Link is example. Omg a chimp smoking! Queue 8000 comments about how it's gotta be happier than all the citizens of North Korea combined
Every single thread tangentially mentioning North Korea is like this and it seems like there's multiple such posts every fucking goddamn day with how frequently I see this shit.
5 years ago it wasn't nearly this bad. Most of the astroturfing seemed to focus mainly on the domestic political landscape. I feel like things really started kicking into gear around the Hong Kong protests.
The 2011 fukushima disaster was the first time I saw professional grade astroturfing and was around when I started using reddit. Suddenly there was a nuclear physicist in every single thread telling everyone it was nbd.