1y ago

Top of r/all

old.reddit.com I do not understand the endgame.

Posted in r/WhitePeopleTwitter by u/ozmune • 31,054 points and 1,033 comments

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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A little searching with DuckDuckGo reveals that this tweet was made in January 2023. Not sure whether it's also bot-vomited from a previous instance of the same remark. It's telling that the r/all post doesn't link to the tweet or give a date.
ETA a link to the tweet in question: https://twitter.com/briantylercohen/status/1617333819660718081
- Yeah, I'm wondering if the chorus of comments are also harvested from the various prior threads to make it look like what real conversations would be about.
  
  I'm thinking AI-generated based on similar past topics.
- I've definitely seen this exact tweet long before 2023.
  It's bots all the way down.
  
  Are we bots?
  
  Beep boop
  Fuck, I mean no
  
  Correct! The flower would also have been acceptable.
  I kid, but i do wonder whether bots will use discussions about bots to seed their bot conversations. Can a large language model have an existential crisis?
  
  https://twitter.com/briantylercohen/status/1617333819660718081
  The tweet was from Jan 22, 2023
  
  But this article is from 2021, along with all the other ones I found about the vaccine causing "shaking".
  https://www.politifact.com/article/2021/jan/20/shaking-covid-vaccine-side-effect-videos-and-what-/

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