[Cthulhu_]

Who knows, maybe they already are? I mean I'm confident there's a ton of content farms out there already that just run a cronjob every couple minutes to pluck the top ten images off of a subreddit, checks if they've been published on their own channel yet and republishes them.

If not, I'll brb, need to set up some websites / facebook accounts.

[toomanybeersies]

9gag was caught out a few years back for automatically harvesting images off the front page of reddit, then posting it to 9gag like it was from a "real user", and artificially inflating the upvotes.

You could tell it was automated, because every once in a while, a very reddit specific meme would appear on the 9gag front page, with a bunch of confused comments from 9gag users who didn't understand it. Here's a writeup from a couple of years ago on it [1]

I don't doubt that other clickbait sites like BoredPanda do exactly the same thing.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/3z2wvf/about_...