By Joshua Tyler | Being published
Despite all the initial ridicule focused on nerds hiding in their mother’s basement only on the Internet, the web has always been and still is a form of social communication. The first applications of the Internet were things like e-mail groups and kenets. Later, bulletin boards became popular and people used them to build whole communities, make new friends, and form new groups with like-minded people.
Social media made communication more accessible to the less technologically inclined, but it did not take away the idea of the Internet as a social system. That’s what it’s always been.
All social media was open to people who were not organized enough to use a computer to participate in the already social Internet. Social media took off so much that it overwhelmed all other forms of Internet Socialization to become the dominant platform.
Now it’s over. Social media is dead, and so is its true, shining purpose: to connect people.
Economics is a farm and its resources
Originally, social media was a place where people talked to other people. Now it’s a place where people go to see robots talking to each other.
Dead Internet view (n.) – The hypothesis that claims that most of the work on the Internet, including comments, news, and communication of social media, is no longer produced by Systems, suggests the Web, which reflects real life where there were voices and where there were voices.
Log in to your Social Media Platform of choice. Check your feed. The algorithm is likely to use these three types of posts.
- Type 1: Involved Farmers
Engagement farmers are accounts held by companies or groups, usually in India or Pakistan. They use hundreds or thousands of low-paid workers to imitate a real person.
The purpose of this account is not to meet or communicate with others because they are not people. Instead, they should post content that will increase the number of views given by the algorithms in pursuit of profit.
Sometimes, their content is generated by AI. YouTube, in particular, is now full of this content, and human creators are in trouble as their content ideas where YouTube promotes robot-slop.
Often, the content of the engagement farmer is stolen from the human-made content. Ironically, the content they stole from real people was often buried by the same algorithm that now promotes it. Algorithms choose to promote engagement with farmers over real people, because they deliver a higher volume of engaging content than any single person could.
- Type 2: Marketing bots pretending to be human
Corporate Amerimeria has long used fake accounts to promote its products, but with the rise of AI, that practice has been dialed up to eleven. Social Media is now flooded with fake accounts whose sole purpose is to spread the good news of some bad app, movie, or new product.
Comments are full of these, and the average person tends to mistake these for being natural posts for real people, but they aren’t.
The result of the Net is that it is now impossible to see what people are really like. It doesn’t matter how bad the movie is, you will see nothing but comment on how amazing it was. It doesn’t matter if the worst McDonald’s food can get, you’ll always see posts about how great Mcrib is back.
Algorithms still promote posts from famous people. Technically, these are real people, but they are not ordinary people. The senders do not make any kind of social communication with other people; Instead, they spread their fame or opinion. But the purpose of their posting is not social.
Worse, most popular social media users have secret sponsors who pay them to say the right things. Influencer marketing is big business, and big agencies make billions of dollars paying “real people” you like “to handle like all the other robots.”
This has been attacked and taken over by communities like reddit. There, celebrities are the hosts, and are often treated in organizations whose influence is limited by what users are allowed to see.
Where are the real people?
You’d think you’d get answers from real people in comments or replies, but that’s all checked by algorithms, too. So, the same three types of people dominate your feed and feature prominently in the comments. To get answers made by real people, you will have to be held down in the mind of the world. It’s impossible.
People are still posted on social media, but it’s an empty building. Even though I follow hundreds of real people on my X account, I never see them on my profile. Instead, I see posts from bots and farmers I didn’t follow.
To find what the people I want to post mean, I would have to physically type in their account addresses and manually match them to their accounts. Nobody does that.
Many people think that if they don’t see posts from people who follow you, it’s because those people haven’t said anything interesting. That is not what is happening at all. What happens is that instead of making posts that had to compete with the attention of thousands of posts made by other people, now your posts have to compete against special robots designed to create dopamine addiction.
dopamine (n.) – Neurochemical currency of expectation and reward, released from the brain to make the pleasure feel received, the motivation seems to be seen as a goal, and the bad habits are unstoppable; It is a molecule that tricks people into chasing a sense of progress and not progress itself.
Communities are no longer formed
In the days of message boards, friendships were made and communities were formed. Internet users form real and lasting bonds. Now you can’t even find that on dating apps, which can be nothing more than apologetic echo chambers where the top 10 percent of people are dating for physical pleasure.
It is impossible to create a community of real people on the modern Internet, because real people are not allowed to see other real people there. He talks to AI bots and a few cubicle workers from India who are trained to pretend their name is roon and send things from the script generated by the AI chief.
In the early days of the Internet, it was common for couples to agree to meet on a dating app, message board, or through a guy logging into a girl’s DMS on Twitter. That doesn’t happen. When was the last time you ran into a long-term couple who met online? It’s been a while.
The social age of the Internet is over. The dead Internet is here, and we’re all just swept away, helpless victims lost to endless robots talking to other robots, pretending to be us.
