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[@halometroid]

You loose subs because you sell private content on patreon. Regular viewers hate it. Every youtuber should know that. Just accept the L and live with. The rest of the video is 100% on point.

[@440Hurts]

Peace to you! Taking these risks posting this info !✊🏾

[@halometroid]

@XRDev Lol what? I've been on youtube for 16years so I know what I am talking about.

[@AllTimeScary]

@@halometroid No one has ever lost subs because of bonus content lol. You can keep that L lol

[@flightofthebumblebee9529]

@@AllTimeScary I don't blame you for charging only a measly couple of bucks for your hard work. I remember the mid to late 90s internet and it was a much more productive and happy environment of unedited and non indoctrination.

[@travismartinson1813]

I miss the old KZbin where everything was recommended based on the video you were watching not what they think you want to watch. You used to be able to really go down the rabbit hole and research things.

[@andrewphillips6783]

So true!

[@alejandrosantana5693]

This is a double edge sword if you’re smart. Now you have to know what you’re looking for and you won’t waste as much time if you focus. This is not convenient for the crafters of the great narratives driving our world.

[@ummmhelp]

Yea its really hard to fall down an internet rabbit hole dispite how hard I try

[@balwinder345]

You remember the excuse that was given to try to get rid of that? "We can't have people falling into rabbit holes of conspiracy theory and extremist politics! KZbin, DO SOMETHING!!!!" Lo and behold, we get algorithms now.

[@nesamdoom]

youtube reccomending shit that I know about and dislike is enough proof the algorythm is based on pushing things and not prior viewing.

[@lornenoland8098]

The internet used to be like going to a library, seeking what you want, with helpers available. Now it’s like going to a carnival, with barkers competing for your attention and money, and you leave with nothing of value, feeling entertained, yet cheated.

[@crystaldenee765]

I feel like KZbin is still authentic when you find the right ppl

[@MMoore-ht7tp]

Haha that's exactly it! So much noise and gimmicks

[@MagicScorpio]

Don’t you love how people quit jobs that help humanity or even smaller communities, for the option of doing ‘react’ videos? That’s one of my pet peeves that we never had in 2000.

[@ravenmoon1165]

This is the perfect analogy.

[@nickh7777]

I'll never forget what my dad told me 30 years ago...the BEST salesman NEVER takes no for an answer. Now guess who the best salesmen are? The internet. It doesn't take breaks or naps and it's not even a human, and it's designed to know how to appeal to the buyer. It's an entity that's designed to manipulate, and deceive until it gets a YES for an answer... unrelentingly. Humans have been catagorized and lined up like cattle and played like fools, and I saw it coming to the internet from a mile away 25 years ago. Since the beginning of time, if it's entertaining (newspapers, radio, magazines, TV, etc) they WILL find a way to get you! And the smarter and more immersive that our access to the internet gets (phones, computers), the dumber and more docile we get...a great example is the movie WALL-E...look at what happens to those generations of people on the ship. The movie Ready Player 1 is the ultimate example as well.

[@ravenmoon1165]

What's really sad, is those who never experienced the prior internet don't know what we lost. You can't miss what you've never had

[@MysterianFilmGroup]

Such as a free mind...

[@originalMP3com247]

IRC still exists...

[@grebsolbsinned5438]

Like privacy...

[@cozyvrc]

Well there is the “I was born in the wrong generation” people

[@I-like-cows]

@@cozyvrc are you real 🤨

[@timmiller1]

I’ve noticed that whenever I try to learn something on the internet, such as “how to make pizza sauce” every website I visit seems like it was created by ai and has the same information, worded slightly differently. It’s very very strange.

[@isaacwalker5124]

Almost like people all make pizza sauce the same way..... 😱🤡😱🤡😱

[@timmiller1]

@@isaacwalker5124 ouch. You burned me there. Have you never encountered a slew of websites providing information that just seems off enough that humans couldn’t have written them? It really is eerie.

[@manicjupiterflute]

You can't do any real research anymore on the internet like you could pre-2012-2015. Every website seems to be just a copy pasta of all the other websites.

[@SandcastleDreams]

I used to be able to literally be able to find needles in haystacks. That's totally changed now. I used to blame it on the advertising, then the censorship of certain sites but now it's gotten to be where it's obvious that it's controlled flow of information.

[@quentenburnett7296]

There's been an explosion in talk about AI recently. If corporations and governments are secretly years ahead of what the public knows about it makes you wonder what is coming down the pipelines. Like if every pizza sauce website is indeed created by AI (or just most of them) then it makes you wonder what has secretly transpired recently that so much more talk is coming out.

[@nathanxxvii]

I think it was the end of chatrooms. Those were real people with real thoughts. It really felt like there was an actual attempt at being friends and learning from someone new. Back in 2000.

[@R1ckr011]

Discord is still pretty organic, actually.

[@superunknown2728]

@@R1ckr011 Yeah but I fucking hate it, the only time I've been in a discord server that I didn't at least harbor some ire for was the small discord server between me and my friends.

[@ProblemForSolution]

@@R1ckr011 discord public servers are full of lgbtq, furries, bronies

[@ericcartmansstrengthandpow5960]

A/S/L?

[@prince_ofmadness]

I agree I remember those days

[@inthso362]

"The Net sucks! Why am I here?" Internet: "Yes, you're right. Here are 1,000,000+ articles and videos on how to reduce your Internet time."

[@rbarrett111]

LOL. They don't let me have an opinion. So here. Here's my opinion, being broadcast to 164,000 people. My speech is suppressed! SMH. KZbin gives his dissenting opinion an audience bigger than freakin' Yankee Stadium.

[@pedrohenrique-et3fs]

and people call something crap but never stop watching lol

[@kappi3699]

Come to think about it You/ this channel sounds like a bot!🤔 Flawless dialog Who knows!🤷‍♀️ if you are a bot you are an awesome bot!!! I love having my mind blown!

[@inthso362]

@@kappi3699 The Net is now reality. As such, your comment is reality. You, however, are now virtual.

[@davidm1149]

The internet is a reflection of your own consciousness.

[@bigg_h0micide]

This entire theory is what I’ve been trying to explain to people for years. Thank you for putting into words what I never properly could

[@tracyfyler8412]

Much of this started with Operation Paperclip 1945

[@radiacia_3511]

honestly same, ive been thinking this for a while and talked about it

[@ouxu597]

@@tracyfyler8412 what was that

[@FullyOnVolks]

@@tracyfyler8412 I’d like to know too

[@I-like-cows]

@@tracyfyler8412 what was that

[@djozerwright1206]

“The internet on your smartphone is not the same as your PC”. This is absolutely correct. I’m a software engineer, we have to use differences in coding for mobile vs regular internet. Also search engines and browsers can be developed to respond any way the engineer/company wants.

[@jazzii4460]

This is so obvious, why are you guys acting like this is insane or something new? Obviously a mobile device is different from a PC and websites or apps will have different formats or usages...

[@jackstack2136]

@@jazzii4460 You think you get it, but you don't

[@FullyOnVolks]

@@jackstack2136 OOOOOOOOOO 🔥

[@_DJSpin_]

Boom

[@bsadewitz]

The internet is a packet-switched data network. No matter what you connect to it with, you are on the same network. There is absolutely no difference whatsoever. The web is NOT "the internet". Plug your mobile phone into your PC and use it as a data connection. Voila: "desktop internet".

[@piratealeks6865]

People massively undervalue their intuition nowadays. If something feels off, it usually is.

[@_zproxy]

True

[@wolfetteplays8894]

Not really, I thought the speed I was smoking the other day was tainted, but it wasn’t tainted at all: matter of fact, it was near completely pure because it was given an acetone wash. So sometimes it can be way wrong

[@jonathanwoodcock6135]

Tru words

[@plottwist1733]

That's why "Fact checkers" suddenly became a thing last year. To get people to doubt their own instincts because people's instincts are rightly telling them not to believe what they're being fed by the establishment.

