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It's not literal bots, there are some because of 3rd world slaves being paid to pass captchas all day.
Pic related is what happened to 4chan. It's normalfaggots who are indistinguishable from bots. They've been flocking to the site for a long time.
The Scientology raid was a big influx of people, it was the first time I can remember 4chan making mainstream news. This attracted a lot of TV brain tourists.
King Nigger was another one, his administration was the first to target social media for campaigning.
After that Trump was another big influx, 4chan was largely blamed for getting him elected. Kind of like how ISIS used to take credit for everything just to maintain a spooky reputation. This time, a bunch of new people joined the site who were American politics fanboys but what followed them was half-brained politicians who truly believe 4chan is this mystical place that controls the universe and not just a bunch of nerds talking out their ass.
After it started getting so popular and earning this reputation as a big spooky nebulous illuminati type organization, media influencers, advertisers and government funded "intelligence" agencies flocked to the site to try to sway people to whatever their brand of stupid is
Problem is they haven't fucked off yet because they haven't realized the joke is on them for taking this place seriously. There's no grand conspiracy, it's just a bunch of nerds talking shit.
Unfortunately this makes for a boring /x/ thread.