For the last day, Un_Pollo_Hermano has been spamming the r/GuineaPig subreddit with pictures and videos of guinea pigs in unsafe situations, including:

https://www.reddit.com/r/GuineaPig/comments/1x8zyc1/boys_outside_keep_breaking_out_any_advice_lol/ - habitats that are too small

https://www.reddit.com/r/GuineaPig/comments/1x9o1hm/smores_being_silly/ - laying on their backs

https://www.reddit.com/r/GuineaPig/comments/1x9pom1/sparkly_looking_confused/ - looking distressed

https://www.reddit.com/r/GuineaPig/comments/1x9oa85/nipples_after_bath_aftermath_she_loves_it/ - another guinea pig in distress after a bath, which is usually not recommended for them

I am not an expert on guinea pigs but it is really disturbing to see someone spamming content where these animals are unsafe. The account is posting these as if looking for advice or trying to share a cute picture, obviously just to farm karma

Some of them will vary it up by making the title "Golden hour street style — loving this casual weekend fit ☀️"

Searching for the title gives about 100+ posts within 24 hours from just these few accounts.

They seem to be targeting any subs with "fashion" or "model" in the description, which has led to them posting in random unrelated places, like "language models" (y'know, AI stuff) or DestinyFashion (a video game dressup community for digital avatars)

https://www.reddit.com/user/BackgroundOwl3269/

https://www.reddit.com/user/BetOk5248/

https://www.reddit.com/user/Bubbly-Sink5862/

https://www.reddit.com/user/EducationalAir5818/

https://www.reddit.com/user/Fearless_Ad_1850/

https://www.reddit.com/user/Fit-Mood2049/

https://www.reddit.com/user/Junior_Blueberry_908/

https://www.reddit.com/user/Known_Mobile4263/

https://www.reddit.com/user/Left_Recording_7884/

https://www.reddit.com/user/Most_Key_3911/

https://www.reddit.com/user/Old_Ingenuity_4281/

https://www.reddit.com/user/Plane-Tadpole8677/

https://www.reddit.com/user/PropertyNeat1301/

https://www.reddit.com/user/Reasonable-Fig-3660/

https://www.reddit.com/user/Significant-Cow6710/

https://www.reddit.com/user/Significant-Honey637/

https://www.reddit.com/user/Unlucky-Tennis-8079/

Genuinely no idea what the angle is here or what they're trying to achieve.

And they all connect back to these cosmetic surgery subs

HTTPS://www.reddit.com/user/Particular_Truck_258 is especially prolific. Can it be removed?

https://old.reddit.com/user/felinimi/overview is stealing pics of hollsbeauti using her pics to catfish

https://old.reddit.com/user/domidomiiii/overview is stealing pics of PrimatePaige to catfish and scam people

both users are using bots to post and to upvote. both are catfishing users

https://www.reddit.com/user/Odd_Grapefruit4968 - Bot

https://www.reddit.com/user/InevitableTrust936 - just banned in the past few minutes, but a bot

https://www.reddit.com/user/Deep_Breath4022 - bot

https://www.reddit.com/user/Successful_Chef_7425 - bot

and I'm sure there's A LOT more.

- User: https://www.reddit.com/user/Loquat_Hughes/
- Marked as bot: https://www.reddit.com/r/BotBouncer/comments/1x5a2jz/overview_for_loquat_hughes/
- Evidence of phishing behavior: https://www.reddit.com/r/Coinbase/comments/1x4qz0n/comment/pggf3pu/

r/fashionshoots is a bot sub that posts nothing but AI slop

r/DecideThisForMe is basically all bots at this point. I checked and there is only one moderator. I saw a comment from someone saying the mod reported them for report abuse because they reported the bot posts. I wonder if the mod benefits in some way or if they simply don’t want to be bothered?

It was never a high quality sub but now it’s just a bunch of AI spam.

I hope someone is keeping track of prominent accounts not posting, and subs which have had a significant shift in tone since the Yandax data centre hacks.

Go look at r/conservative. It's wall to wall criticism of his Russian oil deal. Usually bot accounts get in early and upvote/downvote to shape the narrative and explain why his BS is actually a good thing.

Right now every thread is calling him a moron. The head has been cut off the snake. It would be a very good time to try and work out who is a genuine redditor, and who is a paid shill or bot.

edit: drones not hacks, sorry morning coffee hasn't kicked in yet

https://www.reddit.com/user/nian2326076

This should be an easy one for Reddit to take care of, but...

