Thread 41023848

I'll present a couple videos where the concept is put out there that The Internet is a sentient entity in some way and has an awareness and agency of it's own.

https://youtu.be/g-0svZgzbDU
https://youtu.be/2BVjIOpV9KQ

I'll also provide a video where the case has been made that the Internet is in fact dead or devoid of human interaction for the majority of it's presented activity.

https://youtu.be/BEIZHlfjAT8

What does /x/ think? How "alive" is the Internet (in various ways)?

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This also serves as a Lainposting thread.

The ones running this world control time and people. They can alter reality and make internet show you anything they want you to know, but most often just influence someone to write or create what they want you to see, and then make you find it while randomly surfing the internet or asking an AI. However, they only do it if they find you an interesting individual, which most people are not, so most people never notice unusual behavior of the internet. Most often they influence people to write and create seas of useless content solely to hide the real pearls of info in plain sight among all the chaff.

>>41025498

>The ones running this world control time and people.

Yeah, this is a dreammatrix. I thought it was fully tech based at first, but now think an entity is doing it to us, well, multiple entities ig.

Bumpo for Lain.

>>41023878

Creepy

>>41023848 (OP)
Its dead on popular social media. Alive in more niche places

The internet is surely dead. When was the last time I saw anyone comment anything remotely intelligent on the internet that resulted in me learning something new? Like years ago. It died in 2017 when bots took over then it descended even further with Body Snatchers and bad actors.

This entire site are just bots and glowies, nothing else. The only time when you spot a human at point of stylometry alone it end up being some random shill. That's all you need to know. Even this recurrent thread it's just a python script in action. Not a single post made by a person so far as replies go either. Don't believe me? Use your eyes, for once.

>>41031271

I am real as far as I know, but I agree tho, mostly.

>>41031271
But where else is there to go?
Reddit is also dead. Reddit had paid posters from its inception.

Private Trackers have forums, but everyone is advised against using the forums because if you piss someone off, you get kicked out of the community.

Steam forums are still alive but they don't discuss current affairs.

Back in the golden years chan culture came from Something Awful. Which is now dead.

Culture wars started around 2011-2012. Chans started getting infested with shills in 2013.

Japanese image boards are also dead.

8kun has less than 100 active posters in /pol/.

Every single forum seems to be dead.

News comments section? Non-existent. Yahoo keeps theirs up, but it's all AI.

BlueSky? Barely any users. Substack? A few users.

Facebook? Mostly dead. Instagram? Not totally dead yet, but not really a discussion platform.

IRC? Dead.

Not only does the internet appear to be 99% devoid of organic content, the old internet isn't searchable via search platforms.

EVE Online? Most people play with multiple accounts.

Is it really, OSRS, Roblox, Minecraft, FFXIV, gaccha games, and AI chat bots? Is that really what the internet has become?

I used to have tons of internet friends that I would chat with on a regular basis while playing games, waiting for torrents to download, and making art.

Some of them dropped off due to careers, some of them dropped off due to academics, some of them dropped off due to family stuff, a bunch I lost due to the culture wars. But some of them just dropped off the face of the Earth. And the infrastructure for making new internet friends seems relatively non-existent.

I used to follow six blogs. Now I follow one.

Piracy used to be easy, and was part of community-building.

I want to know: Why? Who benefits from the current state of affairs? Will it ever get better?

Another bump Lain.