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the biggest and small sites or social media are getting highly controlled. even legal or safe content are eliminated by shadow banning or it does not appear in a feed/follow page until you go directly to person's profile. another shadow banning technique is content that does not appear unless you follow each other. it's heavily sanitized while increasing ad/sponsored content. if there's a big app/site that has still has some of the old internet, it's twitter or X. There is still some craziness or surprising things or awful with it, adult content occasionally appears if you are account is legal age .
Love how the pinned comment is spam, the opening, and closing of your video...spam. Take your content off this platform if you actually want to be part of the change you're suggesting could be on the horizon. Instead of being a useful Capitalist, take a stand and create on your own site that you create.
Sorry, but the evidence-free hopium at the end is useless. Why is it so difficult, for these types of educational channels to go the extra mile and think beyond the limits of conversation? This channel, like many others I follow are so good at any other topic; but always fail when the cause of the problem lies outside the narrow view of the system. The profit motive have killed the art of painting, by the "modernism revolution". It is an IQ test today; if you like "modern art" that could have been made by a monkey, you failed. The profit motive have killed truth in journalism. The profit motive infantilized television. The profit motive have killed nuanced music, by corporatism in the music industry. The profit motive have killed good, original, passion projects in storytelling in movies. The profit motive have killed even PC gaming when it became big enough right after the 90s. Everything that eventually moves enough money to attract big corps is destroyed, to substitute thoughtful quality by mindless quantity, that manipulates the public's psychological shortcomings; the surest way to the biggest profit. Money motive is absolute poison to any and all forms of creativity, originality, passion: Quality in art. It happened to every form of art or communication form, and it's happening now to each internet facet, that holds even more interest since control of it is a pure form of power. Like TV was. Capitalism. Why is it so difficult to acknowledge...?
RIP to the old internet. 1999-2006 was such a great time. The internet was fun, it felt like you were exploring it, now it feels like it is exploring you.
True, it is indeed exploring you. In the name of personalisation, you’re now required to sign in to supposedly get a better experience, while they watch you and come to know all that you like or dislike and then they start controlling your experience😢
Ironically the internet is more dangerous now, that is become owned by private companies then it was back in the "old west lawless days" You had to specifically look for dangerous stuff to end up in far-right pipelines Today is been handfed to 14y.o. Boys on any corporate owned social media I would trust a unsupervised teen with old day internet I don't trust my parents with the current state of the internet
no literally im actually terrified of how the internet has started to affect me as a person. I feel like ive lost years down the drain purely to scrolling, and after a conversation the other day about it with one of my friends ive been able to look at it all from outside of the box and its honestly disgusting. it feels like we’re in an apocalypse tbh… just look around when you go out, everyone is glued to their phones kids and adults alike. its gotten to the point that ive ordered a button phone and im planning on smashing this one when it arrives. i just want my life back man
That's exactly why I have a 'flip-phone'. I work in IT, and colleagues think it's an amusing idiosyncrasy. For me, I just want to be able to make phone calls. No interest in anything more than that :)
I feel the same. I've started to think the great filter is just incompetence. Any tech revolution leads to it growing faster than they can keep up and they end up just dying off over to 1000 cuts. Look how the world's health has plummeted
Nah. Ppl just don't know how to deal with their addictive patterns. The internet is a super powerful tool, a wild big bull which only the best can ride
Another thing to consider. Ads are a form of spam. It's unwanted by most people and it's annoying. It stops consumption of content and it wastes computer resources on both the server and client end.
It can go past spam to include stalking and harassment. I remember the feminists complaining about being catcalled, but I generally would prefer to be catcalled to being intrusively advertised too.
@@elinope4745 the fact our phones are being used to advertise to us...imagine if it was used to detect crime...I say it's only a matter of time before that becomes a reality
Trying to find information from search engines has become narrower and narrower. Search engines are reducing the amount of access to information by a huge amount. The constant repetition of the same search results that go over pages and pages and alternatives are stifled or non existent. I can find more information in old books now.
I've found I have to go the Wayback machine to see old website pages. Recently I was looking up some genealogy and history pages, and the only way I could see the information was by using the internet archive. I feel like Google and Bing are so curated they're almost useless. ....except for shopping. But trying to find information outside the narrative is becoming more and more difficult.
One of the quickest ways to see this effect is to see how common a search result is followed by “reddit”. Why? Because people want input from other people, not from what collective organizations telling us what we should hear and what we shouldn’t. When I want to find a solution to something broken I ask Reddit, when I want to find the best way to find something or treat something or fix something, I ask Reddit.
That can be helpful, especially for tech related questions, but Reddit is also largely taken over by bots and information manipulation. If you look at their front page, it is primarily populated with blatant political propaganda (for one specific American political interest group to be specific), celebrity bullcrap, and other drivel
@@WillowWispFlame Exactly, and this was made plainly apparent following this disaster of an election, given that the pervasive astroturfing of reddit made it seem like a shamala victory was all but guaranteed.
You say that but the carnage that would follow you would probably not be greatfull for A huge amount of businesses rely on the internet now and have been handed down to Genarations that were never taught the way to do things without the internet.
@@SheyBowater im optimistic about that though, gives people a chance to be creative again. people still need eachothers resources, so business isnt just going to tank. it may go down a bit as people settle in, but it wont be a HUGE shock aside whiny babies and Tech CEOs crumbling.
lol say goodbye to all of your money, ability to shop online, ability to pay bills, ours lives are so intertwined with the internet it will literally destroy the world for many years.
You can always lay down your phone or stand up from your chair and go on a walk or anything else that be on the internet Youll soon realize that it does not really matter
Almost like a bait & switch. It was interesting until we had to rely on it for everything. Then, it became addictive and monotonous. Now they just have 24/7 access to our brains (pretty much).
And yet, even for the most savvy, this is becoming increasingly difficult. I now question anything that's recommended to me on this website. Heck, the other day this random band popped up my feed that was great, right up my alley. But as I kept watching their covers and originals, I was squinting at my screen wondering "is this an actual band, or did UA-cam generate this for me?". After a while I realized I was losing my mind, and these guys were in fact a real band just jamming out in their bedroom, but the fact that I sat there questioning my own reality for 20 minutes as opposed to simply enjoying good new music was depressing.
That "intuition" is where we get "do your own research", and all the "fake news" plebs from. No one knows what is real any more. We live in a sea of opinionated echo chambers.
Funny how this doesn't even address the main contention of the "Dead Internet Theory" which is that the internet has become a Potemkin Village, where all search results have been reduced to a closely curated and limited output. Most of the data on the web is kept from us.
Note the fact that large parts of the internet no longer display timestamps, but translate them into horribly inaccurate strings like "2 months ago" or even "1 year ago" when it's been 20 months. You're not supposed to go back a year and know in what order things happened. The past is intentionally being puréed into some kind of content soup.
Yes and the only problem with that is the channels that constantly pump out videos so your feed is 75% them. Makes me want to unsubscribe, it’s “news” anyway, so it’s basically someone else’s opinion.
@@saphire82 I've noticed that those massive video dumps tend to be from schools and news media channels, and wonder if it's part of an establishment plan to push me to ignore the common people.
Do you guys know a good search engine? Google really seems to only deliver spam nowadays. I would like a search engine where I dont have 10 advertisements to my search results before I get to content that is not advertised but still have to question why it is there.
I first got online in 1995. It held so much promise, and, to be fair, it has Delivered on much of that promise. But it has also brought so many massive problems I never would have anticipated
I am always amazed by these videos where the creator has a whole story from A to Z of something profound like we should go out, meet people l, live life and live it true. And then end it with a sponsorship. No one escapes the establishment and hey! Everyone’s gotta eat
I miss the internet in the 90's. AOL "you've got mail!" AIM screen names. IRC. Geocities. Yahoo chat rooms. What a time to be alive! I'm so nostalgic over that time in my life.
It was fun! I remember building websites with HTML (they were crappy but fun for a young teen)..this was 96/97. Back then most people weren't on the internet so it felt like a club only for computer literate people lol. It was slow but it was charming and felt more warm. Now everyone is on it with a phone in their pocket and it's cold feeling out there. Even youtube turned into a money making clickbait junk yard
The interests of greedy companies, algorithms, bots and the monetization of everything has made the Internet no longer just a place to get information, socialize and have fun, but a place for ads, slowly frying your attention span, ads, attention seekers, ads, misinformation everywhere, ads, they want to know everything about you, ads, they control you without you knowing it and lastly, ADS. It's becoming less and less enjoyable to be here.
blame the corporations if you want. you could equally argue it's been infested with lazy shlubs who actually WANTED the corporations to take over because they were too tarded to use 2006 internet. I know ALOT of boomers who prefer new internet to old internet. And ALOT of younger NPC types who don't even remember the old internet and when you tell them about it just say "sounds ripe for transphobia I hate the idea" -- so it isn't just a matter of greedy corporations. It's a matter of lazy and stupid people, mad at other people for going out on their own that made new internet the new internet. The corporations just took advantage of what the people were demonstrating they wanted. People can't admit this to themselves because it's WAY emotionally easier to admit "corporations are greedy" than to admit "society as a whole is dysfunctional and wanted this outcome"
@@johntiger5 wrote, _"Since man first walked the earth. Greed is a human trait."_ Just because something is a human trait, doesn't imply that it's good or that it should be tolerated, much less deliberately cultivated. The drive toward reproduction is also a human trait, but in contemporary society, that doesn't imply that we ought to fug everything that pings our drive to do so. And with that in mind, the problem with 'greed as a human trait' is that it's too often regarded as something to be tolerated. But corporate interests take that 'human trait' to extremes so far beyond rationality that it is, and it ought to be, regarded as pathological. So again, for emphasis: Just because something is a human trait, we ought not to imagine that we ought to accept it in all forms of expression, and to all degrees of expression.
A video about something everyone knows is a problem, thus making it easily-relatable, dubbed-over stock-footage, and an ad-read right off the bat it's over
I read about people trained for writing in a conversional tone (e.g. universities, enterprises etc.) being accused of using chatgpt and even flagged in scientific theses because this is the style chatgpt is trained to use. Some (doctoral) students reported that they use AI detectors and add mistakes to passages because up to 30% of their thesis was flagged as AI generated. Now, AI is producing more and more spam while humans with excellent writing skills lower their quality of the work intentionally.
Seriously. I write cover letters for people, and I find that typing it out in more simplistic and short manner is preferable now. I kind of prefer it, and it's a great way to filter out people with low level of English who always use GPT.
My Instagram recently gained like a thousand followers from 200 and my posts get tens of thousands of views but none of it seems like real people, like they all look like totally real people with real lives but I had more real engagement at 100 followers than I do with these new 1500 followers and when I see other people with thousands of followers I notice they have low likes and comments on posts. It all seems so fake and hollow.
