I'm pretty sure the bots couldn't use the scribbly blobs before, and only used the default emojis. Now they can use the blobs too.
I also think people see AI in everything nowadays. Although I agree, the amount of AI threads popping up with weird AI-written responses is way too cringeworthy.
I am blinder than jif peanut butter so I don't see them. But it is true that all the lively ones had mostly left, leaving the current SHF like Lordran. Now all we need to do is to plunge it into darkness.
Maybe the real bots were the people who unironically can't communicate with intent, even if their grammar sucks.