Haha, yeah, that's the joke :P

https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2020/6/24/21301924/pokemon-go-64-smartphones-taiwanese-grandpa

I would like to buy a bier to this dude and ask him what he thinks about the dead internet theory

Yes

Yes

Its this person controlling these devices from a laptop?

On Android, you can enable ADB over Wifi, then you just connect to those IP addresses to share the screen and control the device.

They use real devices because every devices likely has a separate mobile data running and unique identifiers tied to those device, apps and configuration, which makes them appear authentic users and hence fool automatic spam detection systems.

You can make money with it.

How dare you, Greg would never abandon his child because he was adopted.

No, he's going to do it because he harbors deep resentment for what he became, what he could've been. Any time someone perceives him feels like a metaphorical slap across his face, not unlike the real physical one he in his wrathful impotence inflicted onto Laura.

Greg needs therapy, but he's only getting it later in his 50s because I enjoy imagining pathetic people. It's very normal do not think into it.

Yes. Just one little Japanese girl with 100 iPads tweeting “we are Charlie Kirk” over and over.

What license would be required? I just use qemu.

But when that tech is set up... You can spin up loads of "phones".

I wonder if you need a sim card for each ?

Does it need to be iOS? Can't they use Android?

But those are the ones that consume the hate content, not the ones that create it. That takes at least a few functioning brain cells.

Well, they all came out of the woodwork.

The phones are all wired, so I could imagine they receive LAN via USB-C. That would make the whole setup not that difficult.

On the other side, these phones don't need to be all active at the same time. I could imagine that they just switch on the Wifi while interacting with one of the phones.

Edit: Check out this post. There you can see the USB-to-LAN dongles hanging off the phones.

Edit: heck I bet most consumer grade routers DHCP servers would choke after the first 255 clients (probably much sooner) just from having to change subnets. I’m not a networkologist though so IDK for sure

As somewhat of a networkologist I can say that most home routers use the 192.168.something.x IP range. With a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0, this means that you could put 253 devices on the network (2 of the IPs aren't usable for devices). After that, you would have to change your subnet mask to something larger, which is easily doable in router config. However, a home router likely wouldn't work well with even just 100 devices connected. WiFi is also half duplex, meaning it can only send or receive, but not both at the same time. This would make the speed unbearably slow. You would really need multiple access points to have this many devices.