starting my ztd journey. something is wrong with c team
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“What happened to Santa after 999?” He is traveling the world with Snake to do this in as many IKEAs as possible.
Clover films them and cheers Snake on during their fake arguments btw
Anytime i see a bunch of pride flags i have to restrain myself from saying "where mexico" bc i doubt anyone will know I'm referencing this
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
I don’t ever want to discourage commenting on fics, quite the opposite! And if you write comments in a similar style, don’t feel like you have to stop. Just add one little thing in, as I saw in one of the other comments: mention the name of one of the characters. These spammer bot things aren’t actually reading the fics; if they were they would’ve known that the “fic” of mine they complimented so profusely for my way with words and plot and all that was actually a VID. 🙄 So just add in a name of the character or just some other identifying word/phrase/name that let’s the author know you really did read the fic. 😉