[deepsquirrelnet]

I’m pretty sure it is an alternate reality, fueled mostly by bot interaction. If you look at the comment history on a post, much of the time it appears to be flocks of bots posting “Very Insightful”, and often identically duplicated comments.

The posts themselves are usually strawmen meme-level content trying to fuel the attention economy.

I can only figure that there’s a lot of fake accounts trying to score remote jobs from North Korea or something.

[grues-dinner]

Or worse, it's a biobot using the little palette of cringey prebaked replies you can post: "very insightful, thanks for posting", "interesting thought", etc.