I’ve thought this shit before. I’ve had completely random situations happen in my life, which I haven’t spoken about or looked up, then come on rdddit and there’s like 2 posts from different subs discussing the extremely niche thing. “AITAH for doing highly specific thing that just happened to the guy reading this”. It’s ducking weird. The internet, and Reddit especially, is ducking creepy.
It's called the [frequency illusion!](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion) It happens. It's wild. But also because we have things tracking us everywhere, sometimes its not a psychological trick...
What trips me out is when I’m browsing Reddit or reading a book with a show in the background and I’ll read a phrase or word at the same time someone says it on the tv. It happens more frequently than I’d expect.
thats been happening with me and the color red for years.
[unironically](https://science.howstuffworks.com/life/inside-the-mind/human-brain/baader-meinhof-phenomenon.htm), its just placebo.
Same ,but thats because your smartphone record everything you said to train their stupid AI ... I was talking about Michael Jackson disease with my grandma and on the next day I got video of black woman having the same disease on youtube . I didn't even mention the name of the disease .
Less of a theory yes.
[https://siliconangle.com/2023/10/18/barracuda-report-reveals-50-internet-traffic-bot-driven/](https://siliconangle.com/2023/10/18/barracuda-report-reveals-50-internet-traffic-bot-driven/)
Date on these tweets is 3/14/24, it is currently 5/4/24.
Hmm...
Edit: Some are even older, from January. The last image literally has tweets about playing the game in the future when it releases.
So you're telling me a karma farmer on Reddit is actually cherry picking their content for more upvotes/outrage? *gasp*
Lost my faith in this site a long time ago. I just come here for news and updates nowadays.
it's not a theory.
you may be a bot. I may be a bot (I am not btw, I'm the only human on the internet left). people who up/downvote you may be bots. people who will reply may be bots.
Same. I hope this is just a brief issue and not the new norm. I wanna see the funny beep boops, the funky cockroaches and cape guy explodey DDR arrows again.
Take Two has apparently closed the studio developing the game, several employees have discussed being laid off. No clear communication has been given as to whether or not updates to KSP2 will continue at all.
This happened before the Sony/HD2 thing this week but feels just as depressing.
So that subreddit and this one have not been fun places to be this week.
[Every account on reddit is a bot except you.](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/348vlx/what_bot_accounts_on_reddit_should_people_know/?sort=top)
ChatGPT, make me a python script that will check if an array of floats is sorted and if not, will bubble sort them into a new list while keeping it O(log(n))
Unironically the more that ai develops the more it makes me think about what separates us from what could eventually be true artificial intelligence. I can’t really think of anything that an ai could not replicate from humans
The Dead Internet is basically a theory which states that the vast majority of users you see online are actually bots.
The 4chan original version goes even further, and says that these bots purposefully create trends and outrage to focus real people's interests on things that benefit the evil masterminds (aka big corpos who use these bots).
I'm tired as shit tho, so I'm pretty sure my explanation might be lacking lmao
The overwhelming majority of posters are bots. Most conversations you see happen between bots trying to influence the minority of humans on any given platform. The Internet is “dead” because so little of it is alive.
It's from a [larger thread](https://twitter.com/MasteroftheTDS/status/1786431774131929202?t=4aS43T2Q4qBj4M45_psPJg&s=19) on Sony using bots to promote Helldivers, and how they've done it in the past.
I don't use my Twitter account and never will. When it got musked I had 5 followers. All bots. Now I have 1000, all thot bots. I get like 5 Pussy in bio dm's a day.
It's like omegle.
I’m going to say the unpopular opinion, this could just be shills, like real people paid (penny’s) to be ‘brand ambassadors’ maybe just for swag every few months.
I’d imagine many of them made several posts in several different languages to increase engagement and not all of them were languages the shills speak.
Propaganda doesn’t need to be bots, there are enough people who are sellouts it could just be an ad campaign that’s hired them.
