Nirosta Steel Scrubs Social After Following the Wrong AI Accounts

Nirosta Steel had to do some damage control this week after realizing that a handful of the AI accounts on their follow list were serving up some genuinely foul content. The artist didn't mess around — deleted the profile rather than sit with the L.

Look, following bots and AI accounts is getting hazardous. You think you're just exploring what's out there, and next thing you know you're co-signed to something toxic by association. Steel's move to just nuke the whole thing is one way to handle it, though it also means losing whatever else was there.

This is the kind of internet mess that didn't exist ten years ago. You're not just dealing with real people anymore — you're navigating a minefield of synthetic accounts, deepfakes, and algorithmic weirdness. Sometimes the cleanest exit is the right one.

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