The Dead Internet Theory is WRONG (but its worse than you thought)

READ THIS —Hi y'all. Thanks for being here and taking the time out of your day to watch this video - I have a few things to say before you leave a comment - Here is the Remake of this video, its more concise, condensed, and edited better - https://youtu.be/IUcPqoXQKsk?si=CnmpEawlik5FiAtg - Sorry for the terrible audio levels and poor editing, I uploaded this video when I had only 70 subs, and no idea on how to edit a video. I did NOT expect this video to get more than a few hundred views let alone over 100k - Some things like link rot I Intentionally left out of the video because as someone who has spent time in the IT industry and endless hours doing internet research on many many topics, I see it as a natural process of the internet and there will always be link rot in the same way there will always be old phone books full of defunct numbers. I don't see any conspiracy behind it. -There are some things that could have been elaborated better, like wayyyy better. These things are explained better in the above link. - The voice filter on Ogbymocho did not come from my end lol, that was a filter used on his end from discord nothing i can do about it now. The filter isn’t to hide his identity from you, we have mutuals who don’t need to know. Stop telling me pitching up a voice doesn’t actually hide it. We know. We’re not hiding from the FBI lol. -okay thanks, have a good day.

Dead Internet: Nah Dying Internet: That tracks

To think the entire internet is populated by bots is silly. To think a measurable percentage of it is, is common sense.

I JUST WANT BOTS IN DEAD MULTIPLAYER GAMES NOT THE INTERNET AHHHH

I have no Mouth and I must tweet

A lot of the dead internet theory isn't really covered, it's not just about bots, but also Link Rot (links that no longer lead anywhere); the dying out of private websites and the push for big corporate and media controlled sites; Google being a Potemkin village (loss of millions of search pages and now hyper focused algorithm results); general loss of information / media (which web archive / wayback machine is combating), and then some of those "good bots" really just being hyper focused on algorithm for adware by larger companies.

It’s going to become necessary we migrate offline. It will either be by choice or necessity as the internet becomes increasingly useless, artificial, soulless, paywalled, and tiresome.

The internet is neither dead nor dying but suffering a kind of zombiefied, catatonic madness because it consumes itself, and all that consume their own eventually go mad.

I think the original theory proposed that "a significant portion" of internet traffic are bots, but as time went on, people took it further and took it as everyone is alone on the internet surrounded by bots, which is obviously not the case.

The internet is a potemkin village. Google search doesn't have millions of pages

The real bots are the friends we made along the way. So we have no human friends. Just bots.

I don't think I ever assumed dead internet theory was benign. But as an oldie, the more recent cleaving to content generation and algorithms is concerning because people who create content they care about won't get the traffic directed to them, so their projects die, while AI generated clickbait gets it all. What does that do to us? If you're old enough think of the internet at the height of geocities, when everyone had a website and the internet was full of weird stuff. We will never see the like of that again if things continue the way they are, because the breadth of natural human eccentricities and special interests is actively discouraged by the algorithm. You no longer choose what you see, it's chosen for you. Rather than Dead Internet, perhaps we should redefine as Stepford Internet, because the real human people that are left on the internet only create content that is formulaic and predictable, and so they resemble bots and AI, because that is what they are competing against for an audience.

I’m glad this meme is getting more people interested in cybersecurity

Isnt the dead internet theory the fact that out of the billions of things put onto the internet you can only find a very limited number of search results, for example doing a google search will initially show a million results but if you go back a few pages it will all of a sudden say no more results at only 10 pages in so you actually only get maybe 100 or less results out of the millions or more there should be.

Proof or none, I still treat the majority of online encounters with strangers as bots. It's better for my mental health.

I'd rather be a bot anyway. Being human is so 2012.

Dead internet theory mfs when you ask your buddy Kevin if he uses the internet and he says yes:

The dead internet theory is basically what an episode of severe derealization feels like to me, nobody is real and all

The internet is a Dark Forest.

Am i a bot? Just a non thinking npc? Or do i think therefore i am. Youll never know .... neither will i .. . ... .😢