"The Dead Internet Theory Is Now Reality"

Do you remember the conspiracy theory that was floating around circa 2021, the Dead Internet Theory? This was pre-ChatGPT. The Dead Internet Theory held that almost all of the behaviour that one could observe on the internet was actually just bots. And at the time, this was completely dismissed as a conspiracy theory. The irony is Reddit itself, if you go back and look at the history, all of the initial postings on Reddit were in some sense faked in order to create the sense of community by the founders of Reddit, and then it accumulated a bit of a community. So there's a historic grain of truth perhaps in that sense, but the dead internet theory is now reality.