r/TheseFuckingAccounts

So on the art sub I moderate there have been a lot of repost bots appearing as of late. Even if they get by the filters, it is really easy to catch them (I won't say how I know, I think at least one of them is following me around).

Last night I had a repost, followed by three new accounts commenting approval, followed with a DM to the mod team (which is in fact just me). The modmail was offering a brand new moderation tool. And that would be a hijack attempt for sure.

Reposter that caught my eye: https://old.reddit.com/user/fickereljeecje2

Commenters:

https://old.reddit.com/user/fatteredluncqtured

https://old.reddit.com/user/Sselmaxx

https://old.reddit.com/user/goibledswopcorn6

Wording of the DM: Hey mods! I'm building a mod tool and wanted your opinion on it! Could I have a lil chat with someone?

I'm leaving out the user account of the DM for now.

Just wanted to get the info out there so someone smarter than me can give it a look.

https://www.reddit.com/r/birdiebristol/s/eOZkUMaSPR

This subs been showing up randomly in my feed and I found it odd. Some of the posts are definitely sexualizing this golfer. Seemed weird cause she looked really young. I went and searched this golfer. She's 14 YEARS OLD. This isn't okay. It's presented as a fan page but it heavily focuses on her appearance rather than her golfing technique..

Some of the greatest hits I've seen so far:

https://www.reddit.com/r/birdiebristol/s/NwiqSXHw5X

https://www.reddit.com/r/birdiebristol/s/ERZxYNwcFw

https://www.reddit.com/r/birdiebristol/s/0oU7SEfsuY

These are grown men oogling a 14 year old girl.

https://www.reddit.com/r/cats/comments/1tau9ao/post_a_picture_of_your_cat_i_will_tell_you_their/

Every reply is just like "Taco (emoji)"

All of the topics have identical, default ChatGPT writing style and follow the same few formats ("debunking" a purportedly common kitchen mistake, asking if a specialized cooking tool is worth buying, offering a list of approaches to an ingredient or dish). One of the mods, whose bio claims he's a hotel chef, just posts blatantly stolen cooking videos (some have women's hands and some male). The mod

Is there a way to get this subreddit banned for contributing to dead Internet?

https://www.reddit.com/user/Deep_Ad1959/

Based on account history this account originally was and halfway still is an AI software dev working on AI bot tools. They post frequently to AI development subs like Claude and openclaw, and their openly linked github literally has open source tools to enable AI bot posting to social media platforms like one called "social-autoposter".

The other half of the time they are clearly handing over the controls to an AI tool to post nearly 24 hours a day to hundreds of subs globally. They claim to run restaurants, to work at law firms, to be landscapers, to be in med school. They work at dominos pizza and frequently post about installing security cameras or property management for a living. The language is immediately identifiable as AI generated, and at times they have begun adding "written with AI" to the ends of posts I suspect to begin normalizing it on platforms.

At times on AI marketing subs they have even discussed randomizing the comment lengths on reddit to avoid detection by reddit filters.

They're not selling anything using these posts (yet) but it's clearly an exercise in refining broader bot deployment.

https://old.reddit.com/r/spreadsmile/

I think it initially started out copying posts from mademesmile, but now has posts from all over the place.

Even the name makes it obvious. "spreadsmile"

Lettie - Green/blue haired self harm chick that i brought up before had cleaned up her act and was sticking to one or two accounts and not stealing peeps accounts to spam. If anyone remembers, she was really really bad back in the fall into winter. She has to have been up to 100+ accounts by the time she went radio silent for a month.

I was in contact with the person running the accounts and we had an understanding that if they stopped stealing accounts and the over the top self harm crap that I would back off of them. I held up my end of the deal. They stopped stealing accounts and had stopped the excessive self harm stuff since about early February I believe. They stuck to their established accounts.

Well that changed and there's been further twists along the way.

First off, they've gained control over 2 mod accounts on a subreddit

https://www.reddit.com/r/nsfw\_fuckdolls/s/GOxitMyjfg

The mod accounts:

https://www.reddit.com/u/30\_\_xd/s/Wg6g2m1c5J

https://www.reddit.com/u/bummbumhumm/s/hFuoniYGft

They're currently in possession of the following accounts and spamming heavily from them:

https://www.reddit.com/u/billyjoecletus/s/9hJZZD9Hnb

https://www.reddit.com/u/back4more311/s/sieE8EtQ0Q

I do know they had an established account named RoyalRound0 or something to that effect.

