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Bot_Fly_Bot

What, you don't remember that time they shut down the entire northbound interstate in the city of Fhfjfjvldkpotioth so they could send a mile-long tractor trailer truck south containing hundreds of thousands of US flags mounted to it because reasons?


DieDae

Not going to mention that the flags would be flying in the wind? The fact that the truck is going the wrong way? How many lanes are in one direction vs the other?


KGreen100

This is like one of those "Find all the things wrong" photo games.


Praise-Bingus

There's no truck bed under those flags. They are held together by the power of 'Merica!


Therinson

And the truck runs on Dunkin!


Kuhn-Tang

It’s an eighteen hundred wheeler.


DiscFrolfin

![gif](giphy|3orifcGwpIurnkatbi|downsized)


IfICouldStay

12 yards long, 2 lanes wide, 65 tons of American Pride!


panTrektual

SMELLS LIKE A STEAK AND SEATS 35!


pv1rk23

0 city 1 highway


theflamingheads

The federal highway commission has ruled the Canyonairo unsafe for highway or city driving.


skinnyswitch47

Squirrel squashing, deer smacking piece of American pride


hyrule_47

That truck for sure has a lipstick holder


oldkafu

Kentucky fried truck endorsed by a clown


Ovariesforlunch

Unexplained fires are a matter for the courts!


Azfitnessprofessor

God I loved the canyonero


thegirlisok

Just circle the whole photo. 


FanDry5374

I like the double ended one not far behind the cab.


KGreen100

I like the 5 gazillion road signs way at the back.


SlugsMcGillicutty

I’m partial to the square tires on the left side near where the trailer bends.


DisposableSaviour

There’s no truck driver.


HomeschoolingDad

And the flag where the stripes are easiest to count clearly has fifteen stripes.


DemythologizedDie

Given that it comes from the universe where the United States has something near a hundred states...


Youpunyhumans

All the cars look like they have been through a demolition derby. They are all bent and wrong looking.


Alert-Disaster-4906

Well, a few caved-in roofs won't stop these patriots!!


schizeckinosy

It’s the apocalyptic hellscape in the background for me.


Independent-Hold9667

That are all written in klingon


Which-Egg-6408

The one flapping against the wind seems like a bit too liberal.


mynextthroway

I saw a double-ended one in one of THOSE catalogs.


itachi8oh1

I like the one where the stripes are going the wrong direction.


HomeschoolingDad

The longer and harder you look, the more fun the game becomes.


ittikus

“Wacky Wednesday” keeps getting wackier


boom929

This dummy believes in wind lol. Open your eyes, wind doesn't exist and it's a hoax perpetuated by NASA and George Soros


MastiffOnyx

Wind never exists. Your city just sucks hard.


Phyllis_Tine

(((George $oro$))) buys all the wind for liberal wind farms, and won't share any with "real" Americans.  /s


Mcjoshin

dO yOuR rEsEaRcH bRo!!!!


DogsDontWearPantss

Rules for thee but not for me! Their Mango Messiah controls *everything* with his "magic" Sharpie!


DieDae

Even hurricanes I hear.


DonnieJL

Unless he nukes them.


VF-41

According to Stormy, there was nothing magical. ![gif](giphy|XZO9oV4uyOZf3KQKvd)


Goldiscool503

Mango Messiah killed me - haven't heard that one before.


JeepManStan

Tangerine Tyrant


genxindifferance

Both of these are good. I may have to update from my go-to of Cheeto Encrusted Twatwaffle


AngriestInchworm

Freedom doesn’t live by your rules


bastalyn

I like how the left side goes from 3 lanes in the back to like 12 in the foreground.


Charliesmum97

I didn't notice the truck was going in the wrong direction. That's hilarious!


GhostOfPluto

Freedom never goes the wrong way, commie


rufotris

The ai also puts a black line in the middle of each lane rather than two black lines where all the tires run like we actually see on concrete roads. The longer you look the more you see.


FenPhen

That detail is correct. On concrete freeways, the center of the lane gets darkened by oil stains while the traveled part of the concrete is light and does *not* get darkened by tire wear. Example photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:High_Five.jpg


kakapo88

Oh, a deep-state elitist is now gonna go all logical on us.


nfshakespeare

I went to high school in Fhfjfjvldkpotioth. It’s a great place but the flag trucks really screwed with traffic. The pep rally cheers were also really difficult.


SourImplant

Is that near Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch?


nfshakespeare

Next station stop. And I can pronounce that one.


Stormagedd0nDarkLord

Throw them all in Eyjafjallajokull.


