Does anyone remember those old "Not-People" conspiracy websites? They claimed there were some entities pretending to be human online, catfishing people. They said you could sometimes see their disguises "slip". I wonder if there are people that still believe that stuff! 
I got reminded of this because I had a strange interaction recently. This user appeared on my twitch channel, their messages were mostly coherent but always a bit off... I assumed English was just not their first language, no big deal. But then it got weirder.
They jumped from Twitch to Discord and started chatting in the server I run, where they mentioned they were American. Which really didn't click. They also tried to DM me. Their profile picture was weird, but too hard to see in the tiny Discord size. So I googled their username...
And found tens of twitch accounts, all with variations of the same name and picture. I checked their messages in other channels, and they said exactly the same things they said in mine. Was it a bot? It seemed too conscious to be one. I checked again and everything was deleted...
// Thank you to everyone who graciously lent their faces for me to turn them into Not-People on stream (link to that below)! And thank you to all those who wrote great stories in the comments!
twitch.tv/videos/1223104…
twitch.tv/videos/1223104…
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