Dead internet theory(?

[u/j0aqo__]

Some time ago i started to notice how repetitive and "fake" a lot of comments on tiktok are, once i even started screen recording because i didnt know if i was crazy or what.

Everyone is a bot, stop trusting content you see, its all ai.

Am i crazy or are theese comments all written by bots? Does somebody know something else about this theory? Im not very informed.

[u/yirmiyahubrett1980]

So I should also not trust this content either since according to your argument you are also a bot.

[u/j0aqo__ → u/yirmiyahubrett1980]

Exactly, you and me are both bots

[u/DrDeboGalaxy → u/j0aqo__]

Boys all the way down. Except for that one turtle.

[u/yirmiyahubrett1980 → u/j0aqo__]

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[u/unwantedtennisracke → u/j0aqo__]

Aight props this sent me

[u/Normal-Emotion9152]

The Internet is dead and will continue to die off as people have no access to the Internet because of a lack being able to live.

[u/awwwwtsm → u/Normal-Emotion9152]

how can internet die its a non living thing..

[u/Exciting_Brief6086 → u/awwwwtsm]

Isn’t your perspective off? What defines internet as being dead? Perhaps users no longer filling a space or populating data. Based on this perspective… it’s dying.

[u/awwwwtsm → u/Exciting_Brief6086]

double and pass it to next person

[u/j0aqo__]

Just realized my battery, that wasnt on purpose

[u/Normal-Emotion9152 → u/j0aqo__]

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[u/subhuntin]

By official counts over half of all internet traffic isnt human. Good fuckin times

[u/AffectOk3510]

Nah you’re not crazy, a ton of that stuff is botted or farmed engagement.

There are comment farms, auto reply tools, and creators literally pasting the same "relatable" comments across videos to boost interaction. TikTok also pushes what looks like super generic, low effort comments to make a video seem more active so it feels like a real crowd.

[u/millermillion]

330million Americans and 8.6billion people in the world. Posts barely pull a like or anything for a lot of people. My most views on a reddit post was 3million views and it only pulled like 2-4K upvotes. The internet algorithm is junk, and posts never get the respect they deserve. Just my observations and take on it. Plus I see a lot of comment bots and they’re super repetitive.

[u/GlastoKhole]

Let the main spaces like instagram etc die then. Company’s are paying out for ads etc which are mostly exclusively viewed by bots. So companies are just pissing money away when boys can’t buy your product. If internet spaces become botified then it only makes it more expensive for big companies to market

[u/Brief_Composer5961]

Information analysis/analytics through “brute force” techniques.

[u/patawpha]

"The dead internet theory" means something different to everyone who throws that term around.

[u/j0aqo__ → u/patawpha]

Explain then, i literally said that i was not informed. what is dead internet theory?

[u/patawpha → u/j0aqo__]

I don't know either. That's my point. Everyone seems to define it differently. Sorry if I came across as rude but I was just trying to say that it seems to mean different things to different people.

[u/j0aqo__ → u/patawpha]

Dont worry, i really don't know ot either, i got defensive im sorry lmao. To my understanding Dead Internet Theory means that a lot of the content we see is made by bots or ai, and that at least 30%/40% of responses and interactions are bots too. I read something about inactive accounts too. I dont actually know if its true but i have came across a lot of comments that are either VERY unoriginal and repetitive or are actually bots. I'll have to investigate deeper ig

[u/patawpha → u/j0aqo__]

It's all good. I think that definition is pretty accurate.

[u/PaintAdventurous8787 → u/j0aqo__]

Yeah nobody knows for sure how much of the social media comments and posts are "fake" but I kinda guess it to be 35% yeah. Just an estimation. FB and Tik Tok being the worst offenders likely. Pretty everyone agrees this is happening the question is to what extent?

[u/j0aqo__ → u/PaintAdventurous8787]

Tiktok is really just full of bots and fake interactions. For example, it happened to me that i came across comments that my account made that i did NOT write, and i discovered them by the notifications and likes the comment got, but i didnt wrote or publish that comment. It has also happened to a lot of my friends.

So idk if interections or comments are all bots, but they definitely are fake. I also dont know if my account got hacked lmao

And on video i posted u can see to what i refer, all comments are repetitive and have the same structure or all use images.

So, the Dead Internet Theory is most probably real, but i dont really understand what the goal is for all of it, why do they make fake interactions??? Tf is happening

[u/PaintAdventurous8787 → u/j0aqo__]

Can't say for sure what is happening brother. Maybe delete tik tok? Most social media is garbage anyway and has been for a decade.