i really do love creating. the act of creation. not Content but like, words and images that bridge the gap between me and you. i like showing you my stuff and i like seeing it received. im glad im able to
I love scifi horror techno babble it’s better than any other kind of techno babble out there. “hey why is the core unit of the ship called a sanity engine?” don’t worry about it. It’s fine! Just keep your blackout helmet on during jumps and everything will be fine
The above examples have been provided with the authors’ permission to demonstrate what these look like.
Basic rundown:
They are all 3 sentences long
Perfect grammar, capitalization, and punctuation
Like absolutely flawless English teacher-style writing with only a single exclamation mark, ever
No mentions whatsoever of character names, settings, situations, or anything that could be tied to the story
The usernames may be identical to people who exist on ao3, but the name is not clickable, and no profile is associated with it EXCEPT when you directly search for that name. What this means: the comments come from an unregistered (not logged in) reader, bots scrape the site for real usernames, attach that to the comment, and post
Please spread the word about this so authors can filter comments and report them accordingly
There has been some speculation about why this is happening at all, and the best guess is that this is a feature that AI-training story-scraping tools are implementing to try and make their browsing traffic look legitimate