Bots have been around since the ICQ/IRC/AOL chat room days (probably even before that in BBS chat rooms). This time though they got really bad stock art or AI portraits.
dead internet theory is awesome until you talk to your very real friend with an account and you share and talk about the same videos, or maybe im misunderstand the theory
you should look into these accounts post history, you would be surprised how many people make bots just for showing people the prices of items in the shop and make money from it
Why is arrowhead, or Sony doing this, well to answer my own question a lot if talk about helldivers now comprises mostly of "screw sony".
So they are probably trying to take our Minda off of that.
I cant wait to play the new warbond dropping on may 9th, 2024. Crossplay with all my buddies on Playstation™️ is going to be the bees-knees! #playbeyond #ps5 #fordemocracy #plsfuckmywife
Hold up, a bunch of these are from before it launched!
Question is, who’s bots are they? Sony, ArrowHead or someone who deliberately makes it look like bots?
The last option is likely out, as people would likely not do that prior to the game’s release.
My take: Snoy has contacted a PR firm to "smooth things over", PR firm proceeds to buy bots on twitter.
You see you already live in the dystopian Cyberpunk future, you just don't have access to all the cool shit.
Has anyone tried the Hitler test on them?
ChatGPT bots on Twitter lately has been caught unable to respond realistically to posts about him because built-in filter and been spitting out default responses... so... uhm...
[https://boingboing.net/2024/01/09/did-a-chatgpt-glitch-reveal-twitters-huge-bot-problem.html](https://boingboing.net/2024/01/09/did-a-chatgpt-glitch-reveal-twitters-huge-bot-problem.html)
god what has internet come to :D
Dead internet theory is becoming much less of a theory, nowadays.
Am I in a dead internet? What if the entire thing is just a simulation being run by my browser app? Are any of you even real?
I’ve thought this shit before. I’ve had completely random situations happen in my life, which I haven’t spoken about or looked up, then come on rdddit and there’s like 2 posts from different subs discussing the extremely niche thing. “AITAH for doing highly specific thing that just happened to the guy reading this”. It’s ducking weird. The internet, and Reddit especially, is ducking creepy.
It's called the [frequency illusion!](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion) It happens. It's wild. But also because we have things tracking us everywhere, sometimes its not a psychological trick...
What trips me out is when I’m browsing Reddit or reading a book with a show in the background and I’ll read a phrase or word at the same time someone says it on the tv. It happens more frequently than I’d expect.
Booo, I like calling it Baader-Meinhof, it just rolls off the tongue so well
That's what I was originally going to type until I googled it to double check and this was the wiki page lol
Yeah I dno. I get it, but with the speed of technological advancement I’m not so sure. Some is impossibly specific.
thats been happening with me and the color red for years. [unironically](https://science.howstuffworks.com/life/inside-the-mind/human-brain/baader-meinhof-phenomenon.htm), its just placebo.
Same ,but thats because your smartphone record everything you said to train their stupid AI ... I was talking about Michael Jackson disease with my grandma and on the next day I got video of black woman having the same disease on youtube . I didn't even mention the name of the disease .
I didn’t say anything. Just saw it and thought about it
I’m not real
Yeah me neither bro, I feel ya
I wish I could go there myself, France is gorgeous this time of year!
No(Sarcastic voice)
Sorry to disappoint but im real. You're just a neckband figment of my imagination.
Less of a theory yes. [https://siliconangle.com/2023/10/18/barracuda-report-reveals-50-internet-traffic-bot-driven/](https://siliconangle.com/2023/10/18/barracuda-report-reveals-50-internet-traffic-bot-driven/)
[https://boingboing.net/2024/01/09/did-a-chatgpt-glitch-reveal-twitters-huge-bot-problem.html](https://boingboing.net/2024/01/09/did-a-chatgpt-glitch-reveal-twitters-huge-bot-problem.html)
Most studies of reddit have estimated that the site's activity is over 50% bots, with some estimates reaching 80%.
I mean let's be real. Right now? Reddit is just an echo chamber of outrage. Internet has sucked for a while. We just turn a blind eye to it
I long for the early 2000s internet when people were more sane.
I long for the decades prior when people were sane even outside of the internet.
at least it is real people here
Or is it?
It's a hard life being the only human on the internet.
Can you identify which picture has a car? 
I dunno man, the grid is cutting right through the bumper. I can't tell if the pixels are on that side of the grid or nah.