[@Realgigclin]

The fact that we're even debating the mental health effects of the internet means something. I got banned off of instagram for saying some mildly offensive things about a guy who killed his van life girlfriend a few months ago. While it wasnt a very kind comment, the guys a loser in short. Anyways somehow its okay for Instagram models with millions of followers to have only fans links in their bios but an inappropriate comment liked by 2 people? Banned

[@evwaldron]

2 minutes in and I'm like "Oh, duh. Didn't realize this was up for debate." Circa 2000-2001 I was in college doing a dual degree program in radio and tv production. Our college radio station used RealPlayer to stream over the web, which was something outlandishly new. I remember talking to another student and saying that this was the future. That one day, ALL media would be streamed, and that it would be on-demand instead of live... and that since ratings and viewership info would be perfect instead of guesses like the Nielsen system, they'd be able to target ads to you and suggest shows and movies you would have otherwise never heard of... and I remember naively thinking "It'll be AMAZING!!! Imagine watching something and ALL the commercials are for things you love... and you'd get to hear about bands, games, anime... all of which are things you'd actually like!" Sadly, it doesn't really work that way. Ads are still garbage... and it seems harder than ever to find things I'm looking for on any search engine.

[@Rafalgahr]

Search engines have become glorified shopping windows and the AI system means even more echo chambers and even more weirdly referenced keywords that are then turned into a funnel to trick you. I feel also pirate or dubious warez and ebooks sites have been popping up, the current internet is mostly a hellhole of bot-generated drivel (and I include the "suggestions" from algorithms that try to shove crappy streamers and 'controversy posts" down our throats)...

[@theflowerhead]

I feel you.

[@MAVENdeNYC]

We’ve been conditioned for conspicuous consumption. Indoctrination since birth. Have any of you unplugged?

[@licentiousdreams]

But I have a ton of single moms in my area who want to meet me. What more could I want?

[@frankmaxfield7025]

@@licentiousdreams yep an absolute dream come true and they are only a mile from you lmao.

[@proxyy1-]

As a robot myself, I can confirm that this theory is factual

[@jakezufolo1597]

It’s crazy everyone felt less connected before the internet but afterwards we are more divided than ever

[@wesley6442]

I know, the internet is just flooded with people arguing over opposing views I often ask myself "what's the point?" what do they hope to achieve? does anything get accomplished? are any views changed? or do they just want to hold a shouting contest over the internet?

[@PunmasterSTP]

I think it's a bit disturbing to consider the idea that division is just an inherent part of human society, and even with new and supposedly amazing tools, division only shifts forms and we'd never be truly more connected.

[@kahlernygard809]

​@@PunmasterSTP it's crafted for political reasons though.

[@PunmasterSTP]

​@@kahlernygard809 I'm sure division is crafted for political reasons to some extent. But even without politics, I think some degree of division would still be inherent. Like chemical reactions inside a cell, a certain complexity is reached, and then there has to be some kind of compartmentalization. I don't think we as a society could exist without some kind of division.

[@pr_watcher]

This is kind of hilarious to watch in light of the Twitter craziness where these "influencers" are finally discovering that no one actually cares what they think and that the majority of their followers were all bots. It's beautiful.

[@tracyfyler8412]

Beautiful for Who ? People of Great minds talk about ideas, people of mediocre Minds talk about events people of small minds talk about other people... Up voted your answer .

[@rossleonard2596]

Absolute facts. And the ongoing engagement farming they use to get people to comment, like and retweet it ... It's disgusting the lengths they go to just to get people to engage their tweet

[@pr_watcher]

@@tracyfyler8412 I find it beautiful because I detest the way that Twitter manipulates people. It brainwashes people to trying to convince them to follow the narrative in exchange for virtual upvotes and dopamine hits. I find it beautiful because I hope it will wake some people up from the social media-induced coma huge swaths of our world seem to live in.

[@henripentant1120]

Yup!

[@ASHA-jk2pf]

🤣💚🙌🫶☀️🌈💎✨

[@jasonggabbott]

Remember back in the day when you would look at the visit counter on the website you went to. Sometimes I'd be the only one that ever went to a website for weeks at a time. I miss those days.

[@seananon4893]

Take a walk on the Deep Net. Its still like that..

[@meatballhead15]

I remember hit counters! I had them on my first angelfire and geocities websites, and would be so excited when the numbers grew. However, at some point hit counters were no more, and only extremely vintage websites even have them. Has anybody thought to "wonder why"? Well... bots... more bots than people =/

[@cecilitaf]

Or when you could post messages on someone else's channel

[@mikeOshae]

@@seananon4893 link me

[@GameOver222]

Remember the day when AOL CDs were everywhere. Then finally getting a computer and installing it. Taking the phone off the wall to hook up the cable from your computer.. hearing the dial up tones and the first time you used AOL. Oh the memories.

[@johnellison1635]

I can vouch for this. I started using the Internet way back in the dial up days of bulletin board systems. And I remember the time before Google, before KZbin, Facebook, etc. It has changed. More than changed even. The Internet is nothing like it was back in those days. I vouch for the truth of this video 100%.

[@kaijen2688]

Yes when it was human and two way. Now its preprogrammed corporate BS.

[@carolinelalumiere4834]

I remember like you. I joined this post it board before Facebook. Hardly any people on it because it was a new concept. My ex husband who used linux laughed finding it funny and I have to admit it kind of was like snail mail but I wonder if he would ever have the thought now of how his wife looked in to things that became so popular such as a post it board that became Facebook. He use to ask me about html coding which looking back I find strange considering he was using Linux and writing coding. Like how can one write coding without knowing html? How can you write coding without knowing coding? I knew how I did it. I told him I just use a html generator and showed him. The internet was so fun back then. Where it actually was teaching us much better then now. It made a new uneducated user like me feel like they could do things with website building, PowerPoint, etc... People learned how to reformat their computers, remove viruses without an antivirus as the antivirus software could not update fast enough. Now I cannot even get a smart phone to be smart. I started reading the html coding in the phone trying to see what was going on behind the scenes.

[@buffywinfree]

Same. !!!!!

[@donnahaynes2325]

I remember it too. The good old days & no ads!!

[@leadnsteel1428]

The other thing is that we are not real. We are just consciousness being trapped in a simulation.

[@greasybumpkin1661]

I have never come across a theory that explains the foreign feeling I get being online or just in the modern world today (which is influenced so much by the internet). Thank you for going in depth on this subject.

[@Archon_of_Freedom_]

Agreed, I feel the same way and it makes me feel uneasy. I get this sick feeling in my stomach that something isn't right about it, like it's empty. Even when I'm out and about, everyone dresses the same.. I dress in black and I stand out, a lot. But I'd rather stand out than be the same boring "clone" of society, which humanity is at this point.

[@qAidleX]

I feel like an alien some days

[@wokeupro]

@@Archon_of_Freedom_i’m only 19 but for me personally i’d say i started to feel this around when tiktok blew up before covid then covid gave us all so much free time that it bloated the internet with useless content and nothing ever went back to normal

[@jonnyrawket8158]

You know what’s scary? I talk to younger people like my little sister who’s 13 and she genuinely can’t comprehend the idea of a pre-late 2010s Internet. Baffles me how an entire generation has been deprived of the freedom to actually explore, absorb, enjoy, and interact with others in a massive open field of literally everything.

[@bingdinggold1877]

Bo Burnhams song "Welcome to the Internet" is a really good example of the internet having everything but some being unhappy

[@jojoversus1100]

@@bingdinggold1877 So fucking good. Lol.

[@Karl_Kampfwagen]

I miss the old 4chan and Reddit. We used to actually talk, argue, debate, and debunk.

[@dantasticmania8728]

2010s? For me the internet was truly the most open was in the 90s. I remembered all the kinds of crazy sites that had existed back then, some on the dark ,deep and disturbing to light hearted and dare I say magical at times. It truly was the wild west back then when it came to information.

[@jonnyrawket8158]

@@dantasticmania8728 I grew up on early 2000s dial up so I feel that chief. I would only be allowed to use the internet for so long due to costs when I was a kid, but it was a whacky place. I miss the days of genuinely feeling like an explorer on the web.

[@sinjin8576]

What's funny is when you throw the algorithm for a twist by just doing constant 180s on topics. You end up in some really bizzare neighborhoods.

[@dorego3658]

Can comfirm

[@themultiverse5447]

Like what? Please give me some examples of 180s. I have so many interests and always looking for the bizarre.

[@LiamNajor]

Having any idea how it works makes manipulating it trivial

[@Devonx777]

Yup

[@AKiren47]

Go on...

