Edit: Sorry that this looks like a mess, I have no clue how to format this right on mobile.
OK, so I just noticed something very strange about a latest thing that just sprung out.
I was reading new posts on the New music thread (2018), and the last comment there cought my view:
Uh, weird. New account with 5 posts that wrote an out of place comment about Kingdom Hearts. "Maybe he posted it in the wrong thread?" I thought to myself.
So I checked out his profile to see what's the deal with this guy and this is what I see:
4 different activities:
1. A legitimate looking post that's a reply to a previous post about a Kingdom Hearts mini game.
2. Again with a KH related one, but with no connection to the thread.
3. This is the weirdest one to me - another real post about the song Synthetic Life and a little joke about the infamous song we all know, Lockdown.
4. A new thread with just gibberish in it.
At this point I'm confused. Is this a real person at all? It's like a mixed bag of real posts and something you would see out of a bot. Also, all of the posts are made within minutes of each other, something a bot would do.
I then refresh the main forum page and see this:
Now this... This I know. The same thing that has been going on for ages here and keeps filling the entire first page with unreadable spam.
Now is when I'm not sure what to think anymore. Was this really a bot all along? That Synthetic Life post has a reference to a Giant Bomb meme that only dudes who are following the site would know, so it looked like it came from a real person, but all the rest are doubtful. Maybe bot tech is in a state I didn't know was even possible yet.
Or maybe I'm just loosing my mind here, who knows?
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