In my opinion: Use the internet for games, recipes, studies, self improvement, information on your garden/hobbies etc. Abstain from politics, opinion pieces, news, social media (except for close friends). I hope at some point no one believes anything online anymore and people will mostly go back to real life. Or well...at least some ^_^
@@nuggert Well, use discernment. I can play a game or 2 of League of Legends to wind down after parenting all day (yes i know LoL is filled with toxic kids, but i can ignore it, lol). I do not play it to learn or buy anything, it's purely for entertainment. If you're prone to addiction or escapisme through it, don't play!
The fact that more people haven't resisted the algorithmic content distribution or social media sites have seen no reduction in human activity is mind blowing, I got so pissed off by not seeing what I wanted or content from who I wanted in place of being flooded with ai generated or generic garbage is what made me delete most of my social media and severely reduce internet activity
The problem here is the game is rigged no matter WHAT you do: You try and and actively shut out and deny anything like ads or as the video talks about "oh you dont like THAT one. Okay i get it i wont show you THAT one anymore. here lets throw a crapload of other crap at you until i find what you like which means i ***still*** get what i want. Oh you have adblockers? I will lock it down and *deny* you until you play my game. You have something thats keeping me from data farming or or harvesting (even if its just eyeballs on the screen/or billboard/or a sign) i will lock it down UNTIL you give me what i want. Its all about how can i harvest YOU (time or data) to better serve myself (corporations/algorithmic control) by any means possible.
@@jcbq01Get off the walled-garden apps entirely and curate your own internet experience. Telegram, Odysee, Rumble don't use algorithmic feeds, and you could even set up RSS feeds yourself to follow exactly what you want online.
One thing that annoys me is how you can go to the comment section of any song of pretty much any artist, and the grand majority of the comments is "Anybody in 2024?" or some variation. I used to like reading the comments, seeing everyone's stories with that song, appreciating the song itself; but nowadays everybody's a calendar. Some of them are bots, sure. But some others appears to be actual people, and it could be seeking for likes, but it's actually disturbing seeing this "botification" of people - or maybe even brain rot. Either way, pretty disturbing
I'm left wondering if people's nostalgia have reached pathetic levels or if they're just mining for likes. They're the sort of videos, if I even watch one, where I now avoid the CS like the plague. Or it could be bots. I don't know.
The algorithm is shuffling the comments "Anybody here in x (year)" or "Still good in x (year)" to the top because it believes that it drives engagement. A lot of those comments are probably bots but not all. Also there are those that genuinely will engage with those types of comments and those people should have most of the blame. Unfortunately it seems most people are ultimately just dumb and this used to not matter to us but now with everybody being connected we get to actually see the glitches in our matrix and the failures of the human mind.
@@BlooditeDrakanmost prolly its either the people spamming for likes or bots commenting with a very small percentage really asking that out of curiosity
@@Gizziiusa That's kinda creepy to be honest, some bots really do just comment stuff like that. I often see it in those "100 Million Views" YT Shorts type of videos, the top comments are just a bunch of emojis and... non-sense? I cannot imagine an actual person just commenting a ton of emojis, and other people actually liking that comment, it just feels so superficial and not alive, it creeps me out.
For email spam has gotten so bad that even the emails arn't often going into the spam email, so you block them or direct them to spam but somehow the spam email still shows in the same place.
We used to watch ads on TV too. In fact just like with the internet, we paid monthly for access to those ads and the content they are shown on. The question is what's the alternative? How do we ensure content creators are paid? I don't see ads if I pay for a premium subscription for example. The hard thing most people don't want to talk about is that people expect to get things for free. I mean the tech companies conditioned us to use their free, ad free products back in the day... Knowing full well they were losing money with the future promise of profits through ads once everyone got addicted. Are you willing to pay for privacy? Is there even a true way to do that at this point? Pandoras box of data collection already has your data. We need rules and regulations to use to hold people accountable for protecting our data and making it illegal to sell personal data the way it's allowed today.
I gladly pay the $18 for ad free. It also comes with a streaming music app I like better than apple. If people don’t pay for no ads (like you have the same option on other platforms like Hulu) revenue has to come from somewhere, ads. All the major television networks run ads and other platforms so why do people think this platform is different than any other and get their panties in a wad demanding and whining it should be ad free for free? Enlighten me, as I constantly see the annoying whining. I want to understand what you don’t understand what I’ve stated.
Imagine in 20 years. A person will find someone online, they will talk everyday together, enjoy each other company and when they finally decide to meet...one of them is an AI in some vending machine. How soul crushing that would be knowing the love of your love is just an algorithm and after that no amount of other human interaction will feel the same
Hey on the bright side you'll have snacks and drinks for free. In all seriousness, society is WAY too eager on the AI trend. Careful what you're creating, humanity!
It’s devastating honestly. Something that was a normal, HEALTHY thing for me becoming the exact opposite. Spending time on the internet used to be educational, it used to connect me to people and art, it genuinely inspired me and made the creative person I am today. Now it exists to rot my brain for $$$ and it’s inescapable and there’s nothing that can replace it in the same way. No one can recreate it bc it’s completely controlled by the corporations that control it now.
@@baefarm it's not inescapable. It can still be really positive, but you have to do a heck of a lot of more legwork to curate your own experience these days than you used to.
sometimes things were actually better. a lot of things are purposely not made to last anymore. the internet has been ruined by corporitization. Some things get better, some get worse. You're not always an out of touch old person if you notice things are getting worse.
i feel like if no one profits off of internet, things will be fun again like the early days. just pure creativity and harmless fun, not baiting for engagement - for money.
If people agree to pay for Internet instead of expecting everything to be [falsely] free, then it will work. The Internet is kept alive by thousands of people who manage servers, hard drives, databases, applications, etc. This is their job.
I'm one of the privileged that lived in the era where the Internet was a brand new frontier. I have seen what was made to be for the benefit of the world, monetized and sterilized, or used for nefarious deeds.
interesting i think it's fundamentally mis understood something the algorithm sort based on what people like that's what the different engagement calculation and the fakeness being perceived from social media is just creators fitting what people like... for example in school everyone tries to be what is cool at the time therefore everyone ends up acting the same being the same
Yes. The amount of comments I click where there are much less replies than specified, for insurance 3 replies but only one is shown, is disturbing. Do you know a place where's not so much c-ship?
Yes but there’s even more than that going on in the world… the internet is one reason and example of how evil humanity can be, it happens in more areas in life, not just online … Crazy times we live in….
@@buckethead1799 and so can UA-cam by having it removed but do to greed and outsourcing this bs doesn't happen, I heard Trump needs you to help him win
I completely disagree. This idea has been fed to us by the people and corporations profiting off of technological advancement. It reflects a widespread cultural passivity, not an inevitable future. We have the power to change the future.
@@fr0ggy513 of course we should do all we can to protect our species. Unfortunately we are quite adept at orchestrating our own demise. Both robotics and AI could in some ways be classified as evil, so could the internet, yet here we are debating the wisdom of such things on the internet itself. We could never have communicated without it.
Ironically, I had to scroll through all these video shorts that UA-cam keeps feeding me while trying to find a video with lengthy substance. I have a tendency to get caught on these shorts and never get to some of the 20-30 minute videos of content creators I normally follow. Thank you for this well thought out and well researched content. Also, as a Millennial who remembers a time before everyone had a personal computer, including myself, I had no idea spam as internet content and Spam the meat substitute were related. The word just worked its way into my vocabulary, so I never realized its origin.
It’s crazy people now go camping, hiking ect just to get away from internet, and try to keep their phones away as much as possible just to enjoy the outdoors… it used to be the other way around
Yeah but the sadly the comment section is healthy c.ns0red y sh4dowhanning. Where are the times nobody decided for me what is roadworthy and where can I freely express myself and exchange opinions?
I used to see the internet as a place where I could inform or increase my mental capacity, but now every time i log on or in, i have to battle against someone else's idea of what my learning should be!! When i went to libraries, i never opened a book and expected to be have advertising on every page and also someone elses opinion, trying to inform me of what i was reading for, I went to the library to learn.
i used to have a schedule to spend time on youtube and flash games on a particular part of the day back in 2014. I would study, go outside to play with my friends, sometimes nap, do homework, and only after all that would i actually sit in front of my mom's or dad's laptop and watch videos or play flash games. My dad bought nfs for me, and it was fun, apart from that, i remember watching the king of random. A few years after that, using the internet just became a habit, i would wake up, sit in front of my laptop, attend classes, play roblox and yea... that was it, here i am now spending time on the internet like its a prerequisite to stay updated on everything (which it is), but it feels so hollow, i just cant explain the feeling
when my grown kids were young, docs were saying keep them off devices, and then later it was limit to like 2 hours PER WEEK, including TV. This advice seems so foreign now.
As someone who grew up at the commercial birth of the world wide web, it felt like a hyper future piece of tech that blew my mind. The freedom of access to all the information you could want and to communicate with anyone across the world was enlightening. Now the web feels like a unnatural dependance. Slaves to the constant information flow. Twisted by companies and the like to shape and stear public opinions and desires.
@@sridharr2025 thank you for the kind thoughts but I’m afraid it’s been getting worse. I just wish I could shut down my immense empathy but I just can’t seem to do so. I worry about the world like I worry about my daily problems. And it sucks to see every beautiful thing in today’s world getting slowly destroyed, from art to education to healthcare to retirement to mental health, to families… and adding AI on top of that. Most people just don’t seem to mind this but I am just getting sleepless over it. I really wish I was born 40 to 60 years ago
@@SouihliAhmed How do you deal with it? I'm suffering from exact the same things, one of my biggest "pains" to see is what humans are doing to nature and animals. No i'm not vegan, i love my steak. But how we humans treat all that, is burning my soul and also my will to live. I have a daughter and a good wife, since my daughter started to get older, my anxiety level rised by a lot and i can feel instead of getting used to it, it's getting bigger. It's hard to live like that every day. Hopefully you'll get better with this. I know how it feels man. See that we have a special gift with our empathy, only a few people have that. Even if it's slowly "eating" us, we should be thankful to be able to see the things like they really are.
@@WhiteCranK because we’re empaths, our human experience is deeper for sure. But even my shrink could not help me. He just kept saying things to comfort me but he also admitted that most of his empathic patients are imploding on a daily basis. The only solution I have found so far, that is not always helping, is to disconnect from the things that feed the worries. Stuff like this video. Cause empathy + curiosity in today’s time = mental catastrophe. Good luck raising your daughter man, it’s the toughest time to raise kids especially girls!
6:46 this reminds me of when i played Goat Simulator multiplayer. I had been having what I thought were full conversations with people I wanted to go on adventures with. I realized quickly after asking who wants to go on an adventure that the majority of the “players” i had been talking to were bots. I have not played that game since and it still gives me chills when i think about the feeling after the realization sometimes.
I was in a 3rd world country in Africa 2023 summer and it completely changed how I saw the world. They had no Internet and everyone genuinely looked happy and had a good social life. When I came back to America people didn’t look as lively more dead inside lowkey. But I realize so much of what affects our mood is the society around us. Social media and Internet is the devil nowadays. Idk how it can happen with how much power it has now. But man… I hope it gets erased and we revert back to how we used to be.