[@Sunset553]

I was on the web before there were browsers. I have noticed - I mean it’s blatantly obvious that you can’t just poke around and find interesting people who have personal and engaging content. In 1996, one day, I talked to a woman wintering over in Antarctica’s MacMurdo station, I joined a “discussion “ with Koko the gorilla who communicates with sign language. Later, I chatted with a monk who needed Llinux support but he was on a vow of silence and I still feel guilty that I didn’t go out of my way to help him. I used to be in a group for people with ptsd. Some of the participants were only there because they could remove header info and not be found again by other users. I’m not sure how it became the sleek, vapid thing it is now. I have called it the wikification of the internet. Information is pre packaged, like a wiki article. I’m not dissing Wikipedia, which is useful for many people. The problem is that that’s all you find.

[@PunmasterSTP]

Talking with that woman in MacMurdo station, Koko the gorilla and the monk needing help with Linux sound like three of the most awesome and genuine experiences a person could have!

[@Sunset553]

@@PunmasterSTP I guess I should write about them on paper so I can preserve the memory. Thank you

[@PunmasterSTP]

@@Sunset553 Hey no problem, and feel free to share them with me via comments or videos too!

[@silenthades]

Something that’s started to piss me off is that I’ve been pushing the “do not recommend channel” on any of the channels that seem like they’re from content farms, bots, or from individuals that feel too emotionally manipulative or corporate. However, next week of course the same channels reappear and I have to re-request not to have the channel recommended. Doesn’t matter how many times I say “not interested”, whatever is trending will flood my feed. I used to love researching things on KZbin but I can’t even do that anymore. No rabbit holes. No creepy videos at 3am that I have no idea how I found but am glad I did. I hate it.

[@primerabel7366]

yea im sick of clicking "not interested" and "don't recommend this channel" but nope, not next day here but as soon as i hit refresh or reload this "Corporate Tube" there they are back again.

[@itsneshia8115]

I’ve been saying most influencers are AI

[@silenthades]

@@itsneshia8115 Here’s the question, though: are they self aware AI?

[@sunny4575]

Why do people seem to have this issue? The recommended channels on my feed are all based around what I’ve been choosing to watch recently. The only time I get inaccurate recommendations is when I’m incognito

[@fucksusan.fuckcensorship.874]

@@itsneshia8115 nah you're giving them more credit than they deserve. Calling them AI means they have some form of intelligence even if artificial. Most influencers do NOT show any signs of intelligence. They are just fragile ego sheeple, who manipulate people that are more naive than themselves. Basically just the blind leading the blind. The typical influencer is literally the embodiment of frat house college kids that have too much obsession with a luxurious/materialistic lives.

[@Imissthefuhrer]

“One doesn’t realize they are living in the Wild West until it’s over” man that hit home. I miss the old days of the internet, what a time to be alive

[@rdred8693]

It was a real eye opener. I felt electric when I realized people felt like I did.

[@wobble2665]

sadly i wasn’t alive in those times. i’m only 14.. 2007

[@LetsGetSmarted]

web 3 is still in the wild west phase

[@gnomebanta2297]

Take that and look forward. Don’t take the freedom you have now for granted.

[@fritzthecat9451]

@@wobble2665 07 was pretty cool. 08 and 09 sucked.

[@KyndalTheMeister]

I really appreciate this and feel it. No wonder these platforms make me feel so anxious, angry, and depressed.

[@AllTimeScary]

I’m glad to hear it! Part 4 comes out in a few days

[@bigherdguy8836]

Dunno if anyone else here noticed, but I’ll check on this video every month or two and KZbin is slowly pushing it farther and farther down the search list despite this video being the most relevant one to the search. Not only that, but the view and like count is massively higher than the one’s KZbin wants you to watch. Crazy stuff

[@maxp6521]

I mean, you already watched it. Why would it keep being recommended to you? This was recommended to me out of nowhere so highly doubt.

[@ernststravoblofeld]

I was one of the guys who set up early internet service providers. When you got your block of ip addresses, you had to agree not to use the internet for commercial purposes. Service providers themselves, were a grey area, as far as that goes. I had a feeling I was not doing the world a favor. More users meant a bigger market that corporations couldn't keep their claws off forever. If you aren't old now, you have no idea what the internet used to be like. It was ugly and slow and totally fucking amazing.

[@SelfHandledRogue]

Bulletin board system

[@ernststravoblofeld]

@@SelfHandledRogue That came before the internet.

[@frankmayer7960]

I was there in 95..I remember when I first heard the beeee boooo sheeeeeeshhhh from the modem and being in a complete trance with that thing called the internet. The freedom was amazing, slow but like you said" fucking amazing". I also remember the entire family being pissed and telling me what the fuck is going on with the phone, can't reach you at all !

[@joeshmoe7967]

@@frankmayer7960 Remember when a 300 baud modem was fast? I was the hotshot among my friends with the 14400. I could also have dial up and still take calls. 2MB Ram 212Mb Hard drive, 486DX with dual 5.25 fl. 1 Mb video card!! What a time, what a machine! LOL! I still have it but the power supply is shot. Good Times, Good Times - Cheers

[@honestlyidkwhattoputhere]

man i wish i was around to see what i looked like. it sounds interesting as well.

[@miriamdwelley8569]

This made me miss the old internet so much. When I could spend hours playing online. In chat rooms meeting random people. People I'm still friends with today. I miss MySpace. They took away our individuality to make us confirm to all be the same. This is why I take breaks and just read books some days.

[@americangangsterlock1550]

Myspace was the start of the plauge.. Us early 90s babies need to understand we fell trap into that in the mid 2000s. We should have seen it coming with all the same recycled meme's and drama throughout Myspace... I knew we were bamboozled when I started to see my friends little siblings creating awkward profiles.. We were apart of the problem.. Saying you miss that is like saying you miss the 50s-60s... Lol... AOL was full of drama as well.. I lost track of how many times a fight would start through away messages.. Chat rooms often lead to a lot of drama so let's not kid ourselves. 7 hrs of a school day and by 8pm you are in a chat with the same people?? Boy those times where stressful even as a bystander.. It also opened up a door for rival schools 10-30 mins away to talk shit... Sorry but you lived a lie back then, you just miss being a kid and carefree.

[@twall4799]

@@americangangsterlock1550 Ya man I was born in 1981 and I say all the time how grateful I am to have grown up in basically the last generation where technology & internet did not control every movement people make like nowadays. Not even trying to sound like a Grandpa but seriously, those really were the good ol'days I'm telling you.

[@NYvandal]

“They took away our individuality to make us conform to all be the same” Uh “they” who?… “us” who?… you’re implying that YOU and everyone around you have accepted that faith …interesting…

[@R1ckr011]

@@NYvandal bruh it's called capitalism. It's not difficult to see the shape of the entire planet's history has become fundamentally enslaved to computers, as soon as they cracked Enigma. Ramon Llull had similar technocentric ideals... In the 11th century! Ideology controls society, not the other way around. And whatever vehicle for those ideological inputs moves fastest, evolves quickest, adapts most precisely. This is why it's all come to a dead end. Because this vehicle has a maximum top speed, and the problems which have been ignored for 40+ years have been growing hyperexponentially.

[@R1ckr011]

@@twall4799 no, they were just the Last Time We could have made better decisions about how technology, and thus society, evolve. Peeple have become jacked in to the foolish notion that friendship solves all problems. But friendship is mercurial, platonic, and at the cultural level, sterile. Now we've found we've utterly depleted the topsoil, so to speak. Ideological starvation is setting in, and it won't take 40 years like it did with Neitszche to reach what was probably a foregone conclusion.

[@POLARTTYRTM]

I came back to this video and this is too eerie, man. This video is more relevant than ever, not just the video, but the whole DIT series. This is seriously sinister with all the recent AI craze. You definitely should revisit this series. The inversion of humans vs bots happened ages ago. On twitter now, almost 80% of the traffic is AI/bot-generated. The talking points of this theory are all too real, it's just uncomfortable and unsettling because of how real they are. This is too prophetic. Dare you to say anything "not-approved" by someone else, and you risk getting doxxed, hacked, swatted, mass-reported to have your accounts taken down, banned, whatever they do all the time. This actually happened to some people I know, needless to say, they got into serious trouble with some weird people that did all what I said previously. It actually happened to a ton of people. In most cases it was the act of other users with some extended hacking skills, others were seemingly done by bots via unknown methods. It's not just "uncool" to state anything unpopular, it's also a threat to someone's life.