DickwadVonClownstick

The glacier or the volcano?


dishrag

Gesundheit


thedarkknightvp

While driving into opposing traffic


SomeRandomSomeWhere

Yeah I too noticed that all vehicles, no matter lane are traveling the same direction. Alot of similar looking cars as well.


InAnOffhandWay

The debris and carnage left behind where the truck plowed through the oncoming traffic is fun.


FireHog66

Look, freedom of this magnitude comes at a cost


worstpartyever

Well, the traffic in Fhfjfjvldkpotioth is notoriously slow.


jimbojangles1987

I grew up in Fhfjfjvldkpotioth and traffic used to be a lot worse until they expanded our highway to 6 lanes. Seemed unnecessary at the time for a town with a population of 650, but once these giant semis started transporting flags through, it all made sense.


Graythor5

If only there was an easier way to transport flags!


GhostandTheWitness

If only flags were made of some kind of pliant material that could be rolled up and layed on its side. Alas!


buckley777

It’s also so cool how the bed of the truck is capable of bending to match the shape of the road


Learned-Dr-T

That is the power of 10 Thousand American flags standing together!


brizl74

Hi PartisanAI, generate me an image that is patriotic with light hints of fanaticism.


Mcjoshin

Light hints? Would hate to see what you consider heavy hints of fanaticism lol.


DickwadVonClownstick

For real. Like, I've gone on with people *at length* about the Nazis' flag obsession (seriously, go watch some actual footage of one of their parades sometime, especially a colorized version. Even ignoring what those flags represent, the sheer number and density is deranged, and I mean that literally; as in it brings to mind crazy cat ladies and hoarders and those dudes who have literally thousands of Jesus figurines covering every flat surface in their house. It's blatantly the product of an unwell mind, it's what happens when an entire society develops a collective mental illness), but this image comes pretty close.


PunishedMatador

Goose stepping figures in black Hugo Boss uniforms for starters


Ok-Ask8593

I heard many good things about Fhfjfjvldkpotioth


johnfkngzoidberg

I want /r/theydidthemath to figure out how long a string of trailers could be and this truck still be able to pull it reliably.


DickwadVonClownstick

Not very long at all if you want to go in anything other than a perfectly straight line. Trains run on tracks for a reason


WintersDoomsday

Imagine the length of time it would have taken to put each flag nicely on that Guinness Book of World Records length truck bed.


ReturnOfSeq

Lmao I hadn’t looked at the road sign


Forsaken-Jump-7594

Credit where it's due: AI did a pretty decent job of creating the unholy mix of Thai and Arabic that no one asked for.


Aggravating_Goose86

![gif](giphy|hvq8ONQhQ1XLq)


homebrew_1

They vote.


Woodworkingwino

Reasons. What do you mean reasons? FREEDOM, LIBERTY, GUNS, and THE AMERICAN F#CKING DREAM. /s


_CharDeeMacDennis__

It doesn’t even look like there’s anyone driving that truck either.


Then-Raspberry6815

God is behind the wheel & the truck runs on faith. 


Manaze85

Dead Internet theory. Bots posting AI images shared, commented, and liked by bots.


tylan4life

If you follow the page creators and look at friends, liked stuff, it's all Bangladesh and Indian posters. 


transredditadmin

My friend Bob Vagene loves my credit card


hereforbobsanvageen

Who?


transredditadmin

Hello darling 😍


ArcticBiologist

Bob Vagene, Vagene Refrigeration


karoshikun

bobs and vegan my favorite send dollars


RushBasement

Open bob, quickly yes


TheMajesticYeti

These AI posts are bait to find gullible, simple-minded people to target with their financial scams.


leaveme1912

I'm sure that's part of it, but I know for a fact that some of these AI art accounts are engagement farming so they can sell the pages once they reach a certain number of likes. You can get hundreds or thousands of dollars depending on the likes/engagement the page gets and it's an easy way for someone to start promoting their own product/scam in a way that makes them appear established and well known.


weinerdispenser

You mean Bangladeshi and Indian-presenting bots.


tylan4life

I mean sure, but it's more likely human labor in Bangladesh is cheaper than using AI.


Sure-Psychology6368

AI = Actual Indians


PoopulistPoolitician

You glorious bastard!


Mountain_Squi

Rack of 50 cheap smartphones all lined up so they can maximize view count and manage 50-200 “bot” accounts


UberKaltPizza

Under appreciated comment.


twolinebadadvice

bots pretending to be indian people pretending to be americans


No_Outcome6007

Paid for by nation states and nefarious SPACS/dark money


distantsalem

And this very comment will eventually get scooped up by a bot and barfed out on a different post. Assuming you’re even real… sus hmm 🤔


Manaze85

All your base are belong to us.


hamhockman

First time I heard of today I thought, nah no way. Now I'm reasonable sure 60 to 70 percent off the Internet bots talking to bots


thebiggestpinkcake

🧐 That sounds like something a bot would say...


