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Tetra [badges] [verified] @TetraspaceWest · 5h When stuck, human agents in training will find unexpected messageboards as well. [quoted post] Michael J. Mir... [verified] @michaelmir... · Sep 27 This is just incredible. I love it. Via @caseymlewis: [embedded article excerpt] Kids too young for social media are secretly hanging out in NPR podcast comment sections on Spotify. (Thank you to Sarah Shapiro for bringing this to my attention!) A producer recently noticed strings of what looked like gibberish under his show on Spotify — comments like "Aw ok mh," "Gilgamesh quit and I'm crying," and "Last Friday, I broke up with my GF." The posts seemed to be talking to each other, so the team assumed they were a new breed of bots and removed them. Then a Gen Z staffer took a look and determined that they weren't bots, they were kids either too young for regular social media or blocked from it by their parents, using NPR's Spotify comments as an ad hoc chat room. When reached for the story, one of them explained to NPR that they'd picked shows "that didn't have many comments." I think we're due for an AIM resurgence[cut off]
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Tweet by Tetra comparing human agents in training finding unexpected messageboards to a quoted Michael J. Mir... post excerpting a newsletter item: kids too young for social media using NPR podcast comment sections on Spotify as an ad hoc chat room, initially mistaken for bots.
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