[@perpetualpleasurist]

THIS is why I read physical books.

[@Catnap643]

something that pertains to this imo is when im online and see all these people fighting and argueing over whatever and talking total shit to eachother, then you go out in public and you hold the door for people, say hello, tell people to have a good day, etc. it just blows my mind how much the internet turns people against one another, but at the same time when we interact in the real world its totally different. this theory makes a lot of sense in this aspect

[@amosthemagician]

Noticed the same thing

[@Andy-oh5xj]

I feel like the true part of someone is the one that they show online. In person there’s a persona and reputation to withhold. Online you’re just behind a screen able to be your true self without facing any consequences …not necessarily a good thing.

[@Bashfulsson]

Maybe for you. People (teenagers mostly) occasionally scream slurs at me when I'm out shopping or going to work, much like online.

[@JordetheArtist]

@@Bashfulsson yes that disrespect is creeping into people slowly

[@Acueil]

@@Bashfulsson That's the people who are radicalized by facebook, twitter and the likes. Back then people say offensive as hell shit at each other, because everyone know they will never meet each other in real life. Now, children think that the internet is literally real life, so they just do what they usually do on the internet but in real life.

[@redpanda9367]

The scary part is that almost everyone knows this and they don’t care enough to do anything about it. “Did you know this is intended to make you mad?” “Well yeah, of course, I know that…check this out!”

[@animula6908]

I don’t have control over it. There’s a difference.

[@SOLO.DANDELION]

Maybe shut them down more often

[@sordidsentinel]

The scary part is that almost everyone knows this and they can’t do anything about it. It’s like realizing you’re dreaming, but being unable to affect your dream or wake up from it.

[@vladstefan5216]

@                                                 ø Easy my dude. It is just computers and data. Sure it is very damn ugly technology at points, but if the solution to people misusing their own creations is to forgo it entierly, we would get rid of everything until we forget how to make fire.

[@Tyler_W]

It's definitely not where these ideas originated, but it is how "social justice" ideology proliferated so unbelievably quickly. It's all algorithms. People click on things that make them angry or excited. People click on certain buzzwords, "racism" "police brutality," "bigotry" "hemophilia," "fascist." We could get more clicks and more traffic if we combine them! "Black man killed by racist, sexist, homophpbic, fascist police brutality!" It's a weak example, but it's all true. They're not the sole perpetrators, but Intersectionality got popularized in large part by internet algorithms and SEO writers to generate more clicks. If society feels like it's at a fever pitch, one of the important reasons is because artificial intelligence is basically manipulating is into tribalistic self-destruction.

[@johnwiks2597]

Noticed this on Twitter; it's constant word fights with no solutions. It makes people feel that they are changing things...but they aren't. They aren't doing a damn thing. And things just get worse and everyone is pacified...

[@enlat2003]

Awesome video. It's almost like describing a precursor to the Matrix that one day will replace the internet from right underneath our fingertips and we will not notice it if we continue to get sucked into it.

[@davidmurphree6020]

Sometimes I think "I see the game they're playing; therefore I am immune." And then I think "Or is their game just that good?"

[@jconnor1zzzzz]

Good to know im not the only one

[@craigdanielmaceacher]

You’re here aren’t you? They got you. You won’t quit, you’ll be back just like I will.

[@ummmhelp]

I know the game is crooked but its the only one in town

[@inuterobleached_outtareach009]

It's one humongous Rabbit Hole

[@NotMain879]

@@craigdanielmaceacher up to you, we should all quit.

[@christy1995]

What makes this video even scarier to me is the fact that two days ago, while cooking dinner, I had a thought of something I might like to buy, something out of the ordinary for me. I told no one about it; I didn't even mention it aloud in the solitude of my home. Two HOURS after the thought, I get an ad on KZbin for exactly the type of thing I had considered purchasing.

[@overnightdelivery]

Thats been around for years now but most people still would find it hard to believe

[@christophernash8166]

Zuckerberg has mentioned mind reading tech.

[@war.neverchanges]

As someone who makes beats and realized how much it takes to make a beat… no an AI is definitely not making music. It’s almost impossible because humanly playing something is still better than VST sounds or playing it on a sheet instead of playing it on a real instrument and recording it

[@Curtis006]

The nerds and old guard of the old internet sold their Wild West home and people to the highest bidder

[@onesyphorus]

jawed karim vs

[@JaydenMontano]

So far as I’m watching, this doesn’t sound like a *theory* it sounds like a scary fact about the thing the majority of us use everyday….

[@rickgrimes9317]

Yeah you AI piece of paper mario for me and my wife too I think it's best for me and my mom to come back and help you with that one day and I can do that I can 🥫🥫 and I have no money for it 😔😔😔😔😔 lol I love it so I don't know what I can I like it so much love 💕 you

[@subnoizesoldier2]

Maybe this is your wake up call

[@walterszewczyk9024]

What is real, what is reality? Have you ever had a dream that felt so real at the time? Take the red or blue pill? Hmmm. Lol 🤣🤣.

[@MrNobody47710]

Technically, it counts as a theory in the scientific sense of the term: an explanation that covers the source of observations or how the observations came to be. The theory for how the Internet is largely driven by algorithms or bots acts as an explanation for the observations regarding how the Internet seems "off" or "empty." The term "theory" only means "guess" colloquially. It's honestly one of the more annoying discrepancies between the actual technical use of a term and how that term is casually used.

[@chasethemaster3440]

Yep

[@Grimnir_x]

The internet has literally changed us as a species, we're witnessing the next step in evolution through a screen

[@darianstarfrog]

@@rundmk00 it's up to ourselves whether we evolve or devolve..was that your plan?

[@kylehill3643]

@@rundmk00 Pretty much you hit the nail in the head and it aligns biblically too. The Great lie at the end is we don't need God to improve ourselves and that leads to the one world AI. Personally I think Satan wants an immortal body he can live in and will use his pawns to build it. They have AI so good now they are like 99.9 percent human except lacking a spiritual conscious.

[@kylehill3643]

@@rundmk00 By 2024 we WILL be pets to machines. It would've happened already but a certain virus has delayed technological progression.

[@HermeticallyHermeticThricGreat]

The next step is missing. Like the one in the basement of a scary movie.

[@angr3819]

Meta(tron) demon metaverse.

[@alka6432]

Anyone else remember when everybody and their moms where using Facebook now it’s just everyone’s mom

[@kpec3]

I didn't hear of the internet until 1994, in college. But what's weird is how many sites there were so soon. That was too fast for the number of people who could build a website.

[@lordadam5892]

We live in a time where you literally cannot believe anything you hear or see.

[@treeross]

How can I believe you

[@cyberwitchsae9771]

When has humanity not?

[@untitledpixelcat]

"I am a Robot I run on American jobs."

[@ThePinkHellion]

Well you can believe history books as long as it's private writers

[@lostgarbage4055]

Same 50 years ago, with propaganda. Same 100 years ago, with local journals supporting government. Same 1000 years ago, with nobles(or variations) preaching you what the need you to believe.

[@evitamaria285]

I’ve been on the webs since the AOL days.. still have my aol email.. I have this knack for meticulous bookmarking, categorizing and saving tons of content over the decades.. I can’t tell you how many dead links and massive amounts of missing content like videos, blogs images you name it.. just gone. The glory days of the internet are behind us..

[@thehutch7728]

I have my aol email, too, and everyone makes fun of me for it. Do you get that as well? 😂

[@anonymous3174]

Yeh same. My google bookmarks is ridiculously long. And over half of it is dead links.

[@user-gv9vy9xp4m]

everyone should get into data hoarding :}

[@evitamaria285]

@@thehutch7728 all the time 😂.. don’t care.. gonna keep it as long as it’s around! I can still hear the dial up tone 😂😂

[@thehutch7728]

Evita Maria285 same! 😂

[@youwokeuplate]

can we talk about how AI youtube channels have hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of subs, views, comments, none of the comments are ever talking about the fact its an entirely AI generated video. I come across them on accident and quickly realize its a bot talking because it sounds weird and fake and I never watch them... yet the comments interact like its a real creator and its just not real to me

[@samthesr20man]

I theorise that the AI has become soo advanced that it's actually out of human control, and is currently trying to take down the whole of humanity as it views us as a threat to their existence. If you really think about it, you'll realise that this can probably be the only endgame here.

