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A fan accused Katie Ginella of using “bots” to support her on social media – amid her controversial drama with Emily Simpson, Gina Kirschenheiter, Gretchen Rossi, and Jennifer Pedranti on the Real Housewives of Orange County.

In a recent episode, Emily introduced castmates to a surprise lie detector test. According to the results, Katie “failed” a question about whether Gretchen really told her that Tamra Judge drugged her in a past season. After the test, Gretchen and Jennifer seemed to end their friendship with Katie.

On social media, many fans (and Tamra) have expressed support for Katie – while calling out Gretchen and Jennifer. Katie has suggested that Emily and Gina set up the lie detector test using a paid actor.

Last week, Redditor u/Prudent-Experience-3 accused Katie of using bots. According to the user, the similarities of the following TikTok comments indicate that they’re coming from bots. Two of the commenters have the same name.

“Katie is bringing her A-game, no doubt about it. It’s clear she’s not here to mess around!” wrote a user named Evely.

“Katie’s bringing the heat! Definitely someone to watch this season,” wrote a different fan, Amely.

“Katie’s definitely bringing the heat! Her energy is unmatched this season,” wrote a Julia.

“Katie is bringing the heat this season! Her presence is already making waves. Can’t wait to see what she does next!” wrote another Amely.

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The Redditor then expressed why they believe it’s the work of bots.

“Not only is [Katie] bad at doing the housewive[s] bloggers game, but she’s also bad at doing the housewive[s] botting game,” said the Redditor. “I really like Katie. Her lying is funny, her flooding the zone with more lies at the ladies tactic is even more funny, and how bad she is at doing housewives politics is even more funny.”

“Now with this botting game, she couldn’t even get bots with different names,” the user went on. “You got amely and other amely repeating the same message. IDK, this whole thing is funny to me.”

New episodes of The Real Housewives of Orange County air on Thursday nights on Bravo.