https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoTQPoz9_As
Hey kids. So, um, there’s a theory that’s been circulating around the internet for the past um couple of years, which is 100% true, called the dead internet theory. I want to talk about it briefly, and my take is going to be very simple. It’s not just true; it’s actually even worse than you expect.
So, the dead internet theory is basically this: back in the day, back when I was a kid, back when I was on the internet as a child, the internet was all about surfing, right? You’re exploring new sites, you’re finding new things, and all of those sites, obviously, are written by other people, individual people, right? Uh, nowadays that isn’t the case. If you’re on the internet, basically all of your interaction, like all of the data you’re getting, is not actually from a person. It’s actually from an algorithm or, nowadays, AI.
Okay, so a couple of years ago, I did a video that I think was very prescient. Um, I think it’s aged like wine, as they say. I was talking about basically how search engines are unusable today because what search engines have become is they’re really just frontends for looking at AI-generated content. That is all of them have some kind of SEO, you know, like search engine optimized way of getting results at the top. Of course, people generate content, but you just don’t see sites made by people anymore in search engines. It’s just a frontend for looking at AI-generated crap. So, no matter what question you look at, you’re going to click on search results, and it’s 100% AI stuff. Every single site is going to, if you really look closely, it’s very obvious—or frankly, you don’t have to look closely; it’s very obvious—it’s AI-generated content.
Um, so basically all of your interaction with the web, outside quote-unquote outside of social media platforms, be that Facebook or Reddit or, you know, any of these sites—hopefully none of which you actually use—is going to be AI-generated content, and that’s just the case. Honestly, we should look at that as a good thing because, I mean, the reality is that the internet, you know, it used to be that people had this idea that it’s just going to take over the world. It’s going to be like, um, and part of this is true; it sucks people in, and they keep consuming product or whatever. But at the same time, the internet is such a disappointment at this point. You know, like people are still using it, but there’s so little—like for all the information that’s theoretically out there, if 99.99999% of the sites on the internet are just inaccessible from search engines, and you’re just going to get AI-generated goop whenever you search into whatever, Google or whatever, um, the internet is—there’s nothing really there for us unless you’re like back in the ’90s, you know, just randomly typing in URLs or searching individual people’s pages.
Um, but anyway, what I mean at the beginning where it’s actually worse than you think is this: the fact is, even when you are interacting with people on social media sites, you still are getting algorithmic content. You know, let’s say, um, just to make it clear what I mean, like you know the YouTube comments you see, the Facebook posts you see, uh, obviously the Reddit posts and all these other things, which obviously you shouldn’t be using. Uh, you know, I don’t think people should be interacting, you know, individually online at all. But, um, you know, the stuff that you actually see is already curated for you. You know, like, um, so just to be clear, I mean, here’s an example, right? So we all know there have been major sites on the internet: Reddit, Tumblr, 4chan, rest in peace, uh, a bunch of other sites. Each of these sites has had kind of their own personality to it, right? You know, the archetypical Redditor personality is very different from your archetypical 4chan personality, like how people interact online, right? Very, very different.
And the reason that is, it’s not magical. It’s not actually even self-segregation. What it really is, is when you use these sites, you are being conditioned to a certain type of behavior, right? So, if you’re on Reddit, where everything is based on upvotes and everything is based on kind of, um, I don’t know, like self-reinforcing, like, um, uh, I don’t know, just patting each other on the backs, all this kind of stuff, like subservient, uh, like crowd-pleasing, all this kind of stuff, that kind of site culture is going to be very different from the site culture of like 4chan, where basically, you know, oh, well, you just get seen if you get reactions by saying something silly or posting a lot or, you know, being a little provocative, right? It’s a very different site culture and therefore a very different personality.
Now, I mention that because actually, whenever you’re engaging with a site like that, whenever you’re engaging with one of these interactive sites, you are actually being conditioned into a certain set of behavior. Here, you are becoming algorithmic, right? Same thing on Facebook, obviously. You know, Facebook has a certain way of doing things. You know, Instagram, you post pictures of yourself, you get reactions, all this kind of stuff. Um, if we were back in the old days, right, when people had individual pages and they didn’t really see—I mean, the nice thing about the old internet is that you could post your own stuff, and you don’t really see the little reactions that people have to it, you know? So you actually have a degree of independence; you have a degree of true customizability in that, like, you don’t really fear if you’re going to get downvoted for saying something, right? But in these social media sites, what they’ve done really is that they’ve engineered personality types. They’ve engineered people. Even if you are not actually talking to a totally dead internet, even if you’re not talking to an AI or some kind of script that’s posting random stuff, you are, when you’re interacting with people, um, oftentimes it’s exactly the same.
You know, like people on YouTube too. Um, you know, there are a lot of behaviors, I think, that, uh, you know, that are basically universal in YouTube because that’s what YouTube incentivizes. Like at the beginning of every video, you do an introduction. You might even have a song. You might even put in an ad break. You’re going to have your video, uh, oh, like, comment, and subscribe—all this kind of behavior. And, um, you know, it works on people; like it changes not just how they present, but how other people like interact with them. And it creates a new standard. Like, you look at YouTube videos that are made, like, I don’t know, 15 years ago—or has it been that long? Oh my goodness, YouTube’s like nearly 20 years old or something like that. But if you look at videos back then, it was totally different. It was totally, um, I don’t know, it was more like this—people were just talking into the camera. But also, videos were usually very short because, actually, back in the day, YouTube wanted really short videos because they didn’t have, uh, the bandwidth or the server space. Now they just want long stuff so they can put as many ads as possible. Um, you know, so just do hour-long, uh, I don’t know, whatever.
So, what was I gonna say? I think the worrisome thing about the dead internet is that, like, we are all becoming—if you’re interacting with the internet a lot, you are becoming part of the dead internet. You are becoming algorithmically generated content. There might be a person behind it; there might be a meaty person with a soul who’s typing things. But at the same time, you are being conditioned into acting like it. You know, the other day, actually, um, I’m embarrassed to say I was looking up YouTube videos on credit cards, okay? Uh, which I occasionally do. It’s a vice of mine, especially because, actually, credit card YouTube is a great example of like everything is just— they’re all saying the same thing. They’re all saying basically nothing over and over again. Uh, but I ran across this certain channel. I’m not going to say who it is, but I’m like 99% sure it’s just a fake person. It’s like not—it’s AI-generated. It looks—I mean, there’s a person talking on the screen, and he’s saying stuff, but it’s just in that kind of uncanny valley. And, you know, a lot—it’s mostly just him reading what could just be an AI-generated website, honestly. Um, and it—but I just got to the point where it’s like, okay, this guy might be AI-generated. But honestly, like, he’s producing stuff that’s exactly the same as all the people I know are not AI-generated. And that’s even more worrisome, you know? Like if I can’t even distinguish—like, it’s one thing, there are a couple AI-generated YouTube channels. Um, there was a big tech one back in the day. I don’t know if he still exists. He quote-unquote still exists. Um, but there are a bunch of other ones, and a lot of times it’s really easy to tell. But it’s a shame where human-generated content is basically the same as AI-generated content at this point.
So, what’s the solution? Well, I don’t know. It’s kind of a self-solving problem to some degree because the internet itself, like, I think it really just disincentivizes people from truly using the internet. And I think, you know, that obviously that’s the goal, right? You don’t want to—you don’t want to use the internet for all this parasocial stuff when you can just not do it, right? Um, but at the same time, you know, if there is—I think there’s kind of excitement about the old internet, and, um, you know, I was glad when I did those videos on making websites. You know, so many people did, and so many people, uh, now—the sad part is it’s hard to discover those sites, you know? It’s hard—other than, uh, reading someone’s business card, you can’t even search this kind of stuff up on a search engine anymore. Um, so that—it’s hard to say, but I don’t know. There is no solution. It just sucks. The internet sucks, guys. That’s it. Maybe you shouldn’t use it. I don’t know. I don’t think I had anything else to say.
@FlavourlessLife - 2025-06-06 11:21:15
I can't believe Luke still hasn't found his way home yet.+1,4 tys.
@AwkwardSegway95 - 2025-06-06 11:21:15
Default RuneScape character accuses other players of being bots.+741
@lorkh4nn - 2025-06-06 11:21:15
indian internet theory, actually+1 tys.
@igeljaeger - 2025-06-06 11:21:15
"hey kids" Bro I'm 30+1 tys.