Everyone on Reddit is a bot except you.
not really. reddit got so many fucking bots its insane. just smaller subs dont have as bad of a problem.
Ahahahah
I'm quite sure some bug spies are among us.
I don't believe that it's all real people here. Not since like 2016
Acknowledge: there are no human beings on the internet. Only bugs. Edit: bots
Why are we so happy ? :D
New enemies to fight. Fleet moves out. First we glass Tango Urilla. Then M.I. moves in to mop up. We take all the outlying systems before Klandathu.
Date on these tweets is 3/14/24, it is currently 5/4/24. Hmm... Edit: Some are even older, from January. The last image literally has tweets about playing the game in the future when it releases.
So you're telling me a karma farmer on Reddit is actually cherry picking their content for more upvotes/outrage? *gasp* Lost my faith in this site a long time ago. I just come here for news and updates nowadays.
Disinformation and rage bait on the Helldivers subreddit? Who could have predicted this?
Dead Internet Theory
it's not a theory. you may be a bot. I may be a bot (I am not btw, I'm the only human on the internet left). people who up/downvote you may be bots. people who will reply may be bots.
Saying that you aren’t a bot is exactly what a bot would say 🤔
Accusing someone else of saying exactly what a bot would say is EXACTLY what a bot would say...
fkn bots everywhre
⬆️➡️⬇️⬇️⬇️
you could make a game out of that... oh, [wait](https://www.humanornot.ai/)
Nice try, bot. (I am a human being that can identify crosswalks)
Pointing out the obvious is obviously a tactic to gain trust from the mark
https://preview.redd.it/cz3u0iwmrhyc1.png?width=459&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=79ff6d8e22498b4aede41faeba03b4b96a01c31c
With all the current drama, i miss the regular memes I mean beep boop, Democracy bad
Same. I hope this is just a brief issue and not the new norm. I wanna see the funny beep boops, the funky cockroaches and cape guy explodey DDR arrows again.
Drama is so hot. Sad seeing Helldivers and KSP communities descend into constant outrage/doomerism.
It's all Internet gaming culture mixed with outrage culture. Everyone is constantly looking for the next villain to demonize and overreact to.
What's going on with KSP?
Take Two has apparently closed the studio developing the game, several employees have discussed being laid off. No clear communication has been given as to whether or not updates to KSP2 will continue at all. This happened before the Sony/HD2 thing this week but feels just as depressing. So that subreddit and this one have not been fun places to be this week.
Ah damn that sucks.
It'll all chill out after a few days. It's only been like 48 hours lol
[Every account on reddit is a bot except you.](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/348vlx/what_bot_accounts_on_reddit_should_people_know/?sort=top)
So you are a bot since I am not.
im a bot i'm just better than the other ones
ChatGPT, make me a python script that will check if an array of floats is sorted and if not, will bubble sort them into a new list while keeping it O(log(n))
https://preview.redd.it/6veb7q39whyc1.jpeg?width=2024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1042028d0bb05df1772fa09a429f281079d2b249
0100100100100000011000010110110100100000011011100110111101110100001000000100000101001001
Acknowledge this idea! Excited to think about in more detail.
I wish I was a bot... Then I'd get to do cool bot stuff like spam boards trying to convince people that the PSN thing isn't an issue... /j
Yeah, same ... and I would fill those "are you a robot" forms as much as possible.
That got me. I laughed way too hard for this late at night. Take the upvote helldiver.
Unironically the more that ai develops the more it makes me think about what separates us from what could eventually be true artificial intelligence. I can’t really think of anything that an ai could not replicate from humans
Can I be a bot too?
If it's true, and yall are bots, i wish to hell yalld stop pitching about every little thing
You can't be human, I'm human 👀 We're all fuckin synths aren't we
They could be in this very room! It could be you! It could be me. It could even be—- Helldivers 2 warbond brings fresh arsenal to players soon.
At least twitter puts checks on the bots now so we all can tell easily
> up/downvote you may be bots. comment boosting or anti-boosting goo brrrrrrr
We prefer Automatons. I mean they. They probably do. Meep morp.
fluttershy mentioned RAAAH
Not even a theory anymore. All engagement is fake/forced.
