Bot comments Report August 2025
The dataset of toxic bot comments detected in August 2025, spanning from August 01 to August 30, included over 7K English messages (n=7,222). The average toxicity score is 0.20, which is quite low. However, there is a notable peak (2 × SD) on August 01, 2025 (see this list of events that could have influenced it). About 50 messages (1%) were very toxic, with a score > 0.8.
Toxicity often involved Religion (10%), Politics, Racism and/or Ridicule.
Threatening content: about 3% of messages was categorized as threatening.
The most frequent combination: Politics + Religion.
Some common toxic keywords include: slayer, demon, charlie, jewish, invaded, deep state, regime, white people, controlled by, and the zionists.
The word cloud below highlights the 50 most frequently used toxic keywords in August 2025. The size of each word reflects its frequency relative to other terms. Notably, massacre was the most frequently used keyword, followed by allah, carter and oppressed.
The table below highlights the different toxic categories detected within the August 2025 dataset, along with their respective frequencies (represented by black dots and further explained below). In this month, the category Jews contained bot comments with the highest toxicity score: 0.85. The categories Racism, Politics and Religion were most prominent with toxic bot comments content.
The barchart below shows that most of the content fell within the Politics category. Content with a toxicity score > 0.8 appeared in content containing Racism, Politics, Religion, Threath and Untruth (see the explanation of the different categories here).
The keyword network below illustrates the main focus of toxic bot comments detected in August 2025. Different colors represent clusters of words frequently used together, revealing the bot’s primary narratives. One narrative seems to focus on celebrities like Chappel Roan, Olivia Wilde and Tom Holland.