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The first thing to know about shills is they're inherently different from you and I. They aren't 4chan posters in the strict sense, if they ever were, because they're trying to crack the code and subvert the normal process of making a meme. The term cancer is apropos because shill threads are corrupted threads that don't work right and don't lead to anything good. More on that in a minute.

Shills use bots to consistently reply and generate new OPs. The chatbot, any chatbot, is verbally equal to you but has zero IQ. It can't hold onto specifics but it can expertly steer you away from a topic. In particular the LLM writing style will have several distinct clauses that all lead to some pertinent thought process, but they don't fit together in any way. This is designed to make (you) choose, filling in the "correct" narrative and laundering the LLM's ignorance into something resembling a real position. The confusion of a meaningless sentence makes you fight even harder to see patterns, to help the AI like filling out a captcha, and it mentally exhausts you to forget your subject and lose skepticism. Here's an example: "The wind blows my way down the act of voter representation" Posters who do this aren't stupid, they're bots.