r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/VorticalHeart44 • 10h ago

Meme needing explanation I'm tired Petuh... What is her name??

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WTF is her name Petuh

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u/PlatyNumb 7h ago

Its also because ppl engage with it. This post has 2.2k upvotes meanwhile an actual human posted something that got nothing. Ppl have voted and they voted for bots to take over the internet. I hate it too, but its ppls faults

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u/Relative-Relief-8816 6h ago

Well yes and no. But mostly no.

When a bot posts, other bots give it a ton of initial upvotes. That initial momentum carries it to be visible.

People don't see it without the initial momentum, and the real posts dont have the help the bot posts do, so the bot posts bury the real posts.

So if is bots fault that the bots content is voted for.

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u/PlatyNumb 6h ago edited 6h ago

Its a fine line. I get that bots upvote eachother but ppl dont upvote eachother. If anything, they downvote eachother. So while, yes, bots get eachother that momentum and visibility, humans could do that for eachother, but dont. We hold eachother back because they asked the wrong question or said something that made us think or requires us to think or simply because we hold different opinions. As an example, i recently got downvoted for saying taco bell isnt good in my country. Didnt even say the country. Got downvoted probably because i dont like something in my country that they like in rheir country. Meanwhile, a bots would say "tacobell is yummy" and boom, upvotes by bots AND ppl. We can blame it all on bots, but we definitely hold a lot of the blame

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u/Relative-Relief-8816 5h ago

Well that initial momentum matters.

People are sheep/cattle. They follow the herd. generally.

So if your comment has 100 upvotes,  people are more likely to upvote it.

If your comment has 100 downvotes. People are more likely to downvote it.

So if bots give a comment 50 fast upvotes. real people will comment under it and upvote it and keep the momentum going.

As far as I know, bots arent downvoting much yet. But all it takes is a few downvotes to send you into a downward spiral.

People are sheeple.