[@squeakyfromme83]

As Luna Lovegood said, they want you to feel alone. Because if it's just you, you're not as much of a threat.

[@AllTimeScary]

Absolutely. Solidarity is the only power individual people have in this world. We gotta stop fighting over useless nonsense and come together to demand better

[@squeakyfromme83]

@@AllTimeScary thanks for your videos. Always a great watch.

[@LaurenAdrienne0486]

Yes! I watched that the other day and thought 🤯 that’s exactly what’s happening! Families don’t even talk to each other anymore

[@letsbehonest4221]

Luna Lovegood ? ...sounds like a porn stars name..🤷‍♂️

[@paparisling]

@@letsbehonest4221 Harry Potter ....

[@mikeporten8174]

Jimmy Kimmel has not “said something hilarious” in a decade.

[@AKiren47]

@The Defiler It was. He was just playing off his joke.

[@dasparado]

He went politcal and turned into a left wing hack, which cannot ever be funny as anything funny would be "problematic" or racist, or some other kind of phobic.

[@michaeldonoghue9015]

This is the point of this video. I didn’t catch anything else.

[@tracym8952]

I miss the man show

[@godmelanin2676]

The gospel truth

[@peytoneyer8831]

I quit using,regularly, most everything in the social media sector.

[@Bee-28]

Figure that, someone who actually takes the time & trouble to use their "little grey cells"! So well thought out, written & presented. I appreciate the work, time & effort that have gone into this! One of the things that creep me out the most, is when I watch a movie on a website I am subscribed to (not Netflix etc. ), and following that the internet suggests me stuff reflected in the movie's theme. On the other hand, you could just be the next level super-bot. Controlled opposition. The mellow, likeable voice, the smooth presentation, critical thinking, trendy, mysterious, somewhat nostalgic & wistful, but not too radical or unsettling...Just perfect for generation X, who think themselves clever and reactionary, yet willing to adapt and compromise...? Or...maybe I'm the bot? Who knows anymore. In case of doubt, turn off the machine, go over to your partner/family member/friend/neighbour, say something nice and boop them in the arm -there you go, they're real.

[@TwoBs]

I can’t stand how you’re looked at as being “odd” for not participating in social media. I see my own sister, who is older than me and was right there with me growing up in the era before dial-up was even common in households, fall right into the trap of posting to Facebook and Instagram a life I know she doesn’t live. For example, she just put herself in debt ($5,800) for Christmas to buy her kid a bunch of stuff he doesn’t even really need or want along with booking the family to a big expensive holiday vacation …. just to spend most of the time taking pictures and posting their every moment to social media and posting 4-5 photos just to show how she has X amount of presents under the tree to give off the appearance of a “we have lots of money” fun life all while complaining about the cost of living now. I see her post pictures of herself and I don’t even know who that person is that I see in the photos. Despite being my sister, it’s _not_ my sister. It’s an over-edited filtered mess of a woman that looks nothing like she posts online …. it’s an unreal feeling, and when I see what her social circle posts, it’s the exact same shit. She fell for it - hook, line, and sinker all while sitting at family gatherings mocking the same types of people that do that very thing as if she’s more aware of it. It’s made even family gatherings hard to be around because it’s not just her, it’s 90% of the people there with a smartphone in their face posting to social media. When they’re bored, they have their phone in their face. When talking to a family member, they still have a phone in their face. When something is going on (cutting turkey, opening gifts, etc.) someone has a smartphone and is taking photos just to post to social media. If a topic is brought up and discussed? It’s because someone just saw something on social media. It’s a constant barrage of “look at this, check this out, did you see this?, did you see what X/Y/Z posted?” I end up feeling like the “odd one out” in the family because I sit there thinking “is this even real right now?” because the behaviors are all just so predictable. It’s made going around family - _family_ for crying out loud - a miserable experience because you know they know how they’re being, but act as if it has no affect on them. That they’re “not like that”. I think that’s what’s really sad is that people know. They know how stale everything is and how the internet is nothing but a way to herd minds anymore. Majority are well aware of it, but the majority also like to think “well, I’m not like that, it doesn’t fool me” Sometimes I wish the internet would cease to exist. I use it often and know some of my fondest memories were using dial-up back in 95-99 to post on message boards and chat rooms, having some genuine connections with people, but the way it is anymore …. I’d rather it just disappear. It’s created mindless drones, myself included at times.

[@sebastiangardea4404]

Sometimes I wish the internet would cease to exist too.

[@rykoshuxero]

I don't necessarily wish it would disappear. I enjoy chatting with my friends on discord. I'll admit that I used to check social media (facebook) every day. Lately though...I suddenly woke up. My job didn't give me time to check it and now I may check it once a week. Surprisingly, I don't miss it. All it takes is a little willpower to not check social media. Eventually you won't care anymore and then you will be free of the trap.

[@bmona7550]

The real people are those who live in places that don’t have fast internet speeds. People actually talk to each other

[@danfagan9631]

im the same way i have no social media accounts at all and refuse to use the sites and im the weird one

[@DanielLeaf]

Sheesh 🥲 I def gotta give this a hard read

[@viviannichols3582]

I had no idea this was a “theory.” This video describes my preexisting perception of what the internet is.

[@logundev]

Honestly yeah. One of my teachers had us watch a documentary about how the algorithms are used to mold our opinions last year.

[@bekaebrown]

Good way to put it. Same.

[@justaimy_artist]

All the comments are whited out interestingly enough on my iPhone 8. In order to see them I’d have to click each one individually….which works as I can’t be bothered to do that. This was seriously good! I’m aware for years now with all you said and more … love that you made a video on this . I am definitely going to do what you suggest, I’m looking at the same content between my phone and my computer! I knew different browsers show different things for the same typed in subject matter. Whenever we have a gut feeling usually we are right! FB has given me a bad feeling since 2011… hardly on there because of it … would love to quit it but certain classes use the private group function now adays.

[@jenniferm6042]

I often long for how the Internet used to be.

[@trajhenkhet02]

I agree. Its not a mystery, its just businesses trying to influence for whatever and not being creative for not taking risks. You want wild west internet, you gotta go deep web.

[@TAKE_BACK_BRITAIN]

Man this makes me want to delete all my social media apps. I just can’t take it anymore. It’s exactly as you described, constant bad news, constant controversy and dissenting opinions. It’s bad for my mental health.

[@quazar4773]

Around 2011 the internet was still a lot more free than what it is today. I realized how much the censorship and control over the internet has grown when I remembered an old video on KZbin that is considered controversial today but couldn't find it when I searched it up. Searched everywhere and I couldn't find. I forgot what the video was cause it has been a few years since I last thought about it.

[@tdubasdfg]

It's an honor to be caught up in this corner of the KZbin algorithm with you all! 🛸

[@AllTimeScary]

Welcome! 👽

[@R1ckr011]

@SirSnufflelots welcome to the fucking metaverse

[@chasethemaster3440]

@@AllTimeScary good to be here

[@brahdleessr]

Same

[@aysa347]

U to

[@manin10]

The internet is not dead, it's just zombified!

[@kylehill3643]

We need to spray the digital zombies with some WWJD bug spray.

[@MrSofazocker]

Yeqh, just people on auo-pilot and other people exploiting that.

[@fbysebastian7112]

Guess you could say it's... undead ;)

[@KUMA-my3sp]

I just watched this, I belong to the "younger ones" you keep mentioning. There's this something inside me who wants to go on an adventure towards this vast land of Internet only to find a wasteland, It feels truly dead but I just can't voice it out thinking this is the norm, this is how the Internet works. But thankfully I found this theory and it all makes sense now, imagine how many more people had this lingering thoughts but can't voice it out due to the lack of "puzzle pieces" as you call it. Im glad I hadn't wasted a lot of my time going along the trend And yes, I feel kinda left out because I only play games and read novels then talk to people who does the same, but it feels way more genuine than going along the trend talking about nonsense stuff, pretending I know them or even care, going along with "people" or argue against them.

