It's pretty much just fanfiction for what has painfully obvious and always known: shit gets worse over time until it collapses. The 'dead internet theory' is way more complex and exciting than the mundane truth of this reality.
When the internet was new, all content was original or at least a first occurrence on the net. Since 99.999% of people will never produce anything original, every new person online is just copying something, giving us worse and worse content as we makes copies of copies of copies...
And that's before the internet was even monetized. Once profits start motivating people online this amplifies infinitely. Now, people and companies with no actual desire to host content start creating websites seeking easy profits. And in come the low effort content creation tools and hosting, to allow everyone to quickly publish as much as possible, trying to strike gold.
And while the profit seeking continues in the background, the social media sites come along and turn the internet into a big popularity contest. Now people are doing something even more toxic than just looking for profits, they're hoping to be cool, hoping for personal validation from the masses online. The copy of a copy effect still in full swing.
Add to this the monetization of social media. We now have real people acting like fake people, fake people acting like real people, and fake people acting like fake people trying to trick real people to act like fake people, etc.
I could go on but I'm sure you already get the idea.
I'm not denying that the alphabet groups and corporations heavily manipulate and censor the internet, but in regards to this 'dead internet theory", we'd be stuck with this shitty internet without any help from them.
The only hope there is for the internet is for some brave souls to actually create some original content, or even better create a new medium. With the creation of original forms of content we can reset the chain of making copies of copies, if only for a little while.
There's definitely a lot of bots online, but I think it's more of the 'standard practice of online marketing.'
When it comes to spreading propaganda, and trying to push a consensus, I sadly believe that fewer fake accounts are needed to push herd mentality than one might think.
It's pretty much just fanfiction for what has painfully obvious and always known: shit gets worse over time until it collapses. The 'dead internet theory' is way more complex and exciting than the mundane truth of this reality.
When the internet was new, all content was original or at least a first occurrence on the net. Since 99.999% of people will never produce anything original, every new person online is just copying something, giving us worse and worse content as we makes copies of copies of copies...
And that's before the internet was even monetized. Once profits start motivating people online this amplifies infinitely. Now, people and companies with no actual desire to host content start creating websites seeking easy profits. And in come the low effort content creation tools and hosting, to allow everyone to quickly publish as much as possible, trying to strike gold.
And while the profit seeking continues in the background, the social media sites come along and turn the internet into a big popularity contest. Now people are doing something even more toxic than just looking for profits, they're hoping to be cool, hoping for personal validation from the masses online. The copy of a copy effect still in full swing.
Add to this the monetization of social media. We now have real people acting like fake people, fake people acting like real people, and fake people acting like fake people trying to trick real people to act like fake people, etc.
I could go on but I'm sure you already get the idea.
I'm not denying that the alphabet groups and corporations heavily manipulate and censor the internet, but in regards to this 'dead internet theory", we'd be stuck with this shitty internet without any help from them.
The only hope there is for the internet is for some brave souls to actually create some original content, or even better create a new medium. With the creation of original forms of content we can reset the chain of making copies of copies, if only for a little while.
There's definitely a lot of bots online, but I think it's more of the 'standard practice of online marketing.'
When it comes to spreading propaganda, and trying to push a consensus, I sadly believe that fewer fake accounts are needed to push herd mentality than one might think.