The dead internet theory is real and it is happening to reddit
I've had suspicions that there are many different actors whether intentionally foreign adversaries or just malicious trolls that seek to influence people on reddit via fake posts. Posts that paint women or men as the enemy, or posts that want to destabilize the western youth like on the genz subreddit.
The other day I came across this post. It garnered a lot of attention and many people commented on it. The caveat? The entire post is fake and AI generated (you can use all of the most used and trusted AI detectors to verify yourself: zonga, zerogpt, etc... also you can tell because of the stupid hyphen lol) It's main purpose I assume is to cause women to be scared of men, and most likely has wide reaching effects. It is so easy now to just create disinformation using fake posts pretending to be something your not that stirs the hornet nest of an already controversial topic. The worst part is that reddit makes it extremely easy to do this on. Probably the easiest social media to perform this kind of malicious disinformation as reddit is bot friendly and anonymous.
I guarantee you there are many people that have a stake in this.