![]() But as for me, man, go ahead and try to make me upset by calling me names I’ve been called the most awful things imaginable that nothing anyone can say will phase me. If mean words get to be too much, it means you need to turn off the computer for a while. It also means that people have to learn how to deal with, or ignore, folks and opinions they don’t like, instead of hiding behind block features or have mods who protect them like mama bear and her cubs. When mods “turn the other way” it means people can actually talk to each other instead of having conversations ended before they begin. ![]() Yeah, the guy who started it is a “race realist”, but far from him getting others dogpiled, his own user base mocks him. What’s not to like about that?Įh, see, at the risk of being argumentative, that’s exactly the non-problem that sites like Facebook try to “solve” by sterilizing everything. It’s ever so cheap to do so & I promise I will misuse your money more or less the same way a charity will. My plan is not well conceived… I would be very pleased if you did support my work though. I was kind of hoping the comic would do it and I wouldn’t need to sell things any further. What I must focus on now is enticing you, who have not decided to support me via one of the above links, into doing so. If they want to have their way with my old livejournal I’m not all that bothered.Īnyway, all that’s as may be. Of course no one but bots are left to interact so it’s basically pointless. Parts of the internet die off as people move away from them & then bots tend to take over. ![]() It’s certainly better than being targeted for destruction.Īs someone who lives or dies by the internet I’m obviously interested in ideas like dead internet theory. 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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