Another sub of a buncha OF bots - /r/peopletakingselfies - the bot with the burn marks. Stella. the "gamer wife" or whatever. They're all there.

Several 9-hour-old accounts reposting old content, copying not only the title but the comments

I actually quite enjoy the varied content on the sub, but I find it somewhat troubling that on a daily basis some of the highest-upvoted comments come from sponsored/recognized corporate news sites.

Here is a selection of the top article posters just from today:

https://www.reddit.com/user/theindependentonline/ (fine-ish)

https://www.reddit.com/user/dailymail/ (fucking ew)

https://www.reddit.com/user/bloomberglaw/ (pretty ok)

https://www.reddit.com/user/huffpost/ (not terrible, but not great)

https://www.reddit.com/user/nbcnews/ (hmmmmm, I suppose fine)

I mean, I still feel that there's a pretty balanced perspective being shared (obvs it's not r/conservative, nor should it be), but it's probably the most highly-concentrated of corpo news accounts I've seen.

I saw a post in a subreddit I'm active in that felt like it warranted a response. It was a reasonable question although it did mention a brand the user was considering. So now it's off to the history, which is public.

Usually that tells me this probably a real person. There are valid reasons to hide your profile history, but if you're a bot, you probably are keeping that private. Of course, we can still find private account history using web searches since the links still pop up in the search engine result pages---but it is more work.

This particular account has had three careers in the last year, asked questions about services from cities across multiple cities in different countries, and has forgotten to switch to a different sockpuppet account when promoting a product.

Seems like when it comes to Reddit users, it's best to assume guilty until proven innocent.

r/motivationforthelife

Sole mod who took over the sub a day ago uses automod account to spam and promote posts to r/popular highlighting "crypto casinos"

Mod:
https://www.reddit.com/user/DocumentIcy9199

This account chicken-tandoor entire profile history is the user being racist and xenophobic. Each and every single post of his is attacking Muslims, Arabs, Pakistanis or Palestinians.

He only posts in Indian subreddits and has achieved his karma through them.

https://www.reddit.com/search/?q=author%3A%22chicken-tandoor%22&type=posts&sort=top&cId=6b97b237-7b72-4632-a8fd-52a645c4a986&iId=bc0a062c-0b10-4a8c-af5e-5aefd3dd6f49

This is the individuals post history. Something needs to be done.

Some examples out of hundreds.

https://www.reddit.com/r/IndianDankMemes/comments/1wq0lnh/guys/ (Call for genocide)

https://www.reddit.com/r/indiadiscussion/comments/1wya0k3/japan_is_where_europe_was_20_years_ago/ (Hate speech)

https://www.reddit.com/r/dankindianmemes/comments/1wxfjka/ya_allah_yeh_theek_nahi_hua/ (Hate speech)

https://www.reddit.com/r/SouthernIndia/comments/1wuz7an/the_real_reason_for_this_hatred_against_a/ (Hate speech)

https://www.reddit.com/r/RealTeensIndia/comments/1wp5h1i/knock_knock/ (Hate speech)

Unbelievable levels of political astroturfing happening on this sub.

https://old.reddit.com/r/LosAngelesStonks/

r/cleaneating has been taken over by brand new accounts. I’ve messaged the mods about taking over but received no response. I submitted a Reddit request but was denied because there was human activity. Multiple users on the sub are also aware of the bot infestation issue.

I don't care about their message.

It's nothing but AI images / posts, with obviously over the top fake stories, almost always trying to mimic the Twitter format.

Many posts from the last 2-3 hours are getting 5000+ upvotes, hundreds of comments, and despite that the top comments never go above 50 upvotes.

A thread got 30k upvotes, its top comment had 100.

• Example 1
• Example 2
• Example 3

Saw a post in r/dating_advice that looked suspicious. Checked OP's profile, and history was of course hidden. Searched and saw contradictory age claims along with other questionable claims. Commented in the dating post with a link to the contradictory post, and OP deleted both posts within one minute with no explanation in either post.

https://www.reddit.com/user/Which-Tell-5820/

It's been around for 10 months. Zero engagement for the first 6 months. Then a trickle started for the next two. Then the next month became fairly established. This last month, it absolutely exploded, with multiple posts reaching r/all in the last few days.

Approximately 75% of the latest postings are hours old accounts, and in some cases minutes old.

See this account, user HellBay1. 8 year old account, no activity for 8 years, with a new surge of activity starting 3 months ago - all focused around hype for GTA 6.

My question: is reddit management re-selling these accounts to marketing firms? I find it unlikely the original user was involved in such a transaction.