• mysoulishome@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        No, but I barely recall what bored ape is or how it is culturally relevant…which is why I thought of it

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                1 year ago

                what do you mean? I haven’t seen one myself yet. It’s just a common expression.

                I don’t think that comment is trolling, just a bit low effort post. But that’s nothing rare in Lemmy/Reddit.

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                  1 year ago

                  I have received something like 5 different replies to separate replies of my own, from new accounts with only one comment, all of which end with “not my problem.” It’s almost like a bot keyed off that phrase from my reply in a privacy community post, or there are some butthurt people with too much time on their hands.

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                    1 year ago

                    It sounds like a weirdly specific thing for a bot to do.

                    It could be a case of the Baader–Meinhof phenomenon:

                    Frequency illusion, also known as the Baader–Meinhof phenomenon or frequency bias, is a cognitive bias referring to the tendency to notice something more often after noticing it for the first time, leading to the belief that it has an increased frequency of occurrence.The illusion is a result of increased awareness of a phrase, idea, or object – for example, hearing a song more often or seeing red cars everywhere.