What Does This Mean?
The conspiracy-adjacent theory that most online content, engagement, and even users are now AI-generated or bot-driven, with authentic human activity reduced to a shrinking minority of total internet traffic.
REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
"Every comment section is just bots arguing with other bots at this point. Dead Internet Theory was right."
LORE & ORIGIN
Surfaced in fringe forum posts around 2021 as a half-serious explanation for the internet's increasingly repetitive, algorithmically optimized feel, the theory gained mainstream traction through 2023-2026 as generative AI made the bot-saturation scenario feel less hypothetical and more like a plausible description of platforms' actual content mix.
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