Like these post just always to be “My [Spouse/Friends/Parent/Relative] [doing a absolutely horrible thing] Am I Overreacting?” or “I told my [Spouse/Friend/Parent/Relative] to stop [doing the most horrible thing any human has ever done], but my friends told me that what I did was wrong, AITA?”
Like… you might as well make a “My husband/wife murdered our child and I want to divorce my husband/wife, but my friends think I’m wrong and I shouldn’t throw away such a long marriage for such a small conflict and try marriage counceling, AITA?”
Bruh. My sus-meter just skyrockets every time I see these posts. And like not once or twice a week, almost every day. Just scroll to like the top 5 comment in the post and there’s often already a comment debunking the story with no OP reply, or linking to some of OP’s older posts that has a contradicting story and finding that post has been deleted with all the comments calling out OP. Which just confirms my suspicions.
Dead Internet Theory… no longer just a theory…
Edit: Sorry for the rant, still grieving what used to be a fun site.
I doubt it’s bots. To me, it always felt more like cosplay from attention seekers; a form of trolling that requires mass social media.
It could also be “journalist” looking for some conflicting commenters from which they can twist words and generate new content.
It’s all fiction. My assumption is those posts are to get a ton of karma as quickly as possible, then the accounts are sold for whatever purpose.
I started noticing that years ago. Most of them sound like teenage drama set in an adult world, so I just figured they were kids making up stories to get clicks and karma.
Or childish adults. Hard to tell sometimes.
Lots of childish adults out there