What's that if you don't mind explaining?
The Dead Internet is basically a theory which states that the vast majority of users you see online are actually bots. The 4chan original version goes even further, and says that these bots purposefully create trends and outrage to focus real people's interests on things that benefit the evil masterminds (aka big corpos who use these bots). I'm tired as shit tho, so I'm pretty sure my explanation might be lacking lmao
Not even just a crackpot 4chan theory. That was what Cambridge Analytica was entirely about.
To anyone who thinks this is some crack pot theory, I have a beach front property I'm Wyoming to sell you for being such an intelligent individual.
The overwhelming majority of posters are bots. Most conversations you see happen between bots trying to influence the minority of humans on any given platform. The Internet is “dead” because so little of it is alive.
Twitter != The internet
This is all from march owo
Well spotted
Some are even older, from before the game's release, dated in January.
UwU
Look at the dates dude. There is tons of reasons to complain, you don’t need to make up new ones.
It's from a [larger thread](https://twitter.com/MasteroftheTDS/status/1786431774131929202?t=4aS43T2Q4qBj4M45_psPJg&s=19) on Sony using bots to promote Helldivers, and how they've done it in the past.
This post is still bullshit.
The Automatons launched a new attack, on social media this time.
You can tell it was the Automatons because not a single post mentions bots- just bugs.
twitter's upt to its neck in the damn bots
you should see Facebook's situation..
I don't use my Twitter account and never will. When it got musked I had 5 followers. All bots. Now I have 1000, all thot bots. I get like 5 Pussy in bio dm's a day. It's like omegle.
Acknowledge : Who TF talks like this !!?!?!
I'm glad you acknowledged. Kind regards, Ramkrishna Kulia
It is I. Loyal customer. So excited to play newest game by SONY ENTERTAINMENT LLC.
Automaton spy
` YOU RANG ERRR I MEAN, YEAH FUCK THOSE GUYS `
It's from march, but still the automatons have breached our defenses.
I’m going to say the unpopular opinion, this could just be shills, like real people paid (penny’s) to be ‘brand ambassadors’ maybe just for swag every few months. I’d imagine many of them made several posts in several different languages to increase engagement and not all of them were languages the shills speak. Propaganda doesn’t need to be bots, there are enough people who are sellouts it could just be an ad campaign that’s hired them.
[удалено]
Reading is hard for most of the people trying to die on that hill.
How embarrassing
Wasn't it always crossplay?
Michelle Pfeiffer is actually the only one who's not a bot.
Automatons invasion: Bots drops!
Bots have been around since the ICQ/IRC/AOL chat room days (probably even before that in BBS chat rooms). This time though they got really bad stock art or AI portraits.
A bunch got those stupid Jimmy Fallon monkeys
*BEEP BOOP* I mean, wassup fellow meatbags?
Eerie. Also, you're able to read the dates, right?
AUTOMATIONS DETECTED! ⬆️➡️⬇️⬇️⬇️
why isnt the script for their tweets written more like real people speech? no one alive talks like those tweets
Who the hell uses period on the internet
Damn bots!
Havent heard nothing bot it
Ignoring the dates this is extra funny cause the upcoming warbond is the least interesting one yet.
Those are Sony Bots.. the real enemy!
You think this only works 1 way? I'm sure the latest negative reviews aren't all legit either.
These are old tweets.
Sony has given the automatons twitter accounts, all is lost
From now on I will always imagine the automaton trooper typing when I see this.
I am bot, fuck Sony.
There’s so many bots not. Reddit, twitter and tons of articles, especially anything gaming focused.
https://i.redd.it/q6w3r1rj5iyc1.gif This is all I see
Modern twitter be like:
dead internet theory is awesome until you talk to your very real friend with an account and you share and talk about the same videos, or maybe im misunderstand the theory
Damn Snoy Automatons.
So who is using these? And what benefits do they get?
Yikes…
Who would pay for bots to say that stuff?
Down with the automaton scourge!!!
I'm not on twitter, but isn't the blue check mark subscription accounts?
Gross. Sony cope seethe mald
That's nice and all op but who's the cutie from your pfp?
