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Dead Internet Theory
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Dec 12, 2025
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We're Terrified of Technology | Trash Taste #286
Trash Taste·Dec 12, 2025
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He feels that online discourse has become disconnected from reality and untrustworthy due to the proliferation of bots and non-human interactions.
“I genuinely I feel nothing when I look at comments anymore now cuz I just I'm like this doesn't look real. >> Yeah. >> I don't know what's real anymore.”
Trash Taste · Dec 2025 · 1 episode · 321K views on this topic
Wade asserts that the internet is currently experiencing a real-time decline due to an influx of AI-generated content and automated bots.
“The Dead We is a totally a thing and it's wild it's a fascinating thing that you can read up all more and more about it like it actually was kind of proposed as a possibility like 10 years ago or something like that or maybe even longer but we're we're now seeing it happen in real time”
Distractible Podcast · Dec 2024 · 1 episode · 61K views on this topicExtracted by a model; may misattribute who said what.
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