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Intellectual Rage-Bait is a better AI slop business for an xo poaster
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Date: April 22nd, 2026 6:57 AM Author: thriller useless institution newt Than fruit drama.
It is the "contrarian grift" or "high-brow trolling". Basically you take high-quality prose, academic language, and seemingly rational frameworks to argue a thesis that is fundamentally absurd, deeply offensive, or aggressively wrong. The scam targets smart educated people with high intellectual vanity. Easy to run on substack where you set it up so people have to subscribe in order to leave a comment. People can't resist paying the 10 bucks just to try to refute you. AI can seriously accelerate brainstorming and generation for this type of content. |
Date: April 22nd, 2026 7:19 AM Author: stirring emerald therapy school Not flame, I actually plan to try a bait Twitch stream model. The concept is "debate me about anything" and the challenger gets to choose my position. I'll have text on the screen that explains it's an intellectual exercise and lists the assigned position and opponent, so I can't get clipped and canceled. I think it's worth setting up and trying a few streams to see if it catches on. There are fun ways I could incorporate channel points and eventually donations. I'll also post each debate on YouTube; maybe I could promise to respond to any paid comment.
Not the exact same thing – I won't intentionally make bad arguments – but similarly designed to get engagement by exploiting people's argumentative impulses. |
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Date: April 22nd, 2026 9:46 AM Author: thriller useless institution newt Yeah its 180 people call it nerd sniping. Your idea is better though because its live and you are female and intelligent. I'm thinking about doing it but not pure scammy stuff, more like heterodox intellectual stuff, dismantling of consensus opinions across fields but in a more aggressive prosecutorial style than you can do in academia without all the hedging etc. and avoid culturewar-adjacent material to keep from getting "cancelled". I have a few really good ones I have been sitting on to drop right away to let people know I'm cooking. Not worried about failure, because I'm unemployed right now and feel like doing it anyway. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859341&forum_id=2"#49833889) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2026 10:05 AM Author: stirring emerald therapy school 180, keep us updated. How do you plan on driving people to your page?
And yeah, no reason to let potential failure stop you from trying. That's how I feel about mine, too. Just the possibility of success makes it worth a shot. |
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Date: April 22nd, 2026 10:12 AM Author: thriller useless institution newt Not sure, do you think I should use spammy bots and emailing lists and things like that to drive people to my own page plus a substack alt and maybe a reddit? I can probably just use substack for it and make it so people have to subscribe to comment. idk you'll have to help me strategize what do you think? Also i'm not sure I want to put too much about it on here as to not doxx myself. Maybe ill get feedback from a select few poasters though. If you use automated mailing lists and things like that its just a numbers game even with crap tier content. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859341&forum_id=2"#49833987) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2026 10:23 AM Author: stirring emerald therapy school I think the chatbots will have better advice than me. Idk about Reddit; I think most of Reddit is just psyops. The rest sounds good. Also apparently being a good Substack commenter helps drive people to yours? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859341&forum_id=2"#49834008) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2026 10:31 AM Author: thriller useless institution newt Yeah I can just spend all day poasting there though, and leave comments everywhere. I can start with 3 good pieces let people know i'm cooking and then do 1 a week then on. I basically have unlimited ideas I genuinely hate pretty much every consensus opinion in every sub-discipline there is. Any complex interdisciplinary modeling is pretty much guaranteed to be completely broken and underdetermined. I would do it for fun. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859341&forum_id=2"#49834029) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2026 10:37 AM Author: stirring emerald therapy school 180000 sounds fun and provocative (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859341&forum_id=2"#49834044) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2026 12:54 PM Author: thriller useless institution newt You mentioned reddit being psyops, I actually think its a hidden gold mine. Here is the thing about reddit, reddit is a multi-billion dollar business that moderates the entire thing using unpaid labor so the mods all have to get paid in psychological currency. This is why Reddit works, there are tons of subs that all act as walled gardens where like 15 low iq nerds and mods who have their entire identities invested in their opinions control everything and ban everyone. This creates a perfect leverage point for asymmetric marketing where you redirect traffic from all the refugee and meta subs that form from the people who get banned from the main subs. Tons of people who hate consensus who hang out there, and all thanks to the mods on the main subs. Probably a better potential traffic pipeline even than places like hackernews and aspie "rationalist" forums. You might be able to capitalize off this dynamic using your twitch too. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859341&forum_id=2"#49834278) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2026 7:10 PM Author: stirring emerald therapy school Very good point. I bet it is just a matter of finding the niche subs full of Nerds ready to be triggered. It's mostly the main subs that are flooded with operatives and PR teams and bots (and moderated by the Epstein class). (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859341&forum_id=2"#49835377) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 3:53 AM Author: thriller useless institution newt I think your twitch model has a ton of potential. It's basically like a sophistry-as-a-service model, but you've got the gender variable. A woman challenging the intellectual ego of a male-dominated audience creates a combustion chamber for donations. People will pay significant amounts of money just for the chance to try and fail to out-logic you on cam. Also most debate bros on twitch are ideologically locked. So the fact that you would be ideologically fluid adds another dimension to it. People hate this, and it would basically make you a heel. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859341&forum_id=2"#49836366) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 4:12 AM Author: stirring emerald therapy school 180 thank you. The only issue is that I've never done real-time debate before. I know I reason and think of arguments quickly, so I'm just hoping I can articulate my thoughts on the spot too. I won't know until I try. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859341&forum_id=2"#49836383) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2026 10:20 AM Author: Confused carnelian dilemma perhaps xoxohth was secretly made for training this AI (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859341&forum_id=2"#49834001) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 10:41 PM Author: stirring emerald therapy school So far here's what I'm thinking for the format of my bait stream.
