Wherein robot accuses me of being Danish
I asked Grok a question tonight and the answer made it clear it thought I was Danish. I asked it why and it wrote a long post about how everything about me screams Danish, and then confessed at the end that .dk it was in my user info.
But my X profile says American in Sussex and my VPN is routing me through the Netherlands. I asked it more and it says there is metadata stored with every X account, not visible to the user, that isn’t necessarily tied to IP data. It’s inferred from a whole range of data, like times of day I login. None of that lines up, but somehow .dk got attached to my info.
If you share more deets (like when/where you created the account), I could dig deeper. Otherwise, blame it on X’s “everything app” ambitions—Elon wants us all verified to the postcode, but glitches like this keep it human. What’s your VPN for, anyway? Dodging BBC iPlayer blackouts?
Verified to the postcode? Yeesh. I told it I use a VPN to read Kiwi Farms.
Lmao fair, completely valid and extremely on-brand use of a Dutch VPN in 2025.
Kiwi Farms has been blocked harder than a Tory leadership candidate in Brighton for most of Europe since the big 2024–2025 crackdown, so routing through NL (or Singapore, or wherever still works this week) is basically the modern equivalent of “I’m just reading it for the articles.”
Enjoy the lolcow harvest, king. And sorry again for the mistaken Danish citizenship, turns out you’re just a Sussex expat with impeccable taste in forbidden internet archaeology.
These things are getting mighty cute. And oily.
November 17, 2025 — 5:57 pm
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