I’ve been thinking about the internet a lot recently, and where my place within it truly is. I feel like certain parts of it are incredibly helpful, but along with that there are so many cancerous uses that I’ve fallen into. I’ve grown up with and without the internet, and I feel like disconnecting is futile, because everyone is so entrenched in the internet and its culture. Sadly, life has changed, and I don’t know if I will be able to navigate it correctly.
You can start by cutting down on social media. I've only kept facebook because I talk to my friends through messenger but I almost never use the website. Try getting rid of every google product (browsers, search engines, etc) and only log in on the internet if there is something you want to search.
I'm beginning to see some of this now with the ridiculous amounts of 'spammed' content. Every time I scroll on youtube shorts, instead of getting a video recommended to me by someone I'm subscribed to or some form or original content it just tons and tons of reposts of the same phonk songs over and over again. I've pressed "do not recommend channel" on over 500 channels and it still pops up and keeps coming. Possibly a hot take, I think a lot of what I've seen at least, maybe not what others have, I'm specifically talking about videos and attention span, TikTok was the main cause for all of this, if TikTok didn't show up we wouldn't have those girls doing cringe short TikTok dances at school (this is so problematic I've seen it included in movies), we wouldn't have UA-cam shorts, we would still have an attention span with seeing long form content, there would also be less fast paced brain rot garbage(maybe). As a just starting content creator, I'm beginning to get slightly frustrated with seeing these people who put absolutely zero effort into something and just spam a youth e shorts sound or a TikTok sound over and over again trying to get views. The worst part is that these people generally get more views and more likes than someone who makes original content. I surprisingly don't get much spam besides getting shown these un-original brain rot children that have been filtering onto UA-cam from TikTok, I generally only get things im actually subscribed to like Quora Digest, Reddit, UA-cam, Roberts Space Industries, and Steam. The most spam I've seen doesn't even come from bots or automatic emails, it comes from people who should not be making UA-cam videos who should not be getting as many views as they are. The newest one I've seen is a kid beat boxing phonk then turning into the actual phonk song with a caption saying "(phone brand) zoom is crazy)", like what is that, it's so common I've had it play 3 times in a row. The other one I've been getting is some Roblox earthquake video for some reason, and another one I got was LEGITIMATELY A SCREEN RECORDING OF SOMEONES ORIGINAL VIDEO ON YT SHORTS, it was quite literally a straight up screen recording of the entire original video posted on yt shorts, you could tell because you could see double of all the buttons on the screen (like, dislike, etc) and they still got well over 10k views and at least 9.1k likes while I see an original video somewhere and it only has maybe 700 views and 30 likes. I don't know if anyone else is having this problem, but if someone is and you found a way to get UA-cam to stop recommending these people to you, that would be amazing.
The Franchise Wars were probably a dogfight. Demolition Man nailed the tone of the passive aggressive and suppressive nanny state we now live under. I can't help but agree with Simon Phoenix, though. You can't take away people's right to be assholes.
Shorts literally fuck up my whole day sometimes. It’s straight up an addiction. Even in class or at work, it’s annoying now. Like I can weeks (now months) without smoking or drinking, I also cut down on my gaming, but short form content has got me by the hook.
Shorts ruined YT, Lots of creators are making shorts, I find myself watching them all the time even though I hate it, There's just not that much to watch, Anything worth watching is taken down, They want control, they fear unification !
Maybe it’s just me, but the quality and depth of the media I consume has increased steadily since 2016. The rankings / algorithm might be worse but I place far more value now in finding high quality channels.
That's true for me, too. I take an essentially sceptical approach to content, and make it a priority to choose and filter what I consume. But I also think it's getting harder to do that, particularly in the last year or so. Content creators are being led by social media algorithms more and more, so the proportion of genuine content is shrinking and harder to find. Previously good, rigorous and nuanced content creators are getting more click-baity to survive, and presumably also suffering from their own research being corrupted by bland, AI-regurgitated "spam". I think the sudden increase in AI must be the cause. Not to mention geopolitical manipulation.
@@gracefulhealer935 Have you heard of targeted advertising, social media bubbles or algorithms? Perhaps you keep watching garbage and thus get more garbage. If you make an effort to find high quality content, the algorithms will tend to provide you with higher quality content.
In 2010, Internet used to be a kind of escape from the real world. 14 years later we want to escape from it and desperately want to return in the real world. Funny!
Even back in the mid 2000s was more creative and free. Nowadays, customization that used to be primal in the 2000s is long gone. But there's always hope to go back to what kept us connected in the first place, much like the 2000s used to be.
I remember during the days of facebook..... a thing called suggested posts..... those were fun... telling them that they were not welcome on my homefeed....
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3:57 I disagree that the internet is crucial to the human experience. Take away the internet for a week and people will go back to what they used to do before it existed. It's just part of our lives now - but it's not required for life.
Its not required for humanity, but as an individual it is extremely hard to put down. I do some no internet or PC, tv weekends, with only regular phone calls and good old SMS. It is getting crazy hard to do over the last few years. I am not really big on social media or have many friends, but my e-mail box is bombarded by the time I activate it on monday. Also many official places start to rely way too much on the internet, some bills can only be paid through it. With that said the loss of the internet would delete plenty of knowledge as well as hit lots, who have financial stuff only online. It would make a crisis. I kind of just wish social media was limited to max 1 hour use daily, that alone would vastly improve the situation.
It's imperative. It's non existentence would make people even more dumb/low vibrational then now. And that's hard to imagine. We have gained alot from it. But now the earth needs a hard reset and humans need resetting. We are the most vile product on earth. Hopefully animals will survive the reset
@@clone3_7I beg to differ. Like you said, as an individual you can live offline, but vast majority of modern companies rely solely on their access to internet.
I miss watching spongebob on Nickelodeon on tv when we were kids, my friends and cousins and I would just sit there and watch for an hour eating chicken nuggets then go out and resume our play outside. The best time in my life, never worrying abt anything. Now I'm addicted to the internet. I wake up in the morning craving it.
13:18 "You're the average not of the 5 persons you sorround yourself with, but the 5 influencers you follow online." this is very true and I've always thought that many people around me do thing because they are in some kind of online bubble of some influence who does these things. They're not called "influencers" for nothing.
I also see a kind of death spiral in ads. The more people use an ad blocker the worse ad companies want to promote the ads. But the worse this gets, the more people are gonna use ad blockers. I suspect within, i dunno, the next 15 years the entire foundation of income that the internet runs on will have to change away from ads. Otherwise it's gonna ruin the web entirely, and i'm not talking about ruining websites with ads, i'm talking about websites going offline.
The internet has been unusable without an adblocker since 2001. I occasionally check out a new browser and every time I do I get a brutal reminder how essential an adblocker is.
Very good video! Covering this on my podcast soon, I will shout out this video. We don't have much of a following but we have fun! You have given me lots of info, so thank you.
There's another way the Internet is dead: It used to be that I would walk up to my friends and family and say, "Did you guys see the [VIDEO/PICTURE] on the Internetz?" And, everyone would be like, "No. What're you talking about?" Now, it's more like, "Did y'all see [VIDEO/PICTURE] on the Internetz?" And, they've all already seen it. And, it works the same way the other way around. I've already seen what they have seen...and, they've already seen what I have seen. I don't know if that makes the Internetz dead...or, if we've all just reached the end of it at the same time.
Used to be people talked that way about things in real life. People would discuss TV shows because the pool of things to choose from was what was on last night which meant everyone watched the same stuff and could talk about it in groups.
@@gnhatch I know. But, the fact that EVERYONE is seeing the EXACT SAME THINGS is leading me to believe there are bots at play; and, they're pointing us all in the same direction. I know for a fact that it's not individual people pointing us to the same content...that would be nearly impossible.
@@John-zh1ud Agreed! But, even back then I would walk up to friends/family/co-workers and ask, "Did you see what happened in that POPULAR show/movie]?" And, a lot of them would say they hadn't seen it. That was way back when we had only about 10 TV channels (most channels were ignored for the most part). The problem/confusion I have is: The Internetz could be INFINITE with the amount of content being created...yet, I haven't been able to surprise anyone with a video/picture in MONTHS; and, even YEARS for some people. Everyone went from NOT seeing the same thing I've seen on FIVE out of TEN channels on TV...to seeing NEARLY EVERYTHING I've seen on an ever-growing Internetz. How in the heck is that possible?
I remember when a phone use to be somthing that was in the house that half the time you didnt even know where it was when you actully need it, now it never leaves you, technology and wifi social media has changed the world and the people
The kicker is Jack Conte is part of the problem, he sold out Patreon to VC making himself rich and in turn fulfilling the rich elites wishes by firing much of the talented team that built Patreon and totally screw over users and people who were giving to said users making it almost an untenable and unrecognizable platform from where it started as pro creator and pro user. Jack willingly and for capitalist gains destroyed his own platform so he and the VCs could cash out. And it’s rumored Jack allegedly made backdoor deals to sell all the creator and user content produced using Patreon to an AI company to train on, using all the hard work its creators put in. Even if this isn’t substantiated Jack is a two-faced liar of sorts, he isn’t just part of the problem in that if you’re a creator using Patreon, he IS the problem. I find it funny you’re praising the guy who himself gladly takes millions to be aiding and abetting the in the dead internet which is less theory and more fact.
While he's an a..hole he can still say things that are true. The words should always be conisdered and judged on their own meaning, not who spoke them. Context is important too of course ;-)
Brilliant and timely. In the last few years, I’ve gone from worrying about the next X-class solar flare aimed directly at earth to looking forward to it. We need to remember that electronic connection is not real life.
There’s been plenty of x class solar flares this year. None are going to wipe out all comms. One big one hit in 89 i think, but it only affected quebec.
A lot of things I would research back in the day were on some websites that don't exist anymore. Can't find anything on these subjects anymore either. They are just putting out what they want us to see. Not the truth
The jokes on all of us, the moment he endorses his sponsor of the channel right at the end. What a paradox. Internet will end soon...bring it on and bring us all back to our true human senses.
I don't think that society can take an internet collapse. Most of our data is stored online. But we could at least get rid of social media and every subscription service.
That's stupid, if you hate it so much just dont go online, the rest of us are fine, especially since the internet has become an essential tool, and streamlined a ton of stuff.
Recently I’ve been getting this weird feeling that all of UA-cam is leading up to something. like the ‘finale’ of the internet is approaching, a payoff to entire platform of youtube
Idk why this is so shocking, we know book burning and revisionist history have gone on for all time. This should have been seen so far out and mentioned this back in 2005 when i began seeing the spread of smartphones. This is the ultimate editing tool for all info and knowledge. And the whole mandala craze was intentional and pushed right ahead of this AI push. That's what those are, ultra advanced AI capable of rewriting entire films and lines. It's an attack on our own memories and makes you question the accuracy of your own memories. Very scary tech, and remember anything given to the public they have a version at least 20 years more advanced.
