Who wins in this hypothetical internet argument? The one who comments "." 200 times, or the one who replies to "." 200 times? How about if you automated it with ChatGPT code? r/amcstock tries to answer this non-hypothetical question as it plays out in front of them.

Background

/r/amcstock is a subreddit that's revolved around the american movie theater company, AMC. Unlike most brand subreddits, this one is about the stock ticker of the company, which for people who don't know what that entails, here's a quote of a loyal AMC supporter from the linked threads for context.

>These SHILLS are hilarious, they have NOTHING ELSE but senseless posts to cling to as for me I just LOVE AMC STOCK! Nothing will EVER change this, especially some bullshit posts from HEDGECUCKS

I could spend a few paragaphs trying to explain why /r/amcstock (alongside other memestocks) believe they will become infinitely rich, but that isn't required to really experience the drama that will unfold here today, so we'll just go straight to it.

Drama

A local of /r/amcstock posts the second of their twice-daily post, detailing the information posted from a paid subscription service for stock market data. It was going to be another calm day if it wasn't for one particular comment

"Every day is another ATL [All Time Low of the AMC stock]"

lol doesn't work kiddo

I broke his bot again

(99 children of replying to ".")

Unfortunately, there's not much drama in a comment chain of solely replying to ".", these will come later in the callout threads

"Holy shit this was sad to see. Get it together [OP], your in too deep man lmao"

lol nah, bugging bears is fun

OP calls out the "."

"Don't forget the bots. They are only low-effort if you remember they aren't to be taken seriously lol"

"I've never seen someone so oblivious to the fact they are being trolled."

Yeah; he [the "." poster] didn't seem to catch on what I was doing

Bruh,

If he's a bot, then you're wasting your own time chatting with a bot that isn't even saying words to you.

OR

If he's not a bot, then he's trolling by wasting your time by making YOU always gave to have the last word and take the time to reply.

I don't see how this is a flex.

No flex, just wasting his time

How tf do you waste a bots time? lol

Maybe his time is worth less than what it costs a bot to generate a message? Bet you haven't thought of that.

"My friend ... he's goading you into responding with full sentences with a "." or a "0". About three dozen times, no less. I am not sure this is the "W" you think it is. 😄"

Nope. He just slipped up. And I'm calling him out for everyone to see

Seems rent free almost.

I sure am rent-free in his head. Hey; remember when we roasted you here yesterday. Let's do that again

I really don't think you understand how any of this works. Im not even going to argue, debate, or anything of the sort since all you spew is futile nonsense. It's actually not productive in the slightest and wastes time, energy, and overall brain cells. I hope you have a good life and people to take care of you jerkis, because you truly are the biggest idiot I've ever laid eyes on, let alone had to absolute displeasure of interacting with. Thank your for being the garbage you are. Amazing. Astonishing even.

lol yeah you sure did get ripped a new one here… wanna go back to your safe space and I can make you bothered there?

Jesus Christ, the r-sluration is ripe.

"." comes back for round 2

[DELETED OP + COMMENT], 289 children

"See, sentiment bot"

I'm not going to quote the full thing, have some highlighted responses instead

Checking to see if we can trigger 300 more out of him. Let's countdown together.

282 - Dude ran out of gpt tokens

I've got them showing their desperation now lol

Every time he has to remember who he serves… me

At least he can't make the argument that I'm wasting my time because it's his being wasted

PLOT TWIST! ChatGPT code was definitely used to automate the responses!

"So far so good. Been able to successfully test a theory on emotional melties. 36 hours of melty distraction accomplished with a few minutes of coding"

"Lmfao, this code is chatGPT gibberish. I can provide about a dozen reasons, but the most concrete is that your "userInput" handler doesn't even keep a reference to the comment anywhere that your publishNumber could use to respond. At best would could be responding to random comments in the code that you didn't show. People pointing out that you for wasting your life must have hit a nerve yesterday. So of course, you weren't actually wasting your time doing it by hand, that would be pathetic, you just automated it in a couple of minutes. Lol. Lmao even."

What' wrong kiddo? Nice comments. It's funny making you upset

Aren't you tired?

Not at all. Most of my melty bugging is low effort and highly effective

Logically if you're bugging, let's say, 1000 people, aren't you doing 1000x the work?

Oh I'm not that cruel… yet

"Jesus this is the most garbage Java:edit: Script* code I've seen, please tell me you don't actually try to do this for a real job? This is the epitome of garbage"

Heck no, this was just a few mins of tinkering around that has taken up 37 hours of a melty

No one needs to do coding for a career to make a melty triggered, that happens with almost anything now. I'd hate to show them what shirt I'm wearing as I'm sure they'll get emotionally bothered by that too

Sounds triggered

You sure do melty

Keep looking pathetic as you flail, the fact you coded a script for Reddit of all thing instead of dropping the ordeal in the first place shows how stable you are.

This is JavaScript not Java lol. It's funny that the OP didn't correct you, likely because he doesn't know what it is either.

"I really hope you don't do this for a living. 🤍"

lol melties are so very easy to trigger. It's a hobby kid

Trigger? You think the people watching you be down 90+% are mad?

I think people thinking I'm down 90% don't understand math. And yeah, there is a large group of people who seem to be overly bothered by what individuals do with their money… so yeah, triggered is very much an appropriate word

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