I’m seeing a huge uptick in comments about how some Reddit post is making someone cry in a cathartic or empathic kind of way? I truthfully don’t know if these are bots or what. but some phrasing I’m seeing is:
“This post brought me to tears, OP.”
“This has me ugly crying”
“Good for you, I’m tearing up reading this.”
Sure, some people may be really resonating with whatever someone (or some bot) posted, but it’s just sad and strange to see when it’s also one of the top comments on a post that’s about a really suspiciously strange and specific social situation or some type of coming of age story? It’s a little disturbing to me that such vivid human emotion is being thrown around like this potentially by a bunch of bots.
i feel like i’m seeing this too… never put it together until now but on tiktok and sometimes reddit for sure
I'd probably say this isn't a bot thing, more just a reflection of linguistic culture.
'Crying' can be in response to something funny, emotional, uplifting, sad, etc. Whether people are actually tearing up is anyone's guess, but I think that it's similar to how people say lmao or lol in response to something that is frustrating, stupid, or not particularly funny.
I could be wrong though.
This is so true, I'm jorking and crying right now 😭
Idk I think the point is they use it for the simplest stuff and it often gets a lot of up votes
this post was so emotional for me...I even cried a little 💖
I'm shaking and crying rn
Yeah OP, I did also shat myself and cry reading this. This is such poetry bro like- omg..
In all seriousness it's probably due to the bots being trained on reddit(certain kinds dear god if we get unfiltered bots), and the output is this. I'd say probably just see if the commenter responds in like a weekish and if not its a bot and move on with your day.