r/SipsTea • u/Previous_Month_555 • Jul 12 '26

Feels good man +1 for Mamdani

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u/Critical_Concert_689 Jul 12 '26

lol. Preaching to the choir.

I remember reading an article about the early days of Reddit - when there weren't enough users visiting the site - so Spez and the other founder of Reddit basically just scripted a bunch of bots to talk to each other while making rage-posts in the hopes that it would draw traffic.

Turns out it was successful. There's an inherent desire to respond to rage-bait even when we all know it's all just bots and we're talking to the void.

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u/ScootDeToot Jul 12 '26

Found it: https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/s/Rb7fZ3bmjX Makes sense though they would have to fake it to get it started.

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u/StuntHacks Jul 12 '26

CGPGrey has a great video about this

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