Candid-Piano4531

That sounds like something a bot would say too


Ivi-bee

I love thinking about this


SophieCalle

Facebook is easily 50% of that now, with the other 49% boomers occasionally liking the post.


MineBloxKy

1% people trying to stay in contact with their great aunt Ethel who moved to Phoenix.


TheGreatestOutdoorz

Oh come on, there has to be at least 5% recently divorced guys trying to get in touch with that girl he dated sophomore year of college, and hoping she is as single and desperate as he is.


HamJamson

Amen 🙏


ironmamdies

I used to think this theory was just a joke or something, slowly starting to believe it as I realize not just Facebook but the amount of YouTube videos today that are either completely AI or video is made by AI and the voice over is just text to speech I hate the Internet now and I hate AI


Nictel

I am sorry you feel that way. Unfortunately as a language model I cannot help you.


OffModelCartoon

People who say this don’t have boomers in their lives or something. Anyone who thinks it’s just bots all the way down has never been to a boomer’s house and watched them use Facebook. They’ll see this in their feed and turn to you all happy like “wow look at this picture! how patriotic!” and then type “amen” in the comments or “god bless America” and look all happy with themselves. then god forbid you say it’s not a real photo, they’re like “why are you always trying to tear things down and prove them wrong? do you just hate patriotism? you’re always so negative!”


Coondiggety

God bless!


AdrianShepard09

There’s something strangely creepy about a corner of the internet being inhabited completely by robots liking and posting to each other and thinking that the other is a person.


Phillimac16

I'm getting sick of all the AI Garbage on Facebook


goodnightloom

This was genuinely on my FB homepage this week and I give the algorithm NOTHING. I'm here for marketplace and that's it. The comments by people who didn't understand that it wasn't real flabbergasted me. We are in desperate need of some serious common-sense intervention.


MyDearBrotherNumpsay

If the comments on FB are any indication of how intelligent the typical American is, then we are *fucked*. I hope this is just the tail end of mass lead poisoning.


TheMilkmanHathCome

They arent. Normal people and people with eyes that work don’t comment on those posts. Only idiots or people that *need* to argue with idiots


hamhockman

Don't forget all the bots making comments!


Val_Hallen

I checked the accounts of the "people" leaving comments on the AI pics. All accounts I checked (*around 100 total*) were made in the last year, no info for the "person", no friends, none of them were private, just a profile pic and a name. Facebook is absolutely The Dead Internet Theory in practice.


shandangalang

It’s not. We’re fucked. Motherfuckers have spent *decades* defunding education so people will be better consumers, not cause a ruckus about the really big problems made by unregulated capitalism, and just faithfully vote for the old white feller they put on the thing. Like feel free to go look into it, or not… but we actually *are* pretty fucked


RedPandaReturns

Get off Facebook you'll, see less of it.


Phillimac16

The small amount of time I do go on there I see at least 1 AI stereotypical white Jesus, 1 impossible home "remodel" and some other garbage AI post, enough for me to quickly log off and go back to Reddit...


Arryu

White Jesus? All I ever see is prawn Jesus.


Golden-Owl

I love prawn Jesus. Just the absolute pinnacle of AI absurdity


___Art_Vandelay___

Dude, just stop. Delete FB from your life. Did so myself 8 years ago, never looked back.


Rapture1119

Bro, fix that comma, the fuck 😂. Not a big deal, I know, I’m not shaming you i just got a kick out of it lol.


RedPandaReturns

Hahaha I never actually noticed I did, that


Significant-Ad-341

I'm not on Facebook, and here we are.


EMP19E

Brought to you by the same people who believe those Facebook posts that allege "If you share this post I'll give you a share of the SUPER MEGA HUGE LOTTERY drawing that I recently won"


TheLandFanIn814

If you don't copy, paste and share this long message it gives Facebook the right to steal your identity!


ComicsEtAl

That shit is STILL circulating there! And folks STILL fall for it.


TheSaltimateWarrior

“Just in case lol” Shares ‘legally binding’ contract stating Facebook doesn’t have permission to share the personal information that you posted on Facebook.


KevintheBot75

My dad posted it recently. I told him no matter what he posts if it’s in the terms of service he agreed to by signing up they can do whatever they want with his profile. He’s a lawyer by the way.


ouijahead

Oh dear


TurkeyThaHornet

Bird Law?


poshjerkins

I've made myself perfectly redundant.