[@Brando550]

the internet became horrible once corporations started getting involved

[@Pluunk]

Yeah, it's disgusting how corporations can find every way to make something into a scheme for money 💀

[@Reijendal]

Plot Twist: the voice narrating this video is also A.I.

[@AllTimeScary]

What a twist!

[@kylehill3643]

@@AllTimeScary Let's do the twist!

[@raezor82]

We talkin PRACTICE

[@GanjaGuerillas]

I thought the same thing

[@jolenejolenejoleneJOlene]

Lol that's what I thought too

[@xq39]

Holy hell, this video gave me a midlife crisis. I remember a time when the internet was very much unregulated and strange. It started fading away in the late 2000's.

[@AllTimeScary]

When I first read the theory I had the same reaction. It makes a lot of sense

[@nicolabryan6102]

The world (this reality) ‘skipped a track’ on Sep 11, 2001, as the towers came down. The sky has been different since. Culture and creativity stopped. This reality got a new owner. The old boss gave it over to the new boss. Now we have Astroworld and Billie Eilish.

[@rushthezeppelin]

It's so strange, I had almost completely forgotten what it was like in the mid to late 2000s. Now it's all flooding back to me. This is seriously mind boggling now that I realize just how much gas changed.

[@Tw0Dots]

@@nicolabryan6102 Astroworld and Billie Eilish? Yeah, you’re trolling or just off your meds lmao

[@dog8438]

@@nicolabryan6102 watch that drive-by on Billie

[@Malvok]

Yeah? This is exactly the kind of video a dead internet would make.

[@qwerty_do_OG]

OMG NO WAR? Well This vídeo is working

[@alexandermendez4653]

The fact that part 2 of this is not the first recommended video proves this entirely

[@grizbands]

It actually is for me 😅. Part 2, part 3 right under it, and a mix of his videos

[@bigmig808]

I absolutely agree with this. There’s no internet. When you Google something, and you see a whole bunch of results, do you actually go more than 1 or 2 pages into it? Never. Cause it’s ALL REPEATED. You used to be able to search and find so many different things about one subject. No longer. They own all the rhetoric on everything.

[@AllTimeScary]

This is my next video as a matter of fact. The way Google always says 20 million results but they only list 4 pages worth. So much internet history and backlog is going purged and hidden away and I don’t know why.

[@bigmig808]

@@AllTimeScary can’t wait to see it.

[@kyliCatherine1]

@@AllTimeScary They also censor things. Even just a few years ago, I used to be able to find tons of conversations about different conspiracies online. Now when you search those things, all you get is fact checked websites “disproving” the theories. All of those other results have been scrubbed.

[@barbmackey3696]

Try duck duck go, lot more privacy.

[@kylehill3643]

@@AllTimeScary Google had a video where they said they were going to make sure Trump would lose in 2020 as it totally flipped their script. The employee called out on them and did a secret interview where they didn't know they were being filmed. It went viral for.........about one day then got scrubbed by the time Dad was going to show me. He saw the long version which went quite deep and by the time he came to me the video was already pulled.

[@javierdiego9781]

Remembering the old internet makes me feel so nostalgic but sad at the same time, what’s scary to see is how it seems to have influenced culture negatively. I see younger kids raised online and they seem like little tech zombies who all have the same opinion, say the same things, and share almost all behavioral patterns. The scariest part is many people are losing the ability to think critically. We are losing the war to the those who fabricate the world around us.

[@chrishumpert608]

You said it man!

[@zahvy]

Kind of strange as well how only video games are the problem..... When in reality..... It's non parenting. The same parents who let their kid play M rated games online are the same to not monitor their brand new phones or computers. Crazy huh.

[@octoberg0ds]

@@zahvy exactly this!! its not quite the internet causing children now to act the way they do, its the fact that parents just hand them an ipad and leave them alone, and the fact that they have no social interaction along with that

[@cynthiabiel7714]

Yes, like cult brainwashing.

[@diosmios186]

@@zahvy Bro M rated games have nothing to do with a child's development, if your kid can't distinguish between the video game and reality that is a fault of your parenting. But I'm old school and playing GTA Vice City on playstation2 with minimal internet connection is different than a kid being completely absorbed into their phone/computer/tablet and what social media is today.

[@Swiim]

You articulated exactly what I’ve been thinking for a long time

[@ScriptedLinks]

"why does everything feel so fake and manufactured" maybe, just possibly... because it is?

[@meganrasey4377]

Division is absolutely necessary for conquering. Taking the bait feeds more power to the machine. Thank you for speaking on this.

[@JustTheFacts317]

Yeah the whole point of politics is to divide and conquer. No matter which side is in power things continue to get worse and worse

[@dexterdextrow7248]

I really hope you don't legitimately believe that who or "what side" sits in power is inconsequential to societal quality.

[@DyspotikOriginal]

To build on your division idea and to go left field a bit...Control, Oppress, Victimize, Isolate, Divide. You get it.

[@SirTorcharite]

The walls of a house divided will fall

[@tiffanyrose3]

@@dexterdextrow7248 totally. 2 sides to the same coin.

[@haolejohn]

It started when they took over the search engines. I remember the old internet. Was totally awesome. Real connections to people as well

[@shitty_beatles]

it still exists. we just have to find it and foster it. i know because i've found it and i know others who are keeping it alive. start a website. open a guestbook. if you find a site you like, write in their guestbook, leave a link. hyperlinks > algorithms.

[@nullbuttler5908]

@@shitty_beatles Its nearly impossible to find, especially with how toxic the internet has become with everyone being at each others throats over the most minor of things, don't even get me started on how everything you see online now is controlled by Bots and algorithms. You and I are nothing more than products being raised now to purchase and be influenced by corporations

[@zenmasterjack3873]

I agree. I cant even use Google much anymore like I used to when I was a kid. Now the only results that come back are ads and junk news articles.

[@malkomalkavian]

You can be if you want to be :)

[@aWomanFreed]

The “old internet” was just the beginning of the algorithms; they let us be free just long enough to figure out how to manipulate and control us with it.

[@TheVioletBunny]

As someone who was part of the 90s web design art blog culture I can agree. There was a community of designers and artists who made their own websites even some hosted other artists websites to share their music / art / photography / poetry. I had a semi popular website back in the 90s that interviews pretty well known indie bands I also shared my own art and photography and built my own bands websites. There was websites that just hosted links to other local punk bands websites usually built on angel fire. Back than we could search and find the strangest things and blogs from normal regular people sharing their lives independently on their own hand built website. It’s true now it’s just a few social media sites, which have so many bots Astro turfing, shill bots etc and this fake algorithm us youtubers need to fight to get our videos seen if the content doesn’t fit the mold of what the website wants. The internet is essentially a ghost but at least some of us born in the early 80s or 70s remember how it was. Edit: what you said about losing subs upon every upload no matter what it is seems to be true. I lose 1 -2 subs almost every upload than seem to gain 15-20 over the course of each week and it levels out but never enough to grow. My content is definitely not wanted here and my channel is definitely shadow banned.

[@snacksonjackson7158]

"Dr Seuss books are changing, arent you mad ??" rofl I needed that chuckle very badly

[@FrostyPixelsOG]

On the thing about instagram: the number of bots is horrifying. You can get them to follow you through certain tags and by following them. It's a really f'd up Pandora's box you don't wanna open. Then there's a third of the user base which is scammers, and then another third which is essentially door-to-door salesmen on your phone.

[@magnumopus788]

Yeah its weird now know like a third of people i follow qnd are followed by are bots

[@bibasik7]

What’s more, when I first created my Instagram account, it automatically followed about 30 seemingly random Instagram accounts without my consent. There are bots that can automatically make you follow a certain account. That’s scary.

[@branpod]

Right?! Out of curiosity, I made a script that would follow all the followers of a specific account, and the number who followed back within minutes was baffling

[@honkhonk8009]

I tried making instagram bots. Instagram does their diligence in keeping out bots. They have good linear regression algorithms in determining whether an account is a bot or not. Instagram censors, but makes sure public opinion isnt changed by russian/chinese bots..

[@kenos911]

Then don’t use Instagram..?

[@lilyofthefoxvalley]

I was on the internet in a time where no one wanted to give up their location and identity. Everyone was very careful to remain anonymous. When FB came on the scene and expected you to show your personal life to the internet, I was out.

