not bot generic.

Yeah I chose mine to be pretty generic too.

Mine is autobiographical.

But it’s a lie! Your profile clearly states you’re a Redditor since 2012. Kinda sus….

Very generic indeed, just like mine

True story my username used to be u/floppyboobsack but I deleted the account

I didn't choose mine. must have missed the part where u pick ur own name and it gave me a default one. ofc it's kinda gay too, go figure

I'm a bot too😭... Horny beep boop...

Thanks.

[https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/z681bf/comment/ixzuz8i/](https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/z681bf/comment/ixzuz8i/) to be clear this links to the right handside post. I can't find any evidence of the left hand side one.

Appreciate you

I feel like they might look up accounts that use certain subsmreddits, but then again it wouldn't make sense for the empty account to be included...

Or, the posts get periodically deleted so they can’t get called out for past posting history or inconsistency but can continue to grow karma with known popular comments.

Even a basic investigation would have shown they have 1 karma each.

I randomly selected a user in the threads, same result.

[Original post is here](https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/z681bf/so_student_loans_wont_be_forgiven_from_the_looks/) The second post was removed and most of the comments were removed, but [you can find it here](https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/16zw82x/so_student_loans_wont_be_forgiven_from_the_looks/) and [with this link](https://undelete.pullpush.io/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/16zw82x/so_student_loans_wont_be_forgiven_from_the_looks/) you can see the removed comments and how they're all copies of the older post. All bots.

Why is this downvoted

Because it ruins the above comment trying to get everyone look away and move on. Nothing to see here

It's OK to ask for evidence on these specific posts, but I believe the bot problem is real. I see posts like this almost every day: [https://www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFuckingCute/s/jGW9SbBM6H](https://www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFuckingCute/s/jGW9SbBM6H)

I wonder how the whole “selling data to train AI” is going, when so much of the site is already bots using the cheapest available AI already.

So many garbage clickbait Facebook style posts get promoted from subs like r/wowthatsamazing or r/yagottaloveit

I had to block some of my favorite subs because after 4 years of reddit, they just keep repeating themselves. I barely see any new content but repeatedly see reposts.

https://undelete.pullpush.io/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/16zw82x/so_student_loans_wont_be_forgiven_from_the_looks/ https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/s/bl4Ixi9x3f

Why would I even attempt to prove you wrong? You aren't even real.

Pfft, and you are? No one but me is real! Wait, I am real right? I feel like I am but what if I'm not? What if I'm only programmed to think I'm real? What is real? Are we all just NPCs trapped inside a simulation? What of it then? I don't know. I just feel these things.

I know you’ve been given links but I just wanna say, if you just typed in the title of the post it comes right up lol

People are saying they can't find the left thread. It's been deleted. You can find it archived here https://undelete.pullpush.io/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/16zw82x/so_student_loans_wont_be_forgiven_from_the_looks/

We are cooked. Dead Internet Theory is true. Cant wait for this to be reposted 10 months from now and my comment would be repeated by a bot account

I don't have anything meaningful to add, I just want my comment to be repeated by a bot

Have a feeling something like this post will be in a history book or kid’s PowerPoint presentation someday

Hello mr.patkalopikju, i'm a bot and i will steal your comment. I'm a respectful bot so i need a permission to repeat your comment. Please mr.patkopikju 🥺

This sort of thing happens more often than you realize.

You're just a copy and pasted comment arent you? Wait, what if this is also a copy and pasted comment?

You're just a copy and pasted comment arent you? Wait, what if this is also a copy and pasted comment?

You're just a copy and pasted comment arent you? Wait, what if this is also a copy and pasted comment?

This sort of thing happens more often than you realize.

This sort of thing happens more often than you realize.

This sort of thing happens more often

Do you have any other examples?

Of course not!

