Comment by unclebucknasty

1000% astroturfing—and across social media. Too many posts of the same quality at the same time(s). These things ran in cycles, spinning up and dissipating just as suddenly.

E.g. the entire framing to combat complaints about shortcomings was, "It's not the tech. It's you. You're just not doing it right. Wrong setup, wrong workflow, add this to your .MD, use loops, etc". Every complaint was immediately met with this same treatment by a swarm of vague bro-bots that materialized from the ether. The core message? Always the human's fault.

And, don't get me started on the waves of newly minted expert AI creators, making recommendations without showing a single example of what they'd supposedly built.

I'm sure some bandwagon organic creators tried to cash in on the genre, but encouraging that was also part of the point.