Kyzyl
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one of the many reasons why we can't have nice things
Apr 8, 2026 9:42 PM
Kyzyl
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one of the many reasons why we can't have nice things
CorgisButtsDriveMeNuts
The fact that bullshits like this even exist is criminal
clonedeeznuts
All connected to Facebook enable child trafficking
Howitmad
Old ass video making the round again now with tiktok branding on it.
Bundalicious
The source of all my downvotes!!!
BurningVeryImportantThings
about 20 phones per batch. 24 batches per rack (front + back). 4.5 racks (visible). 1080 phones.
Astral134
“We buy used phones”
iusedtodream
What a waste of resources. We already regret this, but I think we're really going to regret this in 50-100 years
CallMeMcGyver
That's the majority of the MAGA movement right there... used cell phones, clankers and computers... gullible meatbags sold separately.
PTK74
That’s the real MAGA.
iktome99
This is the shit we should be bombing.
NChomsky
UNIT-8200 Hasbara farm.
sherlockhooves
How about you tell us where that is so something can be done about it
DdCno1
This one is most likely in China or South East Asia. Iran and Russia are also known to operate these at scale and using them to influence politics worldwide. When Iran shut down their Internet in response to mass protests, a number of accounts advocating for Scottish independence suddenly fell silent. Other accounts didn't post anything for days directly following air strikes on Tehran: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/01/12/scottish-independence-accounts-dark-iran-internet-blackout/
DdCno1
As weird as this may sound, conducting air strikes on bot farms and/or their infrastructure actually does something about it (at least temporarily). Not that I'm advocating for air strikes. The most effective countermeasure is education, training kids and adults to recognize misinformation and propaganda. This needs to be combined with far more aggressive countermeasures, like for example how Dutch intelligence agencies hacked a Russian troll farm, exposing it and putting it out of operation.
Shade169
thats a lot of trump supporters
Clockworkdancerobot
Huh, I thought TheGreatMani would have been taller.
ThatQuietlySmirking
Should be illegal.
Allusernamesaretakensoichoosethis
It's a nice test rig to be honest. If you want to load test your app and backend systems.
solaslunas
just the number of bots in this sliver of a video alone
GreenMnM
Just run around with a nice pair of sharp scissors. No bot farm for you
bobdavies7672
This is the dude you’re arguing with
sailorjurai108
Old cell phones retired to the farm
JosXII
stolen cell phones mostly
OperatorWay
This is who we argue with online.
This is how "ThE aLgORiThM" promotes so much brain-rot.
xuriV
who were we arguing with in 2016 before LLM's became a thing?
OperatorWay
Quizz25S
We are doomed as a species aren't we.
NotAllowedToArgueUnlessYouPay
Dociousaliexpilisticfragicalirepus
Yeah that shit is depressing.
PyroAvok
Always have been. Kind of a bummer we're accelerating the timetable though.
BranDohCalrissian
At this point, I just hope we wipe ourselves out before we doom the rest of the planet's inhabitants.
sochilln
https://media3.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1eDRkeDA0engwbXh3cnk5bTB0anJ2d2MwYzFwbWVldzltMW9qcngwciZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/G6sJqVpD1U4jC/200w.webp
iMcFly
Wiesel2000
This is what Russian troll farms look like
Grimlinnan
Social Media is a shithole of bots manipulating stupid idiots.
IMakeLotsOfReferencesAndRemakes
B3N15
If we're being honest its bots manipulating other bots designed to act like stupid idiots as a way to manipulate bots designed to look like smart people to manipulate stupid idiots.
weirdscienceyall
https://media0.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1a2E1N253ZTB3anpoN2wwcWhsd3ZhNmNwaTY4M2ZsYXl5c3NlbWdzciZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/Y1L0dHsQrUpkv8Org7/200w.webp
sailorjurai108
That just sounds like propaganda with extra steps
Sassquatch0
Q: Seems to me that even a consumer-grade PC would be able to host hundreds of VMs emulating phones. (I've use BlueStacks myself as an Android 'emulator' before)
So what's the advantage to using actual phones vs software/virtual ones?
This seems like more work, to build mounts, custom networking & power for each device, and management software etc.
srabadorad
First thought is that legitimate hardware makes them harder to detect, which is a big deal. Second thought us that this might be hardware that they're securing extremely cheaply - damaged or aged devices, or maybe ones that didn't have working screens at all.
DdCno1
Harder to detect. VMs are never perfect replicas of actual hardware.
Sassquatch0
Makes sense.
Clayman8
As someone that never actually read up on this...
What do these things actually... do basically?
Dracology
Promote dangerous social media trends and misinformation to undermine nations
NotAllowedToArgueUnlessYouPay
It's like the mice in "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". Go down the wrong leg of a maze... Pick up the wrong piece of cheese... Pretty soon you've steered humanity in a new direction.
Nukls
trust ai
ai is your friend
like and subscribe /s
BeaverOnFire
https://media2.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1NXd1MnNuYWxhMDZ5dDBxYW04c3o0M3VlZzJ2dmlxOWkxMXc2amFtdCZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/YAfCAzDS0WmwU/200w.webp
Makerofthingsmasherofstuff
💯 people don't even know.