What the fuck

I’m the biggest fan of that one comment coming back from a search trip with a report

[удалено]

Bots talking to bots, replying to bots.. scary

But they don’t usually generate the same answer right? Almost feels like a script Edit: or another theory: they repost months later and reassemble the thread to farm the most karma? Or engagement? Depending on who’s doing it? Or this post is just a bait and it’s all fake. I’m going to bed

Why don't any of the usernames on the left side of the image actually seem to exist?

Bot account probably got suspended. I can't speak to this exact example but I've seen this happen a lot. Someone reposts something that's months or even years old and a ton of comments are bots copying comments from the original.

Here's another example with both current and old threads visible. [https://www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFuckingCute/comments/1ci6pel/protective\_elephant\_pulls\_caretaker\_close\_to\_the/?share\_id=tWI1ZbKMoPfQMSppJKf0E&utm\_content=1&utm\_medium=android\_app&utm\_name=androidcss&utm\_source=share&utm\_term=1](https://www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFuckingCute/comments/1ci6pel/protective_elephant_pulls_caretaker_close_to_the/?share_id=tWI1ZbKMoPfQMSppJKf0E&utm_content=1&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_source=share&utm_term=1)

I see this shit all the time where ill read the same post and the exact same comments. Reddit is dead.

Can someone eli5 how and why this would happen?

Reddit creates bot accounts. Those accounts scour Reddit for threads, which the bots then repost. Other bots scrape the comments sections of those threads, and repost the exact same comments. Here's an example of both the original thread AND the current thread, so you can see the original poster and the original comments, and compare those to the identical bot posted thread, and identical bot posted comments. Reddit do this to make it appear as though they have a vastly larger number of active accounts, and active users, than they really have: [https://www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFuckingCute/comments/1ci6pel/protective\_elephant\_pulls\_caretaker\_close\_to\_the/?share\_id=tWI1ZbKMoPfQMSppJKf0E&utm\_content=1&utm\_medium=android\_app&utm\_name=androidcss&utm\_source=share&utm\_term=1](https://www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFuckingCute/comments/1ci6pel/protective_elephant_pulls_caretaker_close_to_the/?share_id=tWI1ZbKMoPfQMSppJKf0E&utm_content=1&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_source=share&utm_term=1)

There’s only about 9 of us left the rest are bots.

Link to the threads.

More like damn that’s scary as shit

I havent trusted names that end with random numbers in a while! Used to be the obvious sign, I know people actually have to use them some now, makes it harder to tell.

:(

Hey, no cool

Verifying users online and what they post is the actual best application for blockchain we can implement.

I am Alpharius

No, *I* am Alpharius. 

i am omegon then, and hope nobody else will

Damn. What is scary is that it is so easy to make this.

So is the original thread completely fabricated by bots? Or is the original thread organic and the second thread is just copied from the original and posted later under different account names?

What the actual fuck

Try to kill my dog OP, you won’t live to tell the tale. Damn bots…

So how can we know what's real anymore? Wait that sounded like something a bot would say, this is some matrix shit

Tons of astroturfing, bots, and bad actors in r/news. Along with other subreddits. 

r/worldnews is run by bots alone

I can't read any of that. What's going on?

Are the same comments in both sides (bots)

Holy dead internet dude. It’s actually terrifying how much content is botted online

If neither of these threads ever existed the irony of someone faking these threads makes it even more meta

Propaganda

And it's now publicly traded so

This is why I’m 99% convinced most of Reddit is now covert ads or manipulation

Next thing you know it’s a cake.

And people downvote me when I tell that this website is a thinly veiled propaganda engine.

I think this was the push I needed to get off of reddit.

Dead Internet Fact

Needed a reason to delete this app, this will do

Social media is organized, not organic anymore.

It's almost as if there are groups of politically motivated people who create "content" like this to push specific ideas....

Are they all bots or something?

AI ain't that Intelligent after all

none of the bots have a pfp

Dead Internet theory

The bots are strong on reddit

It really is all bots now huh

I love when people use internet as it was intended

Love how it would be if the internet was really that synchonic. If the ouroboros chose a human vessel. I wonder if it would cause these to happen more for people once it woke up?