Thread 24830083

Why does it feel like every single platform on Earth is imploding?
Socia media is a kind of literature. It doesn't matter if it's YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, or game hubs like Steam: activity is down completely on all of them. YouTube and Instagram in particular you can see extremely high effort and quality content completely decimated in views and likes over the past year or two. First people stop sharing, then they stop engaging with the content created by other people, then they just stop coming.

Is it AI? Are people absorbed in one on one conversations with chatbots to just make them feel good? Are they all consuming many-to-one type media like books, Netflix, single player games and online blogs rather than more socially networked forms? If so is that because of mass depression where they insulate against a harsh, aggressive world? Or is it information burn out? I spend 12 hours a day outside for work, and the people don't seem outside or interacting much either. Night clubs and bars are dying around the world.

What do you think is happening to media? Is there any literature discussing this if you've seen a good essay or piece on Substack or a blog?

Would love to discuss with fellow intelligent anons here. I mean that sincerely, the average IQ in this places feels several standard deviations over the mean of places like Reddit, X or Discord.

AI is the socially acceptable explanation
>the average IQ in this places feels several standard deviations over the mean of places like Reddit, X or Discord.
don't dwell on it too much

>>24830088
I wonder if AI also made "content" on social media too accessible. Where anyone can Faceapp and look like a model or take a beautiful photo of nature, for example. Though that really doesn't explain how in real life people seem checked out as well, despite everyone I know earning quite good money and not really having major financial or practical issues.

the internet was cool before platforms

>>24830083 (OP)
The internet is "dead" because before mobile phones were a thing everyone had in their pockets, the internet was mostly populated by bots and people with access to computers. The bots grew in larger numbers as social media took off and when smartphones rolled around. Eventually, the laptop/desktop posters left and all you had left were the smartphone users and bots browsing social media.

Then social media got smaller.

>Facebook dried up
>Tumblr banned porn and everyone fled to Twitter
>Twitter turned into an even worse shithole and everyone fled to Bluesky
>Instagram and Tiktok ran away with the Youtube audience
>Reddit got worse
>Discord killed forums and segmented users into atomized communities

And then the bots got turned off because investors and shareholders started demanding accurate metrics. So now the internet is a ghost town. If people are communicating closely it's either through Discord, message apps like WhatsApp and Telegram and what not, or Snapchat.

>>24830245
yeah dude it's definitely "the bots" and nothing else