Dead Internet Theory
Dead Internet Theory of Saas Marketing
reddit.com
Cyberspace is a black hole. It absorbs energy and personality. And then represents it as an emotional spectacle. It is done by businesses that commodify human interaction and emotion. And we are getting lost in the spectacle.
— anonymous internet user
Reggie James • Political Expectations
A few years ago, a user by the name of IlluminatiPirate published Dead Internet Theory: Most of the Internet is Fake on the online forum Agora Road’s Macintosh Cafe.1 The theory proposes that the majority of the content with which we engage online is algorithmically generated by bots, all in an effort to control what we believe. I feel obligated to... See more
Gaby Goldberg • Making the Internet Alive Again
In Creating Anonymous Summaries, AI Flattens Out All the Fascinating Architecture of Thought That Makes the Internet Hum
Collin Jenningsaeon.co
the internet complex, with all its tools for individual advancement and branding, is the new, self-serving delusion of the “meshes of power”