I can see the merit of dead internet theory.

[Nothinginparticular]

It's scarily easy to make a realistic computer generated face online.

When I first came across the theory that most of the people online were fake, I figured it was unlikely. But spending more time online and seeing other "conspiracy theories" gain credibility has made me think differently.

I originally thought that people online and gen z were just super retarded and unoriginal, but now I am beginning to wonder if a significant amount of the people online are actually bots and deepfakes. The strange repetitive patterns in speech, seemingly out of context posts, and other things that I assumed were due to stupid autistic people, but may also be due to other deeper factors.

In YouTube, you'll see the same comment get spammed over and over by different accounts with weirdly taken pictures. At first I thought they were just idiots copying each other, but I am starting to see things through a different view.

Also, I've seen the EXACT same quotes and random sentences getting posted on completely unrelated sites, same line of usernames and responses responding to each other, etc.

I don't think anyone knows just how much of the internet may be fake, fabricated, deliberate, or manipulated. I certainly didn't.

Either way, the fact that it's increasingly difficult to tell a bot from a person really says something.

 

[ropemax]

you are schizophrenic

 

[Nothinginparticular]

you are schizophrenic

not quite, I still have a lot of skepticism. I also don't underestimate the bot-like and ignorant nature of autistic people online (likely the origin of dead internet theory observations).

Just pointing out that the theory may have truth.

 

[Deleted member 15778]

Mostly everything is fake.

Google use to have this thing that would say something like "4.5 million results", but if you actually scrolled through the pages, after the first couple pages the results would have nothing to do with what you searched for and if you kept clicking there would only be about 10 or 15 pages and then nothing else. So NOT 4.5 million results as they claimed.

I suspect the global population is very small, maybe a couple million at most. In many places of the world if you leave the few popular cities and places, there's mostly nothing and even empty cities with no cars where you can just run in the road if you want. I've walked through a few of these cities.

I do not know for sure, but I suspect we may be in a very limited simulation with a very limited number of fully simulated people, and many background characters. So, way more than just the internet being fake.

People respond and act robotically in real life, not just online.

But there are other possibilities. One theory that is now banned off youtube (can't find anymore), is that the earth's population is heavily inflated. Every district in China for example get's more money from the government for overinflating their population, and governments appear stronger when they over inflate their population. Websites appear more popular when they overinflate their userbase, and get more investor money, fake accounts are used to push agendas, so from a game theoretic perspective every one has a massive incentive to create fake users and inflate their numbers. Collectively this makes it appear like there's more people, more users, higher population, etc.

How many people are actually online right now? Maybe a few thousand at most. Even in massive news videos I'll see the same few people commenting.

But this isn't something I talk about often because I don't have strong proof and I could be wrong.

 

[Deleted member 16801]

Mostly everything is fake.

this is what happens when you start living only on the internet. touch grass

 

[getra]

Mostly everything is fake.

Google use to have this thing that would say something like "4.5 million results", but if you actually scrolled through the pages, after the first couple pages the results would have nothing to do with what you searched for and if you kept clicking there would only be about 10 or 15 pages and then nothing else. So NOT 4.5 million results as they claimed.

I suspect the global population is very small, maybe a couple million at most. In many places of the world if you leave the few popular cities and places, there's mostly nothing and even empty cities with no cars where you can just run in the road if you want. I've walked through a few of these cities.

I do not know for sure, but I suspect we may be in a very limited simulation with a very limited number of fully simulated people, and many background characters. So, way more than just the internet being fake.

People respond and act robotically in real life, not just online.

But there are other possibilities. One theory that is now banned off youtube (can't find anymore), is that the earth's population is heavily inflated. Every district in China for example get's more money from the government for overinflating their population, and governments appear stronger when they over inflate their population. Websites appear more popular when they overinflate their userbase, and get more investor money, fake accounts are used to push agendas, so from a game theoretic perspective every one has a massive incentive to create fake users and inflate their numbers. Collectively this makes it appear like there's more people, more users, higher population, etc.

How many people are actually online right now? Maybe a few thousand at most. Even in massive news videos I'll see the same few people commenting.

But this isn't something I talk about often because I don't have strong proof and I could be wrong.

Yeah it seems like I’m the only dickhead who plays loud music in traffic, strange.

 

[Deleted member 15778]

this is what happens when you start living only on the internet. touch grass

Yeah it seems like I’m the only dickhead who plays loud music in traffic, strange.

Oh you're that guy!

 

[Deleted member 21620]

It's scarily easy to make a realistic computer generated face online.

When I first came across the theory that most of the people online were fake, I figured it was unlikely. But spending more time online and seeing other "conspiracy theories" gain credibility has made me think differently.

I originally thought that people online and gen z were just super retarded and unoriginal, but now I am beginning to wonder if a significant amount of the people online are actually bots and deepfakes. The strange repetitive patterns in speech, seemingly out of context posts, and other things that I assumed were due to stupid autistic people, but may also be due to other deeper factors.

In YouTube, you'll see the same comment get spammed over and over by different accounts with weirdly taken pictures. At first I thought they were just idiots copying each other, but I am starting to see things through a different view.

Also, I've seen the EXACT same quotes and random sentences getting posted on completely unrelated sites, same line of usernames and responses responding to each other, etc.

I don't think anyone knows just how much of the internet may be fake, fabricated, deliberate, or manipulated. I certainly didn't.

Either way, the fact that it's increasingly difficult to tell a bot from a person really says something.

Been looking into this recently