Good reminder and possibly the call of the year. 2026 may be the year we finally feel the peak of the “dead internet,” about ten years after the term was coined.
One potential upside is that we might diversify our engagement away from social media as it becomes increasingly bogged down by bot- and AI-generated (and human-copied) content. So, the “death” of the internet might actually be the birth of a more intentional way of connecting. Let’s see if and where the sloppypasta stops.
Source 1 (Stop Sloppypasta) – Source 2 (Dead Internet theory) – Source 3 (Human vs. LLM-generated content)