dead internet is real

Bonjour,

Writing this newsletter……

The Boys will be in SF next week, if you have people you think we should meet #textme.

ily,

Writer: Natasha 
Editor: Deana & Miranda

In one week we could be partying together at The Net Gala. Thanks to our bffs Polygon for making the whole thing possible. Request RSVP here.

This week, what can only be described as AI slop earned a coveted top-five spot on YouTube Shorts.

Which inevitably dusted up the Dead Internet discourse. The Dead Internet Theory is the belief that the majority of the internet is controlled by bots, algorithms, and pay-to-play influencers, all of which are designed to shape our perspectives and control cultural narratives.

Some believe that this dead internet, optimized for view-maxxing, is a product of late-stage capitalism, where paid influencers talking to bots is a psyop to get you to buy creatine.

Now I’m not going to argue against this theory, and I’m not going to say that we aren’t increasingly living in an online reality that’s fraught with a lack of humanity, but this internet has also allowed me to be the first of my bloodline to witness the vast expanse of the human experience.

From this man covering Frank Ocean’s Nights.

To this chicken in jeans (just watch it).

To this sweet man finishing his 48th Boston Marathon.

@bman363

Boston Marathon number 48 is completed. Thanks all my TikTok friends specially Wellesley and Boston College.#fyp #blessed #bostonmarathon ... See more

So let’s just say, if the internet is dead then I don’t want to be alive.