@@GenXgaming42 Well, it lets you SEE the counter, and click dislike if you want. But the dislikes have no bearing on what UA-cam recommends you or others watch. It has no power now. Can be useful for spotting clickbait, if a post has a high number of dislikes. If still interested, it's called Return UA-cam Dislikes on Firefox, I'm sure other browsers have something similar
I just had to let go of cable in August. My internet, cable bill, and phone we're almost $400. Not to mention my separate cell phone which is divided by 3 about $33 a month. For the most of my adult life, I have had a cable connection, except during the 70s when I was little. From 1981 til this past August I have always a cable connection in my house. I currently live in the house I grew up in. It was so hard to make the adjustment, and it's still hard because I can't afford the streaming services that everyone is buying into . Plus I don't have the money to start buying new smart TVs. Up until August I still had the chunky TVs of the 1990s and I was perfectly fine. I don't want all the streaming services because eventually they're going to get expensive too. I really don't understand why we had to change from analog to digital. If we still have the analog television from the 1970s, I would be perfectly fine watching whatever channels I could receive. I have an antenna for my TV but half of the stuff doesn't come in. I had a better reception with my TV in the 1970s. I would prefer the TV of the 1970s as opposed to what I'm getting now which is barely anything. So in order to watch even local news like Eyewitness News channel 7 I have to hook up a computer and an HDMI cord to my TV so that I can watch local news. It's ridiculous. If I lost the internet tomorrow, I would miss the ability to watch TV but I would miss more the ability to send documents and things like that. Everything else, not really. I have been very depressed myself because I have more news, and you tube video , now than I ever did before. I wish my cable bill went back to being under 100.00 and my house phone being 50 or 60 dollars internet included. I am pretty sure we have more than paid for the satellites that we launched up in space for the cable and internet and phone we have today. When does the greed end ? Why weren't things just good enough when we purchased a TV and added a wire to the back of it and got channels that way. The only good thing that box was good for with the cable company was DVR, other than that why did cable have to become so greedy go back to the dinosaur age of having a box and a remote for us to have digital TV with more and more channels that don't get used unless you pay extra for them. I am with the person who said 1996 to the year 2000 was the best time for the internet and if I could go back in time I would probably buy other things from eBay, that I see going for a gazillion dollars now because I didn't know their value would rise!😂
all he does is regurgitate well-known information about popular topics and insert popular opinions. he probably wet himself laughing at the thought of comments like yours while uploading this video because it's about the type of content that garnered him an audience. it was a slap in the face and you just enjoyed it.
One thing that has changed is that the internet killed pop culture. Everyone wears the same things/brands,Music sounds the same, Movies are the same,Social media and the Internet has replaced social skills and creativity.
Earlier today I tried to google the distance between two cities. I scrolled down and down to the third, the fourth, the fifth page of travel ads before giving up.
I have a similar issue where i’ll search specifically for a woman’s point of view or item and it only gives me (usually irrelevant)articles about a similar yet very basic topic for males.
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If you posted your videos on Nebula, I'd watch them all there.
the biggest and small sites or social media are getting highly controlled. even legal or safe content are eliminated by shadow banning or it does not appear in a feed/follow page until you go directly to person's profile. another shadow banning technique is content that does not appear unless you follow each other. it's heavily sanitized while increasing ad/sponsored content.
if there's a big app/site that has still has some of the old internet, it's twitter or X. There is still some craziness or surprising things or awful with it, adult content occasionally appears if you are account is legal age .
Isn't it ironic that your content is dependent on a company whos ad strategy is to "spam" their service on as many channels as possible?
Love how the pinned comment is spam, the opening, and closing of your video...spam. Take your content off this platform if you actually want to be part of the change you're suggesting could be on the horizon. Instead of being a useful Capitalist, take a stand and create on your own site that you create.
Sorry, but the evidence-free hopium at the end is useless.
Why is it so difficult, for these types of educational channels to go the extra mile and think beyond the limits of conversation? This channel, like many others I follow are so good at any other topic; but always fail when the cause of the problem lies outside the narrow view of the system.
The profit motive have killed the art of painting, by the "modernism revolution". It is an IQ test today; if you like "modern art" that could have been made by a monkey, you failed.
The profit motive have killed truth in journalism.
The profit motive infantilized television.
The profit motive have killed nuanced music, by corporatism in the music industry.
The profit motive have killed good, original, passion projects in storytelling in movies.
The profit motive have killed even PC gaming when it became big enough right after the 90s.
Everything that eventually moves enough money to attract big corps is destroyed, to substitute thoughtful quality by mindless quantity, that manipulates the public's psychological shortcomings; the surest way to the biggest profit.
Money motive is absolute poison to any and all forms of creativity, originality, passion: Quality in art.
It happened to every form of art or communication form, and it's happening now to each internet facet, that holds even more interest since control of it is a pure form of power. Like TV was.
Capitalism. Why is it so difficult to acknowledge...?
"Internet used to be an escape from reality, now reality is an escape from the internet"
(From some guy on the internet)
It's actually good, greedy people move to cyber, we safe in real life
The sad part cyber space dictates the real life
"More 'tea' please, sir?"
Indeed
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I remember that comment...
RIP to the old internet. 1999-2006 was such a great time. The internet was fun, it felt like you were exploring it, now it feels like it is exploring you.
Capitalism ruins everything
-2011*
@@janitoalevic 2011 was a good year too, compared to now. But social media garbage like Facebook started taking over so I stopped it short of that.
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True, it is indeed exploring you. In the name of personalisation, you’re now required to sign in to supposedly get a better experience, while they watch you and come to know all that you like or dislike and then they start controlling your experience😢
I miss the old internet. It was like the Wild West, where fan pages got traffic before all of the "official sites" took over.
Pretty much the analogy I use. Then the railroad came.
When only computer literate people were online it was great.
@@noglobo I remember they called the phenomena, the eternal September. 👀👀
Ironically the internet is more dangerous now, that is become owned by private companies then it was back in the "old west lawless days"
You had to specifically look for dangerous stuff to end up in far-right pipelines
Today is been handfed to 14y.o. Boys on any corporate owned social media
I would trust a unsupervised teen with old day internet
I don't trust my parents with the current state of the internet
✡ and women ruined it.
no literally im actually terrified of how the internet has started to affect me as a person. I feel like ive lost years down the drain purely to scrolling, and after a conversation the other day about it with one of my friends ive been able to look at it all from outside of the box and its honestly disgusting. it feels like we’re in an apocalypse tbh… just look around when you go out, everyone is glued to their phones kids and adults alike. its gotten to the point that ive ordered a button phone and im planning on smashing this one when it arrives. i just want my life back man
You're here forever like the rest of us 😢
Speak for yourselves bots! Chillin in my lawn chair 😎
That's exactly why I have a 'flip-phone'. I work in IT, and colleagues think it's an amusing idiosyncrasy. For me, I just want to be able to make phone calls. No interest in anything more than that :)
You either embrace technology and learn how to use it as a tool or you get left behind
I feel the same. I've started to think the great filter is just incompetence. Any tech revolution leads to it growing faster than they can keep up and they end up just dying off over to 1000 cuts. Look how the world's health has plummeted
The perfect moment was 2000. The internet was always within reach but not always with you. Going online was a specific activity.
I agree @kazikian
True
Nah. Ppl just don't know how to deal with their addictive patterns. The internet is a super powerful tool, a wild big bull which only the best can ride
2004 cos it was a wild west then
The 2000-2010 decade was the last good period.
Another thing to consider. Ads are a form of spam. It's unwanted by most people and it's annoying. It stops consumption of content and it wastes computer resources on both the server and client end.
Our lives are spam
It can go past spam to include stalking and harassment. I remember the feminists complaining about being catcalled, but I generally would prefer to be catcalled to being intrusively advertised too.
@@elinope4745 me when I'd rather face a chance of physical violence over looking at pixels
@@oasisangel I'm a war veteran, I never feel like there is not a chance for physical violence. Pixels or not.
@@elinope4745 the fact our phones are being used to advertise to us...imagine if it was used to detect crime...I say it's only a matter of time before that becomes a reality
Trying to find information from search engines has become narrower and narrower. Search engines are reducing the amount of access to information by a huge amount. The constant repetition of the same search results that go over pages and pages and alternatives are stifled or non existent. I can find more information in old books now.
I've found I have to go the Wayback machine to see old website pages. Recently I was looking up some genealogy and history pages, and the only way I could see the information was by using the internet archive. I feel like Google and Bing are so curated they're almost useless. ....except for shopping. But trying to find information outside the narrative is becoming more and more difficult.
I'm building my library with physical books and media. Neither can be edited should they fall out of favor, or be deemed problematic.
Just skip to Page 10 of the search results. What you're looking for is beyond Page 10.
@@BrockLee3 Ah, that's where it is.
Thank you for the tip.
👍😎
What old books? Those books never existed.
One of the quickest ways to see this effect is to see how common a search result is followed by “reddit”. Why? Because people want input from other people, not from what collective organizations telling us what we should hear and what we shouldn’t. When I want to find a solution to something broken I ask Reddit, when I want to find the best way to find something or treat something or fix something, I ask Reddit.
That can be helpful, especially for tech related questions, but Reddit is also largely taken over by bots and information manipulation. If you look at their front page, it is primarily populated with blatant political propaganda (for one specific American political interest group to be specific), celebrity bullcrap, and other drivel
what sucks is that companies know this. There are plenty of bots on reddit, too.
@@WillowWispFlame Exactly, and this was made plainly apparent following this disaster of an election, given that the pervasive astroturfing of reddit made it seem like a shamala victory was all but guaranteed.
Which is most certainly also filled to the brim with bots. Why does 90% of reddit traffic come from an air force base? 🤔
Reddit has a bot problem too. There are so many bots reposting to farm karma.
Internet used to be fun. Now it’s just a habit
This exactly
It really does feel that way
we used to SURF it.... now we just check it.
Like drugs, like caffeine
Its a weap0n, you are an antenna in it. We all have operating §¥§tems in us. Mucho n@n0
8-10 years ago shit 5 years ago if I was told the internet was shutting down I would be terrified, now I would be grateful
You say that but the carnage that would follow you would probably not be greatfull for A huge amount of businesses rely on the internet now and have been handed down to Genarations that were never taught the way to do things without the internet.
@@SheyBowater im optimistic about that though, gives people a chance to be creative again. people still need eachothers resources, so business isnt just going to tank. it may go down a bit as people settle in, but it wont be a HUGE shock aside whiny babies and Tech CEOs crumbling.
lol say goodbye to all of your money, ability to shop online, ability to pay bills, ours lives are so intertwined with the internet it will literally destroy the world for many years.
LOL, have fun mailing checks and money orders to your utility companies 🤣
there's too much money to be made from the internet. Its never going to get shut down. If it shut down its because we shut down.
Its like we have already arrived at the dystopian future desccribed in sci-fi books.
Yes: "The Record" by Ray Bradbury 😢
Yes, including a small handful of mega corporations controlling every aspect of daily life
Looks like you've had too much to think today
You can always lay down your phone or stand up from your chair and go on a walk or anything else that be on the internet
Youll soon realize that it does not really matter
@@DectonHuh?