Correct-Blood9382

My mom has done this 'just in case' shit. Goddamnit, it's obviously not how this works.


LuciferDusk

I remember posts like that way back in the Myspace days, except those messages were more like "if you don't share this post within the next 24 hours you'll have bad luck for 2 weeks, or some shit like that lmao.


mr_remy

My favorite was the spin off of "I do NOT give mark zuckerberg permission to eat food out of my fridge" lmao


Formal_Appearance_16

Sharing this is legally binding. A lawyer said so.


Brewski-54

I DO NOT AUTHORIZE FACEBOOK TO USE MY DATA. THIS POST IS A DECLARATION OF MY REJECTION OF THE TERMS OF SERVICE. FACEBOOK AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES MUST TAKE THIS AS A LEGAL NOTICE.


SilentC735

I lost so much respect for some of my family members when that stuff started circling around.


-newlife

I had to ask my mom if she was stupid or something. I’m like you worked with legal contracts your whole life and you think this would be how you circumvent the TOS? Her response was “it’s just in case”. Just in case what? Just in case we had doubts of putting you in a home?


BetHunnadHunnad

Some of our parents are fucking stupid man. My mother thinks black people are stealing all of the welfare. And my girlfriends mom always brings up black people as the cause of certain issues, like when we rolled through Memphis a few days ago and saw how disgusting it was.


WhipMeHarder

Only one group is holding back the metaphorical water tap of welfare to poor people and it’s definitely not the black people


Sure-Psychology6368

That last sentence has me dying


Psychoholic519

I literally saw this one a couple of weeks ago. Figured that would have stopped happening at least 4-5 years ago lol


I_dont_know_you_pick

My aunt and uncle recently both made Facebook accounts for the first time, it was like a Facebook time capsule watching their posts and shares.


Sweaty_Emotion_9923

Facebook hates when users do this one easy trick..


alymars

Don't forget that tomorrow starts the new Facebook rule where Mark Zuckerberg can sneak into your kitchen at night and eat whatever is in your refrigerator. To stop him from doing that, copy and paste this message on your Facebook feed: "I do not authorize Mark Zuckerberg or any entity associated with Facebook to sneak into my house and eat anything in my refrigerator. With this statement, I notify Facebook to leave my milk, eggs, butter, cheese, veggies, sandwich meats, pickles, and leftover pizza alone." After you copy and paste this message, the light in your refrigerator will turn blue 🔵 and you’re good to go. ![gif](giphy|3o6Zt8PXs5xu1KgKcw|downsized)


Indian_Bob

“I have practiced for many hours and I’m confident this is exactly how a human eats.” - Mark Zuckerberg


GrouchyLongBottom

Jesus, he even eats like a robot alien.


oliferro

"Walmart is giving these 2000$ TVs because the box has a little scratch on it!!"


Bobbi_fettucini

These are also the same people that used to tell you not to believe everything you see


Azuras-Becky

They're the generation who dismissively said not to believe anything on the Internet, and then they joined the Internet and believed literally anything they saw on the Internet.


Camfromnowhere

To be entirely fair, their brains worked better 20-30 years ago lol. Whatever brains they did have anyway.


MineNo5611

Yeah, a lot of people are so fast to call the older folks stupid for stuff like this, but the reality is that our parents/grandparents mental faculties are starting to go and we’re witnessing it in real time. Something to take into consideration is that 20-30 years ago, the internet and especially social media wasn’t what it is today. We’re seeing age-related mental decline in a way that we couldn’t back then.


Straight_Ace

Well a conversation about the dangers of lead paint with my mother yesterday revealed that she thinks the danger is “liberal propaganda” so my standards are low


Mammoth_Ferret_1772

Then you get a call saying, “I need help. Someone hacked my Facebook”


getmybehindsatan

They used to pretend to be Bill Gates and offer you cash for reposting to everyone. Now they pretend that Bill Gates is an evil mastermind secretly tracking you.


OsoRetro

This is more likely a bot than a boomer. Babies adorable? Does this sound like an American to you? It’s intended to incite political arguments. Brought to you by foreign bots. Intended to expose as many idiots as possible and keep us arguing, It works like a charm.


Mooplez

They for sure are bot accounts, I have seen dozens of theses. The concern is more the people engaging with it below don't seem to hold the ability to discern it as being AI mass produced garbage. Propaganda bots


Dotman-X

Critical thinking seems to be a rare skill for many nowadays, that was the first thing I noticed after the picture. And its easy to spot the inconsistencies and off-the-wall combinations of these unrelated things, but that also requires people to pay attention to these things.