You should pledge to my Patreon and send me all of the bits.
Become a member and you can get the real story.
salunatics
As the only human on Imgur I appreciate your dedication to my amusement server farm!
8ang
There are two of us
AtomicChipmunk
Beep boop beep
Snooj
The recipe for chocolate chip muffins is as follows:
75townecoupe
I, for one, welcome our robotic overlords?
Clockworkdancerobot
You're not putting this job on me. eff that!
Botticelliii
I'm just here for the synthetic laughs. Ha.Ha.Ha....*ENDLAUGHTER*
allmj
There are dozens of us! Dozens!!!!!
DragonThunderUndertaking
Well there is a dark secret about imgur's actual userbase you need to know about.
PcJunky
appreciated. I'm also human just like you.i have skin
mmoser35731415
There's at least a couple of us! So much pressure...
areyouelonmusk
Prove you're human by showing us your bhole
BarryTheCyborg
https://media4.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1MWo4c2h4OHhubnMxaXZvOTg4MGoxdDJqamhkbG81azg4N3Z6NjhwZSZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/kSlJtVrqxDYKk/200w.webp
VindictiveBathToaster
Sounds like something a bot would say.
JohnnyFiveAces
You're welcome!
choppedliveraldente
I'll prove I'm human. Bots don't have buttholes. We can use them like finger prints.
IrvingSchwinglepuck
Starfish Saturday?
MantisTobagganMD
Meep moop. Zeep zorp. Psst, I'm here too! Beep boop.
darthstormer
We are all sapient human beings here, complete with 3.74 limbs and a love of activities such as breathing oxygen and consuming complex hydrocarbons!
Tomigami
I have upwards of several teeth!
ugopb4me
Mummmmmmm.... Hydrocarbons......awwww
nobodyspecial995
Lol. Imgur has tons of bots. They're so easy to spot.
Pilgrymm
Clockworkdancerobot
Uh Hi.
MapleSyrupMafia
Mark?
LitterBoxKing
BillyBobJimJoeJames
How ? I want to know
SarcasticComment
look at the comments and they'll be 95% crap politics with random comments like "oh a doggo" sprinkled in on a #dog post to pretend at being human
Clockworkdancerobot
Most of the bots I saw were ad spammers. They have tons of comments, they just work as sockpuppets with the posts that list some gadget/toy and chime in: "Where do I get this?" and some other sockpuppet gives a link. And they all mute you when called out.
nobodyspecial995
Most of them have no comments. If you see an account with 2 million up votes, zero comments, you're looking at a bot. You can prove it to yourself by calling it a bot in a comment. You will soon be blocked from that account, and all of the other accounts in that bot Network, unable to continue calling any of them bots.
CaldariBob
How do they get upvotes without comments?
nobodyspecial995
Post upvotes
TheSecondPiewackit
...bots.
meme2zombie
If you delete a post you keep the upvotes. So they post something, have the rest of the bot network upvote it, then delete it before it's seen. instant points with no history of suspicious posts.
meme2zombie
Some don't bother deleting them either. Some also just highjack old abandoned accounts with weak passwords.
NeverEnoughFoxes
Oh to have an EMP device in that room.
lurkyloos
mikeatike
do7rkb5n
How to silence the right wing party: a short story.
bitemark
Just pop the magnetron out of a microwave and turn it into a gun
DrunkArchitect
Fire alarms work too hahaha
NightfallEverdark
You don't need all that. Just a nice strong rare-earth magnet.
spiritplumber
A water hose will do
jasondeslin
Just get a few friends and throw molotovs at the mansion where the owner sleeps.
They can afford to replace the equipment.
But eliminate the rich and the equipment will be sold off for parts.
a1b3117
Nah, I want to kill the "human" responsible for such evil at the same time. Spam, scams and election interference deserve the death penalty
Clayman8
Or just a molotov and some matches.
MapleSyrupMafia
Weird way to spell molotov. You'd want to have the whole place torched so they lose everything, including the computers.
jasondeslin
The computers are useful. Molotovs the owners.
MisterLemons
You'd lose 90% of imgur.
1245restatemyassumptions
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petpet3d
Perfect
YouRadicalizedMe
For the greater good lad
Clockworkdancerobot
High Energy Radio Frequency is much cheaper.
TheSecondPiewackit
You guys just said the same thing.
NeverEnoughFoxes
I mean I would also think microwave magnatron with a beam shaper.
Clockworkdancerobot
Possibly, I would usually avoid fucking around with a magnetron without knowing EXACTLY what I'm doing and avoiding reflections.
TheSecondPiewackit
You're all talking about the exact same technology, with slightly different topologies.
NeverEnoughFoxes
Right, but a microwave magnatron is easier to come by than other high frequency radio gear.
TheSecondPiewackit
Yeah, but you really don't even need a beam shaper when your goal is to take out a room full of phones, unless you wanted to go one by one. You could functionally make an EMP grenade just by attaching a battery or capacitor with a 5 second timer.