I only frequent like 5 websites these days, and the content gets old real quick. This was less of a problem when I used social media but social media is bad for my mental health. Yes I could go outside but its cold and it makes my back ache.
What cool underground websites do you frequent?
lol dead internet theory was just a dumb creepypasta/conspiracy shower thought until the AI tech stuff that came out this year.
unless you look at it via a Marxist lens, then it was dead since 2007.
You're greatly underestimating software
2/3s of internet traffic from bots
Lots of articles on many websites (especially financial news) are Markov Chain text generation as a template with the better ones using edited GPT-2/3 outputs
what happened in 2007?
YT Twitter Facebook Reddit all launched between 2004-06.
The iPhone released in the summer of 2007. I've always thought the internet drastically changed after that happened. The internet stopped being a thing you'd sit down and do as its own thing, instead it became an integrated aspect of everything you do.
woah I think it took a few years to really spread to the deeper corners of the old internet but yeah that feels like about when it happened to me (I exclusively phone hacking forums, read star wars speculation forums, guitar shit, and a few video game forums in my internet-as-its-own-thing time in 2007)
The internet actually died September 1993 after you could use it at home and after new people started using it all the time. Used to be you could wrangle and teach the new comers proper netiquette but after that, no one could manage them. The Eternal September (September used to be the bad month because that's when a new crop of college students would log on for the first time and the internet would be shitty for a bit).
wake me up when september ends
I mean obviously Dead Internet Theory is dumb bullshit invented by terminally online manbabies. Look at the wording. I didn't say it is real, I said it feels real.
It also doesn't help that a lot of the "underground" content is also horribly bigoted and actively trying to stay underground so they can continue their bigotry unchallenged.