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A month ago, I helped Twitter/X support take down major accounts behind a bot network called VNXNET, which was exploiting Twitter/X ad revenue sharing. (Details in the video linked at the end of this thread.)

Since then, I’ve faced daily attacks from bot accounts and had my content stolen and uploaded to other platforms.

I’m sharing this to raise awareness about these issues and to better inform people about what I’m dealing with. I’ve tried to ignore the situation, but it’s been very difficult. Every day, I get random replies from bot accounts notifying me that my content has been stolen, altered, and uploaded to other platforms. Here are some examples:

I posted about this last week, but it appears that many bots have been active in the comments of numerous @Kotaku posts/articles.

These comments all seem very similar, and many get cut off before finishing their responses, almost as if they hit a character limit.

It’s worth noting that these bots also comment on other articles, but they are particularly focused on Kotaku articles.

🧵Below is a thread of tweets of Disney, or someone involved with them, potentially using paid blue check bots or coordinated groups to promote their shows and movies.

I have already made a video covering this in detail which will be linked at the end of this thread.

If you choose to cover these posts in a video or article, please be sure to credit me, as this took months of research, and if you could shout out my video on the subject, that would be appreciated. Promoting Disney+ in general: