Dead Internet Theory Revisited: From Forum Meme to Measurable Bot Surge The Dead Internet Theory began as a fringe post on imageboards around 2016, claiming that most of the web was already fake. For this article, I reviewed the February 2025 arXiv survey on Dead Internet Theory, the 20…
12 AI Tools I Tested on Free Plans So You Don't Have to Start Blind The gap between AI hype and practical usability has never been more confusing for newcomers. For this article, I tested twelve AI tools across free plans for thirty days, logging real tasks from writing and image generati…
Bark and Canopy Under the Microscope: Do AI Parental Apps Detect Bullying? For this article, I reviewed official documentation from Bark and Canopy , analyzed three independent test reports from 2024-2025, and compared their bullying detection claims against primary sources. I consulted primary sourc…
The Algorithmic Takeover Is Not a Prediction. It's Already Happening The question is no longer whether artificial intelligence will dominate content creation on the internet. The question is whether any human-produced content will survive alongside it — and whether the systems desig…