Mentions (17)
"Log on to any social media site nowadays and there's just… nobody there. When I open up Instagram, I have to scroll forever to see a post from someone I actually follow. It's just random brainrot memes and AI generated pictures of Asian women. Many of the comments on front page posts are also just o"
"Maybe dead Internet theory is real and I've been reading posts and comments by bots for the last 3 years. It's not even that I live somewhere sheltered or that I'm a shut in, I live in Berlin and have a pretty decent social life."
"I feel like so many posts and comments on popular subs are very clearly written by chat GPT. Google barely functions anymore. Everything is either an ad or one of 2 political opinions from either an obnoxious wannabe Angela Davis or 14 year old Joseph Goebbels with almost no inbetween. Is it all bot"
"What worries me is we're getting very very close now to the dead internet and with it the loss of historical reality. When there can be unlimited, indistinguible content creation that can imitate almost flawlessly content from any period in history how the fuck are we meant to know what was real and"
"i think dead internet theory is so plausible and after reading a few posts about it i'm completely convinced."
"I have no real reason except my own experiences to believe it's true, but I absolutely can believe in the dead Internet theory. Seems like something just happened around 2008 where the Internet went from this wild west to...whatever it is now."
""Le dead internet theory-" no, its just soulless normies gaining wifi access. Can we just accept this and move on?"
"Though Dead Internet Theory isn't completely true yet it is coming, and with open source AI like deepseek ect it's going to proliferate even more."
"Is Dead Internet Theory going to lead to advanced AI systems like in a Sprawl novel?"
"Feels like every time you look at a hobby subreddit without overbearing jannies it's 2 month old bot accounts reposting shit from a year or two ago. Or the weird replies in threads where it'll be somebody regurgitating the contents of the OP back in an agreeable manner with some weird attempts at mo"
"Whole internet is a zombie space and dead internet theory is more or less a hyperstition by now."
"Are we just doomed to a dead internet where our voices are drowned out by a hivemind of literal and metaphorical bots?"
"Maybe this is cope af but I swear to god I have a 10% maybe less match rate with people I like on hinge as a normal looking girl. Sometimes I feel like if Hinge were to actually show you every single person that liked you it wouldn't be in business anymore because you might actually meet someone."
"I know these are measures to prevent chatbots from taking over the internet, but it seems like that is inevitable anyways because one of these days I'll delete my account or get shadowbanned and not be able to make another one because it's too much hassle. I have to imagine this will happen to other"
"Whether this is due to Dead Internet theory, AI, bots, propaganda or just corporate greed, idk, but it feels like there's a wall preventing me from actually discovering anything new, and I never feel this sense of wonder nor am I satiated the way I used to when browsing the Internet prior."
"Dead internet theory is 100% true. Even though it is clearly actual humans commenting, the level of submission is drone like. Bleak times ahead man"
"I wish I could more fully buy into Dead Internet Theory Because my actual suspicion is that people are just dumb as fuck"