Dead Internet Theory is becoming mainstream now. How long will it be until we get AI slop rants about how worthless human content is?
this post was submitted on 04 Jun 2025
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We won't know because it will be AI bots who will be arguing that human content is better than AI
Most humans are too slow, ignorant, passive and apathetic to join in important discussions.
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I mean... how old is 4chan? .../b/?
I was on it mid/late 2000s. I dont know when it was formed, but i was definitelt on it around 06
Edit: The internet says it was launched in 03
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The big tech industry products are like that. There are still small communities which are meaningful, peaceful and friendly.
Take a look at knockout.chat
Oh, that's what the old Facepunch forum evolved into, right? Yeah, that was a really nice place when I last visited, but that was years ago. I just felt like I had grown out of it.
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Yes and no. It's important to remember that people lied and wanted to rage: but it was annonymous and we knew everyone was full of shit so it didn't matter.
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I remember when the internet was only for nerds.. before it was ruined by the high school cool kids and the jocks
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Not sure. I still remember the Great-NetNews-AOL-Hate (aka ‘me-too’) of 1995 :)
/s, I think
Exactly this. Shit I remember when the alt.* tree was added to USENET. The amount of the cabal talk and how the argument actually was: "No, nobody wants to pay to host your racist rants". And some of the worst stuff I see on Reddit today is light-years better than what the Internet was in plain sight back in the day before cracking down on things actually came around.
I'm glad person in the imaged post was happy with the Internet back then, but it was far from "human and genuine". This is absolutely some rose tinted nostalgia. What they miss is small niche communities and this kind of talk is exactly how "get off my lawn" elderly people get started.
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It feels unsustainable, right? Like the value of of this tsunami of advertising has to be inflated, especially with bots/agents taking over traffic. People’s tolerance for junk isn’t infinite. At some point the illusion has to crack, and the advertising bubble will pop and burn the internet/app ecosystems down, hopefully…
Yeah, there has to be a point when they're going to realize that they're hosting bots to advertise to bots, and nobody is going to want to pay for that.
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