Drama is no stranger to Reddit, as many of you may know. And while more than a few have giggled or giggled at Reddit arguments exploded or taken strange twists and turns, there is now a new way to see what is happening in the comments.
Micah Price, a software engineer from Cape Town, South Africa, on Sunday unveiled one genius bot that turns Reddit arguments into scenes from Ace lawyer, the Capcom series In what lawyer Phoenix Wright is fighting to get his clients off the hook with his investigative aand courtroom skills, Mashable reported. The video arguments come with the dramatic music and the famous “Objection!” slogan. The results are entertaining, hilarious, and frankly sometimes don’t makethe feeling. There are of course some provoke a horrified “Oh God” when you see what people are arguing about.
In an interview with Mashable, Price said he got the idea from other meme-based videos of the game on YouTube.
“The dramatic music is great,” Price told the outlet, “especially for the melodramatic debates on Reddit.”
According to the video about the Price bot posted on YouTube, the bot checks for the most frequent users in the comment chain and then reposts all comments in their chain. A neural network then pcontinues to check if the tone of the comment is negative or positive. If the comment is considered negative, it will raise an “Objection!” Meanwhile, a comment considered positive would evoke a happy expression. The bot, which takes about 10 minutes to reply, then creates a video based on the comments and sends it to the user in a link on Reddit.
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You can see an example video of the bot below.
Now the big question on everyone’s mind: can you use it? The bot can be used by anyone on Reddit who types “! Objectionbot” or “! Objection-bot” in the comments. There’s one problem though: the subreddit you’re posting in must be on the bot’s list of supported subreddits, which you can see here. If your favorite arguing subreddit isn’t on the list, Price will take suggestions on which one to add.
It took about three days to make the bot, Price said, adding that he used Python as well as computer vision and machine learning libraries in development. It is open-source and can be found at GitHub. Shortly after launch, the bot was “uber buggy,” he said. In fact, according to the bot’s user page, u / objection bot, it broke a few hours when Price went to sleep. However, he later fixed it, and the bot reports that it is, “go back and run for now.”
You can watch the videos of the arguments, including some about the Emoji movie, the laws that would exist if Pokémon were real, and the developer from Cyberpunk 2077—The bot has made it on his user page.