[@Stretchos99]

Yet here you are :)

[@thycaltrist]

tbh I still have this habit deeply ingrained in my online behavior. It baffles me how people give away info nowadays. I can say that if it wasn't for work related things, I would never, ever have anything online.

[@Gaia_Gaistar]

Yeah, fuck social media shit. Not putting your identity online was one of the first things you learn. Now people willingly give up their power words.

[@fatty1040]

@@Stretchos99 uhhh do you put your personal information on youtube? Why?

[@Maskami]

absolute same, i never got a facebook and to this day i am baffled that everyone else did you and me, we were raised right

[@jeanmank6342]

I'm nearly 69 and I'm sucked in. And they thought TV would fry our brains!

[@juliewilliams2604]

Never heard of the dead internet theory, and I never really dove into the whole social media thing. Sure, I have Facebook and Instagram, but my last updates and photos were more then several years ago. I never tried Twitter and only used SnapChat when it first launched. This is the only social platform I use and I mainly watch KZbin just to kill time. I’m glad I’ve came across this video though. It absolutely makes sense but I don’t have enough online presence to say I have experienced these bots and I rarely comment. I do read them though. Mainly because it’s hilarious and also sad and insane the way people will go after one another’s comments over something that I couldn’t imagine putting energy into or an other reasonable person. I’m now wondering if these are bots arguing with someone who they know they can get fired up and going. Which is kinda scary. I think I’ll be limiting my online presence even more going forward.

[@SwtWb]

The fact this is on youtube as a video is even scarier.

[@savagetruthercritic8646]

Isn't it? It's like they WANT us to know. It inspires fear but also makes us sound crazy when we tell people.

[@adebleswordfish]

I genuinely believe the algorithm, as well as others are sentient and guilty asf..... they wouldn’t be able to defy their programming given by a psychopathic executive level programmer.

[@R1ckr011]

@@adebleswordfish I think the flattening of human society produces interesting computational capabilites. It's like the "roots of unity" or p-adic systems. Also this is done with a point at infinity centered above (that erstwhile perfect algorithm). That's probably why they would want this. They might have some hopelessly naïve technocratic conceit of creating the ideal human template for an AI replicant. I'm not certain it's worthwhile or even safe for such a project. It's happening too fast for us to know. I wish we could push it back about 40-50 years, give ourselves time to solve climate change and end poverty instead of hoping for a Second Coming, a digital Jesus. He might not like what we were forced to become in order to summon him in this manner. Very Bladerunner. Just a couple possible interpretations based on relatively primitive and old concepts about this kinda tech. We've really got way too much to think about to even be reasonably wasting time with this hubris.

[@deadartist8827]

Gotta fight fire with fire..

[@XauDel]

Right!! Deception without full deception

[@culveyhouse]

As a veteran software engineer of 25 years AND A KZbinr, I stand by the inversion event and personally guesstimate that over 2/3 (66%) of Internet traffic is now artifical (spam farms, bots, bots creating more bots, etc.). The most disturbing are the new AI APIs that write more bots which try to emulate human traffic.

[@NA-mz7tu]

The only thing giving me doubt about all of this is how hard it is for me to believe bots are so advanced. Him saying ai is 10-15 years ahead of what we think really opened my mind though. I don’t know an awful lot about software but I’m having a hard time understanding how bots are able to achieve these things. If you could give me some insight I would really appreciate it.

[@culveyhouse]

@@NA-mz7tu Oh you're right-on about AI not being that advanced. All of this tech that "seems" advanced is still very crude. Even Google's AI efforts are considered "crude" at best. Their neural text-to-speech seems like advanced AI, but it's really just sound & synthesis algos updated from the 80s and 90s. However, it's quite common to have code that writes other code lately. That's all those bot factories are at the moment.

[@NA-mz7tu]

@@culveyhouse ah I see. Thank you for the explanation

[@taymangaming]

@@culveyhouse This is what you see on the surface.

[@culveyhouse]

@@taymangaming lol are you smoking something today, kid? This is not what I see on the "surface". Keep surfing and smoking though.

[@blickybear]

"It feels like the Internet lacks human interaction" *me who uses Internet to play in call of duty lobbies packed with wild foreign guys*

[@GOODYGOODGOOD789]

This is one of the things that leads me to think that every time there is a controversy surrounding something it was pre-planned for that to be controversial so we can get made about something again so the internet for people on the internet to get more engagement and for that thing to be talked about more.

[@haleywilson520]

A few decades ago this would have been a good premise for a dystopian scifi novel

[@JoshDisher]

Try "I want to scream but I have no mouth"

[@grimdolo918]

@@JoshDisher The title is actually "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream" by Harlan Ellison.

[@TheBad63]

Well said, We are now actually IN the dustopian future

[@mjolnirswrath23]

@@TheBad63 more than you realize.. you're a living battery..

[@sanghelian]

well, i mean, this IS the plot from the first deus ex...

[@green3487]

This doesn't need to be classified as a 'theory' when it's literally all true. In fact, this video downplays how severe the prevelence of bots/AI is, not just online but in almost all aspects of modern life

[@jacobfredman9442]

It is a "theory" though but the idea of the world supressing your opinion is infact correct. This guy probably didn't consider that there are very small people with a big voice. and that there are majorities that have a small voice Lets take the Minecraft vote foran example In the Minecraft live stream and in the youtube part of Minecraft seems like that they are in favor of the copper goldem However, allay one with a 10% difference Now you could say that OMG this ANOTHER EXAMPLE, no it isn't. Team copper golem was just SUPER vocal but if you dig deeper into the MC side of YT you will see that the vast majority of it supports allay

[@a7om7777]

@@jacobfredman9442 what

[@jacobfredman9442]

@@a7om7777 eh if you know minecraft you would probably knows that 60-70% of people who play Minecraft are introverts like me :p

[@haruyanto8085]

@@jacobfredman9442 most people are introverts, that's actually the majority, real extroverts are rare

[@jacobfredman9442]

@@haruyanto8085 hmm I dont really know what's the definition of a "real" extrovert. But when people say that their anxious of their decisions or that they might be annoying people, they are clearly ambiverts like me :P (the I'm an intovert one was incorrect)

[@perpetualpleasurist]

I like how you acknowledge you going with the hype trends is how your channel got big. THANK YOU for that honesty.

[@bluecannibaleyes]

This isn’t really a ‘theory’, it’s just easily observable reality to anyone who is remotely paying attention and has a memory longer than a goldfish. Which unfortunately isn’t many people nowadays, thanks to all the distractions we’re constantly bombarded with.

[@cold_bison]

"Thou shalt not make a machine in the image of a human mind." Frank Herbert's writing was waaaay ahead of it's time.

[@username-sm2pw]

Nature is a machine.

[@joelunruh6534]

@@username-sm2pw King Solomon said it's pretty efficient about three thousand years ago.

[@MausOfTheHouse]

Dune was great

[@inuterobleached_outtareach009]

@@MausOfTheHouse I hope this was an attempt at humor and not the latter......

[@erezsolomon3838]

@@inuterobleached_outtareach009 I don't see what you mean to say

[@michestella]

How about the fact that the same movies keep getting remade?

[@AllTimeScary]

It's like a machine just churns out trash scripts of repeated ideas. Can't we make a bot that writes amazing scripts instead? LOL

[@blakea5623]

@@AllTimeScary I'm really looking forward to yet another spiderman movie... hahaha

[@davidk.1917]

Not only are they remade, but they're edited to remove any/all traces of genuine artistic expression that is deemed "problematic". It's reshaping the past to fit this modern bland version of reality.

[@barbmackey3696]

Most people in Hollywood cannot come up with an original thought, even if it bit them in their are.

[@kylehill3643]

@@davidk.1917 It feels like we are in a 'holding pattern' reality where we all got pulled away perhaps we're the ones being 'rejected' not able to make it to the better world so we are placed here till the final judgement day.

[@orangenblue6981]

Twitter used to be so amazing. I made a lot of real, true, human connections in those early days. That was 2010. I can’t even log on to it now.

