Dead Internet Theory

Nearly everywhere you go on the internet, if you see “users” or “comments” engaging with one another, a significant chunk of it is 100% fake.

It is all being placed there to program you into believing a false narrative about what everyone else believes.

Here is one such example from Reddit (two different posts, two different time periods, two entirely similar comments sections) (right click -> view image for full-size):

All of those accounts are bots posting using Artificial Intelligence and programmed scripts. It is social engineering.

The same thing happens in most comment fields of mainstream news (even right-leaning ones like ZeroHedge or Epoch Times).

It even happens with Twitter (now X) accounts:

Top cybersecurity expert claims that more than 80 percent of Twitter accounts are probably bots

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Thursday went after Parag Agrawal-led platform once again, after a top cybersecurity expert claimed that as high as eight in 10 Twitter accounts are fake.

Dan Woods, Global Head of Intelligence at cybersecurity company F5, who spent more than 20 years with the US federal law enforcement and intelligence organisations, told The Australian that more than 80 per cent of Twitter accounts are probably bots — a massive claim as Twitter says only 5 per cent of its users are bots/spams.

It’s all fake and gay to manufacture consent from the masses.

I bet there are about nine fake accounts for every one real account online nowadays. Those nine accounts manufacture the likes/favorites and ratios of what goes to the top. Meaning that everything that becomes “popular” ends up there by the strategic decision of the elites. From Reddit to YouTube to your weather websites to your local news and back. It hits everything.

This has been true for at least five years, likely about eight.

This isn’t news to some of you who have heard of Dead Internet Theory before. But for those of you that have not, I encourage you to dive into it.

A good place to start learning is Wikipedia. They claim it is a conspiracy theory, which means you already know it is actually a conspiracy fact:

The dead Internet theory is an online conspiracy theory that asserts that the Internet now consists mainly of bot activity and automatically generated content manipulated by algorithmic curation, minimising organic human activity to manipulate the population. Proponents of the theory believe these bots were created intentionally to help manipulate algorithms and boost search results in order to manipulate consumers. Some proponents of the theory accuse government agencies of using bots to manipulate public perception. The date given for this “death” was generally around 2016 or 2017.

The dead Internet theory has gained traction because many of the observed phenomena are quantifiable, such as increased bot traffic, but the literature does not support the full theory. Caroline Busta, founder of the media platform New Models, was quoted in an article in The Atlantic calling much of the dead Internet theory a “paranoid fantasy”, even if there are legitimate criticisms involving bot traffic and the integrity of the internet, but she said she does agree with the “overarching idea”. In an article in The New Atlantis, Robert Mariani called the theory a mix between a genuine conspiracy theory and a creepypasta.

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The dead Internet theory has two main components: that bots have displaced human activity on the Internet and that actors are employing these bots to manipulate the human population. The first part of this theory, that bots create much of the content on the internet and perhaps contribute more than organic human content, has been a concern for a while, with the original post by “IlluminatiPirate” citing the article “How Much of the Internet Is Fake? Turns Out, a Lot of It, Actually” in New York magazine. The second half of the dead Internet theory builds on this observable phenomenon by proposing that the U.S. government, corporations, or other actors are intentionally employing these bots to manipulate the human population for a variety of reasons. In the original post, the idea that bots have displaced human content is described as the “setup”, with the “thesis” of the theory itself focusing on the United States government being responsible for this, stating: “The U.S. government is engaging in an artificial intelligence powered gaslighting of the entire world population.”

They speak the truth, even if they shroud it in a “conspiracy theory” package.

The takeaway: Don’t believe a single narrative you read online. It’s all likely manufactured. The internet is fully compromised territory at this point. It’s only going to get worse with hardline, workable public AI now.

But hey, for us older folks, at least you got to enjoy a time when it wasn’t like this. When they were still training the bots. We saw all of this coming with the stupid Twitter “i hate texting” bot failures, but now the bots don’t have those public failures anymore. Not because they are gone, but because they are too advanced to catch most of the time now. They blend in too easily.

And at least you still have my website. I’m too small to be of any significance, so you know I’m not a bot. They push up their own, but I’ll always be in the background. If this website ever suddenly becomes mainstream, that is when you’ll know I’m compromised. The elites only let the bots and the gatekeepers to the top anymore. The rest of us share our own hidden hierarchy in the shadows.

It is sad but true: The golden era of the internet is over.

But on the bright side: This means you can stop demoralizing yourself by what you see in comments and articles online. Most of it isn’t even real, anyway.