• stoly@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    I noticed this first with AITA when it became clear that the mods were manipulating the sub for their own purposes. They would let obvious fiction in and ban people for calling it out. They also very selectively enforced standards and would only go after very specific comment types while ignoring very obvious abuse. Then I started seeing this behavior happen in pretty much all of the ask or story subs. Now you see it on Tik Tok and YouTube shorts–bots reading all these fictional posts into video shorts. It’s bizarre.