Yeah but anyone bothering to go to this much effort could most likely have just paid a troll-farm in the Philippines to do this today. The investment required

Yeah but anyone bothering to go to this much effort could most likely have just paid a troll-farm in the Philippines to do this today. The investment required to pull that off at scale would be non-trivial (I'm not talking millions, but tens of thousands let's say). You can pay kids in India to make up a LOT of dumb shit on Reddit for that kind of money. At best, it's a linear increase in the problem. Not exponential like social-media