>>501182319Autism is a hell of a drug. It's like speed runners: they get obsessed with something and will just do that one thing for hours and hours, optimizing it more and more as they become more familiar with their interest. Except instead of mastering the secrets of Super Mario's half A-press or parallel universes, some people fall to low-effort shitposting and just... do that all day.
I guess there's some small chance it is actually a bot. There was a presentation years ago called 'Mining The Chans' that you can still search up that posited you could kill a community by using a chat bot to flood forums with banal, substanceless posts, and thus drive down engagement by drowning out genuine discussion.