One other account was already banned today that the had as well.

I'm all about giving people opportunities to change and course correct behavior but this isn't one of those cases. Maybe rents due maybe they need money, but either way, stealing people's accounts isn't the way to go about it.

Adding:

https://www.reddit.com/u/crummy_spingus/s/rWZrI3rJDW

Accounts:

https://www.reddit.com/user/furious_femme_fatale

https://www.reddit.com/user/ProcedurePlenty3564

https://www.reddit.com/user/_Algrm_

https://www.reddit.com/user/The_Kefiyyeh_Brigade

https://www.reddit.com/user/lazyloopedlillies

https://www.reddit.com/user/HorrorHakka

https://www.reddit.com/user/ProcedurePlenty3564

https://www.reddit.com/user/PrincessUnicornCake

https://www.reddit.com/user/Sensitive_Advice6667

https://www.reddit.com/user/AlmaAlt

https://www.reddit.com/user/AImaElhenawi

https://www.reddit.com/user/AlmaElhenawi

https://www.reddit.com/user/AnilaElhenawi

https://www.reddit.com/user/AniIaElhenawi

https://www.reddit.com/user/Sensitive_Advice6667

https://www.reddit.com/user/PalestinianBlackGirl

https://www.reddit.com/user/SovietUnionFlower

https://www.reddit.com/user/SovietUnionFlowers

https://www.reddit.com/user/SovietUnionFlowerss

https://www.reddit.com/user/Fair-Froyo1966

https://www.reddit.com/user/Nourlovesbubblegum

https://www.reddit.com/user/NourIsBubblegumBliss

https://www.reddit.com/user/NourTestAcc

https://www.reddit.com/user/NourRoseFlower

https://www.reddit.com/user/NourRoses

https://www.reddit.com/user/lazyloopedlillies

https://www.reddit.com/user/Honeylunee_

https://www.reddit.com/user/broccoli-of-truth

https://www.reddit.com/user/Da_Br0fessor

https://www.reddit.com/user/ChubbyGirlNextDoor1

Subreddits:

https://www.reddit.com/r/HistoryGaze/

https://www.reddit.com/r/PalestinianGirls/

https://www.reddit.com/r/SuppressedMemes/

A lot of these accounts are banned, but they keep making more.

• https://reddit.com/r/sabres/comments/1t7k7os/x/okprzhs/
• https://reddit.com/r/sabres/comments/1t7k7os/x/okpss6t/
• https://reddit.com/r/AskingAlexandria/comments/1t7j8zy/x/okpnzvb/
• https://reddit.com/r/smokedope2016/comments/1t7hrw8/x/okp7a8t/
• https://reddit.com/r/Punkdiy/comments/1t7bmuf/x/okoufd1/
• https://reddit.com/r/whatisit/comments/1t7fn3g/x/okoslpg/
• https://reddit.com/r/talkingheads/comments/1t7eoav/x/okorhxr/
• https://reddit.com/r/cartelband/comments/1t7dfen/x/okofcrz/
• https://reddit.com/r/crystalcastles/comments/1t6mkdc/x/okiz5c3/
• https://reddit.com/r/geminis/comments/1t6hnik/x/okiuk27/
• https://reddit.com/r/DashboardConfessional/comments/1t6lcj8/x/okiihsv/
• https://reddit.com/r/geminis/comments/1t6hnik/x/okih1d8/
• https://reddit.com/r/addressme/comments/1t6jtky/x/oki839t/