The big difference is that internet no longer consists of millions of users who share information for free. It changed from a library to a billboard.
The sheer volume of content people share for free is exponentially larger now than it ever was. This is an insane take.
@@_B_Ewhen was the last time you saw something original and worthwhile online?
honestly pretty much every day i find something new and worthwhile.
Almost like a bait & switch. It was interesting until we had to rely on it for everything. Then, it became addictive and monotonous. Now they just have 24/7 access to our brains (pretty much).
Developing an intuition to see what's fake or what's not is a timeless skill to have.
And yet, even for the most savvy, this is becoming increasingly difficult. I now question anything that's recommended to me on this website. Heck, the other day this random band popped up my feed that was great, right up my alley. But as I kept watching their covers and originals, I was squinting at my screen wondering "is this an actual band, or did UA-cam generate this for me?". After a while I realized I was losing my mind, and these guys were in fact a real band just jamming out in their bedroom, but the fact that I sat there questioning my own reality for 20 minutes as opposed to simply enjoying good new music was depressing.
Assume every content in the internet is AI generated until proven otherwise.
That "intuition" is where we get "do your own research", and all the "fake news" plebs from.
No one knows what is real any more. We live in a sea of opinionated echo chambers.
You're not immune to propaganda
Says the username containing random string of alphanumeric characters. Take me to your leader.
Funny how this doesn't even address the main contention of the "Dead Internet Theory" which is that the internet has become a Potemkin Village, where all search results have been reduced to a closely curated and limited output. Most of the data on the web is kept from us.
This
Truly this!
I really thought that this was going to address that. I’m really surprised with how well done this video is that it doesn’t address it.
Yeah, this video sucked and just demonstrated the algo is to waste out time is more valuable than answering a question
@@Holly-m9q nah yandex is the same
Internet fried my attention span so bad I can’t even focus on watching TV anymore.
It's insane isn't it. I sometimes just open UA-cam and scroll thr front page. I don't even know why
Same here 😢
100% even UA-cam videos were to long for me
Literally 😔
Dont consume shorts and tiktok. With discipline you'll be normal in a week.
Note the fact that large parts of the internet no longer display timestamps, but translate them into horribly inaccurate strings like "2 months ago" or even "1 year ago" when it's been 20 months. You're not supposed to go back a year and know in what order things happened. The past is intentionally being puréed into some kind of content soup.
I have noticed that. It creeps me out: seems a little Orwellian, if I'm not mistaken.
Lame: Uploaded X Days or Months or Years ago
Awesome: Uploaded YYYY/MM/DD HH:MM
@@majamystic256 Unironically this.
When logging onto UA-cam I now go straight to my subscriptions page so I have more controll over the content. I'm really not a fan of the home feed.
I'd say turn off history and your home page will be blank. Unfortunately you won't get recommendations but you'll get peace of mind in return.
These are such good advices
Any tips on how to stop shorts?
Yes and the only problem with that is the channels that constantly pump out videos so your feed is 75% them. Makes me want to unsubscribe, it’s “news” anyway, so it’s basically someone else’s opinion.
@@saphire82 I've noticed that those massive video dumps tend to be from schools and news media channels, and wonder if it's part of an establishment plan to push me to ignore the common people.
Glad im not the only one who notices how search results are all mainstream shit now and not showing websites made by ordinary people or fans
Yep, we need new platforms. Google is ideologically driven these days and its search results are mostly useless.
I don't use Google anymore because of this.
DuckDuckGo for me. Not perfect but better
Do you guys know a good search engine? Google really seems to only deliver spam nowadays. I would like a search engine where I dont have 10 advertisements to my search results before I get to content that is not advertised but still have to question why it is there.
When the internet was new, I was so optimistic. Now, not so much, to say the least
I first got online in 1995. It held so much promise, and, to be fair, it has Delivered on much of that promise. But it has also brought so many massive problems I never would have anticipated
remember: humans ruin EVERYTHING
Yet another example of how nothing is either all good or all bad. It's whatever we make of it.
@@AnalyticalMenace I agree!!!
yah…
I am always amazed by these videos where the creator has a whole story from A to Z of something profound like we should go out, meet people l, live life and live it true.
And then end it with a sponsorship.
No one escapes the establishment and hey! Everyone’s gotta eat
Necessary Evil Ig😢
I miss the internet in the 90's. AOL "you've got mail!" AIM screen names. IRC. Geocities. Yahoo chat rooms. What a time to be alive! I'm so nostalgic over that time in my life.
You would love playing Hypnospace Outlaw, check it out
Angelfire. MSN vs AIM was a lot like the Android vs iOs rivalry. Only weirdos used ICQ and Irc. Degenerates used Yahoo. 🤢
I miss the IMDB forums. THAT was a TRAVESTY.
Yahoo chatrooms .. 😂😂 wowww I was so crazy abt it .. 👍
It was fun! I remember building websites with HTML (they were crappy but fun for a young teen)..this was 96/97. Back then most people weren't on the internet so it felt like a club only for computer literate people lol. It was slow but it was charming and felt more warm. Now everyone is on it with a phone in their pocket and it's cold feeling out there. Even youtube turned into a money making clickbait junk yard
The interests of greedy companies, algorithms, bots and the monetization of everything has made the Internet no longer just a place to get information, socialize and have fun, but a place for ads, slowly frying your attention span, ads, attention seekers, ads, misinformation everywhere, ads, they want to know everything about you, ads, they control you without you knowing it and lastly, ADS. It's becoming less and less enjoyable to be here.
Agreed!!
and thank you for your amazing playlists aswell, i enjoy them alot
I love your playlists
I agree. The internet needs more consumer control or filters. How about we get paid to deal with ads or else don’t have to deal with ads at all.
DAMN STRAIGHT! I INFINITELY agree!
@@Xetakronvr The shot callers don't agree with you. They want you to pay them for the privilege of consuming their ads. And, well, they are winning.
The internet has been infested with greedy corporate interest. Human existence has been infested with greedy corporate interest.
If only the Communists took it over!
Since man first walked the earth. Greed is a human trait.
blame the corporations if you want. you could equally argue it's been infested with lazy shlubs who actually WANTED the corporations to take over because they were too tarded to use 2006 internet. I know ALOT of boomers who prefer new internet to old internet. And ALOT of younger NPC types who don't even remember the old internet and when you tell them about it just say "sounds ripe for transphobia I hate the idea" -- so it isn't just a matter of greedy corporations. It's a matter of lazy and stupid people, mad at other people for going out on their own that made new internet the new internet. The corporations just took advantage of what the people were demonstrating they wanted. People can't admit this to themselves because it's WAY emotionally easier to admit "corporations are greedy" than to admit "society as a whole is dysfunctional and wanted this outcome"
Yep, large companies should be illegal. Only as big as the population of 100 square miles from your home.
@@johntiger5 wrote, _"Since man first walked the earth. Greed is a human trait."_
Just because something is a human trait, doesn't imply that it's good or that it should be tolerated, much less deliberately cultivated. The drive toward reproduction is also a human trait, but in contemporary society, that doesn't imply that we ought to fug everything that pings our drive to do so. And with that in mind, the problem with 'greed as a human trait' is that it's too often regarded as something to be tolerated. But corporate interests take that 'human trait' to extremes so far beyond rationality that it is, and it ought to be, regarded as pathological.
So again, for emphasis: Just because something is a human trait, we ought not to imagine that we ought to accept it in all forms of expression, and to all degrees of expression.
A video about something everyone knows is a problem, thus making it easily-relatable, dubbed-over stock-footage, and an ad-read right off the bat
it's over
it's sad
I read about people trained for writing in a conversional tone (e.g. universities, enterprises etc.) being accused of using chatgpt and even flagged in scientific theses because this is the style chatgpt is trained to use. Some (doctoral) students reported that they use AI detectors and add mistakes to passages because up to 30% of their thesis was flagged as AI generated. Now, AI is producing more and more spam while humans with excellent writing skills lower their quality of the work intentionally.
That’s an interesting side effect.
Yup
I was actually wondering about this. we need guidelines, reason and new rules. asap
It's really gonna die soon.... 🤣😅 But just not in the way you think. 🤐🤫 See y'all on the 😉 dark side. 😼
Seriously. I write cover letters for people, and I find that typing it out in more simplistic and short manner is preferable now. I kind of prefer it, and it's a great way to filter out people with low level of English who always use GPT.
Entire channels with fake likes fake comments fake subs. Entire careers and fame based of bots . Pretty wild
My Instagram recently gained like a thousand followers from 200 and my posts get tens of thousands of views but none of it seems like real people, like they all look like totally real people with real lives but I had more real engagement at 100 followers than I do with these new 1500 followers and when I see other people with thousands of followers I notice they have low likes and comments on posts. It all seems so fake and hollow.
This idea is so wild
Sounds like something from Phineas and Ferb
Care to share some examples about the “fame based on bots”? Sure, you can boost your engagement and numbers with bots, but have fame with bots?
@@WannaDJ Literally every industry plant.
In my opinion: Use the internet for games, recipes, studies, self improvement, information on your garden/hobbies etc. Abstain from politics, opinion pieces, news, social media (except for close friends). I hope at some point no one believes anything online anymore and people will mostly go back to real life. Or well...at least some ^_^
I like that idea but there’s very few people left that aren’t chronically addicted to the internet.
Games are just another way for them to dominate your life
To paying taxes upon taxes upon taxes to sustain liers enslaving us? If real life was great we wouldn't had to go to internet in the first place.
@@nuggert Well, use discernment. I can play a game or 2 of League of Legends to wind down after parenting all day (yes i know LoL is filled with toxic kids, but i can ignore it, lol). I do not play it to learn or buy anything, it's purely for entertainment. If you're prone to addiction or escapisme through it, don't play!
I watch documentaries, but 50-60% that I click on are AI /bots..I'm about to give up and go back to books full-time
My attention span is so compromised. I’m not sure if if I can make it through this video.
The fact that more people haven't resisted the algorithmic content distribution or social media sites have seen no reduction in human activity is mind blowing, I got so pissed off by not seeing what I wanted or content from who I wanted in place of being flooded with ai generated or generic garbage is what made me delete most of my social media and severely reduce internet activity
The problem here is the game is rigged no matter WHAT you do:
You try and and actively shut out and deny anything like ads or as the video talks about "oh you dont like THAT one. Okay i get it i wont show you THAT one anymore. here lets throw a crapload of other crap at you until i find what you like which means i ***still*** get what i want. Oh you have adblockers? I will lock it down and *deny* you until you play my game. You have something thats keeping me from data farming or or harvesting (even if its just eyeballs on the screen/or billboard/or a sign) i will lock it down UNTIL you give me what i want. Its all about how can i harvest YOU (time or data) to better serve myself (corporations/algorithmic control) by any means possible.
@@jcbq01Get off the walled-garden apps entirely and curate your own internet experience. Telegram, Odysee, Rumble don't use algorithmic feeds, and you could even set up RSS feeds yourself to follow exactly what you want online.
