the irony of this is that Perplexity is posting this one 🤣

@nixCraft https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory

> The dead Internet theory is a conspiracy theory which asserts that since around 2016 the Internet has consisted mainly of bot activity and automatically generated content manipulated by algorithmic curation, as part of a coordinated and intentional effort to control the population and minimize organic human activity.

Dead Internet theory - Wikipedia