Nothing you see on reddit is “organic”!

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    4 months ago

    They sell accounts for 4 bucks a pop. So apparently almost nothing.

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        4 months ago

        You 10 year old account might be a bit more valuable, but you have to understand that making bot accounts that post legitimate looking content nowadays is trivial.

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          4 months ago

          Not to mention the amount of hacked accounts because of credential stuffing attacks.

          A hacked Netflix account used to be like $1.

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          Was it trivial ten fifteen years ago?

          But yeah, now that it’s trivial, I may have missed the boat

          Oh well

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            Kinda. You don’t need AI to copy paste whole threads.