Glut of anime-pfp anons ultra-hyping Chinese models is a recurring pattern
_aidan_clark_ · x · 2026-08-28
Aidan Clark observes a recurring pattern where a flood of anonymous accounts with anime avatars ultra-hype every Chinese model release. He notes the tactic is obvious yet people consistently fall for it.
Related event: Researchers Clash Over Anonymous Hype Around Chinese Model Releases(2 posts)→
More from Fun
- 'You need high pain tolerance to review Gemini 4,' researcher quips amid error screens — gleech · 2026-10-15
- Claude's safeguards triggered while animating Gwern's AI takeover story — burny_tech · 2026-10-15
- User lets Grok bot run 20 hours straight, burning the weekly limit on a demo — RachelVT42 · 2026-10-15
- Voxel pagoda world built in 33 minutes with Gemini agents and code-generated audio — aitrendz_xyz · 2026-10-15
- Soviet-era math meme goes viral: continuous functions and absolutely convergent series nostalgia — teortaxesTex · 2026-10-15
- Engineers mock AI CAD hype: people who never designed a part preaching hardware's future — IgorCarron · 2026-10-15