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Just echoing this. I've worked with marketing agencies who use Reddit to post things like this for their clients.

Both of those posts have the OP linking to specific products, with one of the OPs blatantly posting a referral link to a specific product.

Even without the links or mentioning specific products or brands, marketers will post things like this to build up markets, audiences and anticipation for new products, in this case it is a specific species and variant of bacteria.



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