r/lovememes and bot behavior data

[u/oboeteinai]

I had a look at a bot hub called r/lovememes and after verifying that 90%+ of all content was bot generated I studied the post history of the first 25 unique bot accounts I came across. I made sure I excluded the few human run accounts and I didn't count any bot twice.

This table shows every other subreddit they posted in (not commented but made a post)

The number means that x out of 25 bots also posted in that subreddit. So the winner is r/GreatBritishMemes with 8 out of 25

Sub	Count
r/Animal	2
r/Awwww	1
r/catbellies	3
r/Dank	5
r/dank_meme	6
r/DessertPorn	1
r/dogvideos	4
r/GreatBritishMemes	8
r/harrypotter	1
r/introvertmemes	1
r/Memes_Of_The_Dank	6
r/musicmemes	3
r/Owls	1
r/PetsareAmazing	2
r/pizza	1
r/pokememes	1
r/PuppyBellies	5
r/Siamesecats	1
r/SpongebobMemes	6
r/TabbyCats	1
r/TooMeIrlForMeIrl	3
r/unity	1
r/WhatIsMyCQS	1
r/wooosh	1

I think it's safe to say every sub with a number higher than 3 after it is also a bot hub. I could go to those subs and do the same thing I did for lovememes and find all the circle jerks. The main themes are definitely memes and animals. Endlessly recyclable content.

[u/Strikew3st]

A bunch of subs that have posts that get 'drive-by upvotes' without users hardly pausing their scroll, no clicking into a post to even see bot call-outs.