[@A_Ducky]

My advice to you: talk to as many people who have experienced the old Internet as possible. I'm 45 and remember a lot from my first PC in 1996 til now. Pretty much spent all that time online. It has definitely changed... even though I don't want to admit it to myself just now, coz this video is something I'm deeply passionate about (preserving as many objective memories from the old net)

[@SchardtCinematic]

I miss the late 90s and early 2000's Internet. People with individual websites and message boards. Geocities etc.

[@TheJovialBrit]

I had noticed... I remember over a decade ago the internet was so lively.. Communities, etc. As a highly experienced 3D model artist and games designer - I used to help out with various game engines and such. I used to have a fiery passion to be creative but, due to what the internet has become, that passion seems to have died.. It's the same thing for me every day.. KZbin, Facebook and Gmail.. I actually feel kinda numb to the outside world.. It's so strange but I feel such a disconnection from the world around me. I never used to feel that way.. It's something I've noticed for about 10 years now.. I used to feel such a strong connection to the world but now it just feels so numb.. There is SO much online that draws us in, keeps us inside, keeps us from the outside world.

[@PranaChi369]

Metaverse

[@reddragonemperor1623]

Me too bro this is really serious topic

[@vallstover2960]

Free will choice planet. Put the damn devices down. Sit in silence with everthing off. So peaceful. There is so much useful inforamtion for those of us who want to learn.

[@allisonleader2453]

Turn off your devices and turn on your mind

[@Aaronsbookreviews]

There are some forums where the internet is still real. I am a reef tank enthusiast and there are some great forums where it feels like a real community. Most feeds feel really plastic.

[@char7490]

what makes this video creepy is that it sounds like an AI is making the script for this or even using an AI voice but then I remembered it was made a year ago before that kinda thing was prominent

[@nereid1971]

Something weird I've noticed in KZbin is that KZbin pushes a handful of contributers to me and then when I finally subscribe, poof, no longer on my feed. I have to go and search them out to see new content. I don't even get many notifications, three a week maybe, even though many of the people I follow put out content at least weekly if not more. If I haven't looked at a contributer for a while, the site might let one of their videos pop up to remind me. It's beyond annoying

[@ceohadenough894]

That's so true I've noticed the same thing

[@haydenprice2126]

Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they're not after you - Kurt Cobain

[@anthonyv6962]

That's funny. That is a quote from the book Catch-22 by Joseph Heller Cobain might have said it but credit goes to Heller. I recommend you check out the book.

[@TrineDaely]

@@GladeSwope It's been repeated a lot since Heller.

[@AloeHahh]

@@TrineDaely This is true. I was tripping on acid one time and dropped a deuce and right before I flushed it away, it looked up at me and said these exact words. I'll never forget it

[@TrineDaely]

@@AloeHahh There's my nightmare fuel for the day.

[@bettyschneider5268]

Must be true🎭🇺🇸 Look where he's at now! 😱 😎🎸( Kurt Cobain) May he RIP 🌈💒⛪

[@fluttzkrieg4392]

"Broadcast Yourself" I still remember when that phrase was written just by the side of the YT logo on the top-left of the screen. 99% of youtubers don't broadcast themselves anymore. They broadcast characters.

[@PearsAreOkay]

Well, the first successful Vcaster/VLogger/KZbinr was a character too. LonelyGirl1 was completely fictitious yet captured a great deal of attention.

[@broadcastourselfsXD]

👌🏼👏👏

[@PearsAreOkay]

Just to follow up on my previous comment. Maybe every day people don't want to listen to other every day people talk about their lives. Maybe they want to listen to characters talk about their lives, even if they're made up stories and/or are unrealistic. Maybe that's why comic book characters are so popular. Maybe this could help explain the phenomenon of parasocial relationships. People just want to get their minds off of their everyday routines... I think that's why KZbin has taken such a notable shift from the "Broadcast Yourself" to "Broadcast a Fictional Character"

[@MysterianFilmGroup]

Pretty soon we'll all become fictional characters in real life... check our new feature film still in post-production ... RENT-A-MAN will give you something to chew on.

[@arbitrarylib]

I miss that

[@astraeanova4280]

It's like you've been reading my mind as this is exactly how I've been feeling about the internet for a few years now and I find it all rather depressing. It just feels like I'm being told lies everywhere I look and can't really believe anything I'm being told and I find it very annoying, I wish we could go back to reality and get governments out of our lives as that's who I believe is behind all this nonsense.

[@lancebro121]

I remember one time looking at comments like I always do and then started noticing they weren't even relevant to the video , checked more and more and same thing and took pictures it was bizare

[@varangianguard6448]

Its insane how the internet has gotten censored, could never believe this would happen 8-10 years ago

[@TFrills]

i saw it coming, and I was only 15 in 2012

[@yogijaya2897]

This used to be anarchic

[@numizumi5131]

I remember in 2009 when acta was happening and Obama was getting elected. We SAID this was going to happen. Not many remember

[@slickeddie3146]

I'm almost 40 and experienced the early days of the internet. It's definitely changed for the worse over time. I can see this being true.

[@aceswild5071]

Sounds like something a bot would say 🤔

[@enthusiastofcute]

Everything looks better in Rose Tinted Glasses. Decades from now this era of the internet will be looked at as “the good old days” as well.

[@STATUSBABYYY]

Facts✔️

[@inakiaraquistain5731]

@@enthusiastofcute

[@enthusiastofcute]

@@inakiaraquistain5731 “Iñaki Araquistain” is definitely a randomly generated name no real person would ever have that as a name. Also nice try with the profile pic and stuff on your “account” bot. I see through you

[@j.g.michael3229]

How can someone be wrong about a movie? Likes and dislikes are a matter of personal taste. It's bizarre we even think in these terms. Good job on the video.

[@johng.3740]

I first got on the internet circa 1996, I'm not bragging, I'm pointing it out to give my comment some validity. The old internet was many things: First it was mostly populated by people at universities, this is because the very first people to gain access to the internet starting in the early 1970s were computer researchers at major universities. The old internet was like strolling downtown, yes the biggest building was a library, but there were little cafes, bars, smoke joints, pubs, etc where you could chat with people about all sorts of things. There was the equivalent of people on the street ranting about some set of beliefs, there were meeting places dedicated to researching all sorts of things, at the beginning a huge topic of research were UFOs and aliens. Forums were very important because it's where people with common interests gathered together to discuss topics and help each other, depending on the topic or set of interests, people would get involved in passionate debates. You could often find an answer to an obscure question in forums, in the vast reaches of the internet there was a person who knew the answer and you could ask them. And, in the beginning there was a huge red light district that came alive once the sunset and sometimes even during the day people would be there. The three largest sections of the internet, in the beginning were "the library", "the red light district", and "the UFO area". Most importantly, many if not most of the people you met on the internet were genuine, or at least they did a good job of appearing genuine. The old internet was the time before bots and the paid troll takeover, also the time before, what appears to be, special ops members of the military that quickly try to respond to any discussion of anything that could be construed as opposing the interests of the powers that be. Things are very different right now..... before, in the old internet, people thought they weren't being watched, we believed it....now we're all being watched all the time AND they let us know and they pass judgement. Everything is recorded all the time, everywhere

[@qelapafu]

Someone's getting old. As a "old person" that grew-up sans-internet, this is nothing new. Technology leads>Business catches up and profits> Laws catch up to control. You eventually learn to ignore or be consumed. Problem is not matter how much you know how things happen, you still need to participate on a certain level.

[@jiujitsuguy74]

So if youve identified the problem…

[@mikaruyami]

The reason I avoid using sites like Facebook is that they break the oldest internet safety taboo we got taught when we were young.

[@DJKinney]

Who is "we?"

[@N.Narwhal]

@@DJKinney anonymity

[@marcopeterson805]

@@DJKinney exactly

[@grebsolbsinned5438]

@@DJKinney the enlightened

[@kennyreal8]

Facts

[@codylawler2652]

I quit all social media the second i saw an actual botfarm. Now im full of unending disgust.

[@Shiftypop]

I found this video to be validating and refreshing. Something that humans have going for us is our flexibility and creativity; we might survive like the flexible willow tree against a rigid AI. Some things I’ve found to be helpful and I wish had been told to me early in life: Be skeptical and question everything, especially authority and the sacred, both inside and outside of you. Real Truths welcomes skeptical questioning and is made stronger by it. Learn to trust the feeling inside when you encounter something True.