Poll of the Day > Looking for an old creepypasta

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I read a creepypasta years ago that I've been trying to track down recently, but with no luck.

It was written from the perspective of a guy who worked at a small tech startup selling pop-up ads and trying to come up with a way to get more people to click on the ads. They decided through market research that making their ads controversial would make them stand out more, so they bought some metadata off of reddit and used it to seed an algorithm, which they then used to generate controversial prompts. When they try their new tool on an internal company subreddit, it winds up causing a fight that results in half the team quitting/getting fired, and the remaining half realizes the potency of what they've just created. They then try to pitch it to the military as a psy-op tool, who aren't particularly interested but ask the company to prove that it works by using it on a national subreddit for some small African country. The tech start-up then falls apart due to a lawsuit filed by the former employees and the narrator moves on with his life, until he rediscovers the program on an old hard drive years later and runs it again just for kicks. He then discovers that, when he uses the metadata for a political subreddit, it pops up with a bunch of items that have already happened and he realizes someone powerful has a copy of his algorithm and is using it for some unknown ends, with the worst yet to come.

I recall it being a fun read - short, but kind of gripping, and I'd love to read it again but I didn't bookmark it the first time I saw it and I've lost track of it since. Any of this sound familiar to anyone?