I’ve seen several comment sections on like AP articles critical of the Trump administration that had like zero pushback in the comments

I wouldn't be surprised if there was an initial down spike but realistically they'd just spin up the bots somewhere else basically immediately.

Like a lot of what a data center does is act as a glorified router. You'd need to take out a server that just so happened to host some bot code that somehow isn't stored anywhere else for the effects to be permanent...

Or other countries actually stop taking Russian money. One of the two.

There is a real tangible drop. But it's also limited in scope.

So where the bots focused yeah it was night and day different. But over all? Really kind of a drop in the bucket.

So personal experience just varies wildly based on where online you hang out.

Those articles don't debunk shit, they just explain that the data on the charts is web crawlers. Nobody but platform owners can effectively estimate the amount of bot traffic they have - and even if they can distinguish today, cause with AIs it's really complicated.

So we just don't have the stats, but it doesn't mean people can't use personal perception. And yes, xitter is a lot cleaner now.

All I know is on Insta I’m seeing far less transphobic comments and one nation supporting bots

I think the internet traffic itself spells it out. There's a noticeable difference

It's just a vibes thing that relies on the ignorance of the audience.

Most normies have no concept of what a crawler is, let alone a bot of any kind.