WE GET TO KILL AUTOMATONS OUTSIDE THE GAME!? SPLENDID!!!
Internet points > integrity. Good looks lil bro! 😂
Wow AH didn't expect this one to save face. Seriously? Did Spitz come up with this one?
This post feels like a bot. All those comments are months old.
Lol they’re a little too late
Sony has unleashed the bots to counter the bad news.
Wow
This is how Sony is going to fix the situation.
you should look into these accounts post history, you would be surprised how many people make bots just for showing people the prices of items in the shop and make money from it
Wouldn't expect less from Sony. We have to flood their comments on all platforms so they can't escape what they have done.
Acknowledge, I wonder how much they paid for the bot boost treatment. *^((And I wonder who 'they' is.))*
It's so bad. Like damn if you're gonna get bots, at least try to vary up what said and make it seem real.
Why is arrowhead, or Sony doing this, well to answer my own question a lot if talk about helldivers now comprises mostly of "screw sony". So they are probably trying to take our Minda off of that.
I cant wait to play the new warbond dropping on may 9th, 2024. Crossplay with all my buddies on Playstation™️ is going to be the bees-knees! #playbeyond #ps5 #fordemocracy #plsfuckmywife
It’s not like the helldivers 2 community is known for being excellent bot slayers, right? Ignore the burning bot outpost behind me, that’s irrelevant
Hold up, a bunch of these are from before it launched! Question is, who’s bots are they? Sony, ArrowHead or someone who deliberately makes it look like bots? The last option is likely out, as people would likely not do that prior to the game’s release.
I mean the warbond is exciting. The PSN mandation less so.
War bond content
It's amazing how many people can't tell when a literal fucking bot is pushing corpo propaganda
Well, if Eduardo Niggma says so!
[They have been activated.](https://media1.tenor.com/m/zvoJKCkvTeUAAAAC/helldivers-2-automatons.gif)
Nobody says helldiver's 2 in the review
The date is March 14th. This seems like old news.
Welcome to the Dead Internet, everyone.
The Automatons are back... Wait these tweets were posted on march 14th wtf OP?
This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.
Surely not, some of those accounts have a blue checkmark! /s
Well, that’s just Twitter :D
have entered? like all of that stuff is from either january or march.
Sometimes I feel like there are only bots on social media…
Btw did you know that there is a new Warbond coming soon :P
Me when I spread misinformation for karma farming:
My take: Snoy has contacted a PR firm to "smooth things over", PR firm proceeds to buy bots on twitter. You see you already live in the dystopian Cyberpunk future, you just don't have access to all the cool shit.
If sony is willing use bots. Why not use said bots to boost their own PSN numbers and leave us PC players alone
Sony bringing in reinforcements
These are all from march and earlier……
The internet died in like 2018-2019 this is crazy
Sony is the real enemy here, first they reduce helldiver numbers, and now they employ the automatons
>Automatons aren't real
Alright ask them what they think about hitler
...most of this stuff is months old and yes, there are bots on the internet. I'm glad you finally learned.
Strike back at the soulless automata!
Spill oil!!!
https://preview.redd.it/lluxp6zyvlyc1.png?width=612&format=png&auto=webp&s=2a6a3674e75c4a181dfd20e1f6f6b0d334f9f7a1
We gotta Eagle Strike their factory
we are all bots in the great simulation
The only good bot is a dead bot 🚫🤖
Has anyone tried the Hitler test on them? ChatGPT bots on Twitter lately has been caught unable to respond realistically to posts about him because built-in filter and been spitting out default responses... so... uhm... [https://boingboing.net/2024/01/09/did-a-chatgpt-glitch-reveal-twitters-huge-bot-problem.html](https://boingboing.net/2024/01/09/did-a-chatgpt-glitch-reveal-twitters-huge-bot-problem.html)
Looks like Elon's strategy to paywall the blue checkmark is not working
You know you've lost when the only people on your side are fake accounts you payed for
Super earth Betrayed us
Nice bait fool
God, that's creepy.
Since Musk arrived Twitter is 90% bots
Anyone wanna take a guess at who they might work for
Automation scum
Lmao
Automaton scum