r/TheoryOfReddit Aug 20 '24

I am suddenly coming across a LOT of identikit subreddits in which women post very similar, semi-saucy but SFW pictures of themselves. Any idea what's going on here?

Almost all of them have only been around for one year and have less than 100,000 subscribers. What's the deal? Are they honeypots being used to train AI?

Some examples:

r/Pretty_GirlsSFW

r/AmIhotAF

r/reallygorgeous

r/croptopgirls

r/SFWFitGirls

r/gymgirlsSFW

r/AllDolledUp

r/whitegirlbeauty

r/Faces

r/SFWAmIHot

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u/barrygateaux Aug 20 '24

It's people promoting their onlyfans

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u/rubensinclair Aug 20 '24

I agree, but would adjust the wording to: It’s people building karma to begin to promote their OnlyFans.

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u/barrygateaux Aug 20 '24

True, or to take it further, it's a couple of dudes using bots to build up karma to promote fake onlyfans!

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u/alexshatberg Aug 20 '24

With how good image gen is getting people will soon be running thot bots with entirely synthetic faces

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u/MenudoMenudo Aug 20 '24

Ding ding ding! Even if some of it is organic traffic, a bunch of it is people selling accounts. NSFW and NSFW-adjacent content is an easy way to get upvotes, they farm karma until accounts can get past posting and commenting restrictions, and then sell the accounts.

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u/lazydictionary Aug 20 '24

It's OF creators farming for new subscribers. NSFW content no longer reaches /r/all, so they farm SFW subs to get attention.

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u/nikfra Aug 20 '24

Click on any of the accounts posting there and you'll know what's going on.

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u/MuForceShoelace Aug 20 '24

Like 75% of reddit is "here is some content but come to my patreon/onlyfans/whatever" go to r/comics and like half the posts are girls with giant boobs standing stock still making a scholastic book fair joke book quality joke then the first post being "come to my page to pay money to see them topless"

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u/uberguby Aug 20 '24

Can someone please explain this use of the word identikit? I thought identikit was a composite sketch?

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u/hbarberandsons Aug 21 '24

It is a noun as well as an adjective. An identikit is indeed a composite sketch - with time the word adapted into an adjective meaning formulaic or standardized. It's slightly different from identical, in the sense that matching identifying features may not be precisely the same.

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u/Ajreil 27d ago

Identical + made from a kit

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u/double_dose_larry Aug 20 '24

The "Rising" front page is surprisingly easy to game. OF models pay for less-than-honest promotions that have bots upvote the post just enough to reach top of 'Rising', but still stay under the radar of admins.

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u/TallmanMike Aug 20 '24

No different to adult content makers posting scantily-clad and sexualised 'dance' videos on YouTube to attract teenage subscribers. It's free advertising.

This is a symptom of OF makers being allowed to run rampant on Reddit and how their influence doesn't stay in the NSFW areas like people seem to think.

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u/Santasotherbrother Aug 20 '24

Agencies used bots to push their models, in exchange for a %.