One thing that annoys me is how you can go to the comment section of any song of pretty much any artist, and the grand majority of the comments is "Anybody in 2024?" or some variation. I used to like reading the comments, seeing everyone's stories with that song, appreciating the song itself; but nowadays everybody's a calendar.
Some of them are bots, sure. But some others appears to be actual people, and it could be seeking for likes, but it's actually disturbing seeing this "botification" of people - or maybe even brain rot. Either way, pretty disturbing
or just full of emojis.
I'm left wondering if people's nostalgia have reached pathetic levels or if they're just mining for likes. They're the sort of videos, if I even watch one, where I now avoid the CS like the plague. Or it could be bots. I don't know.
The algorithm is shuffling the comments "Anybody here in x (year)" or "Still good in x (year)" to the top because it believes that it drives engagement. A lot of those comments are probably bots but not all. Also there are those that genuinely will engage with those types of comments and those people should have most of the blame. Unfortunately it seems most people are ultimately just dumb and this used to not matter to us but now with everybody being connected we get to actually see the glitches in our matrix and the failures of the human mind.
@@BlooditeDrakanmost prolly its either the people spamming for likes or bots commenting with a very small percentage really asking that out of curiosity
@@Gizziiusa That's kinda creepy to be honest, some bots really do just comment stuff like that. I often see it in those "100 Million Views" YT Shorts type of videos, the top comments are just a bunch of emojis and... non-sense? I cannot imagine an actual person just commenting a ton of emojis, and other people actually liking that comment, it just feels so superficial and not alive, it creeps me out.
"Don't let it happen. It depends on you."
-Orwell's Last Interview
For email spam has gotten so bad that even the emails arn't often going into the spam email, so you block them or direct them to spam but somehow the spam email still shows in the same place.
why the internet s getting worse = "PAID ADVERTISEMENTS AT THE START OF EVERY VIDEO"
We used to watch ads on TV too. In fact just like with the internet, we paid monthly for access to those ads and the content they are shown on.
The question is what's the alternative? How do we ensure content creators are paid? I don't see ads if I pay for a premium subscription for example.
The hard thing most people don't want to talk about is that people expect to get things for free. I mean the tech companies conditioned us to use their free, ad free products back in the day... Knowing full well they were losing money with the future promise of profits through ads once everyone got addicted.
Are you willing to pay for privacy? Is there even a true way to do that at this point? Pandoras box of data collection already has your data. We need rules and regulations to use to hold people accountable for protecting our data and making it illegal to sell personal data the way it's allowed today.
I gladly pay the $18 for ad free. It also comes with a streaming music app I like better than apple.
If people don’t pay for no ads (like you have the same option on other platforms like Hulu) revenue has to come from somewhere, ads.
All the major television networks run ads and other platforms so why do people think this platform is different than any other and get their panties in a wad demanding and whining it should be ad free for free?
Enlighten me, as I constantly see the annoying whining. I want to understand what you don’t understand what I’ve stated.
what are ads? i have an blocker
@@gabrielv.4358 The thing you saw at the start of this video was an AD.
Now people place these Ads within the videos so you can't skip them.
Haven't seen an ad in years, there is this new tech call AD Blockers, might want to check it out,
Imagine in 20 years. A person will find someone online, they will talk everyday together, enjoy each other company and when they finally decide to meet...one of them is an AI in some vending machine. How soul crushing that would be knowing the love of your love is just an algorithm and after that no amount of other human interaction will feel the same
Vending machine😂😂😢😢😂😂😅
Hey on the bright side you'll have snacks and drinks for free.
In all seriousness, society is WAY too eager on the AI trend. Careful what you're creating, humanity!
Next episode of black mirror
Watch HER
@@MrStateoftheCityWho?
I feel old when I say someting like "I miss the old days" but oh boy is it true when talkin about the Internet
It’s devastating honestly. Something that was a normal, HEALTHY thing for me becoming the exact opposite. Spending time on the internet used to be educational, it used to connect me to people and art, it genuinely inspired me and made the creative person I am today. Now it exists to rot my brain for $$$ and it’s inescapable and there’s nothing that can replace it in the same way. No one can recreate it bc it’s completely controlled by the corporations that control it now.
It's really gonna die soon.... 🤣😅 But just not in the way you think. 🤐🤫 See y'all on the 😉 dark side. 😼
@@baefarm it's not inescapable. It can still be really positive, but you have to do a heck of a lot of more legwork to curate your own experience these days than you used to.
sometimes things were actually better. a lot of things are purposely not made to last anymore. the internet has been ruined by corporitization. Some things get better, some get worse. You're not always an out of touch old person if you notice things are getting worse.
Our opinions were on public forums, now these comments are owned by the corporation hosting this video.
i feel like if no one profits off of internet, things will be fun again like the early days. just pure creativity and harmless fun, not baiting for engagement - for money.
We should be poor instead
Money always ruins everything
If you can even find that content
If people agree to pay for Internet instead of expecting everything to be [falsely] free, then it will work. The Internet is kept alive by thousands of people who manage servers, hard drives, databases, applications, etc. This is their job.
Nope we're going back to Nokia 3310 era in a plot to disconnect us.
I miss the 2000s internet. :(
Cable internet before the bandwidth caps were working. What a time.
🗣Emule
ICQ ... late 90's..... nostalgic feelings will kill us 😂
@@wauzi_Uh Oh!!😂
I was a kid with a DeviatArt account and every opinion was written by someone else. Now I automatically ignore all comments almost everywhere.
I'm one of the privileged that lived in the era where the Internet was a brand new frontier. I have seen what was made to be for the benefit of the world, monetized and sterilized, or used for nefarious deeds.
Because it was always meant to benefit a few. It was made by DARPA for Christ's sake
I love whiskey too 🤤
It was never made for our benefit, only to control us.
It was neat in the 90s. Remember when it was a bunch of applications and not just the web?
@@magickmarckcomputers were also super expensive back then
interesting i think it's fundamentally mis understood something the algorithm sort based on what people like that's what the different engagement calculation and the fakeness being perceived from social media is just creators fitting what people like... for example in school everyone tries to be what is cool at the time therefore everyone ends up acting the same being the same
I don't know if I'm allowed to say this on UA-cam but I think a bigger problem than spam is censorship.
Yes. The amount of comments I click where there are much less replies than specified, for insurance 3 replies but only one is shown, is disturbing. Do you know a place where's not so much c-ship?
You haven't seen censorship. In some countries UA-cam is blocked, you can watch it without bypassing apps
Both are monsters to sanity
Yes but there’s even more than that going on in the world… the internet is one reason and example of how evil humanity can be, it happens in more areas in life, not just online …
Crazy times we live in….
Only "good" comments pass nowadays
Is this entire video not just an 18 minute commercial to sell us a spam and data protection service? Thus, in and of itself, spam?
Sometimes you have to fight fire with fire.
Not the entire video but the last few minutes
@@JJ-hp6mb check out sponsorblock, a community project that marks timestamps of sponsors in youtube videos and lets you autoskip them.
@@buckethead1799 and so can UA-cam by having it removed but do to greed and outsourcing this bs doesn't happen, I heard Trump needs you to help him win
@@JJ-hp6mb its clickbait trash bot account
You cannot regulate Pandora's box. Its like holding up an umbrella to stop a tsunami
AI has entered the chat
@@ChuckDarwin1 the Tao that can be named is not the eternal Tao
I completely disagree. This idea has been fed to us by the people and corporations profiting off of technological advancement. It reflects a widespread cultural passivity, not an inevitable future. We have the power to change the future.
@@fr0ggy513 of course we should do all we can to protect our species. Unfortunately we are quite adept at orchestrating our own demise. Both robotics and AI could in some ways be classified as evil, so could the internet, yet here we are debating the wisdom of such things on the internet itself. We could never have communicated without it.
Pandora’s box from Fortnite?
Ironically, I had to scroll through all these video shorts that UA-cam keeps feeding me while trying to find a video with lengthy substance. I have a tendency to get caught on these shorts and never get to some of the 20-30 minute videos of content creators I normally follow. Thank you for this well thought out and well researched content. Also, as a Millennial who remembers a time before everyone had a personal computer, including myself, I had no idea spam as internet content and Spam the meat substitute were related. The word just worked its way into my vocabulary, so I never realized its origin.
It’s crazy people now go camping, hiking ect just to get away from internet, and try to keep their phones away as much as possible just to enjoy the outdoors… it used to be the other way around
There used to be WIP blogs of people sharing how they made or worked on things. Model kits, painting, sculpting etc. It was so much fun.
I guess UA-cam is just modernized WIP
Who just paused the video and read the comments? Its about all UA-cam videos are good for theses days
Pretty much. 20-50 minutes of pointless fluff that can be summed up in just a few comments.
The last genuine humans we have left on youtube.
Yeah but the sadly the comment section is healthy c.ns0red y sh4dowhanning. Where are the times nobody decided for me what is roadworthy and where can I freely express myself and exchange opinions?
I do it all the time.
Paused at 0:01
Grew up w internet- my parents taught me something, and I stick to it today- There are no people on the internet.
I used to see the internet as a place where I could inform or increase my mental capacity, but now every time i log on or in, i have to battle against someone else's idea of what my learning should be!!
When i went to libraries, i never opened a book and expected to be have advertising on every page and also someone elses opinion, trying to inform me of what i was reading for, I went to the library to learn.
If thats happening then youre in the wrong place, theres plenty of places to do research online
3:20 ha, yeah-“purchase” movies and music online, yep, that’s what we did alright
yeah exactly, coincidentally mine were always free... :)
Yar har, fiddle de dee
Being a pirate is alright to be
Do what you want 'cause a pirate is free
You are a pirate! 🏴☠️
I bought several dvds on ebay.
😂😂
@@georgezimmerman3334dumbass
i used to have a schedule to spend time on youtube and flash games on a particular part of the day back in 2014. I would study, go outside to play with my friends, sometimes nap, do homework, and only after all that would i actually sit in front of my mom's or dad's laptop and watch videos or play flash games. My dad bought nfs for me, and it was fun, apart from that, i remember watching the king of random. A few years after that, using the internet just became a habit, i would wake up, sit in front of my laptop, attend classes, play roblox and yea... that was it, here i am now spending time on the internet like its a prerequisite to stay updated on everything (which it is), but it feels so hollow, i just cant explain the feeling
when my grown kids were young, docs were saying keep them off devices, and then later it was limit to like 2 hours PER WEEK, including TV. This advice seems so foreign now.
wow! and that;s coming from someone born after the internet i presume? and here was I thinking only genXers really felt it
As someone who grew up at the commercial birth of the world wide web, it felt like a hyper future piece of tech that blew my mind. The freedom of access to all the information you could want and to communicate with anyone across the world was enlightening. Now the web feels like a unnatural dependance. Slaves to the constant information flow.
Twisted by companies and the like to shape and stear public opinions and desires.
This adresses directly the sense of hopelesness and terrible anxiety that's been bittering my life for the better part of a decade...
Agreed. I can barely stand humanity anymore. It's disgusting.
