Dead Internet hypothesis

The Dead Internet hypothesis is a speculation that most traffic and all or most of the seemingly human-generated content accessible via the Internet, including social media posts and other materials accessible on the world wide web (www), is algorithmically-generated by internet bot scripts and has been so for an unknown period.

Reading

• IlluminatiPirate, et. al. (5 Jan. 2011), Dead Internet Theory: Most of the Internet is Fake, forum.agoraroad.com, https://forum.agoraroad.com/index.php?threads/dead-internet-theory-most-of-the-internet-is-fake.3011/ 
  

  TLDR: Large proportions of the supposedly human-produced content on the internet are actually generated by artificial intelligence networks in conjunction with paid secret media influencers in order to manufacture consumers for an increasing range of newly-normalised cultural products.