The 'Dead-Internet Theory'

Re:The 'Dead-Internet Theory' by kunagi7 on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @11:15AM (#28380883)

It doesn't feel that detached from reality. I watch a lot of small YouTube channels (some of them don't even reach 100 subscribers) and their comments are flooded by bots. Channel owners remove them quickly though.

Some of them post random timestamps like "i like your video 23:34", "love u 5:49" (but the video is just 2 minutes long), other bots just spam every conversation with the same video links. There's a few that are a bit more advanced that attempt to use video's metadata as a response. On twitter there's a lot of fake activity too.

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Re:The 'Dead-Internet Theory' by Saptarishi on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @02:44PM (#28384002)

Often such accounts posting random bait-ish comments are accompanied by a profile picture of a semi or completely nude woman. Many unsuspecting souls will naturally click

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Re:The 'Dead-Internet Theory' by chunkyks on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @02:23PM (#28383711)

Those may be bible references, not timestamps?

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Re:The 'Dead-Internet Theory' by 0des on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @02:36PM (#28383891)

There is no biblical wisdom to be found in obscure tech tutorial videos. Only pain.

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Re:The 'Dead-Internet Theory' by eloeffler on Thursday September 02, 2021 @02:20AM (#28389204)

I've also never heard of the book of video or the book of u :D

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