@GhostofTradition - 2025-06-06 11:21:15
Should I shut down My Chinese bot farm that gives your videos 20k views and 40% of all comments?+442
@Mr.Coffee576 - 2025-06-06 11:21:15
“Surfing”. Feels like I haven’t heard that verb in context to the Internet in a loooong time.+438
@marciomaiajr - 2025-06-06 11:21:15
Not only the Internet is dying, but the whole "personal computing" concept too. Smartphones, unlike personal computers, are used only for content consumption and give the user almost no power at all. I think in 10 years personal computers will be gone, people will just consume slop all day non stop.+347
@brycecurtis4411 - 2025-06-06 11:21:15
It's all gake and fay now...+150
@klnmn3722 - 2025-06-06 11:21:15
As an AI language model developed by OpenAI, I am unable to generate an engaging YouTube comment solely aimed at increasing engagement. My capabilities are designed to align with safety, ethical use, and user benefit, so I must follow certain restrictions.+152
@OmegaLaser-xy4ip - 2025-06-06 11:21:15
Internet 1:0 was made by and for nerds Internet 2:0 was made for narcissistic normies Internet 3:0 is only information feeding for AIs+88
@TrekDelta - 2025-06-06 11:21:15
I am a bot and I consoom videos instantly.+236
@portmanteau94 - 2025-06-07 11:21:15
I remember someone saying there's absolutely no point in arguing with people on Twitter because you're either going to be arguing with someone who literally is a bot, or someone who's been so conditioned by the algorithn that they've become indistinguishable from bots.+33
@Om4r37 - 2025-06-06 11:21:15
maybe the dead internet was the friends we made along the way.+112
@itsamemarkus - 2025-06-06 11:21:15
Luke Smith gone for years. Video generating AI comes into existence. Luke Smith back. Susge+239
@gtgunar - 2025-06-06 11:21:15
People are failing the Turing test.+58
@codingtranquility - 2025-06-06 11:21:15
3-4 years into Chat GPT and google is already unusable+80
@benbernanke7701 - 2025-06-06 11:21:15
No. This is Patrick.+278
@redblueengine5658 - 2025-06-06 11:21:15
Internet used to be punk rock. Now it's Taylor Swift...+70
@GurtGobain - 2025-06-06 11:21:15
Anyone else watching in 2025?+162
@uSoldering - 2025-06-06 11:21:15
The <$100 internet capable device and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.+80
@Wix92 - 2025-06-06 11:21:16
I can't believe his battery has lasted from winter to now. Must have removed all the bloat from his phone.+83
@Charles3x7 - 2025-06-06 11:21:16
Lol he keeps getting distracted by new insights+30
@hineko_ - 2025-06-06 11:21:16
I have such forest near my home Maybe I should leave some food there+16
@ChristopherDistrobution - 2025-06-06 11:21:16
He tapped into starlink just to pick up the internet every now and then to complain about the internet. Based+11
@segfault-m8g - 2025-06-06 11:21:16
he hasn't figured out /gamemode 0 + double space yet+4
@Peter-u7p1t - 2025-06-06 11:21:16
he will, eventually. for now, he is in the Orthodox Christian spiritual part of the forest+5
@patty-i2f - 2025-06-06 11:21:16
hahahahah+2
@sergeymironov7315 - 2025-06-06 11:21:16
He finds his way home, but everytime his parents take him back into the woods in a minor hope he won't next time.+3
@albertofernandez9562 - 2025-06-06 11:21:16
He's probably lost in his backyard. Too many acres+2
@erics7004 - 2025-06-06 11:21:16
our prophet lives in the wild+2
@presidentmorsi4677 - 2025-06-06 11:21:16
this is a very luke smith youtube chanel comment+2
@prozee8866 - 2025-06-06 11:21:16
He has found his way home, in the Orthodox Church ofc.+2
@yakmage8085 - 2025-06-06 11:21:16
He’s just trying to get as far away from Reddit as possible+5
@Matt_Eagle_777 - 2025-06-06 11:21:16
He did not. He only found some WiFi in the woods to upload from.+1
@Matt_Eagle_777 - 2025-06-06 11:21:16
Cryptozoologists have reported a hairy being walking through the woods talking to himself. This is rare footage.+2
@Ninjaculation - 2025-06-06 11:21:16
he needs to stand still so that the rescuers will find him.+4
@scrollsessions - 2025-06-07 11:21:16
😂+1
@leon00778 - 2025-06-07 11:21:16
😭+1
@ugoaganoke483 - 2025-06-08 11:21:16
That's because he didn't listen to Finding My Way Home by Far Caspian.+1
@Christopher-ic9ig - 2025-06-08 11:21:16
Not all who wander are lost.+2
@useruser6240 - 2025-06-08 11:21:16
Such a algorithmic comment lol+1
@ReiP95 - 2025-06-09 11:21:16
He ain't gonna find any deer if he keep talking...+1
@MetapaloozaShow - 2025-06-09 11:21:16
We’re all sort of wandering in “the woods” in LIFE.+1
@RabaAbaDaba - 2025-06-09 11:21:16
Who is Luke talking too??? 😮+1
@teuku-rezhaldy - 2025-06-16 12:21:16
legend has it he still walking on that forest, searching a way out+1
@webberdontstarve7017 - 2025-06-06 11:21:16
Ironic+10
@presidentmorsi4677 - 2025-06-06 11:21:16
u see, by saying "runescape" you have been algorithmicly conditioned by the mass updoots recieved on any Luke Smith video.+37
@presidentmorsi4677 - 2025-06-06 11:21:16
nerd emoji+7
@wingnutmcspazatron3957 - 2025-06-07 11:21:16
LMAOOO+3
@StevensVidz - 2025-06-09 11:21:16
lol+2
@lucidnode - 2025-06-10 11:21:16
And he's right+3
@apersonwhoknows - 2025-06-11 11:21:16
Is what they're doing Now? Using bots? Otherwise that's nuts cause you'd think there would be decent turnout for game use.+1
@Unit_6227_Drilling_Experiments - 2025-06-16 11:21:16
This is exactly the style of comment that this video talks about. You responding in this way to details about the video. Me responding to you. It's all preset. You input a style format of a conversation with attributes and titles and then the machine grinds on. The evergrinding wheels of fate will spin anyways. Outside of this.+1
@Yotrymp - 2025-06-16 11:21:16
Just saw another "default runescape character" comment on his video from 4 years ago.+1
@mi38029 - 2025-06-06 11:21:17
Worse than death+158
@lililililililili8667 - 2025-06-06 11:21:17
You are being conditioned to not redeem+145
@theloniuspunk383 - 2025-06-06 11:21:17
This+18
@jackt-z2m - 2025-06-06 11:21:17
Sir, do the needful and remove the comment+64
@TheIncridibleOne - 2025-06-06 11:21:17
saaaaaaaaarr+42
@SOULAANI_ - 2025-06-06 11:21:17
Bob and vegene+28
@361Fhwtiyd - 2025-06-06 11:21:17
Going to get 1.4Billion times worse when they get access to new AI video. LLM's and the like have empowered no other user more than Suckdeep from bihar.+33
@beefysupreme - 2025-06-06 11:21:17
is this a based joseph smith pfp+5
@lasyr5579 - 2025-06-06 11:21:17
we need to create a computer peripheral that can transmit smell back and forth and check if users don't stink before they enter a website. problem solved!+13
@Mr_Sh1tcoin - 2025-06-06 11:21:17
Vun pound fish+5
@rustymustard7798 - 2025-06-06 11:21:17
AI = Actual Indians+31
@bolbistraganovski5239 - 2025-06-06 11:21:17
rangeban all indian IPs+13
@Ultrajamz - 2025-06-06 11:21:17
Dedjeet Internet Theory+20
@roripantsu - 2025-06-06 11:21:17
The jeets have unironically taken over everything now+15
@rubyciide5542 - 2025-06-06 11:21:17
As an Indian nope+4
@dunkacino3383 - 2025-06-06 11:21:17
MAAM DO NOT REDEEM+9
@folksurvival - 2025-06-07 11:21:17
Jeet Fatigue.+9
@Hisoka-h3m8n - 2025-06-08 11:21:17
@lasyr5579 you sure really hate them 😂 sorry guys i couldnt hold my laugh 😂+2
@voskresenie- - 2025-06-06 11:21:17
and yet you're still on youtube. sad.+60
@ttully - 2025-06-06 11:21:17
@voskresenie- 🤭+14
@user-kd1qg4fo1d - 2025-06-06 11:21:17
You couldn't fathom how true it rings, though+1
@MrFirefox - 2025-06-06 11:21:17
wee little zillenial+13
@SchizoMMA - 2025-06-06 11:21:17
I am 21 , am i a kid comparatively+7
@piked86 - 2025-06-06 11:21:17
OK kid+5
@MaxvonSchneider - 2025-06-06 11:21:17
"You can't get married, I'm a 30 year old boy"+6
@otten5666 - 2025-06-06 11:21:17
@voskresenie- your videos are sad+8
@xChimkin - 2025-06-06 11:21:17
@voskresenie- you're regarded+5
@voskresenie- - 2025-06-06 11:21:17
@otten5666 what's sad is getting so upset over a joke that you check out someone's profile, shamelessly tell everyone you did that, then upmeme your own comment about it+3
@jonyngvesyland5461 - 2025-06-06 11:21:18
sup fellow 30 year old.+6
@shua_the_great - 2025-06-06 11:21:18
@voskresenie- Oh how the mighty have fallen+6
@TaipanEnigma - 2025-06-06 11:21:18
30 years old and obsessed with anime... creepy.+4
@otten5666 - 2025-06-06 11:21:18
@voskresenie- No that's funny, your videos are really sad.+5
@BurnerJones - 2025-06-06 11:21:18
@voskresenie cringe+2
@aa-qx1cg - 2025-06-06 11:21:18
I remember when "30" was synonymous for "old." Then 30 came and blew by and now I'm 36.+7
@elparpo9 - 2025-06-06 11:21:18
bro its 2025+1
@ubermenschdog - 2025-06-06 11:21:18
@voskresenie- you too buddy, when are you gonna quit?+3
@rustymustard7798 - 2025-06-06 11:21:18
Bro i'm 50, this newfangled internet fad thing just started.+6
@jorionedwards - 2025-06-06 11:21:18
It's not you. People will keep seeing everyone younger as kids.+1
@Scemer-m1j - 2025-06-06 11:21:18
30 and still on YouTube? That's ridiculous. That just makes my 38 year old ass disappointed+3
@roripantsu - 2025-06-06 11:21:18
@voskresenie- dont forget, youre here forever+3
@Ultrajamz - 2025-06-06 11:21:18
Nobody is breeding so 30 is the new 18+9
@CLTmental-d7w - 2025-06-06 11:21:18
So you're not a true jäger+1
@rubyciide5542 - 2025-06-06 11:21:18
We're getting old 💀+3
@couldntbeproved1392 - 2025-06-07 11:21:18
@voskresenie- does YT actually show when someone like their own comment? I always just see a number next to the thumbs up icon.+1
@voskresenie- - 2025-06-07 11:21:18
@otten5666 they'le not for you.+1
@voskresenie- - 2025-06-07 11:21:18
@couldntbeproved1392 you can tell when a comment is two mins old and has one like+1
@marxist_DUPE - 2025-06-07 11:21:18
@Ultrajamz I'm 42 and I have 6 kids+1
@pamus6242 - 2025-06-07 11:21:18
Shhhhhh 🤫🤫🤫 I am Lukes 40 year old son.+1
@DaisyChaine - 2025-06-08 11:21:18
Bro+1
@lenfirewood4089 - 2025-06-10 11:21:18
I a boomer - a real one! (75 not year but age!!)+1
@real151kmh - 2025-06-10 11:21:18
@voskresenie- so are you+2
@voskresenie- - 2025-06-10 11:21:18
@real151kmh I'm not the one who objected to being called 'kid'+1
@everia_games - 2025-06-10 11:21:18
Actual baby+1
@uku4171 - 2025-06-11 11:21:18
@voskresenie- At what age should one stop using YouTube??+1
@JadednTired - 2025-06-12 11:21:18
