"Dead Internet Theory" is as good a term as any for the enshittification of the internet. I mean fucking hell. Homogeneity and inauthenticity are taking over. A great book, A Canticle for Leibowitz, called this "The Simplification" where ignorance becomes a virtue. Are we there yet?

The r/UFOs sub is becoming a corporate messaging platform for the Disclosure Movement economy. It's mostly astroturfing at this point imo and I suspect multiple socks are manufacturing interest for their content. TikTok and YT are deemed primary sources and - weirdest of all - memories evaporate every 48 hours. Google returns searches to sketchy sources so everything's becoming a circular shitshow. Some of the bigger X accounts have low engagement and massive follower numbers.

Business. As the monetization of internet took over most creators look for that. Before you could really earn with e.g. youtube people uploaded what they're passionate enough about to do it for free. The reward was engaging others. Now the reward is clickbaiting more views and covering bigger market. Not showing off niche.

I used to love scrolling through YouTube and watching the various videos that popped up. But now it just seems like it’s the same content creators that I get shown and nothing new. It’s boring and I’m becoming more and more inclined to just skip BoobTube and Faceplant entirely.

Okay but... What does this have to do with UFOs?

That’s because it’s only you in here 😉

you're not alone. I'm glad I'm old enough to remember the weirder and wilder days of the internet of the 90s/00s. yeah, it was slow and clunky, but i think it was also a lot cooler.

Exactly the type a post a modern bot would make! 🤔

In my experience, my google searches seem sterilised.

I used to love to go and visit the more esoteric links to a topic but these are disappearing.

I've seen this post at least 5 times now. The internet is dead.

I agree with you. For example, when our kids were young (15-20 years ago), you could search for health related information and there were many sites where parents and family discussed similar problems and presented solutions that did not necessarily require running to the doctor. Now, all you get is WebMD, or similar, spouting all the same info and encouraging running to the doctor for everything. A total lack of useful information. The same goes for nearly every other subject from home building to UFOs. Information is much more locked down now. And much less informative.

The Internet “of things” may possibly be reaching the lowest common denominator. In the beginning only those affiliated with higher ed schools, research institutes, military (internet was created by DARPA.) etc., were mostly “smart” users. In the last two decades as it became cheaper and more and more people were easily absorbed into the net, it’s just become more commonplace to reflect the opinions and wishes of a broader user base. Basically it’s the dumbing down of the internet by a very broad user base.

I can’t tell if op is a bot or not.

Ever since Elon Musk took over Twitter i felt that way.

If you Google something you get like 5 AI pages that just list shit redittors say about that topic 

AI.

Hilariously ironic coming from a bot account

OP is a bot

Do I need to google what the dead internet theory is or will it also send me down a rabbit hole? What is this theory?

They killed the internet because they could not control it, so they ruined every single thing what made it interesting.

Its all cooperate now,

The whole internet is just ads, and stealing all your data

I don't trust this post. The vibe's way too AI.

Dead internet theory has been real and constant for over 5 years. The needle is barely moving now. Wake up.

FFS There are like... six sites left, and all are curated with regard to conversing.

We need to develop a new protocol for Internet usage. One that can be more discriminate against bots and AI.

I wouldn’t mind seeing one person per username. One username per internet usage.

We’re seeing the consequences of unlimited anonymity.

It's because we're desensitized and the government is starting to push the same material conspiracy theorists have been for many years that people are just over it.

It’s also the Algorithm making it feel stale, always pushing what it thinks will make you click, not what you need…I find leaving a platform and just running somewhere else refreshes things for awhile until the Algorithm ruins it too…

I'm having a hard time with this lately, and have been talking about it to see if anyone else has experienced it! It's like I don't know how to find information anymore without it being the same websites promoted each time or just the same sources.

