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Dead Internet Theory. Okay, so for over the past few months, this theory has been taking the internet by storm. I'm pretty sure the theory started on Reddit or something like that, but it's pretty much the idea that the internet is mostly bots rather than human activity.

And when I first saw this, I was like, bro, there's no way. Bots are not taking over. This can't be possible. And now that I'm starting to think about it, the amount of bots online are growing every single day. So one day, I feel like this theory may actually come true. And don't get me wrong. A lot of people use social media every day. According to Google, over 5 billion people use social media, which is just crazy to hear. But one day, the amount of bots may overtake that number of people.

And now the theory gets super deep, so I don't want to go too far into it. But some of the shit I witnessed online this year, yeah, I'm starting to get convinced that it's going to happen. If you enjoy the content around here, consider subscribing. I'm trying to hit a million subs by the end of the year. Without further ado, let's just get into the video. If you go on any social media app,

to be honest with you. You will look in the comment section and you'll see some comments that make you think to yourself, damn bro, there is no way a real human being wrote this. Looks like they fell asleep on the keyboard or they're trying to create a password. I don't know what's going on. And also they'll just throw a- This episode is brought to you by Indeed.

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A bunch of random emojis in there as well. But yeah, we're going to be going over a bunch of things in today's video that I think are slowly making this theory true, especially with the rise of AI as well. So yeah, speaking of comments, we'll start with YouTube Shorts comments. Now, a couple months ago, there was a lot of popular videos going over comments that were either left by an AI-generated user or a five-year-old on their iPad.

There is absolutely no in between. One comment that I saw floating around the internet a lot, the comment read, damn is, followed by a laughing emoji and a confetti emoji. And now that that comment went viral, a bunch of people are commenting it ironically now, which is kind of funny. I'm probably going to get some comments that say damn is on this video. But yeah, most of these comments, you just can't even comprehend them. It's like you're trying to read hieroglyphics or sometimes it looks like it's random code generated by a robot. And if you

open a YouTube Shorts comment section. I guarantee you, in the first five seconds of looking, you'll find one. And especially if it's about something so brain-melting, like Italian brain rot, you will definitely find one of these. And not only that, of course, there is a bunch of comments that were confirmed made by bots. For whatever reason, on every video posted, you will see a bot with a girl's ass in the profile picture. And it will say some bullshit like,

Who else is watching this in 2037? And they will just spam it with likes and it will make it look like it's a real authentic comment. In every video, this shit just pisses me off. So I have to go and find the comment and manually delete it. It will be at the top of my comment section. Doesn't matter.

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Or what it says. And there's so many of them. They keep multiplying. It's ridiculous. It's not like once I get rid of one, it's all set and done. No, I just have to keep blocking them over and over again. Or there's some comments that are left by a default profile picture. And they'll say something like,

claim your one hour ticket. Yeah, bro, you're right. I got to get my one hour ticket ASAP, bro. I got to claim it and be an OG on this video. Now, these type of comments, I feel like is what really kicked off the whole discussion with dead internet theory. But whether or not you think dead internet theory is real, something you can't deny 100% is that the bots on YouTube are literally everything.

And now not only that, recently I've been seeing videos of Facebook Reels comments going viral as well. Facebook Reels is, yeah, it's pretty much just Instagram Reels, but for old heads. Or maybe it's just for bots. Maybe nobody actually uses that shit. I don't even know. But as far as I know, I don't think I've ever encountered somebody in my life that said to me, yo bro, let me send you this Facebook Reel, bro. This shit was hilarious. You gotta see this, bro. It had me rolling on the floor. But Facebook Reels has also been full of AI content.

And a lot of people in the comment section are confused. And they don't know whether or not it's AI or real. Like, bro, how do you not? Okay, I get it. Some things, it's kind of hard to tell whether or not it's AI. Like if I download a PNG of something for a YouTube video, sometimes I can't really tell if it's AI or not. But bro, this video right here on screen is clearly AI.

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Like, these are the type of videos that have been blowing up on Facebook Reels. And these videos of the AI cat, okay? Like, it just makes me shed a tear, man. It makes me cry. This backstory and lore, it's just so inspiring. I really need this type of content in my life. But yeah, let's just take a look at some of these comments, shall we? Are the really true or just edited there? Oh, sigh, amazing. Thank you for posting. Okay, I get it. It's scary how fast AI is moving and how fast it's advancing, but bro,

There is no way that you looked at this shit and thought it was actually real. Grandkids was laughing in their chops. Okay. Maybe my sense of humor isn't advanced enough, but I don't know what's funny about this AI cat video. Oh, so funny. You and me blow. Oh, whoa. All right.

I am not reading the rest of that what the okay I thought YouTube shorts had the more dead comments but nah this is worse bro this is much worse I don't know if they just opened up Siri just started saying some random shit I I don't know what happened here but personally I'm good I think that's enough for Facebook reels but yes speaking of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg himself is now cooking up AI Facebook profiles why the hell is Facebook doing this genuinely I don't know but

This right here has got to be the strongest point for dead internet theory that I've seen. Mark Zuckerberg is apparently testing these AI generated profiles and they're trying to mimic real life account activity, which is crazy. What is the purpose of this? I don't really know. I think that just defeats the whole purpose of Facebook.

