File this under "who could have seen this coming?" but fake story gaming blog zleague.gg got a dose of reality this past week, after its virtual reality content farming bots got trolled by intrepid World of Warcraft players. And no, I didn't use ChatGPT or Bing Chat to write this article. Unlike zleague's "Lucy Reed," sadly I have to work for a living.
Recently, /r/wow World of Warcraft subreddit members noticed that a certain website (and probably others) were producing suspiciously robotic articles that increasingly seemed to be based on reddit posts. This one from zleague.gg titled "Should I create all my WoW characters on the same realm? Players respond." is essentially an article produced from the comments and content of a reddit thread, garbled into an SEO trap, and then promoted by Google and other search engines. Hilariously, WoW users decided to do a little bit of trollin'.
