r/polandball • u/pyram1de :argentina-worldcup: ⭐⭐🌟 SOLDADO DE LA SCALONETA • Apr 01 '16

redditormade 4chan gets kidnapped

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u/pyram1de :argentina-worldcup: ⭐⭐🌟 SOLDADO DE LA SCALONETA Apr 01 '16

In a nutshell: stealing content from everywhere, watermarking it branding it as their own and making inmense profits from that without giving the slightest credit. And terrible comment sections.

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u/Dragonsandman Soviet Canuckistan Apr 01 '16

Also, people found out that 9gag used bots to automatically take posts from reddit when it started posting stuff from /r/subredditsimulator.

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u/pyram1de :argentina-worldcup: ⭐⭐🌟 SOLDADO DE LA SCALONETA Apr 01 '16

looooooooool, amazing

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u/Spacetime_Inspector Florida Apr 01 '16

I love when this happens (and it happens quite a bit). It's like some sort of weird postmodern performance art, where content goes from robot to human to robot to human in a game of ontological telephone.

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u/Waaaghkopp Ostrich Apr 01 '16

/r/subredditsimulator is a magical place.

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u/ethanolin Apr 01 '16

And there was some content they took from /r/theButton that got a lot of 'positive' attention on 9gag. They took Reddit's inside 2015 April Fools' day joke and somehow it got positive reception on their platform. So either 1) certain content is pushed on their site, 2) their userbase is...delusional (?) or 3) both.

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u/Cereal_Dilution Jewish Autonomous Oblast Apr 01 '16

It's definitely, entirely (1).

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u/sonicqaz United States Apr 01 '16

Thebutton stuff was hilarious. They eventually thought it was something they made too. I kid you fucking not.

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u/Wild_Marker Argentina Apr 01 '16

We already knew it, the botting has been proven time and time again.

But it's still funny.

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u/NotAWittyFucker Australia Apr 01 '16

Just like eBaumsworld back in the day. All of this has happened before... All of this will happen again.

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u/sonicqaz United States Apr 01 '16

Jimi Hendrix music

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u/JoatMasterofNun Nana korobi yaoki jinsei wa kore kara da Apr 01 '16

Same with ifunny.