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[overgeeked]

Reddit is so filled with bots that once the mods of r/wholesomememes stopped allowing bots, the sub died. It took 2 days for there to be any human posts on a sub with 17 million users. Well “users.”

 

[trappedslider]

Reddit is so filled with bots that once the mods of r/wholesomememes stopped allowing bots, the sub died. It took 2 days for there to be any human posts on a sub with 17 million users. Well “users.”

more proof of the dead internet theory

 

[Ryujin]

Reddit is so filled with bots that once the mods of r/wholesomememes stopped allowing bots, the sub died. It took 2 days for there to be any human posts on a sub with 17 million users. Well “users.”

Bots replying to bots. I often listen to people reading stuff from r/maliciouscompliance, and similar channels. The number of bot readers has skyrocketed and more, and more stories have the sort of grammatical errors that I attribute to AI.

 

[overgeeked]

Bots replying to bots. I often listen to people reading stuff from r/maliciouscompliance, and similar channels. The number of bot readers has skyrocketed and more, and more stories have the sort of grammatical errors that I attribute to AI.

A system of bots interlinked within bots interlinked within bots interlinked...

 

[CleverNickName]

I'm sure it's fine. Nothing to worry about at all. It'll all work out, somehow, and when it magically does we will all feel silly for ever worrying about it in the first place. (nervous laugh) Anyway, let's talk about investment opportunities and other, less scary stuff! Heh.

 

[Scribe]

Reddit is so filled with bots that once the mods of r/wholesomememes stopped allowing bots, the sub died. It took 2 days for there to be any human posts on a sub with 17 million users. Well “users.”

You can really see the decline since 2018-ish. Its bad all around.

 

[overgeeked]

You can really see the decline since 2018-ish. Its bad all around.

It's wild that within a generation we went from worrying about Big Brother spying on us to paying for the privilege of being spied on. From keeping things private and personal to freely plastering just about every detail of daily life on the web.

 

[Scribe]

It's wild that within a generation we went from worrying about Big Brother spying on us to paying for the privilege of being spied on. From keeping things private and personal to freely plastering just about every detail of daily life on the web.

Unfortunately we cannot talk about that without getting a vacation from this site.

 

[Ryujin]

A system of bots interlinked within bots interlinked within bots interlinked...

See how much time and effort they save us?

 

[trappedslider]

You can really see the decline since 2018-ish. Its bad all around.

The dead Internet theory is an online conspiracy theory that asserts that the Internet now consists mainly of bot activity and automatically generated content manipulated by algorithmic curation to intentionally manipulate the population and minimize organic human activity. The date given for this "death" is generally around 2016 or 2017