TIL: You can see the real comment-numbers on a spam-post on the front page

Feb 24, 2026 11:05 PM

But if you call out spambots, all the other spambots like @SnowySulley and @usingYourMomAsAHat and the OP, @Weldrackin will block you.

Imgur has now degraded to triple-botting spammers... Or actually, based on the comments, we're probably at 5+ bots.

Look at this shit.

As someone who gets upvoted for criticizing Democrats and Liberals as long as I don't use certain keywords, Imgur's been brigaded by astroturfing for a loong time. My favorite example is how if I link Gavin Newsom's transphobia it gets downvoted, but this post where I didn't mention him by name got upvotes: /gallery/something-you-may-have-missed-recent-epstein-release-steve-bannon-was-actively-cultivating-propaganda-campaign-epstein-as-late-as-2019-TkHTpUs

1 month ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 6

Saw these spammers before. They'll include an image like that in a dump, and some sockpuppet chimes in with a "Where can I get this?" or "I saw this here: "

1 month ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 1

Worse, is they have a bunch of bots to upvote themselves and downvote people calling them out. Spock used to be able to ban these bots.

1 month ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 2