#spam bot watching

[happypeachsludgeflower]

And the award for Most Likely Account To Be A Virus goes to the batshit bot account I just found spammed all over my feed about an urgent Amazon hiring containing a super suspicious link (that we all know ain’t actually what it says it is) juxtaposed with it’s ever changing set of fandom tags.

Like, seriously, holy shit.

How many posts did this thing spit out all at once??

I clicked on the account because I figured I should probably report them or something and the entire blog was literally? just? that one post? a hundred times?? The bot had to have just mass dumped the same text with a different set of fandom tags.

And it was all so obviously a fake account that I was just.. mind boggled?? That someone went to that much effort to make the bot, be it for porn or a virus, and they DIDN’T EVEN TRY?? TO MAKE IT LOOK EVEN SLIGHTLY NORMAL??

There were sooo many posts. I scrolled a long time through them just giggling over the various tag set. Some of them had me rolling with laughter. One of them was tagged with furry porn 🤣

Like?? Why would anyone see a post about a hiring event tagged with furry porn and go, “That’s a real legit looking job!! I should apply!!”

And they were all posted at the exact same time. I’m wheezing. I have so many questions for the mastermind(s) behind this account.

First and fore-fucking-most, WHY WOULD YOU MAKE IT SO GLARINGLY OBVIOUS THAT ITS A FAKE ACCOUNT.

I’m not even going to bother asking why they made a spam bot in the first place—I probably don’t want to know—I would just (dis)respectfully like to know why anyone would think, “Yea this’ll work!” before unleashing that thing on the masses.

[ifwebefriends]

I don’t really have anything to add here honestly

[Video ID. A clip from Phineas and Ferb: The Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension where everyone is fighting 2nd dimension Doofenshmirtz’s robot army using Phineas and Ferb’s inventions, but the clip is played at 3.4 times speed. The song Robot Riot by Love Händel from the same movie is playing at normal speed. There’s top and bottom text in white boxes with black letters in all capital impact font. The top text says “aspec ppl mass reporting bots” and the bottom text says “in the #asexual tag” End ID]

[mayadoesfandomstuff]

Had to block hazbin hotel as a tag because holy shit the amount of ship discourse coming in to the aroace tag because of Alastor was way too much like ffs some of them weren't even tagged as hazbin hotel so I still have to see some of those posts even if I block it out

please for the ever loving fuck TAG YOUR FUCKING HAZBIN HOTEL SHIP DISCOURSE POSTS

THOG DON'T CARE IF THE DEMON FUCK OR DON'T FUCK FOR FUCKS SAKE LET ME BROWSE THE AROACE TAG IN PEACEEE

[sharksfood]

i recorded part of the CEO Live and basically he said “people have been asking about snoozing Live indefinitely. how much would you pay for that? Should we make that a feature on our next update? Maybe it’ll be giftable!”

[runefactorynonsense]

You all have no idea how much self control it takes for me NOT to turn this place into half a baseball blog every October

Gifs between every art piece

But I've never had a bot/spam problem with this fandom blog and I don't feel like inviting general blog problems 😂

[sapphicfandompirate]

Uh-huh. Those are totally beautiful trans girls taking some thirst pics without fear of getting nuked and not spam porn bots that's been taking over all of the tags. Right?

[rubberduckyrye]

Hey so like. I'm just gonna be real with all of you for a sec cause this popped up on my dash and I just want to warn everyone

If you get an ask from a blog that's got barely any posts begging for donations, stating that they are Palestine refugees in need of necessities that can only be obtained through financial means... it's 99.9% likely to be a scam.

A real person in need wouldn't be turning to tumblr for financial aid--they would be looking to other programs and social media websites, or especially the reddit dedicated to donation drives, and not tumblr which has no way to promote a successful donation drive other than "word of mouth" (reblogs)

Also, they would probably be looking for food, water, and shelter--not necessarily financial resources at this time.

I know it sucks that these people are weaponizing the war and using your empathy to steal from you, especially when you can't ever be 100% sure the asker is a scammer or a real person who maybe doesn't know there are better websites to ask... but it's better to donate to places you KNOW are legitimate rather than give some greedy bastard your money to run off with.

Please, PLEASE be careful when you click on links and answer/reblog those asks.

[goth-brushbug]

So this might be a new thing that sex bots do. This appeared on my feed earlier because I'm following over the garden wall tag

Be careful, especially if you're a minor. Idk if there is anything we can do besides reporting accounts like that

[xfriskfannumberidk]

alright chat, what do I say to them?

[hjbender]

Girl’s having a stroke in my DMs

[queercraftingchonk]

I see Tumblr hasn't done much at all to stop the insane influx of bots pretending to be sexy ladies

It is fucking exhausting reporting & blocking this much spam

[trenchcrows]

Did you get into bbc ghosts by any chance?

Bestie I've been into it since it started but yeah, I just finished the new season with my family

How we doing?

[rate-a-spam-bot]

[kinneydrugsoflc]

Hey fellas, you notice the new influx of Spambots for things like FedEx and Amazon jobs? Either way, they're spamming unrelated tags and need to be reported.

[kaysonthejackal]

I think I’ve hit a tumblr milestone, being messaged for the 15th time this month by a spam/porn bot. Love that for me

[ragsy]

I really want to get back into streaming... It's a lot of fun and I really do work better when something is forcing me to buckle down and focus, but every time I think about all the kinks I still have to work out, I get overwhelmed and set it aside for another six months