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Sicko Hunter said:
Bizarre wish fulfillment fantasy fanfiction liberal Redditors are creating where Trump voters who are literally getting exactly what they voted for are actually freaking out and scared of Trump now.
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I don't believe for a second that liberal Redditors are friends with Trump voters either.
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The only right-wingers who are unhappy with Trump right now are the guys who've spent the past eight years calling him "Zion Don." Those guys are definitely not having the scales fall from their eyes as they finally see the beauty of illegal immigration, trans kids, and on-demand abortion.
 
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I was a Teenage “JA”-man said:
Dead internet theory is real, can’t go two seconds on YouTube without some non profile pic user commenting “whos here in 2024”
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Dead internet theory is a cope, some just can't come to terms with the fact that ever since the invention of the smartphone the internet has been slowly but surely been enshittened by normies, and it has been terminally enshittened both in a metaphorical and possibly literal sense ever since a certain subcontinent was given internet access thanks to dirt cheap chinesium smartphones.

There's hundreds of millions of them and yes, they are that retarded. Only based cable eating sharks can save us now.
 
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Justsomecicada said:
Why can’t it be both?. I don’t believe in d as internet theory but Reddit is very clearly not just retards but also bots.
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For dead internet theory to apply it would have to be mostly bot content, not just some or 50-50. Said bot content would also have to dictate the flow of information.

Reddit might be closer to this than most other websites, but I still would not call it an internet zombie, there's plenty of real, human retardation at work too. It's a fucking shit website regardless.
 
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ChromaQuack said:
For dead internet theory to apply it would have to be mostly bot content, not just some or 50-50. Said bot content would also have to dictate the flow of information.

Reddit might be closer to this than most other websites, but I still would not call it an internet zombie, there's plenty of real, human retardation at work too. It's a fucking shit website regardless.
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I’d say the bot content is closer to like 20-30 percent
 
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I’d say the bot content is closer to like 20-30 percent
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I find this hard to believe when posts like this exist.

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Over 110k updoots. With many of the top comments disagreeing with vandalizing random people's vehicles. Buying upvotes isn't hard. Neither is getting a bot to repeat a comment chain.
 
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Remember those secret discords where the kamala harris campaign and DNC-aligned groups allegedly organized massive pro-narrative spam attacks across coordinated subreddits to astroturf public opinion on reddit? Josh covers it in an episode of MATI.

Well an article claiming "Trump probably hates the Eagles" is now being spammed in all Philadelphia-related subreddits in the hopes of getting him obviously booed when he makes an appearance. Really fascinating how much effort goes into petty, pathetic things that don't matter.

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In r/traaaannnsss… a thought exercise forces Reddit trannies to question what is “real” chocolate.

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No, child, you will never be real chocolate.
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“What is a chocolate?” 😅
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A vegan and a tranny:
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Tranny janny SHUT IT DOWN!
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Edit: Had to add this one because it’s just too good.
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lIllllIiiiiLLLLiiiiIIIIll said:
Well an article claiming "Trump probably hates the Eagles" is now being spammed in all Philadelphia-related subreddits in the hopes of getting him obviously booed when he makes an appearance. Really fascinating how much effort goes into petty, pathetic things that don't matter.
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It’s honestly surprising that Clinton the first nigger president and brobama never made appearances at the Super Bowl hell even bush jr chillin with a beer would have been cool. Did their corporate sponsors just not allow it before?
 
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Eventide said:
These foreign bots/foreign glowies. No joke, a significant chunk of Reddit nowadays appears to be really obvious anti-American foreign psy-op bot accounts, with very high karma/zillions of upvotes, despite the majority of said accounts posts being a variation of "Hello fellow American friend, Trump is awful, yes? He is just like the Hitler!"

The only subs that aren't infected with a terminal case of "Dead Internet" are the inconsequential subs dedicated to bullshit like Love Island or the Real Housewives.
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I don't believe in the widespread dead internet theory simply because most people are uniquely retarded and are passionate about stuff without understanding it.
 
