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Boomers on Facebook Are Leaving Comments That Make It Clear That They Have No Idea That AI-Generated Thirst Traps Aren't Real (futurism.com)
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[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 106 points 22 hours ago (4 children)

Fucking duh. They also can't tell they are being gaslit by bots on all their stupid conservative pages. Boomers are fucking stupid.

[–] MangoCats@feddit.it 1 points 1 hour ago

I'd like to believe that most of the dumb stuff you see posted online is by bots trying to draw suckers to their echo chambers.

Unfortunately, I've met too many of the idiots in real life, they're definitely not all bots.

[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 6 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Plenty of the young generation are dumb as fuck as well. Trump didn't win just by getting the boomer vote.

Plenty of morons out there from all walks of life.

[–] pheelicks@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 hour ago

No, only other groups are stupid, but not my group! /s

[–] mattyroses@lemmy.today 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

[–] MangoCats@feddit.it 2 points 1 hour ago

That's the Lead Poisioned and Proud of it! unit.

[–] KneeTitts@lemmy.world 25 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (4 children)

Kinda wishin I knew what a thirst trap was..

[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 3 points 9 hours ago

Where lions ambush gazelles when they go to the water hole

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 12 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Someone is "thirsty" for sex. A woman (or a broad approximation there of) exploits that thirst, hence "trap".

The "woman" is the thirst trap. Woman is in quotes, because it's almost always not a woman, but a bot, or one of many accounts run by scammers.

[–] call_me_xale@lemmy.zip 29 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

Good-looking person, usually dressed and/or posing provocatively. Often includes engagement-bait-type caption.

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 22 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

A thirst trap is specifically attraction as bait

[–] KneeTitts@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours ago

Thanks, Ive literally never heard this term till today

[–] Malyca@lemmy.zip 9 points 21 hours ago

A sexually suggestive picture