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VioletEchoes

The bots...

Man, don't you love getting 2-3 PMs every time you upload a piece of writing saying the same thing.

"Your (insert story title here) is so inspiration, it's so wow and cool and you changed my life for real like dang. Anyway, my 2 day old blank account with nothing uploaded and posted wants to create a 48 page comic for you for real. Please give me your discord and personal details."

Why is this a thing?
Why is there SO MANY of these?

Do you think I'm stupid?

And what sucks is that early on, this was more praise that I would get from real people.
It's super disheartening to have most of your compliments come from spam bots.
At least now I have actual real people in comments being nice instead.

I'm still tired of hearing this several times a week tbh.
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Added: 2 months, 2 weeks ago
 
NyotaMwuaji
2 months, 2 weeks ago
you arent the only one they are targeting.
dunno why, but all it takes it one person to fall for it
beforethefall
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Yeah bots are a cancer on the internet
Tenkage
2 months, 2 weeks ago
yeah been there done that, had to block my old fanfiction dot net account cause I kept gettin em
RavenXantos
2 months, 2 weeks ago
your stuff is good stuff, i just rarely comment
BlankFlank6
2 months, 2 weeks ago
I’ve only dealt with one of those so far. Hopefully it doesn’t get out of control for me too.
Arikado
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Some people must've to fallen for it and still do, otherwise it would have stopped.
BDR
BDR
2 months, 2 weeks ago
I’m getting these. And I’m not even a artist.
Nightdancer
2 months, 2 weeks ago
imho, it is to get infos for doxing/hacking
WebcamGryphon
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Clankers are everywhere...
lolimouse
2 months, 2 weeks ago
ive never gotten praise that wasnt from a bot. it sucks. i feel kind of alone on this site >.>
mysterywhiteflame
2 months, 2 weeks ago
My favorites are Hi I really like your art and want to use it in "project" You will get paid for this also.  
Rodgerblue
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Well I'm a real person and a real fan. So kudos and compliments from a real person. : )

I write a little, stories and poems... but even the bots don't notice me. So there is that at least! LOL
ogoggogo
2 months, 2 weeks ago
GIHB (God I Hate Bots)
Biowolf12
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Their seriously annoying. 🙄
PervaciousPrimate
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Trust me. I feel ya on this. Sucks when you think someone wants to chat, only for it to be some dumb bot flooding your inbox.
CrimsonGryphon
2 months, 2 weeks ago
That sucks you have to deal with bots and all the bs. You are appreciated by real people, even in a world where it is hard to tell what is actually genuine. Love your work, and stay strong.  
BigBulkyDiaps
2 months, 2 weeks ago
i get those ALL the time and the worst insult isn't my time. it's my intelligence!
how fucking dumb do you have to be to fall for that???
kittensnark
2 months, 2 weeks ago
I love getting the ones that say they want to make this 50-page comic, want me to be the illustrator, and then get stupid, seething angry when I ask how much they're gonna pay me for it.
Lloxie
2 months, 2 weeks ago
GOD, IKR? I get those even when I stopped uploading anything here. >_>; Fucking obnoxious...
greymanesoul
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Scammers will try everything they can to fuck you over.
JustLurking
2 months, 2 weeks ago
" VioletEchoes wrote:
Do you think I'm stupid?


No, but they're looking for someone who is.  The obviousness of the scam is a credulity filter, they don't want to waste time with someone with someone of sound enough mind or enough experience to not hand over their bank details eventually.
HeruAnubisSolares
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Ah. A note I sent a while back might've sounded like one, but I am genuinely interested
VioletEchoes
2 months, 2 weeks ago
I have no record of a PM from you.
ZaiksMcKraven
2 months, 2 weeks ago
*sight*
I never got one of those. Am I not good enough for bots?
At least I had a dedicated hater once XD

Yeah I honestly, have no idea what they want to achieve with such messages. Are our discord account numbers so much worth? Do they think they can talk us into giving them money or so? I understand, that everyone is worried about the personal datas. But come on. What the fuck could those people do with ones birthdate or so anyways? I don't get it.
Kasper
2 months, 2 weeks ago
To answer the middle line of "Do you think I'm stupid?", no, they don't necessarily think you in particular are stupid - They're just casting as wide a net as possible in the hopes that they find someone who is. They want people who won't fall for the scam to look at it and notice how obvious of a scam it is. They want to filter as many people out so that the chance of success on those who nibble the bait is high.

It's similar to... You know the emails claiming to be a Nigerian prince who got kicked out of the royal family, but if they can just get $100 wired to them, they can pay a local bank and get reinstated and they'll pay you six billion dollars or something insane like that? They're worded so insanely specifically so that only the most inclined to believe it will respond.


With that said, I'm sure it being said makes it no less disheartening and no less frustrating. I'm also miffed that those kinds of bots (and by extension, the kinds of people who would make such bots) exist. A blight on humanity.
Weiss
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Everyone's getting them. Even people like me which is hilarious to say the least
MviluUatusun
2 months, 2 weeks ago
I know what you mean.  I even posted a journal saying I'm not interested in turning my story into a comic and I still got a request to do that.  So, now when I get one, I'm just going to mark it as spam and send it to the mods.  Maybe they can do something about it.
MarcusKoopa
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Yeah, Dead Internet is a bitch. The bots most likely outnumber real people at LEAST 2 to 1.
KrisProwler
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Wow... That speaks volumes to how inactive I've been lately that this hasn't consumed my comments yet...
AmaraMcLeod
2 months, 2 weeks ago
yeah i just reported one a couple of weeks ago, id just say open a ticket and report the user so they can be banned
GeorgeGlass
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Yeah, I get those on FFN, AFF, and AO3. At least they're easy to recognize.
Makroth
2 months, 2 weeks ago
I got a few of these.
SeleneNightfang
2 months, 2 weeks ago
I get these every few months from anywhere I've posted any of my stories too
Gashren
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Got one of those about a month ago, called them out on being a scammer, blocked acc (and it was soon deleted anyway), and it seems the guy just left me alone.
DollyCloudy
2 months, 2 weeks ago
I don't know whether to feel good about having never been sent a DM from a bot or feel sad that my account is so dead that even the bots don't bother.
xcar
2 months, 2 weeks ago
I received similar kind of messages when I posted some of the chapter of Gravity Falls AU and Pink-A-Rella, but the bot or creature who wrote it was saying something like:

"I love your story, I want to make a comic of it, so how much do you want to pay me to make it?"


Dude, if you want to make it for your own will, why should I pay you for it when I never asked you for that?, so I just block and ban the sender.
Fictoromantic
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Very true. (Idk what's going on)
ThaPig
2 months, 2 weeks ago
I haven't had that problem, but then again I haven't posted art in a long time.
However I have a similar experience on Discord, I get a new friend request from someone, he always says more or less the same words and then he offers his services for commisions. After I tell them I don't need that, they disappear and never write again.

¯\_( •́ (oo) •̀ )_/¯  
GenericUser
2 months, 2 weeks ago
I received the same post once despite my gallery being pretty empty at the time and featuring only requests done by other artists and explicitly labeled as such
Springbun
2 months, 1 week ago
spam. it's the cancer of us all.
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