government is engaging in an artificial intelligence powered gaslighting of the entire world population.' Is It True?Īs with any good conspiracy theory, there’s elements of truth peppered throughout this one. 'I think it’s entirely obvious what I’m subtly suggesting here given this setup,' IlluminatiPirate wrote on the thread. After all, there needs to be shadowy puppet masters pulling the strings. 'I’ve seen the same threads, the same pics, and the same replies reposted over and over across the years to the point of me seeing it as unremarkable,' IlluminatiPirate said.īehind the death of the Internet are corporations working in conjunction with the government to push propaganda and coerce actual users to purchase products. In January 2021, a user named IlluminatiPirate created a thread on the website titled, 'Dead Internet Theory: Most of the Internet is Fake.' It goes into how much of the Internet is now created and managed by AI, and is filled with bots. One of the more popular posts explaining the theory comes from the online forum Agora Road’s Macintosh Cafe. Rather, most of the 'people' we see online doing things like publishing content, posting social media updates, and commenting are actually bots.

However, this doesn’t mean that the Internet is gone necessarily. This theory states that the Internet as we know it actually died sometime between 20, according to The Atlantic.

A good example of a recent one is the 'Dead Internet Theory.' In between the anti-vaccine and flat Earth diatriabes, conspiracy theorists occasionally come up with interesting and provocative ideas. Not only that, but everything online is generated by bots.

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