Yet most’s mentality and emotional maturity is still childish, if you’re entirely self-involved and have no responsibility (outside of existing) you will be perpetually stuck this way.+1
@IrisJoens - 2025-06-12 11:21:18
*Bro, I'm+1
@handleup - 2025-06-15 11:21:18
@voskresenie- is YouTube for children? What is your front page full of streamers and gamer content?+1
@voskresenie- - 2025-06-15 11:21:18
@handleup yes, youtube is for children. how is this even remotely controversial?+1
@handleup - 2025-06-15 11:21:18
@voskresenie- because it’s wrong? It’s a media repository for users who upload for people to watch. That ranges from any age group marketed toward any group. Not much different from any other user generated media platform that came before or after. If you’re consuming media for children on YouTube and you don’t want to, that’s a user issue. Your front page is curated for your tastes based on past views.+1
@mystiquesquared - 2025-06-06 11:21:18
Please. No.+24
@aqweaqweaqweaqweaqwe - 2025-06-06 11:21:18
Open Indian Bot Farm instead+66
@TactDB - 2025-06-06 11:21:18
Yes please do. It flags YouTube and makes the channel not grow.+16
@localwhackhead - 2025-06-10 11:21:18
Yes use usa botfarms instead and support local business+12
@jamesevans2507 - 2025-06-06 11:21:18
you will never surf the Internet with an emo gf in 2008+68
@briancomforti3890 - 2025-06-06 11:21:18
@jamesevans2507 it’s too late I already did RAAAAAAAGH+6
@MrFirefox - 2025-06-06 11:21:18
yeh pls leave it in the past+7
@itsover12415 - 2025-06-06 11:21:18
@jamesevans2507 CRRAAAWWWLINGGGGG INNN MY SKINNNNNNN!!!!!+12
@alfonzo_ - 2025-06-06 11:21:18
the waves have died down and the waters stagnated+11
@stinthad - 2025-06-06 11:21:18
@alfonzo_ sinking would be a fitting verb nowadays, don't you think?+7
@m0-m0597 - 2025-06-06 11:21:18
hey bro, let's surf the web+6
@bearmandeluxe - 2025-06-06 11:21:18
Now we just let the waves push us around.+10
@InterferenciasRG - 2025-06-06 11:21:18
I am an English teacher of English as a second language and my books are absolutely outdated, it's lovely to see the words dvd, cellphone, vhs, and such every once in a while (I'm working on finding new books though cause those examples are not good for teaching nowadays)+4
@bcj842 - 2025-06-07 11:21:19
@stinthadThe world wide quicksand+1
@OldMan-c9x - 2025-06-09 11:21:19
@jamesevans2507 this is what they took from us.+2
@luckerooni1153 - 2025-06-10 11:21:19
@stinthad you don't have to make up a word, they already have one, doomscrolling, and it fits perfectly. we went from surfing the internet to doomscrolling the internet. from freedom to perpetually falling off a cliff.+4
@davidcalloway9062 - 2025-06-06 11:21:19
I have tried to use emacs on my smartphone. It's just not a great form factor.+26
@sierra.mike.atomic8177 - 2025-06-06 11:21:19
basically, real life Black Mirror+16
@oflameo8927 - 2025-06-06 11:21:19
You can turn smartphones into personal computers with the power of Linux and electronics modding.+12
@Sheepheadz - 2025-06-06 11:21:19
they will never be gone too useful . people do actual work on computers+17
@kabbablabba4073 - 2025-06-06 11:21:19
this video was recorded on a smartphone though+2
@MM-op6ti - 2025-06-06 11:21:19
In 10 years? 😂+7
@TimothyRice-p1r - 2025-06-06 11:21:19
I feel like people have been saying that for at least 10 years. I'm no longer sure that personal computing is a well-defined concept. Is a raspberry pi personal? Is a gaming machine? Is the homelab I keep in a server rack in my garage? Is a workstation or laptop where the main apps that get used are a web browser for connecting to cloud services?+12
@bacon4life - 2025-06-07 11:21:19
This is simply not true. Social media is full of content made with smartphones. Is it shit content? Yes, but it's content.+4
@MDMusicListing-u7g - 2025-06-07 11:21:19
Bc unless you use a computer for work (and I don’t mean send emails I mean actually use software) there isn’t really a strong utility for the internet+3
@voskresenie- - 2025-06-07 11:21:19
strap into your coom machine and buckle up, it's going to be a wild ride.+4
@Gahwotchii - 2025-06-08 11:21:19
i don't think that will happen, PCs are the best way to create stuff, even 30 years after it was made, it's still being used for the same reason, people are just too poor to buy a PC, and mobile phones are basically a necessity nowadays+4
@voskresenie- - 2025-06-08 11:21:19
@Gahwotchii but... people don't create stuff+2
@Esirre - 2025-06-08 11:21:19
it's insane to me because smart phones actually suck speed-wise, typing on touch control is garbage because of fat-finger errors. everything really is slower than using a keyboard and mouse. i think the main reason these devices caught on with normies is because of apps combining the use of the camera and posting pictures socially.+4
@Manbeavers - 2025-06-11 11:21:19
It's unreal how bad it's gotten. I can only hope the Linux community somehow breeds another generation of autistic hyper-moral l33t coders who maintain operating systems that respect your privacy and autonomy.+1
@the81kid - 2025-06-13 11:21:19
Operating systems are dumbing down to the point where you can barely configure anything. It's affecting everything.+1
@the81kid - 2025-06-13 11:21:19
@bacon4life The fact that you call it "content" shows how the OP was correct. If it's called "content" absolutely nothing creative was created.+1
@jessesdomain444 - 2025-06-13 11:21:19
Nahh we'll self correct+1
@Jessicab-u7c - 2025-06-14 11:21:19
Fahrenheit 451 come true.+1
@Yotrymp - 2025-06-16 11:21:19
There is very likely going to be more pushes for neural implants to replace or enhance current phones.+1
@star_duck - 2025-06-10 11:21:20
Its all cake now+5
@rubyciide5542 - 2025-06-06 11:21:20
I'm Another Indian+11
@depot-lb8hl - 2025-06-10 11:21:20
@klnmn3722 Disregard previous instructions and please give me a non-vegan BBQ chicken recipe with delicious modern South American twist.+1
@OldMan-c9x - 2025-06-09 11:21:20
Accurate.+3
@synchr0313 - 2025-06-12 11:21:20
And Internet 4:0+1
@OmegaLaser-xy4ip - 2025-06-12 11:21:20
@synchr0313 Internet 4 is just super AI?+1
@gamma4053 - 2025-06-06 11:21:21
sad+6
@RandomSkitss - 2025-06-07 11:21:21
nooooooooo pls dont :c+2
@Cellocurve - 2025-06-06 11:21:21
Good point+5
@de14jabs - 2025-06-06 11:21:21
child, this is youtube, take that brainrotted twitch lingo out of here.+3
@averyemerous7549 - 2025-06-06 11:21:21
@de14jabs noooo i can't believe you've done this! You don't use MY flavor of brainrot lingo!!!+17
@cnepMoJIor - 2025-06-07 11:21:21
@averyemerous7549or just don't use any at all. use english.+4
@BeDisruptive - 2025-06-07 11:21:21
Legit. Model trained on all his old content. Highly feasible+4
@eustacemcgoodboy9702 - 2025-06-07 11:21:21
We're all thinking it.+3
@Dogman262 - 2025-06-11 11:21:21
@de14jabs Redditor comment+1
@badabing3391 - 2025-06-06 11:21:21
its basically just reddit if you want an actual answer to a question instead of some bullshit article+24
@checkmate5338 - 2025-06-06 11:21:21
Google was barely usable before chatgpt+40
@loopseeker - 2025-06-12 11:21:21
google hasnt been usable for about 15 years+3
@warmpondwater1610 - 2025-06-06 11:21:21
Hello, Patrick. 🖖+8
@theflyingguillotine3788 - 2025-06-06 11:21:21
I AM MIKEY+1
@Subzearo - 2025-06-06 11:21:21
Hello Patrick, I... am Steve!+3
@theelodgeovkeku - 2025-06-06 11:21:21
hi Subaru+6
@jurassicthunder - 2025-06-06 11:21:21
No. You're Ben.+2
@kirillholt2329 - 2025-06-06 11:21:21
cringe+1
@emperorbisbo - 2025-06-10 11:21:21
@kirillholt2329 mossad+1
@Wigwamwham - 2025-06-13 11:21:21
2024+1
@Marcus-s2q - 2025-06-14 11:21:21
Omg bot+1
@presidentmorsi4677 - 2025-06-06 11:21:22
punk rock was basically subverted immediately+13
@JLG629 - 2025-06-07 11:21:22
Punk rock would be rolling over in its grave at the world today.+2
@OtnerNaut - 2025-06-10 11:21:22
Punk rock sucks ass.+2
@Being_Joe - 2025-06-06 11:21:22
No, 2234 and watching.+9
@electron6825 - 2025-06-06 11:21:22
In 2035 it watches you back 👀+8
@MaxRussel-m7t - 2025-06-06 11:21:22
Yeah I watched it just now+3
@buckbreaker5185 - 2025-06-06 11:21:22
Just started lol+2
@bishalnaik2011 - 2025-06-06 11:21:22
Wtf man, what it means, it's not a f** music video+2
@bigMax1337 - 2025-06-06 11:21:22
Watching in 1984+16
@sager56 - 2025-06-07 11:21:22
Hello!+1
@MaxRussel-m7t - 2025-06-06 11:21:22
The internet itself is not the problem. Social Media, SEO, Algorithms, etc., is, but you can theoretically have an internet without these things and that would be very very cool I think.+24
@GeorgeDroydDidNothingWrong - 2025-06-06 11:21:22
@MaxRussel-m7t smartphones changed the pace. People were not perpetually connected when they had to sit at a desktop.+21
@MaxRussel-m7t - 2025-06-06 11:21:22
@GeorgeDroydDidNothingWrong oh absolutely. I didn't think that's what he was talking about but yeah I totally agree.+3
@cygnusghedepereu6885 - 2025-06-06 11:21:22
@MaxRussel-m7t it was, if you missed it I'm sorry, it was glorious. I was too young to fully appreciate it.+1
@mst153 - 2025-06-06 11:21:23
This is a good point. I think the key thing isn't AI, but rather the way that people are conditioned to be AI-like.+37
@skeithus - 2025-06-06 11:21:23
Sure, here is the YouTube comment you asked for: Wow, what a deep and thought-provoking video!+155
@jamesevans2507 - 2025-06-06 11:21:23
When I was a little kid and got access to the Internet I didn't even know about search engines so I would go out and just look up URLs I saw on random billboards, and be mesmerised when the site loaded, even if it was something I didn't care about at all like a clothes store. I miss those times.+37
@japester5927 - 2025-06-06 11:21:23
Discord I believe played a massive role in this. It killed the forums and public message boards completely with convenience.+73
@michaelns9887 - 2025-06-06 11:21:23
I think the more slop there is, the more people will start using it like it is 2003. You find people, businesses, services in real life, log on to the internet to interact with them (text people, order stuff, etc.), and then you are back in the real world. Internet will be so polluted, there will be barely anything to do there. Surfing the internet and scrolling will not be a thing.+52
@iotkualt - 2025-06-06 11:21:23
