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I think the two words and a number are what Reddit will come up with if you let them pick a name
Adjective-Noun-#is the usual format for those. This looks different, like someone put in a list of wholesome / floral / nature-y terms into the name generator, in order to have wholesome looking accountsHuh, is this why I've been accused of being a bot before? I've been using the noun-verb username format since the late 1990s.
Ridiculous. We didn't have nearly as sophisticated AI in the late 1990s. Nice try.
Bake 'em away, toys
Yep I tracked those accounts for a while when I was still on reddit.
Blossombreezefairy, bubblypeachbliss, sparklepeachgiggle, tulipheartblossom, etc were all real bot accounts I'd found prowling around.
My theory for all these flowery names was that they'd be all assumed by unaware users to be women behind the usernames, and female-presenting accts would net a little more engagement and most importantly, karma, which is what builds the monetary value of these things.
Fuck, I'm the inverse. I'll know better for next time.
Maybe you're just Australian?
Mission failed. We'll get em next time.
From what I recall, the most common Reddit bot nomenclature was [word][word][number], [first name][last name] (usually feminine to later become a NSFW spammer), and [string of random letters and numbers of various lengths]. Each may have had hyphens, underscores, random typos, or deleted or duplicated letters. Of course, not every bot fit these archetypes.
[word][word][number] was also the default nomenclature for genuine human accounts created through a certain avenue, if I recall. If you go bothunting, be mindful of false positives triggered by one or two red flags.