THROWBACK THURSDAY ALERT!
The Article below contains one of my favorite topics in recent coverage (I say “recent loosely because this is from JANUARY of this year. IT BARELY (and TBH it’s a stretch) falls into the TBT category but- A. It is extremely relevant in this day and age of ragebait, engagement farming, PSY OPS, and general dissention on social media/the internet and B. It is an interesting topic in and OF itself.
So I ALWAYS LOVE TO PUT PEOPLE onto this subject. In an age of “If you aren’t paying for the product YOU are THE PRODUCT” it is important to be aware of these things and how they can manipulate you. So as mentioned the below is dated from JANUARY and it has NOTICABLY gotten simultaneously worse and more prevelant. You see it EVERYWHERE! and it is EXTREMELY likely that you are pray to it, so take this ALL INTO ACCOUNT the next time you get drawn into a comment section argument…….it is more likely than not that they are infact not real……..
“In 2013 THE TIMES report that Youtube traffic consisted of an estimated 50% bots…..”- WHYFILES
Now here we are….in 2025…….and THE NUMBERS ARE GETTING WORSE as well. Have you noticed? I’m sure you have. Ever seen comment section arguments that keep going back and forth? needless trolling?
Dead Internet theory is defined as:
theory that asserts, due to a coordinated and intentional effort, the Internet since 2016 or 2017 has consisted mainly of bot activity and automatically generated content manipulated by algorithmic curation to control the population and minimize organic human activity.
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This Topic has been covered by How-to-Geek, The why files (for the record I do not consider this credible because its made for entertainment), FORBES, and if you goto google the topic you’ll get things calling it a conspiracy (suggesting there isn’t much merit to the theory despite the evidence continuously emerging on the subject). PSYCHOLOGYTODAY.com even has something to be said about it
It’s nuts and people are divided on the legitimacy of it. Although when you read things like what is covered in the video below is seems to be more present than you would expect, or at the very least if not now then soon…..
I want to respond to this video firstly by saying this– Here’s a link to the referenced article (here). I also want to say….Ho.. ly.. Sh**
People have been talking about this for years and if it hasn’t been true it is now. Shoot, they don’t even want to hide this anymore. With traffic down they can absolutely pad the numbers with all their phony BS nonsense– How insane.
It’s bad enough going into a comment section as it is and now all the trolling will be getting worse (people see the benefit to rage bating these days……..Rage clicks are an unethical yet monetary thing)