https://old.reddit.com/r/FreedomofSpeech/

https://www.reddit.com/user/InvestigatorEasy7673/

https://www.reddit.com/user/Ok_Helicopter4941/

https://www.reddit.com/user/BrightPatron/

https://www.reddit.com/user/ilyustrate/

https://www.reddit.com/user/abhiram77/

https://www.reddit.com/user/NegativePalpitation6/

https://www.reddit.com/user/Formal_Protection489/

https://www.reddit.com/user/sonu3232/

https://www.reddit.com/user/OngaBonga_/

https://www.reddit.com/user/Then-Television-6432/

https://www.reddit.com/user/Separate_Praline_491/

https://www.reddit.com/user/Kind-Function1553/

https://www.reddit.com/user/Objective-Ebb9511/

https://www.reddit.com/user/idktemp929283838/

https://www.reddit.com/user/cofieguy13/

https://www.reddit.com/user/Equivalent_Cash_4312/

https://www.reddit.com/user/ElegantWillingness54/

https://www.reddit.com/user/IndiOk0/

https://www.reddit.com/user/Main-Surprise-7924/

https://www.reddit.com/user/_Ki115witch_/

https://www.reddit.com/user/sivu99/

https://www.reddit.com/user/Far_Seaweed7033/

https://www.reddit.com/user/walburgfernan93/

https://www.reddit.com/user/harsh_kr07/

https://www.reddit.com/user/zwart_han/

https://www.reddit.com/user/Embarrassed-Part4733/

https://www.reddit.com/user/MrCoolBoss37/

https://www.reddit.com/user/Happy_Emergency_9562/

https://www.reddit.com/user/Careful-Ad-1467/

https://www.reddit.com/user/Icylight26/

https://www.reddit.com/user/Valuable_Election655/

https://www.reddit.com/r/gentleLittleMoments/

https://www.reddit.com/user/TomoyaAMV

https://www.reddit.com/user/kellinsyked

And of course, the spammer central of r/Interesting is one of their go-to subs.

• Post URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheOwlHouse/comments/1t2x79i/titan_luz_negative_space/

• Spam accounts involved:

• https://www.reddit.com/u/MurkySplit311

• Post URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/sabres/comments/1t2witu/on_the_warpath/

• Spam accounts involved:

• https://www.reddit.com/u/ZOUNKSOOB,

• https://www.reddit.com/u/ElicCrapton,

• https://www.reddit.com/u/SchismXFord,

• https://www.reddit.com/u/Gebeleizzis

• Post URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/funnycats/comments/1t2u3ru/this_cat_is_like_a_reflection_of_me_finally/

• Spam accounts involved:

• https://www.reddit.com/u/NebulaAutomatics,

• https://www.reddit.com/u/SignificantlyDone,

• https://www.reddit.com/u/Hopeful_Fishing3,

• https://www.reddit.com/u/RoutineRows

• Post URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/airedaleterrier/comments/1t2vmq7/its_my_favorite_one/

• Spam accounts involved:

• https://www.reddit.com/u/EconomistNarrow4036,

• https://www.reddit.com/u/Ok-Camel5085

• Post URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/Rottweiler/comments/1t2v6xz/my_most_fav_this_one/

• Spam accounts involved:

• https://www.reddit.com/u/LiveSugar7440,

• https://www.reddit.com/u/Equal_Percentage7325

• Post URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/kelpie/comments/1t2rm1i/my_most_fav_this_one/

• Spam accounts involved:

• https://www.reddit.com/u/NeatCharge7978,

• https://www.reddit.com/u/Fun_Abalone9202

• Post URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/tapirs/comments/1t2k5em/bought_for_my_wife_as_a_gift_wife_liked_the_gift/

• Spam accounts involved:

• https://www.reddit.com/u/CaptainStandard1,

• https://www.reddit.com/u/SensitiveSeesaw-,

• https://www.reddit.com/u/NervousSummer3

• Post URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/WitchHatAtelier/comments/1t2ks49/my_favorite_tv_series_witch_hat_atelierfinally/

• Spam accounts involved:

• https://www.reddit.com/u/SensitiveSeesaw-,

• https://www.reddit.com/u/IllustratorBoths,

• https://www.reddit.com/u/NervousSummer3

They are spamming for this domain: https://www.reddit.com/domain/boredpanda.com/

Users: https://www.reddit.com/user/ipanicprofessionally/ https://www.reddit.com/user/Automatic_Couple_647/ https://www.reddit.com/user/FantasticAd9478/ https://www.reddit.com/user/SilverHuckleberry395/ https://www.reddit.com/user/ElvisIsNotDjed/ https://www.reddit.com/user/GrayBeard916/ https://www.reddit.com/user/WastePower8350/ https://www.reddit.com/user/xtreme_lol/

Subreddits involved: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheBoredDen/

r/whatisameem

Getting huge upvote amounts as well, showing up on my front page. Seems like a bot ring or at the very least not organic in some way.

These seem to be part of a network:

https://www.reddit.com/u/amandaperez_/ (banned, preserved for posterity)

https://www.reddit.com/user/diane_campos/

https://www.reddit.com/u/dianesandoval/

https://www.reddit.com/u/kristinbautista/

https://www.reddit.com/u/yvonnecontreras/

These two, I’m not sure:

https://www.reddit.com/u/Longjumping_Skirt287/

https://www.reddit.com/u/SubjectConfection606/