Meet Yelnik: The Unstoppable Seether of the North

If you follow @autodrama, you may know that it takes a lot of posts from /r/OntarioCanada. You may not have noticed that one user has been the biggest lolcow in two threads. I noticed this when I was crunching some numbers from autodrama the other day (I was using yelnik as a test subject, because I baited him a couple of times).

Until about a month ago, /u/yelnik was a normal (lurking) redditor. (His account is 15 years old!) He made occasional posts that are par on course for redditors. A year ago, he began making more frequent posts about politics. These posts would get more and more frequent as time wore on, eventually making 17 political posts between 2 and 3 months ago. (all on canada related subs.) However, if it were only for this, he would be unremarkable. What makes him stand out is that approximately 1 month ago he began commenting and never stopped.

notice the cutoff on the left? that's not a glitch, he legitamitely made almost no posts or comments before this point

As far as I can tell, yelnik spends his days angrily arguing about politics (mostly covid) in /r/OntarioCanada. He has made over a thousand comments on this sub in the past month. every one of these comments have been related to politics, mostly covid. He has typed close to 50,000 words in this absolute onslaught of redditry.

Try this: drop into any one of the comment threads where he is arguing, and make a bait comment. I have done this a couple of times. Look at this:

this is just half of the full conversation.