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.
Considering that post is made by a 4 year old account that has zero post history up until 2 days ago… yep. It’s a bot inflating traffic. That’s nothing new though. Bots have been making posts like this for YEARS… I got banned for report abuse for reporting so many blatantly obvious ones. They know what rheyre doing.