jiggles wrote:There is a rampant, Kremlin-backed bot culture on Twitter which is designed to troll people on topics with tribalistic loyalties. You might look at a tweet from PlayStation that has a bunch of “Xbox better” or a tweet from Xbox that has a bunch of “PS better” replies (or in this case, W/L I guess?) and think “oh, just some dumb fanboys” but it’s more insidious than that. Often you can check the poster’s timeline and see they’re actually trolling on both sides and will often be doing it on other, unrelated topics like football teams, pop artists or politics, and they’re doing it at a pace that’s impossible for a human to actually keep up with. So why do it? What could they possibly gain from trolling everyone?
The point is to simply sow discord. It’s subtle, but if you get people arguing all the time they become unhappy. That leads to anger, to unrest, and a country fights itself from within.
I hope this means Darren Grimes is some kind of Russian AI because if that much cuntness is contained in an actual human body then I struggle to comprehend how it stays alive.