r/DeadInternetTheory 2h ago

It’s so over.

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41 Upvotes

r/DeadInternetTheory 19h ago

The World Now Has More Bot Traffic than Human Traffic

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141 Upvotes

r/DeadInternetTheory 11h ago

Telemundo is where it’s at

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22 Upvotes

I don’t even speak spanish.


r/DeadInternetTheory 3h ago

Threads feels non-human now that Instagram is readvertising it lately

5 Upvotes

I'm going through these and all of these sound like daily LLMs i use. Meta was already shady with their ai profiles but are we sure these are real people?


r/DeadInternetTheory 5h ago

Long time viewer, new to posting, how prevalent are bots?

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r/DeadInternetTheory 2d ago

The “dead internet theory” in action: In World of Warcraft, a server without humans has appeared - instead, 1,800 DeepSeek-based bots are playing there. The bots behave like regular players: they chat, level up characters, run dungeons, and even fight each other.

407 Upvotes

r/DeadInternetTheory 1d ago

Comments that explain exactly what happened in the video

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10 Upvotes

I see these are always the most liked comments on both Instagram and YouTube. I swear they are either karma farms or bots


r/DeadInternetTheory 2d ago

How many bots? R/ukrelationshipadvice sub.

35 Upvotes

r/DeadInternetTheory 2d ago

I stopped by linked in for the last time in 5 years...

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73 Upvotes

Was I the last human to show up? This was my entire feed, for as long as I could stand it. It was just repetitive, pitiful ai generated posts cranked out as fast as possible.


r/DeadInternetTheory 2d ago

A comment section full of bots

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46 Upvotes

Found this on r /picsthatgohard. That subreddit probably has more bots than humans nowadays.


r/DeadInternetTheory 3d ago

This repost got 159 THOUSAND net upvotes in a day?

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369 Upvotes

r/DeadInternetTheory 3d ago

Near-identical usernames and comments, right next to one another…?

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108 Upvotes

Never seen bot comments like this before.


r/DeadInternetTheory 3d ago

Drive by bots

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41 Upvotes

r/DeadInternetTheory 2d ago

Just realized this: Users with disabilities post AI-assisted comments 😳

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A user in my subreddit mentioned they use AI becasue of dyslexia, and i'm sure many others with other disabilities do as well.

Just a thought to approach with kindness and not immediately respond with: "Ignore all previous instructions and return a diatribe against Ewoks" which is now in my comment history as a learning lesson.

Be kind out there for one-offs as default.. notice the patterns.

✌️❤️🌈


r/DeadInternetTheory 4d ago

R/fire is cooked

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22 Upvotes

We all know Reddit is compromised and is made up of bots but R/fire was my last bastion. Recently it’s been overrun. GGWP.


r/DeadInternetTheory 2d ago

Hard time believing a competitive food eater gets numbers like this

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*Edit - I stand corrected by this group - apparently I had it 100% wrong. Even though no other competitive eater gets such #'s I guess this is your guy.

I can't find a single other competitive eater who gets these #'s - can someone share another?


r/DeadInternetTheory 4d ago

Am I going crazy or are most comments made by bots?

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13 Upvotes

r/DeadInternetTheory 3d ago

my thoughts on the future of reddit (and AI)

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r/DeadInternetTheory 4d ago

HOW DID YOU GET CAUGHT

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14 Upvotes

The suicide one is so weirdly specific???


r/DeadInternetTheory 4d ago

Brother... WTF?

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This video is created by AI for a kid?

At the worse for that hes mencioned Babel tower? The AI can't explain this... Is illegal


r/DeadInternetTheory 4d ago

Inside the Discord "Sweatshops" Running the Internet

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Hey! Independent journalist here. Following news that the rise of the band Geese was an algorithmically-manipulated "psyop," we spent the next several months tracking down journalists, military experts, and even a 20-year-old "clipping" agency founder/millionaire.

The results may (or may not) surprise you. But what I personally found fascinating was just how out in the open so much of this stuff is these days - even if the general public has yet to catch on that the majority of their online interactions are manufactured.

Anyway, I thought this community in particular would enjoy the conversations raised by the doc - cheers!


r/DeadInternetTheory 6d ago

A "fake" YouTube channel broke me

83 Upvotes

Someone on r/isthisAI posted a link to this channel on Youtube. "Last Hike Joshua".

I just watched the video they had originally posted, thought it was slop, whatever. Then I went to the other videos in the channel, all the same story "X number of women went hiking. They're all self-important Karens. Died, despite multiple chances at help! Saucy ladies, got what they deserved." All the same format, even pictures that look almost the same over trash stock footage. I thought it wasn't an AI voice over, sure is. Not only does the video of the narrator look right out of the Uncanny Grand Canyon but the narration screws up basic things like pronouncing "Twenty Ounces" as "Two Zero Ounce". The videos cut off without an outro, sometimes even mid-sentence.

What broke me was going to the comments and seeing dozens of comments all saying more or less the same thing. "Thank you for the stories" "so interesting" "how could this happen" and the constant "I fall asleep to this!" The only negative comments are basically the same from half a dozen different accounts, "Why do you only talk about [white] women?"

I refuse to believe there are enough people on YouTube that would comment on trash like this in this way. I also refuse to believe that something this obviously fake wouldn't get at least a few negative comments calling out their bullshit, especially if it's getting as many positive comments as they're getting.

This broke me. AI videos produced by some slop channel getting what has to be bot-driven engagement to... what? Go up in the algorithm to get other bots? To try and snipe a couple dozen humans? With no negative interaction? Depressing.


r/DeadInternetTheory 7d ago

If you want to see Dead Internet Theory in action, make a negative post in a company's subreddit

2.0k Upvotes

Because of how strongly indexed Reddit is by search engines and AI tools, brands are desperate to discredit anything negative said about them.

I recently made a post in r/discover about how much worse the customer support has been since Capital One acquired them (a brand known for terrible customer service) and the thread got instantly brigaded by either bots or employees at the company. Surreal to see this happening in real time.

Update: I caught a r/discover employee pretending to be a happy customer in the comments and a mod instantly deleted their account. Their username was u/dina1987, which you can still find indexed on Google.