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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.

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[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 9 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Mickey7@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

Lots of childish adults out there

[–] scytale@lemm.ee 8 points 7 hours ago

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.

[–] Clent@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago

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.