Reddit users honey-potted an AI bot that was scraping forums for community discussions to remix into news stories without human input. On Thursday, a post about a fake new feature called Glorbo became rapidly upvoted with many users adding their own comments about absurd fake features that were supposedly being added to the game. Soon after, an article about WOW's about the WOW community's excitement for Glorbo appeared on Z-League's gaming news site The Portal which incorporated several nonsensical quotes taken directly from the subreddit.

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