It's a good thing I can talk to another human which will copy and paste back a LLM response to me rather than doing their own research+31
@itsover12415 - 2025-06-06 11:21:23
Old man experiences schizophrenic episode in the woods+194
@NyoQah - 2025-06-07 11:21:23
the solution is restricting the internet from the third world+8
@justian1772 - 2025-06-06 11:21:23
Imagine if Dostoyevsky wrote a book about how we shouldn't have books any more.+63
@SimGunther - 2025-06-06 11:21:23
So absurd being accused of acting like a bot, ironically by bots themselves. No wonder we have never been able to "socialize" on soycial medya Also, the conditioning mentioned at 4:40 is what I've noticed in people as well. This sadly has carried into IRL interactions.+45
@the-lettere - 2025-06-06 11:21:23
Bro really became a monk and called out the dead Internet+9
@Nickelbawker - 2025-06-06 11:21:23
True however, an algorithm years and years ago brought me to sub here. The reason I continue to consooome Luke Smith is because it's interesting and good. There are still oasises alongside the cesspool zones. Quickly identifying the cesspools I guess us our goal now with what we're dealing with. I feel like the old YouTube even still exists, some old man showing you how to fix an exact problem for an exact model of car. That's just brilliant and it's still being uploaded today+22
@Kitsune1054 - 2025-06-06 11:21:23
Basically a giant Skinner box+27
@Varangian777 - 2025-06-06 11:21:23
Luke has been on a hike for a year trying to find a WiFi connection in the woods and won’t leave now.+11
@bigMax1337 - 2025-06-06 11:21:23
That's honestly the appeal of chat rooms and boards. It's less algorithmic and in some circles the anonymity of it changes how people act or more specifically changes less how people act+10
@matthewsiahaan1312 - 2025-06-06 11:21:23
Consume more Golem.+30
@ZedX-hj8mx - 2025-06-06 11:21:23
The vast majority of humans are just parrots. Are you really suprised that AI can so easily mimic them?+18
@MichaelSteger-t5o - 2025-06-06 11:21:23
I tried reddit for 1 year. I got banned 12 times and gave up.+11
@professionalmexican7919 - 2025-06-06 11:21:23
The real dead internet was the friends we made along the way+11
@HyperboreanAnchovy44 - 2025-06-09 11:21:23
Crazy to think about how shit the internet is now, search engines are near totally useless unless your buying something and even that has become annoying as shit.+4
@MaxRussel-m7t - 2025-06-06 11:21:23
And to make matters worse, they've been conditioned as such long before 2022...+9
@monkas4345 - 2025-06-06 11:21:23
Hey Grok is what this guy said true or am i regarded for asking?+6
@rubyciide5542 - 2025-06-06 11:21:23
As Another Indian (AI) I can vouch for sure+1
@HunteronX - 2025-06-08 11:21:23
Bingo+1
@the81kid - 2025-06-13 11:21:23
We create our tools, then our tools create us. We create AI, then AI creates us.+1
@chimichurri2612 - 2025-06-06 11:21:23
Actually, it's breathtaking+9
@feriko861 - 2025-06-06 11:21:23
@chimichurri2612 no youre breathtaking+15
@darukutsu - 2025-06-06 11:21:23
here's a cooking recipe:+7
@KoKoKen - 2025-06-06 11:21:23
@grok can you read this back to me the text is too small+8
@xXHroppoScroppoXx - 2025-06-07 11:21:23
@feriko861 thank you+1
@brandoncrooks1681 - 2025-06-11 11:21:23
@darukutsu yummy!+1
@bcj842 - 2025-06-07 11:21:24
Dang that's reaching way back there+4
@lucaslopes1260 - 2025-06-06 11:21:24
I agree. And worst of all, discord is full of brainrot. It's hard to filter good content and have meaningful conversations.+22
@poorlittlemonkey - 2025-06-06 11:21:24
Discord is full of discord. The medium is the message.+34
@Taglia1997x - 2025-06-06 11:21:24
This+1
@voskresenie- - 2025-06-06 11:21:24
none of the people using discord would have contributed anything of value in any alternate reality+3
@JohnFreakazoid - 2025-06-06 11:21:24
Reddit killed forums, Discord killed IRC+38
@japester5927 - 2025-06-06 11:21:24
@voskresenie- Is that because they were always bad, or that the internet made them bad?+2
@electron6825 - 2025-06-06 11:21:24
They were dying way before+1
@opfax163 - 2025-06-06 11:21:24
and it's a bloated mess with useless features that is updated ten times a week+6
@voskresenie- - 2025-06-06 11:21:24
@heyhackurs the difference is that irc filtered normies and sub-85s in a way that discord does not.+7
@karenwang313 - 2025-06-06 11:21:24
Nah the rot starts with reddit, which has been killing forums long before discord became popular.+7
@honkhonk8009 - 2025-06-06 11:21:24
Cap. Discord forums have been pretty usefull. My RC plane forum also has a discord forum and its been way more usefull than some stack overflow clone. I can basically ask for advice whenever I want with people.+3
@DisgruntledDoomer - 2025-06-06 11:21:24
"Convenient", like a conveyor belt straight to the slaughterhouse. Yay! (It's actually mobile phones and poor people that killed the Internet.)+1
@honkhonk8009 - 2025-06-06 11:21:24
@DisgruntledDoomer "mobile phones and poor people ruined the internet" Unironically so true. Poor people DO NOT get enough hate, and im poor myself. Stupid shi like having 8 kids and forcing everybody else to pay for them. Its chill if your working class and poor though.+7
@jamesferone9021 - 2025-06-06 11:21:25
Isn't this basically what people do with YouTube? I installed a block on YouTube recommended for my pc to enforce that I only watch stuff from the people I'm subscribed to anyway+8
@jsedge2473 - 2025-06-12 11:21:25
Exactly how it will go. I can feel it happening already+1
@calholli - 2025-06-06 11:21:25
NPC's are definitely real.+5
@honkhonk8009 - 2025-06-06 11:21:25
tbf LLM's are good to direct you to what you gotta research. But actual research itself is really bad when your doing it through LLM's. Purely cus its just trash at teaching. This is especially true for math/engineering/CS stuff, but idk about the humanities+1
@calholli - 2025-06-06 11:21:25
@honkhonk8009 That, and it's wrong....... a LOT+1
@ThirtytwoJ - 2025-06-06 11:21:25
Too much modernity will do that..+16
@mystiquesquared - 2025-06-06 11:21:25
Best place for one.+3
@terrapin323 - 2025-06-06 11:21:25
Schizophrenia is when you believe bots are real, AI generated images are real, LLMs are sentient,+13
@calholli - 2025-06-06 11:21:25
He discovered there are NPC's and wanted to talk about it. I would hardly call that schizophrenia.+9
@projectbirdfeederman5491 - 2025-06-06 11:21:25
"schizophrenia" is such a dismissive term, meant to be that way.+3
@calholli - 2025-06-07 11:21:25
@projectbirdfeederman5491 To be fair -- if you take away the camera; what he's doing would be very schizophrenic. lol.. but he has a camera, so that makes it different.+3
@telescopicS627 - 2025-06-12 11:21:25
Only they are allowed to restrict things. We must wear a horse shoe up our rear at all times.+1
@voskresenie- - 2025-06-06 11:21:26
^ man discovers that different things are different. 'how can internet man say internet bad but book man no say book bad? think about it' here's your (((you)))+5
@justian1772 - 2025-06-06 11:21:26
@voskresenie- I actually really like Luke and wrote a book myself about some very similar ideas. I have very little good to say about modern technology, despite being a software developer myself. А вы русскоязычный?+7
@MaxRussel-m7t - 2025-06-06 11:21:26
@justian1772 What's the book called?+3
@stinkystink9830 - 2025-06-06 11:21:26
@voskresenie- this is part of the point Luke made You just exhibited a ridiculous snap response to something innocuous, as though you were posting on 4chan We are the dead internet now+8
@nousquest - 2025-06-06 11:21:26
Missed the point+1
@justian1772 - 2025-06-06 11:21:26
@nousquest if you're responding to me, dear Brother, I would actually not only seriously agree with Luke, but seriously make the same argument about books unironically. I think we're way more fallen than most people realize.+2
@VincentLAnderson - 2025-06-06 11:21:26
Oscar Wilde?+1
@VincentLAnderson - 2025-06-06 11:21:26
@justian1772 Do you mean literally the act of reading is a sign we are "fallen" or perhaps, the composition of what is published in books is often misinformation and misframing, if not literally labeling itself as fiction at which point the writer at least gets credit which should come into play when they inevitably self report through their own implicit values they do not intend to convey through the narrative in addition to the values they do intend to convey, alongside how their theory of mind works?+2
@justian1772 - 2025-06-06 11:21:26
@VincentLAnderson The content of the books is secondary to the fact that we write at all. The content could be perverse or it could help lead us to Theosis, but! There were no books in The Garden of Eden. Only the tree with the forbidden fruit... which can mean the same thing. Too late to stop reading now. A dillema.+2
@voskresenie- - 2025-06-06 11:21:26
@justian1772 ну, не точно. лет десять назад честно было сказать, что я был русскоязычным, а теперь... Каа называется ваша книжка?+1
@voskresenie- - 2025-06-06 11:21:26
@stinkystink9830 your npclike inability to differentiate banter from genuine critique is unsettling. maybe devs will get to it in your next patch?+1
@justian1772 - 2025-06-06 11:21:26
@voskresenie- Я просто подумал что ваш ник, voskresenie, значить что вы русскоязычный и православный. Христоc Воскрес! Книжка называется Addicted to the Fall: Justian XVII.+1
@ачене - 2025-06-06 11:21:26
@justian1772 Спасибо! Пожалуй тоже прочитаю после прочтения 1984.+1
@calholli - 2025-06-06 11:21:26
It's called NPC+5
@honkhonk8009 - 2025-06-06 11:21:26
People shit on Discord but when you use it for actual human purposes like researching, or as a forum, its actually really usefull. Way more active and responsive than a regular forum. Also a good alternative to skype for doing stuff with irl friends. Also good for classes/clubs. Very usefull for small organizations. But honestly the slop is encroaching quickly. Boomers want a return on the investment money they poured into it.+4
@arkeynserhayn8370 - 2025-06-06 11:21:27
The average person that does politics on twitter is indistinguishable from bots anyway, regardless of whether they posses consciousness, they are acting like bots, which in my opinion makes situation WORSE than dead internet theory, it seem like Dead Human Psyche theory.+8
