I been thinking about reddit..

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[–]thefirststone 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Good point. I figured it was just age, since the older group that moved off IRC remained more or less comprehensible. But that's the only one I know with real people that lasted more than a few months.

The chat bots wouldn't even need to be very advanced to do the crude needling and contextless anime and superhero picture posting, either. It's less cogent chat than you find on 4chan threads, which itself is widely thought to be botted for political purposes.

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Discord is riddled with autistic teens/adults with the attention span of canned soup, so some might be real. Animeposting is probably spillover from 4chan culture, so it could make a bot look more believable if it's just tossed out there too. 4chan is a hotbed for bot and shill activity though. I don't know how often you've frequented there, or if so for how long, but the content has tanked in quality for a while now. /sci/ is nearly unusable for the most part, and you can tell by the sheer number of vax slide threads how bad things are. Whether controlled by useful idiots, shills, letter agencies, or even bots-- I couldn't imagine anywhere where communication online is involved would be unadulterated anymore. It's extremely depressing.