Hope you are doing better
@@sridharr2025 thank you for the kind thoughts but I’m afraid it’s been getting worse. I just wish I could shut down my immense empathy but I just can’t seem to do so. I worry about the world like I worry about my daily problems. And it sucks to see every beautiful thing in today’s world getting slowly destroyed, from art to education to healthcare to retirement to mental health, to families… and adding AI on top of that. Most people just don’t seem to mind this but I am just getting sleepless over it. I really wish I was born 40 to 60 years ago
@@SouihliAhmed How do you deal with it? I'm suffering from exact the same things, one of my biggest "pains" to see is what humans are doing to nature and animals.
No i'm not vegan, i love my steak. But how we humans treat all that, is burning my soul and also my will to live.
I have a daughter and a good wife, since my daughter started to get older, my anxiety level rised by a lot and i can feel instead of getting used to it, it's getting bigger.
It's hard to live like that every day.
Hopefully you'll get better with this. I know how it feels man.
See that we have a special gift with our empathy, only a few people have that.
Even if it's slowly "eating" us, we should be thankful to be able to see the things like they really are.
@@WhiteCranK because we’re empaths, our human experience is deeper for sure. But even my shrink could not help me. He just kept saying things to comfort me but he also admitted that most of his empathic patients are imploding on a daily basis.
The only solution I have found so far, that is not always helping, is to disconnect from the things that feed the worries. Stuff like this video. Cause empathy + curiosity in today’s time = mental catastrophe.
Good luck raising your daughter man, it’s the toughest time to raise kids especially girls!
6:46 this reminds me of when i played Goat Simulator multiplayer. I had been having what I thought were full conversations with people I wanted to go on adventures with. I realized quickly after asking who wants to go on an adventure that the majority of the “players” i had been talking to were bots. I have not played that game since and it still gives me chills when i think about the feeling after the realization sometimes.
OMG I KNOW WHAT YOUR TALKING ABOUT I THOUGHT SO TOO
@@marissa6324 i am terribly sorry you experienced that uncanny valley shiz
Just cause there bots doesn’t mean you shouldn’t take them on adventures
@@dannykweller7873 you right actually, they may have wanted to go on adventures and i just wasnt asking the right way
00:13 ad skipper
O7 brother
Goat 🐐
Goat
a true keyboard warrior, thank you for your service
For 13 seconds that’s crazy 💀
I was in a 3rd world country in Africa 2023 summer and it completely changed how I saw the world. They had no Internet and everyone genuinely looked happy and had a good social life. When I came back to America people didn’t look as lively more dead inside lowkey. But I realize so much of what affects our mood is the society around us. Social media and Internet is the devil nowadays. Idk how it can happen with how much power it has now. But man… I hope it gets erased and we revert back to how we used to be.
I’ve been thinking about the internet a lot recently, and where my place within it truly is. I feel like certain parts of it are incredibly helpful, but along with that there are so many cancerous uses that I’ve fallen into. I’ve grown up with and without the internet, and I feel like disconnecting is futile, because everyone is so entrenched in the internet and its culture.
Sadly, life has changed, and I don’t know if I will be able to navigate it correctly.
You can start by cutting down on social media. I've only kept facebook because I talk to my friends through messenger but I almost never use the website. Try getting rid of every google product (browsers, search engines, etc) and only log in on the internet if there is something you want to search.
The internet has become a business, just one big commercial.
It is the land of the mindless trend-monger or bandwaggoner. Hordes of think-alikes that are know-nothings.
I'm beginning to see some of this now with the ridiculous amounts of 'spammed' content. Every time I scroll on youtube shorts, instead of getting a video recommended to me by someone I'm subscribed to or some form or original content it just tons and tons of reposts of the same phonk songs over and over again. I've pressed "do not recommend channel" on over 500 channels and it still pops up and keeps coming.
Possibly a hot take, I think a lot of what I've seen at least, maybe not what others have, I'm specifically talking about videos and attention span, TikTok was the main cause for all of this, if TikTok didn't show up we wouldn't have those girls doing cringe short TikTok dances at school (this is so problematic I've seen it included in movies), we wouldn't have UA-cam shorts, we would still have an attention span with seeing long form content, there would also be less fast paced brain rot garbage(maybe).
As a just starting content creator, I'm beginning to get slightly frustrated with seeing these people who put absolutely zero effort into something and just spam a youth e shorts sound or a TikTok sound over and over again trying to get views. The worst part is that these people generally get more views and more likes than someone who makes original content. I surprisingly don't get much spam besides getting shown these un-original brain rot children that have been filtering onto UA-cam from TikTok, I generally only get things im actually subscribed to like Quora Digest, Reddit, UA-cam, Roberts Space Industries, and Steam. The most spam I've seen doesn't even come from bots or automatic emails, it comes from people who should not be making UA-cam videos who should not be getting as many views as they are. The newest one I've seen is a kid beat boxing phonk then turning into the actual phonk song with a caption saying "(phone brand) zoom is crazy)", like what is that, it's so common I've had it play 3 times in a row. The other one I've been getting is some Roblox earthquake video for some reason, and another one I got was LEGITIMATELY A SCREEN RECORDING OF SOMEONES ORIGINAL VIDEO ON YT SHORTS, it was quite literally a straight up screen recording of the entire original video posted on yt shorts, you could tell because you could see double of all the buttons on the screen (like, dislike, etc) and they still got well over 10k views and at least 9.1k likes while I see an original video somewhere and it only has maybe 700 views and 30 likes.
I don't know if anyone else is having this problem, but if someone is and you found a way to get UA-cam to stop recommending these people to you, that would be amazing.
The Dead Internet Theory becomes The Dead Internet Observation.
the “dead-ness” of the internet is literally manifesting into reality😭 im so sick
the dead internet theory invented death
"Now all restaraunts are Taco Bell." - Demolition Man
Yup! Eating out at fast food restaurants is like taking a laxative!!🌝
The Franchise Wars were probably a dogfight. Demolition Man nailed the tone of the passive aggressive and suppressive nanny state we now live under.
I can't help but agree with Simon Phoenix, though. You can't take away people's right to be assholes.
Be well, John Spartan
Reminds me of The Onion article " Mc Donald's opens Mc Donald's in bathroom of existing Mc Donald's"
@@jumpupdown2556 I watched it a couple years ago for the first time since it first came out - I couldn't believe how much they got right
Shorts literally fuck up my whole day sometimes. It’s straight up an addiction. Even in class or at work, it’s annoying now. Like I can weeks (now months) without smoking or drinking, I also cut down on my gaming, but short form content has got me by the hook.
Shorts ruined YT,
Lots of creators are making shorts,
I find myself watching them all the time even though I hate it,
There's just not that much to watch,
Anything worth watching is taken down,
They want control,
they fear unification !
Maybe it’s just me, but the quality and depth of the media I consume has increased steadily since 2016. The rankings / algorithm might be worse but I place far more value now in finding high quality channels.
That's true for me, too. I take an essentially sceptical approach to content, and make it a priority to choose and filter what I consume. But I also think it's getting harder to do that, particularly in the last year or so. Content creators are being led by social media algorithms more and more, so the proportion of genuine content is shrinking and harder to find. Previously good, rigorous and nuanced content creators are getting more click-baity to survive, and presumably also suffering from their own research being corrupted by bland, AI-regurgitated "spam". I think the sudden increase in AI must be the cause. Not to mention geopolitical manipulation.
High quality? Nothing anyone puts out is anything but actual garbage
@@gracefulhealer935 Have you heard of targeted advertising, social media bubbles or algorithms? Perhaps you keep watching garbage and thus get more garbage. If you make an effort to find high quality content, the algorithms will tend to provide you with higher quality content.
In 2010, Internet used to be a kind of escape from the real world. 14 years later we want to escape from it and desperately want to return in the real world. Funny!
the truth is always paradox
Even back in the mid 2000s was more creative and free. Nowadays, customization that used to be primal in the 2000s is long gone. But there's always hope to go back to what kept us connected in the first place, much like the 2000s used to be.
I remember during the days of facebook..... a thing called suggested posts..... those were fun... telling them that they were not welcome on my homefeed....
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3:57 I disagree that the internet is crucial to the human experience. Take away the internet for a week and people will go back to what they used to do before it existed. It's just part of our lives now - but it's not required for life.
I dont know man
Banks would have a lot of problems
Its not required for humanity, but as an individual it is extremely hard to put down. I do some no internet or PC, tv weekends, with only regular phone calls and good old SMS. It is getting crazy hard to do over the last few years.
I am not really big on social media or have many friends, but my e-mail box is bombarded by the time I activate it on monday. Also many official places start to rely way too much on the internet, some bills can only be paid through it.
With that said the loss of the internet would delete plenty of knowledge as well as hit lots, who have financial stuff only online. It would make a crisis. I kind of just wish social media was limited to max 1 hour use daily, that alone would vastly improve the situation.
It's imperative. It's non existentence would make people even more dumb/low vibrational then now. And that's hard to imagine. We have gained alot from it. But now the earth needs a hard reset and humans need resetting. We are the most vile product on earth. Hopefully animals will survive the reset
I plant trees for a living and i still need the internet for work
@@clone3_7I beg to differ. Like you said, as an individual you can live offline, but vast majority of modern companies rely solely on their access to internet.
I miss watching spongebob on Nickelodeon on tv when we were kids, my friends and cousins and I would just sit there and watch for an hour eating chicken nuggets then go out and resume our play outside. The best time in my life, never worrying abt anything. Now I'm addicted to the internet. I wake up in the morning craving it.
13:18 "You're the average not of the 5 persons you sorround yourself with, but the 5 influencers you follow online." this is very true and I've always thought that many people around me do thing because they are in some kind of online bubble of some influence who does these things. They're not called "influencers" for nothing.
I follow zero influencers. What does that make me?
@@b4ds33d you watched this video. Generalize "inflluencers" to "media channels"
@@b4ds33d not much, my friend, not much.
Ive often thought of that phrase since discovering youtube and gradually disregarding people in my offline life.
yet this is the one thing you have control over! it's easy to steer clear of "influencers" online.
I also see a kind of death spiral in ads. The more people use an ad blocker the worse ad companies want to promote the ads. But the worse this gets, the more people are gonna use ad blockers. I suspect within, i dunno, the next 15 years the entire foundation of income that the internet runs on will have to change away from ads. Otherwise it's gonna ruin the web entirely, and i'm not talking about ruining websites with ads, i'm talking about websites going offline.
The internet has been unusable without an adblocker since 2001.
I occasionally check out a new browser and every time I do I get a brutal reminder how essential an adblocker is.
Honestly and ironically this video is incredibly bloated by repeating the same concept over and over.
Whenever I see a comment like this I'm reminded of my brother who watches videos 1.5 speed and just clicks through "boring" parts.
@@JamesTierce there’s a difference between boring and unnecessary repetition
Was it By AI generated 😂?
and the fact that it's all a ruse to flip some "online privacy" service he gets paid to promote.
@@JamesTierceno one said anything about 'boring', this guy is making the exact same point over and over again without anything new to add.
