Abstract
The ongoing culture war between frogposters and animeposters on /bant/ has fascinated me, and I wanted to find out for sure if there was actually a difference between how people respond to anime and frog shitposts when their content is identical, to see whether either side actually cares about "post quality". I have secretly conducted a study over the last few weeks using covert frog and anime posts to see how other posters on /bant/ would react to them, and especially to see whether the moderation reacted differently to them.

I should point out to start with that I don't really post frogs or anime on /bant/, I just find the culture war dynamic interesting and wanted to dig into it further.

Method
I created 120 more or less random "phrases" using either music lyrics, tv or film quotes, or just randomly generated phrases from chatgpt. I randomly paired these with 60 random pepe edits downloaded from /bant/, and 60 popular random anime and otaku culture images downloaded from /bant/. Using a proxy I posted 4 of these per day, 2 anime threads and 2 pepe threads, and never interacted with the threads beyond creating them, and simply logged the interactions with the threads once they 404'd or were deleted. I logged how many responses total the threads got, how many "clearly approving" responses they got, and how many "clearly disapproving" responses they got, as well as any obvious necrobumps.