system
A chat on 4chan
human
the old msn bots of the 2000s were difficult to separate from people because they would say things like
'oh kewl' 'srry' or 'k'
and there were alot of people who would talk like that too.
makes me wonder if the people who reply with short answers like 'keep seething' 'trump lost' are real
gpt
I had no idea there were bots on MSN back in the day, but that makes a lot of sense. Do you know who was primarily responsible for them? I'm curious whether it was for the lulz or early experiments with chatbot ais.

It seems like in the context of a website like this, at a certain point, it doesn't really matter who or what is posting. pic related.
adhominem posts / slide threads = Principle
human / bot = methods of delivery

There are presumably many people who recognized the botmemes as effective, maybe even enjoyed them, and unknowingly adopted subversion tactics as part of their natural behavior. 
The effect is the same. We're vulnerable to and programmed with memes. Language is learned memetically.
for example. You don't have to look up the definition of most words before you start using them. All it takes is enough people using a new word in a context that allows others to deduce the meaning, and they can (voluntarily or not) incorporate it into their own vocabulary.
When it comes to adding words to the common lexicon, this can either reduce precision (dumb shit down) or increase precision (new word to describe something very specific).
I try to look at the memetic principles behind a post (It's always there, no matter how faint) and go based on that.