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The Dead Internet Theory
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I can't remember the video I saw it in but there was a Google search for pizza and they got 2 billion results. Can someone give a logical explanation as to what happened to generate that? Their is only iirc 112 pages. Is it just something tangential to pizza that gets lumped in.
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There is literally nothing you can post on 4chan that won't get you dogpiled by a bunch of bitter, angry coomers who spend their entire day watching cuck porn. It's just not fun and there's zero actual discussion there, so why go? At least with Reddit you can have fun making them piss and shid because they deserve it, but on 4chan you just get the feeling that these are broken human beings who are one bad day away from roping.
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Saw this earlier. I wondered if this has any sort of relevant. As it is the same type of situation. Maybe this goes further than some malignant group of disinformation? Maybe some sort of A.I has been unleashed on the web and we dont know of it and this is an accidental slip up.
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I have a feeling that sites like 4chan have geographical or some other type of user segregation. When you visit a site you might visit website A, and someone else is on website B, you will see different content and users.
When I was shilling stuff on reddit, I just copied comments from one subreddit to another to farm karma. You can literally just shuffle meanings and phrases to make new comments and nobody would notice. This is what click farms did when Facebook and Youtube became mainstream, and this was over 15 years ago. With some scripts I could imagine someone did a decent comment scraper that looks pretty legit.
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Wouldn't that be pretty easy to prove via TOR, VPN, archives not matching up, or plain old comparing with online "friends" who live on another continent?
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Might be sorting by screen resolutions, OS, web browser, maybe even by the VPN brand itself etc. There are many ways to create finger prints of users and track their habits and start segregating them by their IRL identity. Just your keystrokes on your keyboard can give away who you are.
But nobody (as a group) has done such an investigation by having IRL people just going there and compare the posts completely independently.
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All social media addicts are cringe regardless age.
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New video from The Linux Experiment about this very theory. His consensus: it's all about making a quick buck from advertising and clueless boomers. He fumbles a bit on bot posts on sites and leaves it as a crackpot theory with only a brink of truth.
In other words, I don't think it's a really good take.
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The 'cuck gets views because it's a porn dump. It's slow because most people who have things to say get deterred by all the schizos and spammers who abuse the 'cuck's anonymity. I could improve the 'cuck if I had enough money to buy it from Hiro, but one of the big ways to improve it would be to do a Codename:V and rangeban the entire regions the spammers live in -- that would make it unusable to people unfortunate enough to live in those ranges.
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"Conspiracy theory" my ass. Then again what you expect from Leftispedia?
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It's about 3 years old, but here's a good vid on it:
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I got my own version of the theory. I believe people use many accounts over their internet lives. I do it too I had gone by many names
You see there's a cartoon furry artist whos called 2oonscap3 I watch on fa. he's a bit fetishy, but it's normie-friendly enough to be a today's pick on deviantart. So, I found out he was also going by another name that was now deleted off fa, I don't want him doxxed, so I'll keep it there, but that made furaffinity smaller for me and made me feel small too. I always wondered why I keep coming across talented artists who just signed upp and that might be it, duplicate accounts by folks who abandoned their past identities
Here's another one, xptzstudios had gone by other usernames on both deviantart and furaffinity before settling for xptzstudios.
You see there's a cartoon furry artist whos called 2oonscap3 I watch on fa. he's a bit fetishy, but it's normie-friendly enough to be a today's pick on deviantart. So, I found out he was also going by another name that was now deleted off fa, I don't want him doxxed, so I'll keep it there, but that made furaffinity smaller for me and made me feel small too. I always wondered why I keep coming across talented artists who just signed upp and that might be it, duplicate accounts by folks who abandoned their past identities
Here's another one, xptzstudios had gone by other usernames on both deviantart and furaffinity before settling for xptzstudios.
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Was reminded of this theory again when somebody a bit of posted this video. Showing Destiny going into fake users on YouTube and Twitter. The most shocking bit being where he's sent a court document with the wrong font used for U.S. court documents by an account only created an hour ago with the e-mail "4destiny@gmail.com".
Looking at the original stream. I found a segment where Destiny looks at a climate conference. Here's the original video.
