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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/HumanNutrStudent on 2024-09-10 21:17:45+00:00.

Original Title: TIL about the dead internet theory, an online conspiracy theory that asserts that the internet now consists mainly of bot activity and automatically generated content manipulated by algorithmic curation to intentionally manipulate the population and minimize organic human activity