The Dead Internet Theory
In: Technology
Imagine you go to an orchestral show, but the gimmick is that you are blind folded.
you can hear them play, and you can hear people cheering and clapping around you, so you are enjoying your live orchestral performance.
Now imagine while you are blind folded there is no orchestra, its all prerecorded instruments, timed up to sound like real people playing.
Likewise there is nobody else in the arena, they are all just speakers clapping and cheering at the right times.
Meaning you are not actually at a live show, its all fake and done automatically, but how would you know if you are blindfolded.
Thats the idea. That bots makes posts and bots makes comments and bots upvotes comments to make more comments, all in the service of selling something or gaining karma, so you can have entire reddit posts that are done by bots, commented by bots and upvoted by bots, and yet it looks like a normal post to you.
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