What make you think this?
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Maalus@lemmy.world 2 months agoBots, not much else.
Acklavidian@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Maalus@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Because it’s all politics. There is money in ridiculing a politician, rigtfully or not. Also, people don’t do that shit “organically”, it’s too much effort and has to start somewhere. So either it is 100s of accounts that were started by few people (bots), or it is specifically targetted by political opponents (bots).
Also, ask yourself, would you change your account name, set your avatar to that picture, just for a passing meme joke on a single video? No? Then why would anyone else do that?
Acklavidian@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It reminds me of how musical artists would let people vote on their next venue, and 4chan would find ways to make it a school for the deaf, or the inception of Boaty McBoatface.
drmoose@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Nah it makes no sense to boy this as you’d need to manually change avatar etc either way. People just like the bit, its funny.