Dead Internet Theory Isn't Just a Conspiracy – I Tracked Bot Activity From 2024 to 2026, and It's Accelerating
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…