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Jared R Mohammed said:
Hasn't Reddit always been a laughing stock, even when compared to Discord?
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Not quite. I'm not exactly an expert on all the major bullet points of their history. I'm going to post stuff that's not in the OP of this thread, and this will be long. I'm trying to get some important info here, with some help from Grok:
  • It was founded in 2005 by Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian while they were still students at UVA.
  • There was no concept of "subreddits" - everything went onto the main page until 2008, when subreddits (their name for sections) were created, letting users create their own communities about their interests.
  • In 2006, they were acquired by Conde Nast, which gave them more money for development, and growth. The real secret sauce to their growth, though...
  • The fall of Digg. It was created in 2004, and was a social news website. People could digg (upvote) or bury (downvote) content. Sounds familiar, right? Well, in 2010, they redesigned their website and got a very poor reception from their users. Many jumped ship to Reddit since, by that point, it was basically what Digg should have been.
  • That isn't to say that Reddit didn't have its faults. One hall of shame moment from early Reddit was the existence and support they had for r/Jailbait - that was a sub made for sharing suggestive or revealing pictures of underage girls. There were other subreddits like that. Hell, even after it got shut down 2011, there was still shit like r/candidfashionpolice (voyeur pictures of women just walking around in the streets), and others that I can't recall off the top of my head. Not everyone was pro r/Jailbait but there was enough defense of it to raise eyebrows. CNN even reported on the subreddit.
  • Over the 2010s, they had other hall of shame moments. You can search r/MuseumOfReddit for that. I like r/askreddit too - that's one sub where to this day, I can still find some decent discussions, like this one where they criticize the democratic party from 17 days ago. Anyways, hall of shame: trying to find the Boston Bomber from 2013 and pinning the blame on the wrong guy. The post that led to the real life tragedy of a woman killing her children out of spite (2016). CarlH, a programmer who seemed nice and had a subreddit called carlhprogramming, which is surprisingly still up. He was found out to be a literal child rapist, making cp of his daughter. Carl Herold killed himself in an alabama jail cell, iirc. Ellen Pao, oh my fucking god, that useless whore of a CEO they had. They had a ton of illegal subreddits until she was gone, like one about shoplifting. r/FatPeopleHate (lol) was banned just before she resigned in June 2015 (she left by July). r/CoonTown was a racist subreddit that didn't die until a month after she was replaced. r/beatingwomen was another one that didn't get banned until she left.
  • The big fuckup from Ellen Pao's time was that she fired Victoria Taylor, the director of talent that managed AMA's ("ask me anything" threads). A lot of users like to say that this is the reason why AMA's are often shit or bland these days.
In spite of all that...there's still a lot of useful threads and the more nuanced takes on why certain people suck. The Joel Osteens, Robert Kiyosakis, Oprah Winfreys, etc. of this world that don't get nearly enough hate imo, get plenty of it on reddit. Over the years, though, big subreddits got radicalized and numerous of them became blatant lefty circlejerks. r/AdviceAnimals was embarrassing during the election last year. Fucking embarrassing, they were eating up a lot of Kamala's shit campaign. r/HobbyDrama used to be a favorite of mine, with threads that were as informative as well done OPs on here. r/Argentina feels like one of the few places were you can criticize lefty politics in the country, whereas other subs (hi, worldnews) have very silly "let me tell you about your country" energy when it comes to the country. It's not without its flaws, they also like to get stupidly edgy on that subreddit.

That brings up another plot point to reddit's story: the banning of r/The_Donald in 2020. Explicitly, it was banned due to breaking rules on harassment and bullying, so in theory they'd fall under the same umbrella as r/fatpeoplehate - Reddit was also cracking down more on hate speech, and had updated their content policy that year, leading to the ban of 2000 subreddits.

As we reach 2025, we can see the current Reddit moderation slapping r/whitepeopletwitter on the wrist, even though they have been caught straight up wishing and cheering on the idea of murdering people they don't like. This site has become a clusterfuck, as you can tell. On the other hand coomers love Reddit, and it's not hard to see why, there's a lot of subs for them to choose from. And they don't have to worry about being astroturfed with politics in most of those subs.

Hell, some subreddits are basically like Kiwifarms threads. Let's Talk Bam reminds me of our Bam Margera thread. r/SamandTolki was basically a gaming lolcow thread, mainly about Narcissa Wright and Boogie before its ban. It can be a very informative and fun site. Finding those comfy subs may have gotten harder, though.
 
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Verpa Teutonica Ingens said:
The Dead Internet Theory is 200% real if you count flesh bots as well.
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I saw a video the other day and it helped me really understand how sports betting relates to NPCs and it helped me understand them better. Many people don't understand the concept of expected value and would actually abandon a process which gave them favorable odds of success at the slightest obstacle.
 
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