I did get NPCs trying to reply to my 2 year old posts

Here's the kicker: Reddit is still doing this to me on a banned account that I haven't logged into in many years. How am I still receiving comment reply notifications on an account that Reddit told me they permanently banned? I genuinely don't know, and don't care enough to take their obvious bait to figure it out. Those emails get deleted as soon as they show up in my inbox; I refuse to even read them.

Oh, and here's another anecdote that might be of interest. I strongly suspect that they are testing out AI image production. I lurk my local subreddit for news, and, every few days, some random account posts a blurry, potato-quality picture of a common plant or animal and asks for help identifying it. All of these pictures look "off," and are poor quality even by really low budget cell phone standards. I'm not convinced they are real.