The Dead Internet Theory posits, as the name would suggest, a dead internet, by which it means the internet has been nearly entirely taken over by artificial intelligence. The so-called theory got a lot of traction after a post appeared on Agora Road’s Macintosh Cafe, by one IlluminatiPirate, in which he outlines, at great length, the idea that the internet is basically devoid of much humanity compared to the internet of 2007. He even gave a TLDR in which he states “Large proportions of the supposedly human-produced content on the internet are actually generated by artificial intelligence networks in conjunction with paid secret media influencers in order to manufacture consumers for an increasing range of newly-normalized cultural products.” Is this just glorified solipsism or is there something more going on? This theory is so obscure that there isn’t even a Wikipedia page for it, but we’re going to explore it today.