If I don’t give him the money, he’s gonna tell everyone about you and me.
02-Jul-2015, episode 1
On this day… 2nd of July
thanks to everyone who has commented/left kudos/reblogged these type of posts and left nice things in the tag! hope you enjoy how it all ends
PSA: bot comments are taking over ao3
The above examples have been provided with the authors' permission to demonstrate what these look like.
Basic rundown:
- They are all 3 sentences long
- Perfect grammar, capitalization, and punctuation
- Like absolutely flawless English teacher-style writing with only a single exclamation mark, ever
- No mentions whatsoever of character names, settings, situations, or anything that could be tied to the story
- The usernames may be identical to people who exist on ao3, but the name is not clickable, and no profile is associated with it EXCEPT when you directly search for that name. What this means: the comments come from an unregistered (not logged in) reader, bots scrape the site for real usernames, attach that to the comment, and post
Please spread the word about this so authors can filter comments and report them accordingly
There has been some speculation about why this is happening at all, and the best guess is that this is a feature that AI-training story-scraping tools are implementing to try and make their browsing traffic look legitimate
Lovely Aaron (with Cain, Chas and Robert) years today. 2nd July 2015
Wild Dogs see a Domesticated Dog
African wild dogs are one of my favorite animals. Those huge round circle ears and tricolored coats. I love you African wild dogs
HEY. HEY. HOW DID YOU GET OUT??? HEY-
Lovely Aaron 8 years and 2 years ago today 2nd July 2009/2015
Someone just stole my thesaurus
I have no words to describe how I feel.