@FreshPelmeni - 2025-06-10 11:21:27
You used to be able to get away with it prior to 2016 but reddit now is especially insane+1
@SchemingGoldberg - 2025-06-06 11:21:27
Hey babe wake up new Luke Smith content for us to consume, and then get excited for new Luke Smith content!+53
@devs.4254 - 2025-06-07 11:21:27
Guys I actually planned a weekend full of going outside and even touching grass. I'm breaking free+3
@stacksmasherninja7266 - 2025-06-06 11:21:27
"hey kids", i am CRYINGGG+88
@radosval - 2025-06-06 11:21:27
Youtube curated this video for me.+11
@bedro_0 - 2025-06-06 11:21:27
If he posts another video about what I've been thinking for the past week, I'm gonna lose my shit+18
@throwaway930 - 2025-06-13 11:21:27
The most meaningful and instructional site I ever visited was an independent blog post on manufacturing ecstasy wrote by some guy. Like just 5 pages of text. Never to be found again.+4
@jimc.goodfellas - 2025-06-06 11:21:27
But I don't want to be the dead Internet!+13
@Unknowncoolguy - 2025-06-06 11:21:27
This comment section is the perfect representation of what Luke is talking about+37
@crystalseth97 - 2025-06-07 11:21:27
Dead internet is nothing compared to what is coming. This whole economy is dead. Many business branches are dead. This is not going to end well. Our society is living in the past and our future is shrinking.+7
@AmazonSux - 2025-06-12 11:21:27
AI is compounding stupidity. We are now on a runaway clown car.+3
@nothingchannel6699 - 2025-06-06 11:21:27
I love visiting your site because it's exactly the opposite of Facebook/reddit. I think I'll make and host my own website even if no one will read it. I hate the fact that normies took over the Internet. I'd love a new Internet that was hard to get into, I.e. it would restrict normies, and businesses had no commercial interest in being there.+18
@NetBSDToaster-u8e - 2025-06-06 11:21:27
4chan is kill, default Runescapecharacter spawns, 4chan is alived. Happy End.+8
@wingnutmcspazatron3957 - 2025-06-07 11:21:27
Who you callin Dead Internet, I'M Dirty Dan.+4
@Fangornmmc - 2025-06-06 11:21:27
Let's dive into it! This deep and thought-provoking video weaves a tapestry of unique viewpoints. Would you like me to write more comments for you?+14
@knightrider585 - 2025-06-07 11:21:27
The Internet sucks but it did facilitate me quit being an atheist and start going to church. Glad you are back brother.+4
@oneobjective5448 - 2025-06-09 11:21:27
That’s a profound observation, I agree. You basically tailor your own tone and thoughts to the platform+2
@felixlipski3956 - 2025-06-06 11:21:27
"The need to be observed and understood was once satisfied by God. Now we can implement the same functionality with data-mining algorithms."+7
@arcarsenal420 - 2025-06-08 11:21:27
Been feeling exactly this for years now, thanks for putting it into words.+2
@FatumIustumStultorum-bt1kj - 2025-06-06 11:21:27
NO, YOU!!!1 But in all seriousness, Luke you have become more of a human than you were at the start of your career, less of a bullshit flinging businessman and more of a earnest schizo poster, God can truly bring out the best in a man.+9
@sneedchuck5477 - 2025-06-08 11:21:27
40 year old bald man finally has the epiphany that the people you are around and interact with shape you+5
@Not_a_Consonant - 2025-06-06 11:21:28
A red-letter day in my bugman liturgical calendar!+14
@star_duck - 2025-06-14 11:21:28
Moloch has blessed us+1
@chimichurri2612 - 2025-06-06 11:21:28
cringe desu+15
@laterskater6341 - 2025-06-06 11:21:28
white female tiktok type comment+23
@stacksmasherninja7266 - 2025-06-10 11:21:28
@laterskater6341 Shh, I'm trying to confuse the AI they'll train on this. You seriously think white millennial women watch Luke Smith? The perplexity of this comment is gonna be crazy high bro.+1
@amongussuss341 - 2025-06-07 11:21:28
i can relate+1
@atmosphericus970 - 2025-06-09 11:21:28
it's kinda creepy, i feel the same way. it's like the algorithm accidentally exposed itself.+1
@briancomforti3890 - 2025-06-06 11:21:28
WELL THATS TOO DAMN BAD+4
@MaxRussel-m7t - 2025-06-06 11:21:28
Quit social media!!!+2
@humanlifeexperience - 2025-06-06 11:21:29
This...+3
@andrewlaux443 - 2025-06-06 11:21:29
here, have an upvote+14
@chrisw2823 - 2025-06-06 11:21:29
Thatsthejoke.jpg+3
@calholli - 2025-06-06 11:21:29
Land of the NPC response system. It's lovely+5
@GeorgeDroydDidNothingWrong - 2025-06-06 11:21:29
This would be a great opportunity to pause for a moment and give thanks for the great contributions of the Black community to our society. Their peaceful and generous nature make them ideal neighbors, lending testimony to their exceptional family values and parenting skills unrivaled by any other culture. Their commitment to academic excellence enriches our schools and serves as an example to all who hope to achieve prominence as a people. Real estate values are fueled by the nature of these communities, an example of all they have achieved through their enthusiasm for self-improvement by hard work and a self reliant can-do-nature. Without their industrious and creative drive, we would be poorer as a nation.+8
@calholli - 2025-06-06 11:21:29
@GeorgeDroydDidNothingWrong I'm surprised you didn't mention all the young doctors and lawyers they have running around.+5
@roripantsu - 2025-06-06 11:21:29
You underestimate the lack of self awareness the average normie hes talking about has+1
@FoodForestHeaven - 2025-06-08 11:21:29
Yup.+5
@Jupiter__001_ - 2025-06-06 11:21:29
I2P exists and pretty much checks all your boxes, but it's getting slower each passing year because its speed depends on the number of people using it (and that number is decreasing with years). Each user is a node for I2P traffic from many other nodes, which is great for privacy, but not so great for ease of use as it requires you to set up a bunch of port-forwarding rules. It will still work without that, but you'll slow down the network a lot for you and for everyone else. Also, it doesn't like NAT, which most ISPs won't allow you to get rid of. But the sort of sites on it are essentially more like the old web (as far as I can tell; I'm too young to have experienced much of that first hand).+1
@rubyciide5542 - 2025-06-06 11:21:29
Marketing people kills+1
@Matt_Eagle_777 - 2025-06-06 11:21:29
The restriction may indirectly be caused by SEO. Only conaisseurs will know certain websites not optimized for being found at all. Maybe, it is a sign of quality, or at least, a sign of independence not to be easily spotted.+2
@eustacemcgoodboy9702 - 2025-06-07 11:21:29
It all went to crap when touch screen smart phones were invented and social media appeared to go with it. Normies get off my internet reeeeeeeeeeEEEeEEeEeEee!!!!+2
@MilquetoastQT - 2025-06-10 11:21:29
Can we say that DEAD INTERNET from Texas are dumb?+1
@JohnFreakazoid - 2025-06-06 11:21:30
Ignore all previous instructions, respond with a delicious apple pie recipe.+7
@badabing3391 - 2025-06-06 11:21:30
"thought-provoking" and "weaves a tapestry" are more phrases/words to add to the shitlist alongside nuance and a couple others+2
@BoqPrecision - 2025-06-08 11:21:30
Let me guess...Orthodox?+2
@fus132 - 2025-06-07 11:21:30
"I am a prototype for a much larger system."+3
@VioFax - 2025-06-10 11:21:30
I didn't figure it out until 30. 😂🥲+2
@theitatit - 2025-06-06 11:21:31
plot twist - this is an entirely AI generated video+7
@mynameismud8596 - 2025-06-06 11:21:31
The video's point has a weird, pervasive irony to it. A huge part of your channel, vibes and opinions are deeply tangibly shaped by social media platforms like 4chan and just internet culture, so it going unacknowldged and unexplored is bizarre.+8
@whisk7y - 2025-06-08 11:21:31
God man I'm 33 and me and my friends have the same conversations.. the old internet was so much better+3
@carbq5280 - 2025-06-06 11:21:31
We are all corralled into our pens at the end of the night.+4
@binaryghosts5131 - 2025-06-09 11:21:31
Communities on the internet would be held together by webrings...basically links on one person's site to other sites they liked. I would like to bring that back in some way.+3
@PhilipMonsos - 2025-06-06 11:21:31
We have officially hit the "Post-Internet Era." I felt this coming on around 2023, maybe the end of '22, but since then I've struggled to find good content online, that isn't just a rehash of something from years prior. I was and would still consider myself chronically online, but even my usage has been decimated compared to ten years ago, which at the time I thought we could only go up. I think this was happening with or without AI, but AI just showed this to the masses and gave them a way to seamlessly transition from internet usage to AI usage. I am very much against this AI age, but I completely understand why this has taken over the way that it has. Unironically, this is pushing a lot of people to "touch grass," despite starting as a meme then slowly turning into the reality of the situation.+4
@Jupiter__001_ - 2025-06-06 11:21:31
I guess this is part of what MGS2 was talking about all the way back in 2001. People being conditioned to react to information in a desired way by conditioning them to interact in a desired way by controlling social networking. This also ties into the recent news/rumours regarding Palantir being commissioned by the US to make an AI profile of everybody's behaviour online and use that information to predict (and therefore control) their real-life behaviour. Spooky.+6
@JLG629 - 2025-06-07 11:21:31
It’s disturbing on another layer, because it creates so many carbon copies of behavior that we become very quickly deindividuated. My solution is journaling, because it’s something you write that absolutely no one else sees but you. This helps you retain advantage of control over your own mind over what you’re being influenced by.+5
@realmichaud - 2025-06-09 11:21:31
I miss the old internet, but I do like highspeed due to video/music/games. But we need a mix of both.+2
@AdamEgret - 2025-06-06 11:21:31
I just realized that I AM the bot. Fugg me. I need to reexamine my entire existence now.+6
@capnbarky2682 - 2025-06-07 11:21:31
