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imadethis@fedinsfw.app ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

If you ever heard or saw the my sides reaction in 4chan, it was kind of amazing to eventually learn that it was an intentional push by a team. It’s not much different than the bronies: first it was mockery, then it was people ironically posting to annoy the mockers, then it was people believing the ironic posts were real, and then it went crazy.

Same here. One poster, violet, suddenly made a bunch of slightly sexual, titillating memes on lemmyshitpost, and now the entire community seems to be mostly hornyposting. I would bet dollars-to-donuts that it’s an intentional push to gauge how a community reacts. The people now picking up on it are ‘adapting’ to the community’s response because everyone loves seeing the little notification light up that someone has replied to you.

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