I'm not saying it's anything to do with UFOs though, closer to Idiocracy with the advertising

I recently had a post on the Explain it Peter subreddit where I explained a meme that Reddit said had 1400 upvotes and 1.1M views. I’ve heard that subreddit is really an AI training model to teach AI to understand Memes that it doesn’t and with that ratio I believe it.

Makes you wonder how much else of Reddit activity is really AI.

I just see it less and less common for people to think independently. Topics inevitably divide into camps and anyone who makes a comment that one side might agree with is automatically assumed to hold the most extreme positions by the other side. It kills balanced conversation and silences the majority. It creates fertile ground for bots to share things that will be accepted unquestionably.

I’ve noticed. Specifically on threads. I feel like that app is some weird experiment. I see the exact same posts over and over. I had to delete

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Oh ya bots are everywhere. We will have to rebuild what once was great. Like always. Then billionaire bastards will buy it and ruin it. Rinse and repeat. Don’t get me started on streaming services that are now identical to network tv in the sheer volume of commercials 🙄

we are arguing with bots pushing agenda's

Ad internet is what I would call

You're definitely not imagining it.

Maybe the one in English 

I'm on the Brazilian internet and it's glorious 

Its not that humans don’t use it. The human share of content is being swallowed by AI at an accelerating rate. I dont see how it gets any better from here.

YouTube doesn’t seem as interesting like it used to be

Pretty much yes

Cyberpunk 2077 lore had a similar thing happen. A.i took over the Web to the point, we had to cut ourselves a tiny slither of the main net. Cut off the a.i's to roam the main. Then world stagnated because we couldn't push further in technology because the Internet became a rogue a.i cyberspace highway that'd melt anything "ganic" it comes close too. 

Check out david icke and mark passio. Their work will explain .

The internet is going to be boggeddown so muchwith ai and bots that the onlyway for you to function on it you'll need your digital ID. Everyone will need their digital ID to prove their real. You'll need it to log in. Even though things will get worse and worse, the people will all love it and want to get it.

51% of internet traffic is bots per GROK ai I can’t share the pic but I have the exact question I asked and that is the response. DM me and I’ll share exactly what I asked

This is what I asked GROK Answer was 51%

Give me an accurate answer or as much as possible for the following. Please pull from All available sources. No off the cuff answers. What percentage within a 5% margin of error could be considered bots or AI traffic on the internet. These would include comments, profiles, purchases etc. all traffic that is high likely hood to be non human controlled directly

the funny part is that this post was probably AI generated too

Wish I could spill everything I know, but what is all ready known is pretty accurate, big data is big money, AI needs it to further itself, humans take time to recreate and get on the internet and start supplying data, they've tried to flood all platforms with bots to synthesize data but it didn't really work with the models they had at the time (Meta AI). The monopolies of the internet have won, it's just another corporate platform that grew way too quick and unregulated for their liking, they couldn't control it completely like they did with TV and Radio so they had to destroy it and make it extremely hard to verify or expose it. There is more bots then human users within the entirety of the internet, it's been this way for a long time even before AI due to advertising and numbers, think early YouTube videos that people got paid purely from views, yep, anyone big or anyone that popped off with overnight success more then likely paid for views/likes/subscriptions, I know this for a fact as I was responsible for creating some of the things used in this world and are still used, just at an even bigger and more complex scale. I could sit here and type a whole damn book about this and I feel I should as I am partly responsible but even without me, it would of happened.

Is the internet I see what you see? I get the feeling that even the most core "guest" level of public websites differ. We need to get a dozen nor 30 odd people in a room together and get experimentin'. Each person will be issued a new computor that has no cookies, no history, no prior usage. These computors would be total clones at the hardware and software level. The people need to be way different, so we need caucasians, asians, morbidly orbese, pre-teens, teenyboppers, and maybe a dog? No clones in my aquarium is what i'm all about yall. And then the testing begins. everyone will surf the same sites and look for the big kahuna. will reddit have an entirely different cast of characters? will the stories and memes track?

Migra pra deepweb or darkweb.