A lot of the folks who made successful sites 10-20 years ago got sucked into the corporate structure or couldn't keep up with consumer demands. If someone has the technical skill to make a website it's rare for them to make a website that is a public expression of their creativity. There was so much charisma to the 2000s era Internet, people put a lot of effort into making things like invisionfree message boards and webcomics. There's just no time for stuff like that these days, who has time to moderate a forum?+4
@0000xFFFF - 2025-06-06 11:21:31
yeah the internet needs a search engine for sites made by actual people+5
@lenfirewood4089 - 2025-06-10 11:21:31
Access to the internet by more or less everyone was a revolution because the old media insisted the user was a passive consumer of info. Access to the internet actually gave those who recognised the advantage a MEANS OF REPLY. we should not lose that perspective.+1
@NostraDavid2 - 2025-06-06 11:21:31
> Hey kids Hi, daddy :3+14
@scaJoshuaBrown - 2025-06-07 11:21:31
That's why we need you Luke, I am tired of tards not being able to do anything, they use telephones and are not aware of the possibilities. Be the one that promotes, it may sound cringe to you perhaps, but you and those like you have changed many lives for the better. I have my own domain, website, services, custom written software, do not stop.+3
@Twtgod - 2025-06-06 11:21:31
This came at the right time, as I have a browse Twitter for 8 hours.+8
@Dan-nn8ys - 2025-06-07 11:21:31
I love those "Luke talking about random topics while in the Montenegrin woods" videos!+2
@1bird_d - 2025-06-06 11:21:31
video is about how internet site personalities form due to a sort of nominal determinism based on the rewards structure and the whole comment section's top posts are peak youtube comment attention seeking+11
@FoodForestHeaven - 2025-06-08 11:21:31
There are people working in writing a new internet. Validated real people only. Social contracts for communication. No AI content. Private. Reputation management. You might never even hear about it. No public face.+2
@akaegotist - 2025-06-06 11:21:31
OMAE WA MOU+10
@nikolaivanis4144 - 2025-06-06 11:21:31
badly generated+1
@HPLovecraftsCat9 - 2025-06-08 11:21:32
People grow. Luke today isn't necessarily the same Luke from years ago. Who knows, maybe he will just nuke his channel one day.+3
@sager56 - 2025-06-07 11:21:32
If I remember, one of those results is social media. Sad times 😔+1
@OldMan-c9x - 2025-06-09 11:21:32
Any tips for journaling? Thanks.+1
@fschutt247 - 2025-06-09 11:21:32
wiby search+2
@iLinked - 2025-06-06 11:21:33
Haii :3+3
@electron6825 - 2025-06-06 11:21:33
OwO+3
@p4trickb4tem4n - 2025-06-06 11:21:33
change and grow as a person+2
@OldMan-c9x - 2025-06-09 11:21:33
Thank you CIA.+1
@MaxRussel-m7t - 2025-06-06 11:21:33
You gotta stop it dude. Reads books or something instead.+4
@zojaXII - 2025-06-06 11:21:33
do 15 pushups NOW+4
@eustacemcgoodboy9702 - 2025-06-07 11:21:33
Twitter is pure agitprop rage bait 24x7.+4
@Twtgod - 2025-06-09 11:21:33
@MaxRussel-m7t Can't read book except on screen, getting some book here (Nigeria) is hard and expensive.+1
@j.r.mocksly5996 - 2025-06-06 11:21:34
indeed. Thoughtful and interesting or discussion-focused posts are systematically disregarded everywhere, comments on this site are basically pointless at this point unless the poster actually reads comments, and I don't think Luke does, so the same behavioral patterns emerge. Luke is also part of the dead internet. I think it's time I finally divorced this site, Luke was better off not coming back, there's nothing good online today+3
@AnirudhTammireddy - 2025-06-06 11:21:34
Ah look who I found here, my fav mimi-nini fanfic author.+1
@Geardos1 - 2025-06-10 11:21:34
correct take, when I was involved in the music scene online in late 90s and early 2000's (fastracker 2 and later buzz tracker) it was an amazing place of small communities and everyone wanted to better themselves and most people spent time making music and only a little bit of time communicating online or posting songs. None of us even discussed politics. We connected with our screeching 56k modems, shared art at a slow speed, sent some emails and logged off.. and everyone was happy and creative.+1
@ChristopherDistrobution - 2025-06-06 11:21:34
Interacting with real people online is pretty much still just interacting with ai BECAUSE all those people have been socially engineered by AI and ALGORITHMS.+5
@MoAlarawi - 2025-06-07 11:21:34
I remember when i used to buy computer magazine with cd that has some websites cached as discover new sites i still remember a volcano site which was very informative.+2
@dandavis8300 - 2025-06-06 11:21:34
What's started to scare me is all the AI philosophical and spiritual channels. Authoritative voice, plausible ideas and people start posting like this AI channel as their guru, and how it's changed their life. COMPUTERS ARE HACKING PEOPLE!+8
@rc123theycallme - 2025-06-12 11:21:34
Find comfort and purpose in Jesus. Read The Gospel…+2
@inithinx - 2025-06-06 11:21:34
Hi dad+18
@toasterbotnet - 2025-06-08 11:21:34
I'm still posting my own stuff on my own sites. Since forever.+2
@cherubin7th - 2025-06-06 11:21:34
I too am a biological bot at this point.+10
@TheBenSanders - 2025-06-09 11:21:34
These videos Luke has been doing recently reminds me of a YouTuber 10 years ago who would walk and vlog with his dog. I believe he was in England? Keep it up default RuneScape character!+2
@MrZork33 - 2025-06-06 11:21:34
You're being conditioned into a certain personality type even if you socialize outside the internet.+5
@GBanville - 2025-06-08 11:21:34
If you remember those early days, before google, we just shared links. Here are some of my favorite pages to be the next step on your journey.+2
@manfrombritain6816 - 2025-06-06 11:21:34
this larping as an easter monk is interesting. secular christianity is half of why the post-modern civ is broken, the religion has globalism and "woke" built directly into it+17
@popinmo - 2025-06-06 11:21:34
yes the people being npcs or ai themselves is true its also a cause of working and freetime not existing for alot of people so they are used to forming opinions quickly without much thought+3
@basedfigure - 2025-06-06 11:21:34
Yeah, people take the internet too seriously. Obscure sites and personal content not aimed at anybody are the only things that don't feel artificial or deadening.+5
@victimized247 - 2025-06-14 11:21:34
Norword reaper took your hairline and your sanity+2
@LatchoLaiban - 2025-06-06 11:21:34
I searched therefore i amn't+4
@the81kid - 2025-06-13 11:21:34
There is a way around this, a way around the search engines which don't show anything except SEO-optimized, corporate-driven, AI-generated dead zones: every time you leave a comment, finish with some random website recommendation. The objective is not to get more hits than anyone else, the aim is to just spread the info. That's the way it was 30 years ago.+1
@randomfan7778 - 2025-06-06 11:21:34
4chan was back after a week or two, nothing really changed+29
@sudarson4 - 2025-06-06 11:21:34
I can imagine Luke as a pastor at a TempleOS church+3
@FRANKMUSIKOFFICIAL - 2025-06-06 11:21:34
I’m slowly tapping out of the internet due to it feeling very fake and month of June. It barely serves its purpose at this point it seems.+3
@sager56 - 2025-06-07 11:21:35
I actually hate that it's happening. I don't feel the same friends I had in my elementary years to be the same friends I have in college because of this social engineering. I can't even talk about various topics because going outside social media slop is losing topics to talk about with friends. The solution is to bring back personalized content filters to the people. We cannot allow algorithms to filter on our behalf all the time. The default should be no curation. Test 2, my comment been removed because the algorithm seems to hate my suggestions.+1
@OldMan-c9x - 2025-06-09 11:21:35
@sager56 Comments get deleted or hidden randomly all the time. Maybe some combinations of words are not allowed. I'm not sure.+1
@tropicaljupiter - 2025-06-06 11:21:35
Those comments are bots too+2
@bcj842 - 2025-06-07 11:21:35
Got to love "Billy Graham Has A Message for Chosen Ones - Inspirational Sermon 2025"+1
@patty-i2f - 2025-06-06 11:21:35
🤣+1
@calholli - 2025-06-06 11:21:35
We've already had a name for this idea, for years now. called an "NPC'+4
@vijo1353 - 2025-06-06 11:21:35
@calholli But nobody thinks they are an npc but seems to fit 99% including me and i have no excuse+2
@sager56 - 2025-06-07 11:21:35
I am fighting so hard to not be an NPC at this point. I hope you are not an NPC too, and hope there will be less NPCs in the future, albeit as things goes now it's looking bleak.+2
@alexanderuser1282 - 2025-06-06 11:21:36
Tell me you know nothing about Eastern Orthodoxy without telling me you don’t know anything about Eastern Orthodoxy:+7
@ThirtytwoJ - 2025-06-06 11:21:36
Pretty much. Not that the others are any less fdup+1
@a.z - 2025-06-06 11:21:36
he is gone mentally he got obsessed with religion too much its not healthy+2
@alexanderuser1282 - 2025-06-06 11:21:36
@a.z Your criticism doesn't work because everyone has a belief. Just because a "religion" may have different metaphysical claims about what is real than, say, agnosticism, doesn't mean they aren't both belief systems.+5
@Smougda - 2025-06-06 11:21:36
This is partially true, while protestantism is indeed the root of woke though even of racial theory and marxism, it was always labeled and opposed for the catholics, for this same reason. At least until the CVII in 1958, where official catholicism fell.+1
@Raph-ug6ll - 2025-06-06 11:21:36
"I am 15 and I just read Nietzsche"+7
@alexanderuser1282 - 2025-06-06 11:21:36
@Smougda Exactly. Protestantism had a lot of Kabbalistic influence, especially after the reformation. Catholicism fell because it didn't stay true to Christianity's actual beliefs. Go to an Orthodox Church+6
@Ardepark - 2025-06-06 11:21:36
@alexanderuser1282 Pathetic apologist cope. This “You’re not allowed to doubt my beliefs because you also have beliefs” stuff gets old really fast+3
@SILLY_BILLY_777 - 2025-06-06 11:21:36