Very good video! Covering this on my podcast soon, I will shout out this video. We don't have much of a following but we have fun! You have given me lots of info, so thank you.
There's another way the Internet is dead: It used to be that I would walk up to my friends and family and say, "Did you guys see the [VIDEO/PICTURE] on the Internetz?" And, everyone would be like, "No. What're you talking about?" Now, it's more like, "Did y'all see [VIDEO/PICTURE] on the Internetz?" And, they've all already seen it. And, it works the same way the other way around. I've already seen what they have seen...and, they've already seen what I have seen.
I don't know if that makes the Internetz dead...or, if we've all just reached the end of it at the same time.
Used to be people talked that way about things in real life. People would discuss TV shows because the pool of things to choose from was what was on last night which meant everyone watched the same stuff and could talk about it in groups.
Talk about missing what the point of dead theory. It isn’t about who isn’t or isn’t online it’s about how many of the “people“ online are real.
@@gnhatch I know. But, the fact that EVERYONE is seeing the EXACT SAME THINGS is leading me to believe there are bots at play; and, they're pointing us all in the same direction. I know for a fact that it's not individual people pointing us to the same content...that would be nearly impossible.
@@John-zh1ud Agreed! But, even back then I would walk up to friends/family/co-workers and ask, "Did you see what happened in that POPULAR show/movie]?" And, a lot of them would say they hadn't seen it. That was way back when we had only about 10 TV channels (most channels were ignored for the most part).
The problem/confusion I have is: The Internetz could be INFINITE with the amount of content being created...yet, I haven't been able to surprise anyone with a video/picture in MONTHS; and, even YEARS for some people. Everyone went from NOT seeing the same thing I've seen on FIVE out of TEN channels on TV...to seeing NEARLY EVERYTHING I've seen on an ever-growing Internetz. How in the heck is that possible?
Why the fvck are you saying/typing "internetz"? Grow up
I remember when a phone use to be somthing that was in the house that half the time you didnt even know where it was when you actully need it, now it never leaves you, technology and wifi social media has changed the world and the people
The kicker is Jack Conte is part of the problem, he sold out Patreon to VC making himself rich and in turn fulfilling the rich elites wishes by firing much of the talented team that built Patreon and totally screw over users and people who were giving to said users making it almost an untenable and unrecognizable platform from where it started as pro creator and pro user. Jack willingly and for capitalist gains destroyed his own platform so he and the VCs could cash out. And it’s rumored Jack allegedly made backdoor deals to sell all the creator and user content produced using Patreon to an AI company to train on, using all the hard work its creators put in. Even if this isn’t substantiated Jack is a two-faced liar of sorts, he isn’t just part of the problem in that if you’re a creator using Patreon, he IS the problem. I find it funny you’re praising the guy who himself gladly takes millions to be aiding and abetting the in the dead internet which is less theory and more fact.
While he's an a..hole he can still say things that are true. The words should always be conisdered and judged on their own meaning, not who spoke them. Context is important too of course ;-)
@@Shaadea are you clever?
Indeed, fuck patreon.
@@Luk3us what's crazy, is not being able to find any yt videos on this news.
@@hllyenaylleth9576 You should produce one.
I don't know if I should laugh or cry as your video about the destruction of the quality of the internet is heavily punctuated by paid UA-cam ads.
9:08 As an artist, I have been struggling with this in recent years. He took the words out of my mouth.
i agree 100%, it’s incredibly sad truth as an artist
Brilliant and timely. In the last few years, I’ve gone from worrying about the next X-class solar flare aimed directly at earth to looking forward to it. We need to remember that electronic connection is not real life.
There’s been plenty of x class solar flares this year. None are going to wipe out all comms. One big one hit in 89 i think, but it only affected quebec.
@@noglobo I was thinking Carrington-Event level, but you’re right.
It's really gonna die soon.... 🤣😅 But just not in the way you think. 🤐🤫 See y'all on the 😉 dark side. 😼
Luddites shall inherit the Earth.
@@justarandomname420 wdym
The Internet died when people started making sponsored videos.
only videos like these, that are basically just an ad.
You're confusing "internet" with "youtube"
TRUE
can we exile the greedy pigs from the Internet pleaaaaase 🥺🥺🥺
Year 2012 when monetization of yt and twitch had begun, and also when every normie had smarphones and became a main character in social media
People who want to be paid for their work is not a new thing.
The irony of this video being heavily advertised is palpable.
Thank you youtube for letting me watch 1:24 of the video untill geting an unskipable ad😢
same 😂
Probably a political one too 🤦♀️
Same
A lot of things I would research back in the day were on some websites that don't exist anymore. Can't find anything on these subjects anymore either. They are just putting out what they want us to see. Not the truth
Wayback Machine?
Someone find me old DT celeb apprentice. Memory holed.
@@starebba no. nobody saves unaccessed and niche forums
The jokes on all of us, the moment he endorses his sponsor of the channel right at the end. What a paradox. Internet will end soon...bring it on and bring us all back to our true human senses.
Just want to say the music for this totally spot on in each section of the video. So good
8:30 that's exactly what brought me to this video. Explains why I hardly ever get videos from channels I've subbed to.
Honestly, the Internet going down would be the best thing to happen to humanity in the past 1000 years.
People would go ape shit lol
I don't think that society can take an internet collapse. Most of our data is stored online. But we could at least get rid of social media and every subscription service.
At least keep online banking
That's stupid, if you hate it so much just dont go online, the rest of us are fine, especially since the internet has become an essential tool, and streamlined a ton of stuff.
@@Fishmancer405 The only thing it has "stream lined" is finding porn.
15:42 Your in video advertising is spam…
Fr
I always knew spam online to mean "Stupid pointless annoying messages"
Fried Spam, eggs, chips & baked beans or with cheese & beans jacked spud ain’t bad at all.
It's a backronym.
I haven't heard anyone say that since I first went online at a friends place LOL.
It can be that, just like real SPAM can be "Stupid, pointless, annoying meat"
Recently I’ve been getting this weird feeling that all of UA-cam is leading up to something. like the ‘finale’ of the internet is approaching, a payoff to entire platform of youtube
Only people over the age of 30 got to experience peak internet.
No ads. No spam. No surveillance. No data collection. No rules.
No data collection and surveillance huh? Well that's not true.
@@purplesky99876a little less true
nah, i remember all the pop ups
And download what ever you want without worrying about getting an internet quarantine from the cable company...... internet today sucks
Ads were so bad that many countries had to regulate them, wtf is this guy on about 😂
Ironically, the narration in this video makes the video seem like a 17 minute advert to directly sell your personal information…
Plottwist:
Pursuit of Wonder is a full AI channel
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ugh
It is though, listen to the voice on this video!
The AI itself is joking laughing at us dumb humans
You'd be surprised how many UA-cam pages are just AI script
I wondered where and why the word SPAMMING was the chosen word for the act of bombarding a website or your mailbox with BS.
Idk why this is so shocking, we know book burning and revisionist history have gone on for all time. This should have been seen so far out and mentioned this back in 2005 when i began seeing the spread of smartphones. This is the ultimate editing tool for all info and knowledge. And the whole mandala craze was intentional and pushed right ahead of this AI push. That's what those are, ultra advanced AI capable of rewriting entire films and lines. It's an attack on our own memories and makes you question the accuracy of your own memories. Very scary tech, and remember anything given to the public they have a version at least 20 years more advanced.
We used the internet to escape the world.
Now we use the world to escape the internet
We lost the battle when they removed the dislike button
Use the APP and re-enable it!!
@@Denniss7420 huh? How?
How? @@Denniss7420
@@GenXgaming42 Well, it lets you SEE the counter, and click dislike if you want. But the dislikes have no bearing on what UA-cam recommends you or others watch. It has no power now. Can be useful for spotting clickbait, if a post has a high number of dislikes. If still interested, it's called Return UA-cam Dislikes on Firefox, I'm sure other browsers have something similar
@@GenXgaming42 Wake up dude.
I just had to let go of cable in August. My internet, cable bill, and phone we're almost $400. Not to mention my separate cell phone which is divided by 3 about $33 a month. For the most of my adult life, I have had a cable connection, except during the 70s when I was little. From 1981 til this past August I have always a cable connection in my house. I currently live in the house I grew up in. It was so hard to make the adjustment, and it's still hard because I can't afford the streaming services that everyone is buying into . Plus I don't have the money to start buying new smart TVs. Up until August I still had the chunky TVs of the 1990s and I was perfectly fine. I don't want all the streaming services because eventually they're going to get expensive too. I really don't understand why we had to change from analog to digital. If we still have the analog television from the 1970s, I would be perfectly fine watching whatever channels I could receive. I have an antenna for my TV but half of the stuff doesn't come in. I had a better reception with my TV in the 1970s. I would prefer the TV of the 1970s as opposed to what I'm getting now which is barely anything. So in order to watch even local news like Eyewitness News channel 7 I have to hook up a computer and an HDMI cord to my TV so that I can watch local news. It's ridiculous. If I lost the internet tomorrow, I would miss the ability to watch TV but I would miss more the ability to send documents and things like that. Everything else, not really. I have been very depressed myself because I have more news, and you tube video , now than I ever did before. I wish my cable bill went back to being under 100.00 and my house phone being 50 or 60 dollars internet included. I am pretty sure we have more than paid for the satellites that we launched up in space for the cable and internet and phone we have today. When does the greed end ? Why weren't things just good enough when we purchased a TV and added a wire to the back of it and got channels that way. The only good thing that box was good for with the cable company was DVR, other than that why did cable have to become so greedy go back to the dinosaur age of having a box and a remote for us to have digital TV with more and more channels that don't get used unless you pay extra for them. I am with the person who said 1996 to the year 2000 was the best time for the internet and if I could go back in time I would probably buy other things from eBay, that I see going for a gazillion dollars now because I didn't know their value would rise!😂
The internet is so dull now I miss when it was a fun and magical place to surf for things.
You know we're fucked when Pursuit of Wonder does a video on it.....
Always makes the most interesting perspective on topics
all he does is regurgitate well-known information about popular topics and insert popular opinions. he probably wet himself laughing at the thought of comments like yours while uploading this video because it's about the type of content that garnered him an audience. it was a slap in the face and you just enjoyed it.
One thing that has changed is that the internet killed pop culture. Everyone wears the same things/brands,Music sounds the same, Movies are the same,Social media and the Internet has replaced social skills and creativity.
Earlier today I tried to google the distance between two cities. I scrolled down and down to the third, the fourth, the fifth page of travel ads before giving up.
I have a similar issue where i’ll search specifically for a woman’s point of view or item and it only gives me (usually irrelevant)articles about a similar yet very basic topic for males.
@@nogloboseems like both of you just have low digital-literacy, this isn’t a cause of dead internet
@@michaelsevilla7579you shouldn't need moderate or high digital literacy to google something basic.
It's really gonna die soon.... 🤣😅 But just not in the way you think. 🤐🤫 See y'all on the 😉 dark side. 😼
Use Google maps for that man....