alt Hacker NewsA lot of them read like twitter bots with generic “wow beautiful <emojis>”
Wherever there is profit to be made on the internet, you have massive amounts of weird abuse and botting to game the system. Maybe not even literal bots, but paying a sweatshop in India to leave thousands of generic comments to boost your rankings on the algorithm.
People were responding with period-correct, insipid “wow beautiful <emojis>” replies for decades before we had bots to do it.
It was noise when it was only people; it's still just noise when it also includes bots.