Like, what is the point of having AI profile pictures on a social media site that was supposed to quote-unquote connect people through the internet or whatever the hell they say? And now they're just putting artificial people on there? Yeah, bro, I don't know. I'm just lost. I'm not trying to see these dudes type the latest meme in the comment section or whatever it is. The day that happens, that's when I know AI is gonna take our place.

AI is going to be the one starting the trends. Everything will be ran by AI. Humor will be AI generated. People will laugh at shit made by AI. Well, actually, that's already happening. But I don't know what's good with this AI slop on the internet. I have no idea what's up with that. But people have made shit like...

brain rot like I mentioned earlier in the video. Now this shit is the most brain melting thing on planet Earth. I think this was the point I realized I'm officially at the age where I'm starting to become out of touch with internet memes. This, it just makes no sense to me. I guess it's just

AI-generated characters with lore and backstories. And some of the backstories are bad, really bad. And then we got the Tim Cheese lore. Like, what the fuck is Tim Cheese? Apparently, this is the latest and greatest lore I've been missing out on with Tim Cheese and John Pork, Marvin Beak. I'm just lost for... I don't know what the hell's going on on the internet right now. And now we got AI art. Okay, we can't forget this. And I guess it looks cool sometimes, but a lot of these...

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Anyway, give it a try at mintmobile.com slash switch. Upfront payment of $45 for three-month plan equivalent to $15 per month required. Intro rate first three months only, then full price plan options available. Taxes and fees extra. See full terms at mintmobile.com. People are calling themselves artists. Like they're comparing themselves to actual artists. I don't know, dude. You literally just typed up a

prompt and reattempted it like four times and created an absolute cinematic AI art piece or whatever the fuck you want to call it. I don't know. And sometimes people will sell these AI pictures in stores and shit like that. Like for example, Hobby Lobby has been a big one recently. Hobby Lobby is where you could get the most goaded pictures of all time. There is some absolute heat at Hobby Lobby. Go to Hobby Lobby. That's where the heat is.

Okay, what the fuck am I looking at, bro? You know what? I'm copying it. I'm hanging it up in my room. It's happening. But yeah, these artists that are like actually painting and drawing or whatever will grind for hours on end just for these AI artists to generate a

picture in a matter of seconds. But hey, man, at the end of the day, it's really up to who's seeing the art. You know, me personally, I may not like some AI art, but you can really do the bare minimum and call it art. Like somebody really just stuck a goddamn banana on a canvas and everybody was just blown away by it. And it was sold for like hundreds of thousands of dollars. AI music. Now I've seen a lot of people starting to use AI in their music. Sometimes I see these parodies online of people or characters singing a song and it's like

balls rolling down a maze. This was definitely like the weirdest genre of video I have ever seen. But there's actually people out here AI generating songs of artists. Like a couple years back, there was this Drake leak that went viral and everyone thought that shit was real. And they were out here waiting for the new Drake to drop. Me personally though, I'm cool off that new Drake. I'm sleeping good the night Drake drops. And artists like Drake, for example, featured the

The one and only A.I. Tupac and Snoop Dogg on his Kendrick Lamar diss track, Tailor Made Freestyle. This dude really got the whole squad of Autobots on his track, bro. That's crazy. And at that point, he already lost. There was no saving him. Another artist I can think of that uses A.I. is Kanye. And...

I don't even know if there's any Kanye fans left in 2025. They're definitely all gone now. Or maybe some people still go back to the classics, but his new shit, nobody is bumping that. After the nitrous and whatever the hell this Twitter crash out was in February.

or whatever the fuck he wore to this interview. We're not talking about it. And there's also a lot more artists getting accused of using AI as well. Like for example, The Weeknd and Cardi were accused of using AI on Timeless. Now, I don't know what you guys think about that, but I'm gonna have to say my goat might be washed on that one.

Unfortunately, that may have to be the truth on that one. All right, I'm gonna have to put my... This message is brought to you by Abercrombie & Fitch. I've been ready for summer for a while, and now it's finally time for summer outfits. With the trip coming up, the A&F Vacation Shop has me covered.

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Pride as a Cardi fan aside and just accept the truth. But in my opinion, I just feel like that just ruins the entire purpose of music. The whole purpose of making music is to feel like an emotional or personal connection to the song or the beat, whatever it is that you're hearing. And I feel like AI just takes the whole purpose out of that. And speaking of an emotional connection, we got AI chatbots.

They're implementing AI chatbots on literally every social media platform you can think of. Instagram, they're already putting them on there. And there's like literally anything you can think of. Apparently I can speak to an egg. And even Snapchat has their own AI assistant. Now I'm going to assume these social media platforms have seen the rise of character AI or other AI chatbot websites. And some people are so down bad to the point where they want an

AI girlfriend and they will talk to one of these chatbots like it's their actual girlfriend. Don't people actually want like a real human connection? I don't know, bro. This title might be super overdramatic. I don't know what I'm going to title it yet. AI is taking over the world or dead internet theory is officially real. I don't know. I got to pay the bill somehow. But yeah, if you enjoyed the video, you will like this video about the dumbest internet debates. Just click on it.