waitforcom is one of the most interesting users I've ever come across on the internet. This account posts one of three different animations with the same title: "Aperture grating microscope photographs aluminum nuclei and electrons". They have posted this to at least 80 different subreddits ranging in topics from science, engineering, education, academia, general interest, and fan theories for some reason. Even this very subreddit! And that's just the posts they haven't deleted; I've seen several deleted posts, so the actual number is probably well into the hundreds!

People seeking to stay on the cutting edge of microscopy need not fear, because this new method is better than tunneling electron microscopy. They have not written a paper, but they are going to patent it, so presumably you can get the information you need from the patent office. At first I thought this was just a bot spam account, but rest assured they are very real, and /u/WhyNotCollegeBoard is pretty sure they aren't a bot.

If you run into problems with this method, fear not, because there is a way to be clever. The only downsides are that this phenomenon can't be explained in English, and if you run into computer noise don't bother talking to our glorious inventor.

And if you're still confused, here's an FAQ:

Q: What is this thing?

A: Aperture grating microscope. It is an instrument that USES the principle of coherent scattering and follows Bragg's law. (and yes, the word USES must be capitalized every single time)

Q: How does this work?

A: If you meet the Bragg condition, you can see the Bragg diffraction image¹

Q: What on earth are you talking about? This all sounds completely made up.

A: That's because it is completely made up and I am a giant hackfraud who has no idea what they are talking about.²

At first I thought that's where the rabbit hole ended, but on a whim I decided to google the title that they are so fond of. It turns out that, in addition to shotgunning subreddits, the author is prolific across dozens of different websites as well: vimeo, imgur, google plus, youtube even 9gag of all places!

They are especially prolific on Quorum (where all the best /r/badscience material scientific advances can be found) There is a user "Chun Xu" on Quorum who seems to be a bit more coherent than his reddit counterpart, but is especially fond of answering questions vaguely related to atoms, microscopy, or other subjects and shoehorning in links to his fake videos, images, and animations. From here we can get a little bit more information on how this microscope allegedly works:

• It works using coherent scattering
• sometimes it is "untransmitted" or "not transmitted aperture"
• Sometimes he uses it to image copper, sometimes aluminum, sometimes "paper molecules" but either way the results look remarkably similar.

They have also used at least one more reddit account in the past named /u/waitfof, and these posts started as far back as July 2018. The older account was presumably banned for spam, or maybe for having a microscope that was just too good for this world.

R1: This "Aperture grating microscope" is completely made up. While the user does use real words for real effects (for example, Bragg's law does indeed describe how waves interact with a crystal lattice under certain conditions), these words are strung together into non-sensical non-explanations, and that's when the user isn't just completely ignoring comments asking for explanation of just what the heck they are looking at.

In all seriousness, I honestly wouldn't even have put in the effort to write all this except for the fact that many of their posts have gotten hundreds of upvotes. So whatever the goal of this spam campaign is, it seems to be working.

This account is either one of the weirdest spambots I've ever seen, a mentally ill person, or perhaps even a mentally ill spambot. They are seemingly incapable of anything but the same several canned responses in comments, well beyond the typical limits of language barriers via google translate. I honestly have no idea what's going on here, but at the very least the word "interesting" applies. As does the word "badscience".