Its kinda like the MGS2 ending isnt it? except its not about helping but about control
The internet was a huge destabilizing force for the information establishment. Their new meme is that we're living in a "post-truth" world but thats been business as usual since forever, just look at any newspaper from decades ago and see them shill things we now know are 100% bullshit propaganda which years later gets debunked but by then normalfags dont care and are too busy eating the new bullshit propaganda
But the real problem is that the internet took the information monopoly away from the establishment and we cant have that no sir! The dead internet theory its not so crazy after you take a look at the massive panic that was trump getting elected. Until then the establishment had been slow to react to the internet fucking it in the ass, old media had been reluctant to change thinking that its a fad and as millennials get older they would go back to newspapers, but then boomers switched to the internet, and when trump got elected the writing was on the wall
What you got to understand is that old media is part of the establishment apparatus, you never got to grow beyond a zine or a tabloid at best if you truly went against it. But the internet changed that, and social media indirectly poured gasoline into that fire as a side effect of their greed for clicks
However the key factor is internet becoming more retarded, it has made the job of the establishment way easier. 4chan likes to brag but 99.9999% of the content there are memes and short shitposts not unlike twitter and thats dead-easy to emulate by a bot. Even the best GPT-3 AI wouldnt be able to post the kind of forum discussions that happened in the old days, not without making some major mistakes that would give it away as a bot
Back in the day shitposts were more elaborate, and even retardposts like the
"I like halo he kill aliens" were made by people who were socially retarded but could still figure out a browser. Normalfags only got online when smartphones butchered the web into a bunch of apps that have no learning curve whatsoever
Right now I assume every fpbp/op is a faggot/random pepe/gigachad post on 4chan and every gif post of an annoying nigger or kpop gook on twitter are made by bots, its just so fucking easy to automate it and you cant really tell the difference because the bar is so low odds are it could be an actual person
But my point is this:
the internet is dead not just because of bots but because the vast majority of people on it are so fucking retarded and influenciable now that any spook or megacorp can easily steer them to do whatever they want, FOR FREE
I remember back in 2016, after the election of trump, a document was leaked that discussed how Share Blue and other liberal think tanks were going to divide Trumps supporter base in light of his success. Among them were things like saying he abandoned them, discrediting all his accomplishment and using all of his compromises as weaknesses, and saying that Trump didn’t actually represent modern right wing ideology. There were other tactics in there too, like banning conservative hubs and disenfranchising websites using financial tools. It’s scary how accurate that document was in retrospect. I remember laughing at it, saying to myself “this is absurd. We’ve won. The election of trump is going to start a new age of conservatism”. Looks like we were playing checkers while they were playing chess
Got a link to that document? the only similar thing I seen is that nyt article were some cunt said they literally lied about everything to get der sniffer elected
Perhaps the real bots were the e-girls we met on the interwebz.
Looking at the amount of millennial troons I'm now convinced that every single girl who wanted to cybersex on habbo hotel was actually a guy
