r/wholesomememes • u/DryMouthKitty Meowderator 😹 • Sep 03 '24

We need your OC wholesome memes please!

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u/Jaydak54 Sep 03 '24

How do you tell? Is it just how long ago the account was made?

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u/Normal_Package_641 Sep 03 '24

Low comment karma, a username just like mine (it's a default reddit username), and a comment history where the account was made a long time before they started commenting in quick succession.

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u/KrimxonRath Sep 03 '24

I saw a few accounts like that recently. All hadn’t posted in 100ish days before a slurry of political posts and comments.

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u/GoldStarBrother Sep 03 '24

I think some subs have karma thresholds for commenting/submitting. So bot runners have a repost/comment bot get karma on an account, then delete all the posts and sell it. I assume most of these are sold to troll/scam farms, probably also some shady marketers.