13 barn owls in a trenchcoat@spinning_bird Oh yeah, that's absolutely part of it, and certainly helps to build scam pages' influence and algorithmic weighting, but I'm also really interested in the people go out of their way to interact with the contact, and the way in which the pages draw them in.
Posting cheap photo fakery (AI or otherwise) feels to me a lot like that stage hypnotist's trick where they see whose hands get stuck together on suggestion - it's an entry bar that feels designed to draw in the credulous.
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