The Velour Fog

That’s “Yellow Books” by Dead Sea Lions for me.

I’ve been working on my costume for about two months now, and it’s about 2/3rds done. I haven’t quantified total expenditures yet but I’d estimate it’s over $700 in materials and supplies.

Yes, it’s a fursuit (bird suit partial).

Thank you so much!

Townflex is essentially a clickbait ad-riddled site with a cheap thin veneer of a few news articles over it.

I don’t have an issue with accounts that declare themselves as bots, I like that Lemmy has this as a feature. More social media platforms should do this. It’s that there are, like you said, bad actors that aim to deceive.

Honestly I’m on the fence on if this account is a bot or a person. The timestamps between post and comment are plausible, but that could be manufactured delay. The one thing I’m sure of is the account is shilling this website that it links to 99% of the time, and if you look around in the site, is a bizarre collection of news articles, blatant clickbait (especially in the Health section), ads for scholarships (??) and song lyrics and “meanings” which are 100% AI generated.

The website appears to have very few named authors, which is also weird. Most of the content just reeks of AI though.

I’ve seen accounts like these follow the exact same playbook when I used to browse reddit. Trying to drive up traffic and clicks for that ad money. This one is definitely aiming to deceive.

Some examples:

A sizable chunk of this website are “articles” similar to this.

Shill account for townflex dot com

Ugh that website is cancer, even with adblock.

Ohhhh that’s gonna piss off the plague rats.

Shill account for townflex dot com