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Bonus #223 - Dead Internet Theory and Fake Cakes (Extra Dose) (Patreon)

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2024-04-30 16:00:10

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2024-05

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VIDEO LINK: https://youtu.be/rufxhisV8uw

Hey everyone, it's Bonus Dose day, and although today's video looks at a specific online phenomenon ("The Dead Internet Theory"), it might also highlight the complete lack of a monoculture, and just how different everyone's experience online is these days. Have you seen the fake cakes before? Let me know in the comments either here or on YouTube. Enjoy!

Buckley takes a look at the "Dead Internet Theory", a belief that much of the social media content you see, as well as the views and replies to it, are generated by bots and clickfarms, that more than half the time, if you're arguing with a stranger online? That stranger isn't real. And you know what else isn't real? All those cakes you're seeing on Facebook!

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Dead Internet Theory and Fake Cakes (Extra Dose)

Buckley takes a look at the "Dead Internet Theory", a belief that much of the social media content you see, as well as the views and replies to it, are generated by bots and clickfarms, that more than half the time, if you're arguing with a stranger online? That stranger isn't real. And you know what else isn't real? All those cakes you're seeing on Facebook!