2,121,566 people are not Amanda and counting!
We’ll find you Amanda.
nosferatu? no. tuferatu. no es mi problema.
fine i'll do it the vintage tumblr way.
reblog if you don't have polls yet
like if you do have polls
everytime i come across the 'dying of dysentery' card in card against humanity, i think about trail to oregon
“you support gay rights so you must be gay”
i support animal rights do i look like a fucking alpaca to you
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
every once in a while i learn some wild new piece of information that explains years of behavior and reminds me that i will never truly understand everything about my ridiculous adhd brain
I thought this was a joke