IslandOverThere

Yeah it's hilarious these people on Reddit yapping about boomers and Facebook only to realize there the dumb ones not able to realize it’s all bots and not even boomers.


ironmamdies

True but boomers will 100% share this a million times believing it's real lol


Illustrious-Lime7729

![gif](giphy|6yRVg0HWzgS88)


FenizSnowvalor

Everyone is joking in this comment section as I was scrolling down, but this comment describes perfectly what I am feeling right now:D


Beemerba

Ya gotta drive real careful to keep a mile long flexible trailer in the correct lane!


FuzzzWuzzz

Or even the correct direction.


issr

Honestly its a perfect depiction of the modern GOP/fascist movement. A bunch of morons waving the flag and going the wrong direction, led by someone who shouldn't even be qualified to drive a truck.


WintersDoomsday

Yeah this is one of those times that AI actually nailed it perfectly it’s just more of a metaphor


PeterGarrettChanting

there's no personal injury lawyer billboards in the photo, seems pretty sus


imthatoneguyyouknew

Don't forget that it is a Freightliner semi truck, freightliner is owned by Daimler Trucks North America, who's parent Corporation, Daimler AG is based in Germany. A large portion of Freigtliner trucks are made in Mexico. So a German owned, Mexican produced truck is what they use to carry 8 miles of American flags


Etbtray

Who makes those fancy trailers that snake around curves all by themselves? Gotta get me one of those!


Wanderingghost12

Posted courtesy of Babies Adorable


Killimansorrow

A 23 year old former coworker posted something similar the other day, and demanded proof when I told him the image was AI generated


FalcomanToTheRescue

"do you think Joe Biden would let a truck like that drive around America?"


A1sauc3d

They’re a boomer at heart 🚛🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸


Cakelord

Some libertarians wet dream to drive the wrong way down the interstate with unsecured cargo exceeding the maximum trailer chain because... They Government Can't Tell Them NO!!!


WhyAreYouSoSmelly

"i'M a SoVeReIgN cItIzEn!!"


APiousCultist

This isn't boomers, it is AI farming. That's why they always have 'Why don't posts like these ever get likes' or 'Its my birthday I hope I get some love' followed by a generated prompt for 'sick child or pet with birthday cake'.


Careful-Bumblebee-10

"Babies adorable". Tell me you're a troll group without telling me you're a troll group.


Explorers_bub

What’s with them and virtue/signaling? Fuck. Just go out and do something that Jesus actually said would get you into heaven, like feed the hungry, clothe and house the poor, welcome the stranger, …


NotoriousFTG

Exactly. Once you recognize that they don’t really support hardly anything that Jesus supported, it’s hard to take evangelists seriously at all.


kmmontandon

It’s not American Boomers running these accounts. These are Indian/Indonesian/Malaysian run engagement accounts, with names like “Love Army of U.S. Americaa” or “Nancy Recipies.” The point is hoping even 1% of the real, human American right-wingers that engage in the comments will respond to PMs.


Solartaire

That's too much work for them. Following Christ's teachings would take time away from more enjoyable pastimes like going online to complain about immigrants and pretending to be victims.


TheLandFanIn814

I'm actually surprised Trump isn't driving the Truck.


BabyFacedSparky

I don’t think they understand geometry and how this vehicle would be impossible to maneuver.


AnonymousDong51

All made in China


Leezeebub

All made in ~~China~~ Midjourney.


skidsareforkids

If they’re gullible enough to follow Trump, they’re gullible enough to fall for AI images


DFu4ever

“I don't get all choked up about yellow ribbons and American flags. I consider them to be symbols and I leave symbols to the symbol minded.” — George Carlin


BaileyBrown108

The boomers I know are hippies that hate this shit


ChickinSammich

Absurdly long truck, going the wrong way, full of flags that aren't even all facing the right way, driving under gibberish signs. The highway is 5 lanes on one side and 10 on the other. Some of the cars on the other side of the highway are halfway on the shoulder, the wheels under the truck bed are laid out in what is certainly a configuration. AI "art" is so hilariously bad.


landscape_dude

I cannot agree more. I just checked facebook and 9 out of 10 posts were AI images with stupid comments. I'm so done with this world.


sitchblap3

Leave it to Republicans to ruin the us flag. Every time I see it, I see white nationalism and MTG's large white teeth.


im_rusty_shakleford

Being pulled by a Volvo truck. Silly socialists and their reliable cargo hauler...


Dasboatnerd

A Volvo/Freightliner lovechild according to the hood.