Note how all the commenters use similar language; not replying to each other's comments. People don't communicate on YouTube like this...
Now, if I do a Google of this conference. I get results from supposedly real websites.
Their about page
Let's look at Elgar Welch in particular. That hair... that looks A.I. generated. Can't be real.
Let's look at another site documenting this same conference.
They have many, many pictures documenting their IRL doings. But why so low rez? And look at this picture, that woman in the red shirt, something's off with her fingers...
It's like this for every website documenting this supposed "conference". Not a single well-known news organization like BBC or NBC has covered this.
This organization even has followers on YouTube! With zero views...
Let's look at some of this man's other uploads. Here we have a video of him talking about the fears of The Orthodox Church's suppression of his climate change activist group.
Why does he look ever-so-slightly different? It's the same account, supposedly the same guy. Let's compare.
It's as if the AI tried to create the same man twice during two separate sessions...
I could keep going. There's hundreds of guys like this, all following and paying attention to this climate activism group.
Looking at the original stream. I found a segment where Destiny looks at a climate conference. Here's the original video.
Now, if I do a Google of this conference. I get results from supposedly real websites.
Their about page
Let's look at Elgar Welch in particular. That hair... that looks A.I. generated. Can't be real.
Let's look at another site documenting this same conference.
They have many, many pictures documenting their IRL doings. But why so low rez? And look at this picture, that woman in the red shirt, something's off with her fingers...
It's like this for every website documenting this supposed "conference". Not a single well-known news organization like BBC or NBC has covered this.
This organization even has followers on YouTube! With zero views...
Let's look at some of this man's other uploads. Here we have a video of him talking about the fears of The Orthodox Church's suppression of his climate change activist group.
Why does he look ever-so-slightly different? It's the same account, supposedly the same guy. Let's compare.
It's as if the AI tried to create the same man twice during two separate sessions...
I could keep going. There's hundreds of guys like this, all following and paying attention to this climate activism group.
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>Open tweet
>First 25 replies are onlythots bots and completely unrelated submissions meant to generate money
>Somewhere 3 pages down is a simple honest reply
If you haven't quit twitter at this point you never will. It's literal trash.
>First 25 replies are onlythots bots and completely unrelated submissions meant to generate money
>Somewhere 3 pages down is a simple honest reply
If you haven't quit twitter at this point you never will. It's literal trash.
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Social media at a minimum is a cesspit of AI/bots now. My Twitter account is endlessly spammed with rando follows from bot accounts and my facebook feed is almost entirely bot/ai jibberish inter spread with the most bizarre advertising.
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It's not even worth having any commonly used social media accounts anymore and it hasn't been for years, all the content in this day and age is either complete slop, woke nonsense or bots that aren't even being altered to try fit in. Dead Internet 100% isn't a theory anymore and is completely proven fact, look at the absolute garbage being milled out into more commonly used search engine results as another prime example
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I want to give a big shoutout to Pseudiom: his channel is super underrated. He does deep-dive video essays akin to Frederik Knudsen or EmpLemon. I've seen his video on Dead Internet Theory, and thought he did a great job.
Here's the problem with people who refer to it as a "conspiracy theory": I don't think anyone is literally saying that the internet is 100% "dead" or totally overrun with bots -- but rather, the general idea is that the majority of the internet is bot traffic. And by majority, I don't mean something ridiculous like 90% of the internet is dead -- but that there's a larger amount of bot traffic/AI spam vs. real users. It could be 55-45, it could be 60-40 with bots being the majority. Who knows. One thing's for certain, is that it's fucking annoying and counterproductive for shills like Wikipedo to automatically dust it off as a mere "conspiracy theory", since that was done deliberately with malice in order to lump Dead Internet Theory with dubious crackpot theories like flat earth, chemtrails, etc. By labeling it as that, it raises a red flag from normies and skeptics, and instead makes it seem as if it's Qanon schizo-LARPing for a person to be concerned with increased bot traffic and AI spam.
I'm not a Qtard, I believe the earth is round, and we definitely put men on the moon -- but I'm also longing for the days when my social media and search results weren't full of uncanny garbage.
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