![]() The most likely thing is nothing will change and I’ll just keep going along at the same mid level of success. Someone could see my work and decide I should be bullied into killing myself. Then again it could also go extremely the opposite way. Some person somewhere might see my work and write a favorable article. If I tried to start today there’s really no way I’d be able to gain a foothold.Īll that said, the algorithms that decide the fate of everyone online might randomly smile on me one day. ![]() I’m lucky in that I started at a time when webcomics were fashionable and you didn’t have to excel at them to gain a following. There’s just so much going on that one more thing that doesn’t instantly grab you is fighting a nearly unwinnable war. Even if every single reader posted a link to their social media tonight chances are only a handful of people would navigate to the site, a few might look around a little, but that’s it. The internet may not be dead, but it has cancer, and it may be terminal.įor a regular content creator like me the algorithm is a lot to contend with. If you go by sheer volume of just comments AI makes up many times more activity than humans on the internet by far. If this site didn’t have a scrubber & me cleaning things up it would be a ridiculous mess. The overwhelming majority of comments on the internet, on sites that aren’t regularly scrubbed, are bots. ![]() If you try to use an unregulated search engine the hits are awash in Russian bot pages, or Chinese ones. ![]() Dead Internet Theory is presented more like a creepypasta than anything else if you go by the first Google hits. We’re living in a time where the curtain of evil has been pulled back far enough that crazy theories really don’t seem all that far fetched. ![]()
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