Dead Internet Theory
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Dead Internet Theory is a recurring concept in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between July 22, 2022 and March 18, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “people buy into things like Dead Internet Theory”; ““haven’t you heard of Dead Internet Theory?!”“. It most often appears alongside 2020 election, 2022 book review contest, 2122.
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- Category: Concepts
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: July 22, 2022
- Last seen: March 18, 2024
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
Of course people buy into things like Dead Internet Theory. Of course everyone’s flailing about, falling into rabbit holes that get more and more bizarre. Conspiracy theories are modern myths, blooming in the fertile soil of the spectacle. The mainstream news itself is little more than ceaseless conspiracy-mongering at this point. Look at the parade the last few years - Russiagate, Pizzagate, COVID, 2020 election, Jan. 6th… Whatever you might think about those highly controversial topics, many millions of people vehemently disagree with you. They live in an alternate universe. Many millions of other people agree with whatever your stance is - but for reasons so insane and illogical that they also inhabit a totally different reality.
Inline links: Dead Internet Theory, modern myths,
4: Comment of the week - sort of, kind of, in a terrible warning type of way - is this Reddit thread on an AI-generated reading of my recent poem Verses On Five People Being Killed By A Falling Package Of Foreign Aid. The commenters first “discover” that the poem must be written by an AI (because it has bullet points!), and then that “it is clear as day” that “at least half” of ACX commenters are AIs. If you want a vision of the future, imagine a bunch of people all accusing each other ad infinitum of being AIs (“haven’t you heard of Dead Internet Theory?!”), while the actual AIs serve ads to them in the background.