Oh, so dead internet is, in fact, the plan. Wonderful.
this post was submitted on 04 Jun 2026
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Yeah but it happened a year earlier than planned!
Ahead of schedule you say? The shareholders will be thrilled!
says agentic traffic wasn’t expected to eclipse real people until next year
... which means, it already happened a year or two ago and it is much, much worse than anyone can imagine
Ya fuck at this rate I'm gonna have to go outside to talk to a real person before the end of summer.
Yeah didn't B2B traffic jump over 50% a loong time ago already?
You would think they could only steal the same content so many times
Time for an alternative? Let the bots have the current Internet, we get a new, better, and more secure one.
Reading about the bot presence online feels a lot like reading a horrific eulogy for the internet.
freely and unregulated slop moving around
I'm so sick of these bubble pump articles. Just fucking pop already so we can go on about our lives.
The bubble will not be fun for us either.
Our timeline's Rache Bartmoss is bound to act sooner or later.
You’re absolutely right— and here’s the thing— it happened! Bots get it done 😎
(/s I don’t know what other tells bots have)