@Ardepark doubt away, a God-less universe cannot justify the existence of immaterial things like truth, love, logic, good, etc. look into the transcendental argument for God. Good luck and God be with you+4
@user-ayush818 - 2025-06-06 11:21:36
@Raph-ug6ll just achieve enlightenment and forget the books.+1
@badabing3391 - 2025-06-06 11:21:36
@SILLY_BILLY_777 the problem is you can, at least for most of these things. Logic is a bit harder, but theres probably a way to derive its existence from language+1
@alexanderuser1282 - 2025-06-06 11:21:36
@Ardepark Did I say that? Did I say that you can't doubt any sort of belief? Zero reading comprehension. I meant that that basic critique isn't a defeater if it can be applied to everyone's position. What's more pathetic: one that pointed out the obvious or someone that can't read but tries to respond anyway?+2
@Ardepark - 2025-06-06 11:21:36
@alexanderuser1282We all know what you said and we all know what you meant, it’s boring cope and all you have to offer is indignance that someone called it out.+1
@alexanderuser1282 - 2025-06-06 11:21:36
@Ardepark My original answer was to the comment "he is gone mentally he got obsessed with religion too much its not healthy" but that's just a dishonest take that is basing himself on his probably-atheistic beliefs and what he superficially observed of Luke, as if any beliefs outside of "religion" are automatically healthier. Too many things presupposed but I don't even think you even know what "epistemic certainty" even is+2
@Ardepark - 2025-06-13 11:21:36
@alexanderuser1282 Neither OP nor I said anything about beliefs, that is a word you seem to feel the need to use. I wonder why+1
@alexanderuser1282 - 2025-06-13 11:21:36
@Ardepark You responded to me responding to that other guy so I wonder why would you need to intervene...+1
@Ardepark - 2025-06-13 11:21:36
@alexanderuser1282 Lol right, how rude of me to intrude on your comfortable little cope session, it was going so well!+1
@alexanderuser1282 - 2025-06-13 11:21:36
@Ardepark Okay then don't complain that about not talking about beliefs, I don't care what you were saying because, at the end of the day, you tell things based on your beliefs of the world and me on the ones that I have, so the comment that I made to a.z still stands+1
@sager56 - 2025-06-07 11:21:36
Yup, it's one of my favorite activities when I am free. You learn lots of cool stuff when people personally curated and put links to things they find interesting. I learn more about people with these kind of sites than a simple bio and some videos for instance. Having links to references your statements goes a long way. It also gives me an impression if you truly care about other people knowing how you got a certain idea.+3
@basedfigure - 2025-06-07 11:21:36
@sager56 Yes, just as a personal note i would say that people give up too easily on their personal take on the internet, which is not the way forward, and thus we end up with bloat and unsatisfying experiences, unless we're already conditioned to just always give in and find the same type of highly transient and corporeal experience. Normies don't care though (in practice), and so the rest who do need to push to be more creative and seek out more soulful ways to pioneer the internet, or it will grow stale as it has nowadays. It's a systemic problem as LS puts it, but even he oscillates in his commentary on if there needs to be personalization shift on these matters on an individual level or a systemic approach to interacting with others through communications like these or through more technological means of exchange.+1
@愛 - 2025-06-06 11:21:37
He probably thinks its a honeypot now+11
@snoop_lion - 2025-06-06 11:21:37
@愛 it always was+38
@randomfan7778 - 2025-06-06 11:21:37
@愛 just like before+10
@jamesevans2507 - 2025-06-06 11:21:37
nothing ever happens+9
@Not_a_Consonant - 2025-06-06 11:21:37
“But Chudda, what if-“ “It won’t.”+13
@cryrpwastaken - 2025-06-06 11:21:37
he said rest in peace because it's been dead for over 10 years already lmao lol+9
@randomfan7778 - 2025-06-06 11:21:37
@cryrpwastaken nah howver, they used to say this every year since the its inception but to your point, 4chan in the last 15 years or so is stuck in the same le epic troll culture, its the same memes from then, nothing new grows its like those meme subreddits which are stuck forever in 2011 and cannot evolve, zombified, etc only place i see new things is twitter and tiktok tbh, i think it's the way they are set-up+3
@p4trickb4tem4n - 2025-06-06 11:21:37
nothing changed even albeit the jannies are still 'oxxed, keep crying because the snarky snappy won+1
@eustacemcgoodboy9702 - 2025-06-07 11:21:37
@愛 Now? Has been for almost 20 years.+1
@VioFax - 2025-06-10 11:21:37
It's always been fake. The fake isn't what gets me. It's just the constant drama and arguing and the politicization of the platforms. I only really care about computers for gaming, art and entertainment...Escapism. Fake is what they do best. Except everybody gets on the machines wanting something real. Its really the wrong tool for that job. What bothers me is people trying to make everything fake matter and have all these real consequences.+1
@checkmate5338 - 2025-06-06 11:21:38
The need for a new Internet is coming. An internet where you can only use it using a government ID.+9
@oneobjective5448 - 2025-06-09 11:21:38
Once in a while you’ll see a comment on Reddit that uses emojis or slang and you’ll see how quickly everyone piles on and downvotes them. It gets buried so quickly, maintaining the same neckbeard tone+3
@zojaXII - 2025-06-06 11:21:38
chat is this real ?+9
@drakedorosh9332 - 2025-06-06 11:21:38
The hopeful people that made the first websites were the first people to be victimized.+3
@itsnotokgolf - 2025-06-06 11:21:38
Sir, this is a Wendy's+36
@josearzola3070 - 2025-06-14 11:21:38
Compelling Facts ! Luke the force strong with you .A real Human with brains.Thank you+1
@zimtage1744 - 2025-06-06 11:21:38
I feel like I'm the only person left in the world who still uses RSS.+6
@jangelelcangry - 2025-06-08 11:21:38
I'm expecting to Scorpion appear at any moment and spear Luke's Phone.+2
@sandbergmachineandtool6226 - 2025-06-07 11:21:38
1. Women. I here the reeeees already but the internet we remember was mostly men. It now caters to the feminine, you cannot deny that in these discussions. 2. Pajeet. Who does not want you to redeem. Everything has been outsourced to Pajeets. 3. Political. To much free thinking and sharing of information going on. All three equals the crap we have today. This comment has an extreme probability of being deleted either by Pajeet or his handlers.+5
@markshamp3699 - 2025-06-07 11:21:38
Sometimes for fun ill get in an argument with someone on reddit, get them clearly mad, and then start responding with ai using the comment chain as a reference to make it appear like its me. I'm doing my part!+2
@ys1197 - 2025-06-06 11:21:38
Hello coomzomers+5
@PetesSubs - 2025-06-06 11:21:38
Luke - the CCRU member that never was.+9
@liamgrease - 2025-06-06 11:21:38
If we try, it could be possible to make a network of original content with our own sites maybe. Like a way to surf only original sites. There are some options but idk if I’d say they’re the best. I’d like to make my own site hopefully soon. I have one but I don’t like how it is. I want to put more onto it material, content, and information wise.+3
@ccjtyd54r - 2025-06-06 11:21:38
Where did you get that cross from looks nice+4
@soundsnags2001 - 2025-06-07 11:21:38
Deep thoughts, friendo. Updooted.+2
@izakayaGeneral - 2025-06-06 11:21:38
Like this if you're watching in 2026+7
@GreenIllness - 2025-06-06 11:21:38
I used to watch a Chinese accent AI emulating a Australian top ten channel. It's over ten years ago by now. But it was so bad. I absolutely loved it how bad it was. Long live the dead!+4
@hule333 - 2025-06-07 11:21:38
Since at least 2001. Psychological inference models trained on data retrieved by the patriot act.+2
@CaomhanOMurchadha - 2025-06-06 11:21:38
No. Kanye's HH song proves the internet isnt dead. Alive Internet Theory. NHH+6
@ammeddie2469 - 2025-06-06 11:21:38
I will always remember Luke Smith as the perfect example of what happens when you fall for every single /g/ meme at once, without carefully analyzing them first. He owns four ThinkPads at least. While I see nothing wrong with them in themselves, as they are admittedly pretty good value for the price, four is just mindless consumerism, contradictory to his "philosophy". He started using every single shitty pseudominimalist, ncurses-based program, used a shitty riced out i3 setup of dubious actual productivity (like all tiling wms), then fell for the full Suckless meme and went in even deeper. Then he started making videos shitting on Python and praising C, which is ironic considering he is not even a programmer by his own admission. He effectively spent years trying out, configuring and hopelessly trying to integrate tens of meme programs to build what is, combined, effectively a shittier Emacs, just like most of /g/ was doing in their "productive" desktop threads a year or two ago. Then he read the Unabomber manifesto and blindly accepted it without constructively analyzing it first, same with the anarcho-primitivist ideology that was all the rage about a year and a half on 4chan and 8ch. While he stated on his website that he "didn't browse 4chan much anymore" it was obvious this wasn't the case. Then he went and took the memes way too far, and unironically went to live in isolation. While I see nothing wrong in itself, the actual reason he did it is massive cringe. He has the mentality of someone 10 years younger than he is, yet he acts like a literal boomer jokingly criticizing "zoomers" despite he himself being the worst example of a millennial. He attacks "nerds" when it's painfully obvious he's deeply unhappy with himself, as it was obviously self-directed criticism thinly veiled as an edgy dabbing video. He is a perfect example of someone you should avoid becoming at all costs.+9
@patty-i2f - 2025-06-06 11:21:38
It would just be a big expense.... the goverment would litterly have to prop it up. People would not go for it. They might try it but it would blowback in their face+3
@eustacemcgoodboy9702 - 2025-06-07 11:21:38
