[comnetxr]

how do you know the passionate to the point of addiction Yang supporters are real?

I think its likely that many are, but that there are also many passionate supporters of the other candidates who just lurk on Twitter without posting due to social norms about how often you should chime in and how forcefully. The social norms around Yang supporters on twitter have changed by bots posting often and loudly, breaking the bubble and giving permission to people to do it too. If you then turn the bots off, the YangGang effect would last. (I'm sure this applies to not just Yang...)

[bnjms]

Bots don’t meme.

Yet.

[Communitivity]

I've seen proof of concepts that could be strung together to do that, using a combination of Generative Adversarial Networks, style transfer, and rule-based semantic reasoner.