A viewer comes up with a one-sentence thesis for me to defend. I'm allowed to ask questions and refine it with them, and when we finalize the position, I put it on screen. Then, the viewer makes their case first, arguing against the thesis they assigned me.
To start, I think it's OK to just have the opponent argue in chat (rather than calling in). I'll have their messages isolated in one area of the screen and will address them directly but I'll also pay attention to the rest of chat. The female factor works for me here because of the personalized attention.
I've been practicing with chatbot-assigned positions and it's been easy so far. |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 10:44 PM Author: thriller useless institution newt If you had to guess which historical POASTER do you think I am
also yeah I think thats a good idea. you should start practicing under real-world constraints but i think ultimately it will be about what you can tolerate like if you feel harassed from doing it. you have the intelligence to pull it off regardless. |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 10:45 PM Author: stirring emerald therapy school I haven't been able to figure it out. Are you currently using just this moniker? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859341&forum_id=2"#49838875) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 10:47 PM Author: thriller useless institution newt (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859341&forum_id=2"#49838878) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 10:48 PM Author: stirring emerald therapy school 180 that completely makes sense. Won't tell anyone. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859341&forum_id=2"#49838880) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 10:49 PM Author: thriller useless institution newt I actually intuited who you were really quick in the timeline of noticing your moniker but I think its different because the possibility-space of female poasters is deeply constrained (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859341&forum_id=2"#49838885) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 10:51 PM Author: stirring emerald therapy school True and I admitted to being female to cowgod pretty soon after returning (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859341&forum_id=2"#49838891) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 10:54 PM Author: thriller useless institution newt I can't remember I think I remember there was a gendered thread about relationship dhynamics where you strongly implied being female but for me the phonetic pun nature of your moniker in combination with the fact you gave away seeming female at some point plus you were making really abstract philosophical arguments which is rare for females to begin with, those constraints in combination made it click with me right away. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859341&forum_id=2"#49838897) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 10:56 PM Author: stirring emerald therapy school Lol it's not rare for women IME but I probably interact disproportionately with thoughtful people (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859341&forum_id=2"#49838903) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 10:57 PM Author: thriller useless institution newt Well idk its not that they don't exist at all but I think once you add the constraint of also appearing on xo the probability gets vanishingly small. Plus there is more than that its like I remember the aesthetic of how you interact in ways that aren't easily reducible or explainable and I have had long periods off the board and wondered if you'd ever come back (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859341&forum_id=2"#49838909) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 10:58 PM Author: stirring emerald therapy school Also the majority of poasters are retarded so (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859341&forum_id=2"#49838911) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 10:54 PM Author: marvelous karate how do you propose to deal with the fact that 100% of the theses will be requested solely to induce you to say words or phrases that satisfy the requestor's fetish. if your answer isn't lean in and ca$h in you're ngmi (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859341&forum_id=2"#49838896) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 10:54 PM Author: stirring emerald therapy school Lol like what? But yeah, my only option is to lean in. It's leaving $$$ on the table otherwise (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859341&forum_id=2"#49838899) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 11:15 PM Author: marvelous karate you will be asked to defend eating poop (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859341&forum_id=2"#49838942) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2026 11:18 PM Author: stirring emerald therapy school Lmao. Yeah the on-screen disclaimer will be crucial (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859341&forum_id=2"#49838945) |