It's Really Funny That Redditors Convinced Themselves That The Stupid Tiananmen Square Copypasta Is Going

remember how utterly inescapable how i met your mother used to be with the memes and references and barney and bro code and wait for it... and then the finale was so hated it vanished overnight

not gonna become a repost account but i think about “4” “dumb fuck” every day

So, I follow this “bad commercial interior design” Facebook page and-

"go to hell" is basic. "i hope your favourite AO3 work gets deleted." is smart. its possible. its terrifying.

PSA: bot comments are taking over ao3

The above examples have been provided with the authors' permission to demonstrate what these look like.

Basic rundown:

They are all 3 sentences long

Perfect grammar, capitalization, and punctuation

Like absolutely flawless English teacher-style writing with only a single exclamation mark, ever

No mentions whatsoever of character names, settings, situations, or anything that could be tied to the story

The usernames may be identical to people who exist on ao3, but the name is not clickable, and no profile is associated with it EXCEPT when you directly search for that name. What this means: the comments come from an unregistered (not logged in) reader, bots scrape the site for real usernames, attach that to the comment, and post

Please spread the word about this so authors can filter comments and report them accordingly

There has been some speculation about why this is happening at all, and the best guess is that this is a feature that AI-training story-scraping tools are implementing to try and make their browsing traffic look legitimate

"You can't be a lurker on tumblr." Yes, you absolutely can. I've been quietly reblogging things since 2014 and I haven't interacted with anyone in years.

hey guys sorry but is the wordpress guy in charge of tumblr literally at burning man right now shitting in buckets????

reblog if you’ve read fanfictions that are more professional, better written than some actual novels. I’m trying to see something