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What did you do seven years ago?

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13033507 and marked it off-topic.

Or didn't do, but was wrongly accused of doing.

Are these sockpuppets? Why is this chain from three usernames that look like they were autoincremented?

Yeah WTF? they look like they could be dates or incremented...

They're AI sockpuppets.

Why?

Look at their names...

The first one (20161112) created their account on that date. The other two are - I presume - jokes.

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