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this post was submitted on 30 Sep 2026
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I still check r/all on libreddit (gotta keep tabs on the fascist propaganda) and I literally read a comment in the last couple of weeks that is the basis of this fake post. The commenter said they gave their landlord 3 months instead of the 30 day requirement, mentioned multiple other defects were found, and specifically included a part about their electrical wiring being crossed with a neighbour, resulting in many thousands more in expenses for the landlord than the few hundred their request would have.
The comment appeared real, but it could have still been a bot copy pasting from an old thread. Either way, I'm certain that's the source.
I found the thread you mentioned (https://www.reddit.com/r/MaliciousCompliance/comments/1wds9vf/my_landlord_told_me_to_go_ahead_and_report_her_to/) and which is probably the basis for the AI prompt for this image.
I did not find an identical post in the last years, but i found the following from 5 years ago, which is very much in the same vein and might be the actual origin of the story (especially since it got 22k upvotes at the time), which was being fed to an LLM with orders to add more details for more engagement: https://www.reddit.com/r/MaliciousCompliance/comments/u3668f/our_landlord_told_me_go_ahead_call_the_city/
(thanks for MetaGer and DuckDuckGo with the search help, with google i would still sift through garbage. MetaGer sadly only goes back one year max for filters, or else they would have sufficed. MetaGer is actually my main search utility for 99% of things, and i have never been disappointed outside of this single limitation)
Thanks for doing the thing I couldn't be bothered to do. This bot definitely ripped off the recent poster, as the noted defects in it are identical.
Makes sense really. Easier to have your bot farms rehash and cross post high engagement material between all sources. No matter what, only a fraction of total users are gonna see any one.
Come to think of it, in the last month a custom meme made the front page using some western girls image as the background, then within hours I saw the same meme (identical "custom" text) posted to an indian sub, but with an indian girls image instead. Dead internet theory in action.