Since the Big Bang created the earth, since Adam and Eve walked their first steps on land, since the Titan Prometheus created his little “dolls” from clay and water, interaction with other human beings has always been an unavoidable aspect of human existence. From hunting and gathering for food during the Stone Age through working in factories as an “alive assembly line” in the Industrial Revolution, people were always around people.
Whether they liked it or not.
And the exponential growth of the internet is said to have provided a major boost to this trend. People now don’t even have to leave their homes to interact with one another. They can simply go online and will be immediately immersed in this whole other universe, along with millions and millions of others.
Socializing is…easy.
And the trends show it too. According to a study by Harvard University, in the past twenty years, the number of young adults who went out to socialize drastically decreased by 45%. After all, when tiny little screens unlocked the doors to unlimited text messages, calls that could be taken with people across the world, and literal apps that were classified as social media, there was simply no need to go out and meet others in person.
Because they were socializing.
However, not with other humans. The Dead Internet Conspiracy Theory suggests that a large part of the internet today is dominated by non-human activity, and instead taken over by chatbots, pawns in Artificial Intelligence.
Especially on social media.
In comments sections on YouTube, Instagram reels, and Facebook posts, many people are unaware of just how little of that is of authentic human creation. Going back to the statistics from Harvard University, over the past 20 years, the number of young adults who went outside to socialize decreased by 45%. That 45% instead preferred to interact with robots.
Social media is a sucking black hole.
Once you get in, you can’t escape. Because while in the past, people were unaware that the content they were watching was of bots, today, according to WVTM, roughly 66% of Americans know.
And they still don’t care.
Even though the statement that the internet is completely “dead” is a myth, facts are deeply intertwined as well. If our society continues the way it is today, with decreased human interaction and greater bot interaction, it will crumble. The only reason we’ve come so far today as a species, through all the advancements, the pain, the struggle, is from the way we all grow together. Knowing of the abundance of bots on the internet shouldn’t be treated as a mild annoyance. And yet it is. Because people haven’t looked ahead to see the excruciating harm it could cause.
Clueless about the trap that they’ve fallen into.
Right now, humans have succumbed to the hypnotizing internet’s arms, brainwashed by the bots.
Because…whether we like it or not, socializing has become easy. Because we thought we were socializing. Especially on social media. Except social media is a sucking black hole. And we still don’t care. Clueless about the trap that we’ve fallen into.
And yet…not screaming to climb out.
