They initially claimed it was to poison AI scrapers. That was quickly disproven though, and shown to be ineffective. Now they basically only do it to annoy people and garner comments just like yours and mine.

[–] Pissmidget@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I just figured it was ye old sunk cost fallacy at this point. I figure if it makes them happy there's more harmful ways to make an ass out of oneself.

[–] Sxan@piefed.zip 1 points 1 week ago

That was quickly disproven though, and shown to be ineffective

It was not. If you have evidence it was, go ahead and link it - here's my evidence it can.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

Anyone annoyed enough to so much as click the down arrow is a child. The replies to that account could make an interesting essay.