Why are half the posts on AITA/relationships etc about Switches when the subject has to do with spoiled children trying to get their hands on consoles they don't own. Are these astroturfing subs now or something
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Replying to @benjanun_s
It's pretty well documented that there's tons of industry shills who go on these popular subs that regularly produce viral posts in order to try to subtly get their brand name out there Some do it gracefully, some less so -- there's some really famous and clever examples
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Replying to @arthur_affect
I guess at least it's less evil than TRFs/gendercrits using these subs to astroturf the idea that trans women are dangerous/oversensitive/whatever (though those still get through anyway).
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Replying to @benjanun_s
We passed the point a long time ago, given the visibility these subs get, where you can assume anything on there actually happened You have to read them as this ongoing collaborative fiction project, that may shine a light on social truths but isn't literally true
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Replying to @arthur_affect @benjanun_s
I mean when that one writer just reached out saying they were gonna do a big exposé piece and asked if anyone wanted to reveal themselves as a faker *almost all* the really big viral posts from the past couple years were revealed as fake
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Replying to @arthur_affect @benjanun_s
Even the ones where it's like "This is too boring/typical to be fake" make me think "This probably isn't a comedian hoping to go viral for fun but could very easily be someone getting some kind of emotional benefit out of presenting a hypothetical or altered situation"
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Yeah, it's a bit weird. I mean, at least it's (relatively) harmless when someone fakes one of the boring ones?
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Replying to @benjanun_s
What bothers me about this is that this is exactly how stereotypes reproduce themselves When the specific story gets revealed as fake, people justify it by going "Okay but THAT KIND OF THING happens all the time and that's why it FEELS true"
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Even though it feels true because people think it happens "all the time" because of other stories they heard, which also may or may not have been fake Like this is exactly why TERFs are trying to weaponize these subs to create new transphobic stereotypes
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