Threads is notorious for engagement bait, and Meta knows it. And they're going to try to fix it, too — allegedly. This revelation came as many updates on Threads do: through a conversation on the app itself. Two days ago, a Threads user posted a fake image of an old lady wearing a miniskirt on the subway.

Engagement bait on Threads typically covers posts with banal questions or invites for open-ended discussions to encourage other users to interact. Because Threads, like Instagram, pushes users to see an algorithmic feed of posts by default, getting more interactions can snowball a simple post into virality.

In July, Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg said Threads had reached 175 million monthly active users. It is a much larger platform than fellow X rival Bluesky, in large part thanks to its active promotion on other Meta platforms, most notably Instagram.

Former X/Twitter users are finding their way to Threads. Unfortunately, that includes the oh-so-annoying engagement farmers.