Nothing new and the stuff is old and outdated.

There are plenty of domestic bot farms (for IP address, VPN choke point , blocking reasons) and most sophisticated operators have upgraded to LLMs and "ai" image creation years ago and the running cost of bot has gone down logarithmically.

Add to that the fact that censorship is worse than in 2015 and you can block real content and conversely mass-spam bot content much more effectively today without there being an alternative source for real content (because all is censored and rest is spammed).

Nothing new and the stuff is old and outdated.

There are plenty of domestic bot farms (for IP address, VPN choke point , blocking reasons) and most sophisticated operators have upgraded to LLMs and "ai" image creation years ago and the running cost of bot has gone down logarithmically.

Add to that the fact that censorship is worse than in 2015 and you can block real content and spam bot content much more effectively today without there being an alternative.