r/DeadInternetTheory

The characteristics of a bot that I know of include

frequently using emojis,

frequently using symbols like '-' or '~',

writing either excessively verbosely or excessively briefly.

Besides those, what other characteristics can help identify a bot?

And changed the supposed timestamps it hallucinated too. Maybe I just live under a rock but while karma farming bots posting low effort posts are not rare, I've never seen one attempting to join a conversation this badly.

Have you seen bad attempts at convos like this?

This has happened to me twice. Today, on a comment thread on here, and a few months ago on a German subreddit talking about fashion, because I am missing a finger (amputee).

It's an extremely unnerving feeling. I don't think anything I could have said would have convinced the other person that I am real. Even showing picture evidence of my hand didn't help, because it apparently looked generated.

I don't know what I want to achieve by posting this. Maybe just share the experience and let you know that it's not like it doesn't matter. The finger incident made feel uneasy for days. It is just a really yucky feeling not being able to convince someone online that you exist.

When it is a usual day, most of my feed is just about my favorite topics. Computers and fashion. Recently, most of the content is about political changes in my country. It is okay. Those are the thigns "I want" but every 4 or 5 reel or short, I see a clip of family guy.

I love the series but since I watch it regularly I am not really searching for any clip or compilations on social meds but most of my YT Shorts and Reels are now family guy moments. Repeated content, mostly the contraversial moments of the show (like the time they visited Jerusalem or 1950s doctor scene).

And I wonder why the show's copyright holders are not doing anything to put a stop on this. and what's its relation to the dead internet theory? Just look at those accounts. They are obviously bought and botted to do this!

I spent about 6 months deep into flat Earth content online. At first it was just curiosity, but the deeper I went, the more videos, forums, and algorithms kept pulling me in. Looking back now, I honestly question how much time and mental energy I wasted on it.

It made me realize how easy it is for the internet to trap people in endless loops of content once you start clicking on certain topics.

What’s the strangest or most intense rabbit hole you’ve personally fallen into online?

It’s wild how much information on the internet is just an outright lie, falsehood, or complete misrepresentation. It unfortunately has led me to spending much less time on it or viewing everything with a speculative lens, because even the facts become obfuscated over time with the echochambers that likely come from bots and bad faith actors. It sucks!

With the recent posting of the woman in the mirror, it's clear it's getting harder and harder to tell. There's no shame in missing these. It's not always painfully obvious as some make it out.