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Dead internet theory
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this post was submitted on 08 Dec 2025
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Me in 2006: "Guys I'm worried about the internet."
"Why? The internet is great. It's Youtube and funny cat videos and Newgrounds and stuff."
"Yeah but it's a wide open propaganda hole with no restrictions. Eventually someone's gonna take advantage of that."
"Like who?"
"I dunno, Russia? China?"
and everyone did the opposite of clapped, everyone laughed.
I am guilty of this.
It turns out “self healing” is no match for attention optimization.
Come on in. The bullshit's fine.
The joke is thinking it took Russia and China to take advantage of it.