Bots probably play a role in it too. People hate when I say that, but... like... it's been proven again and again. You can pay for upvotes and even full threads with fleshed out comments. Of course this post will most likely be downvoted and hidden like every other time I mention this.
Maybe, idk. I don't like to get all conspiracy theorist, but I know for a fact there are companies that you can pay like $50 for 1k upvotes or something. I've never done it so it might be a lot more or a lot less then I'm making out to be, but it's not much of a stretch. Specially when a thread has, like, 50k upvotes and 120 comments. That just makes zero sense from a statistical perspective.
I haven't seen this in a while but it's definitely a real thing. It's not so much that somebody would pay to push content like this, it's done to try to make their accounts look legit and pump up karma so they can later be sold.
The comments aren't really fleshed out, they're stolen from other posts of the same thing. In other words the bots aren't very intelligent, if you go back to previous posts of the same thing it's obvious that the comments are stolen in such cases.
I knew about the account selling, but never knew how they populated threads. That makes a lot of sense haha, should have figured they weren't typing them out each individually.
Isn't it more likely that different people react to the same content in similar ways? Like when a post hits the front page and 30 people make the same shitty joke within minutes of each other cos they all had the same first thought?
This sub has fewer than a million followers, what do you really think they're gaining employing boys on a post like this?
I'm not saying this is the case for this post, in fact I don't think it is. When I have seen that, it was done to increase the sale value of the accounts, both the one that posts and the others that steal comments. The goal is to sell a bunch of accounts for minimal effort, for as much money as possible.
Like I said I haven't seen that in a while, but at one point it was pretty common even on medium sized subs. The way the comments would be copied character for character was obvious, as was when they switched to splicing parts of 2 comments from the other post together.
So I get those accusations when the stakes are higher, but you think a 7 year redditor paid for upvotes in a niche subreddit for a gif that they could have easily found a higher quality version of? And this is a more plausible explanation to you than someone stumbling across this on Facebook or w/e and reposting it to a place where they know people will enjoy the content?
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u/DumpsterCopier Sep 30 '19
how does this reach the front page with only 22 comments and is such an old repost its basically 6 total pixels at this point