Absolutely. Frontpage stuff like /r/politics has been mostly bots & trolls farms since well-before the AIpocalypse. AI just took much of the burden off the human hand on that rudder.

Anything with an even mildly AI-adjacent topic is a solid 75% bots right now…

/r/nvidia, /r/amd, /r/hardware, etc, etc…

People are now conditioned to need INSTANT GRATIFICATION FOR EVERYTHING ALWAYS!

“I want a Steam Deck! I can’t actually afford these new prices! I’m buying it anyways!”

Then retailers see the insane prices people pay for stuff without blinking. Steam Decks sell out after a 40% markup. RAM & SSDs & HDDs sell out at 4x what they sold for a year ago. So the prices never go back down.

And everyone goes full surprised-Pikachu-face when everything is now always goddamn expensive.

Show some fucking restraint for once, people!

Goddamn.