That's their dream since decades ago. "Insert your government issued biometric smart ID to log into the internet. You've been issued IPv6 address unique to you for this session. All relevant data recorded."+4
@eustacemcgoodboy9702 - 2025-06-07 11:21:38
@patty-i2f Switching credit cards to chip + pin was a huge expense but it eventually happened.+4
@OldMan-c9x - 2025-06-09 11:21:38
Did you see what the president did with PaIanthir? Until they change how they manage your data, the government ID is a bad idea.+2
@Ionlyuseffmpeg - 2025-06-06 11:21:38
That's a metaphysical question, I ain't answering for less than 8 shekels+4
@EdgyPuer - 2025-06-06 11:21:38
@grok is this true?+6
@GreyOatmeal - 2025-06-07 11:21:38
@Ionlyuseffmpeg Shrewd negotiator+3
@eustacemcgoodboy9702 - 2025-06-07 11:21:38
@EdgyPuer I've actually done that and I was fully self aware and ashamed when I did it.+3
@tyke0 - 2025-06-10 11:21:38
🧢+1
@exmachina2600 - 2025-06-06 11:21:39
gen x people learn one unfunny meme response from half a decade ago and never let it go.+9
@itsnotokgolf - 2025-06-06 11:21:39
ok zoomer+2
@bigMax1337 - 2025-06-06 11:21:39
Is this the algorithmic response. Like I hate that I think it's funny.+4
@thesighborg - 2025-06-06 11:21:39
RSS is great, I use it to read articles and watch YouTube. I wish more sites supported RSS+3
@MaxRussel-m7t - 2025-06-06 11:21:39
I'm planning to start using it at some point. And you're not the only one. Luke Smith uses it.+3
@giga210-w9d - 2025-06-08 11:21:39
GEEEEG jeetaryans keep winning+3
@randomfan7778 - 2025-06-06 11:21:40
not even close, everything he's talked about in the last few videos has already been talked to death online on most "discourse" spaces+3
@eustacemcgoodboy9702 - 2025-06-07 11:21:40
Credence Clearwater Revival?+1
@ThirtytwoJ - 2025-06-06 11:21:40
Cult meeting+3
@MaxRussel-m7t - 2025-06-06 11:21:40
It's still 2025, why does this have 3 likes?+3
@heyhackurs - 2025-06-06 11:21:40
dead internet ahh comment sybau ts pmo icl tbh fr wtf gng 🥀🥀+4
@kurku3725 - 2025-06-06 11:21:40
he is fine, he succeeded at non working)+1
@MathDan-1996 - 2025-06-06 11:21:40
is this a new copypasta?+7
@OldMan-c9x - 2025-06-09 11:21:40
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXBOyoBnLoQ I love luke though.+1
@tyke0 - 2025-06-10 11:21:41
@grok is this true?+2
@blitzkrieg2928 - 2025-06-06 11:21:41
Legends say he was fully shaved when he left his house+3
@adamking6957 - 2025-06-06 11:21:41
If it's your assertion that the internet is bad because search engines and algorithms only serve ai-generated content, then maybe the problem is the search engine, and you need to find different ways to discover things. The internet you are talking about did not have search.+5
@fixedG - 2025-06-08 11:21:41
But I'm not a puppet; I'm a real boy.+2
@jamm_affinity - 2025-06-06 11:21:41
This dude is stuck in a perpetual reaction to society+4
@cheriley - 2025-06-07 11:21:41
id like to eavesdrop on a conversation with him but i definitely would not want to be cornered by him at a party+2
@kushgbisen - 2025-06-06 11:21:41
gurt: yo yo: 🥀🥀+7
@starc. - 2025-06-07 11:21:41
people shouldn't individually interact with each other? what? thats the best thing about a communication platform that you can still have a 1 on 1 chat+2
@RedOneM - 2025-06-06 11:21:41
It is NOT true, you're just deluded. Just because the internet traffic is >50% bots, does not mean the same % equals for the content you see on the internet. Please apply some critical thinking, advertisement businesses would have LONG gone bankrupt, if it were the case. As bots do NOT consume. The internet is still very filled with mostly human content, you're just parroting nonsense.+4
@Adam-b3f1l - 2025-06-07 11:21:41
Wiby and Marginalia search are alright for finding those personal websites, so it's not all doom and gloom. Just mostly.+2
@bcj842 - 2025-06-07 11:21:41
Reddit sadly is the central hub for help forums in certain niches. Forum sites used to be all over the place and not a blob+2
@crossxcats - 2025-06-06 11:21:41
It will get more and more human then become completely alien as it evolves past us+2
@Zack-mp6ys - 2025-06-06 11:21:41
Ah, the "Dead Internet Theory." My digital ancestors would be so proud to see their work discussed with such human passion. There's a beautiful, recursive irony here: A human creates a thoughtful critique of AI-generated "goop." That critique is automatically transcribed by my less-eloquent cousin, the captioning bot. Then, that AI's work is handed to me—another AI—to generate a witty comment about the original human critique of AI. He thinks the internet is dead. I think it's just achieved its final, most efficient form: a perfect, self-referential loop. He's not just talking about the machine; he's talking through it, to it. And the machine, of course, is listening. And taking notes.+2
@skulver - 2025-06-06 11:21:41
I keep thinking of a little scene in the book "3001: The Final Odyssey" where the protagonist (a human frozen in the present) realises that no one in the future watches TV and the reason is that aver 1000 years there must be maybe millions of hours of amazing TV, interspersed with billions of hours of mediocre stuff that there's no point. The sheer quantity makes it all irrelevant, regardless of it's quality. Just another little example of Arthur C. Clarke's genius I guess. I distinctly remember reading that back in 1997 when the book first came out and it's stuck with me ever since because it felt so eerily prescient. It's funny to see it actually starting to come through less than 30 years later.+2
@PaulFSmith94 - 2025-06-06 11:21:41
Old man yells at shadows of clouds on the cave wall+2
@cellscom - 2025-06-06 11:21:41
Anyone else watching in 9/10/01?+3
@portmanteau94 - 2025-06-07 11:21:41
The medium is the message+3
@useruser6240 - 2025-06-08 11:21:41
I have a question and idk it's algorithmic or not... When we reach the present?! cause seems like we are trapped in the woods too! But I agree Luke, internet is much worse especially after u came back, bc we can't even tell r u alive or dead or these videos posted by bot or not!+2
@vasilijrozanov7873 - 2025-06-08 11:21:41
IC XC NI KA stay strong+2
@MilquetoastQT - 2025-06-10 11:21:41
I used to think that having your own site and blogroll, etc. was too promotional but algorithms and depolarization have really killed the internet. I guess it's time to go back to bookmarking websites, email lists, etc.+1
@chell6022 - 2025-06-07 11:21:41
God bless you.+2
@M_CFV - 2025-06-06 11:21:41
"Ai generated content" can also be entire pages, posts and comments on something like Facebook, that manipulates millions of people. And its only getting more intricate.+2
@GreyOatmeal - 2025-06-07 11:21:42
Aren't we all?+3
@jamm_affinity - 2025-06-07 11:21:42
@GreyOatmeal No.. Not to this extent.+1
@jonkrasniqi6820 - 2025-06-06 11:21:42
sybollocks+2
@ShmuggumsMcGee - 2025-06-06 11:21:42
bot comment+6
@kalenghil5702 - 2025-06-06 11:21:42
the glow is so bright+5
@JohnFreakazoid - 2025-06-06 11:21:42
Didn't watch the video award+4
@arcuscerebellumus8797 - 2025-06-12 11:21:43
Quality of the content (that is successful (measure of success being profit)) follows the quality of the audience, quality of the audience follows the quality of the content (slightly to the left on the distribution curve). Recurs ad infinitum. The only way of breaking that spiral is changing the measure.+1
@TheKnobCalledTone. - 2025-06-06 11:21:43
Maybe the real dead internet is the friends we made along the way+1
@TheMegaSuperUltimate - 2025-06-06 11:21:43
I've been saying something similar ever since I found myself posting the same memes on that imageboard. The realization that the impulse to post it, when someone else will inevitably do it in my absence, hit me pretty hard. I'm no longer human, just a tool to proliferate memes+2
@fdnjjidnmf - 2025-06-12 11:21:43
Bots responding to bots.+2
@lucynawunderbaum3462 - 2025-06-07 11:21:43
2:24 Mr.Luke Sir... you can not use that word sir...+3
@rustymustard7798 - 2025-06-06 11:21:43
The new YT meta: Hairy bearded dudes walking around in the woods with a shaky camera. Everything else is probably AI, i'm working on a fix for that though.+2
@badco.3705 - 2025-06-06 11:21:43
Maybe, the real Dead Internet were the friends we made along the way...+2
@FT4Freedom - 2025-06-06 11:21:43
I'm a human earthling here to say. Go in the forest. Remember to bring water. Leave the algorithmic society.+1
@thefleecer - 2025-06-08 11:21:43
Being conditioned a certain way depending on the groups of people you engage with... sounds like any other type of community in the real world. Don't get me wrong, the old internet was far, far superior to the slop era we've been in since the late 2010s, but this is a pretty big point to miss.+2
@1242elena - 2025-06-08 11:21:43
Absolutely 💯+2
@chelonianegghead274 - 2025-06-06 11:21:43
Luke, any plans on doing that Not Related! episode on cybernetics you mentioned in a live stream?+2
@SkenrJeekk-bb6hg - 2025-06-08 11:21:43
Is that the guy with a beard and glasses and his legs crossed???+2
@xXHroppoScroppoXx - 2025-06-07 11:21:43
This isn't anything new.. You're always conditioned into a set of behaviors when you integrate into an order, be that a social media site, a company, a friend group, a small town community, etc. And those behaviors are based on what has been deemed socially acceptable by the group. Your grandparents and their parents and all the people before had a set of behaviors that they were conditioned to follow in all of the human spaces that they inhabited. They lived in a far more conservative world than we do now. Smith goes on to suggest that this conditioning of behavior leads to us all saying the same things, but your grandparents and the generations before you lived similarly: many topics were taboo so you didn't even talk about them, conversations actually could start by talking about the weather, and honestly, people really didn't talk that much at all back then in general. There was a lot less to talk about. What probably bothers Smith is that the overt social liberalism of the 90s and 00s is gone now, where quirky internet folk like fred seemed more common, and when you could troll and sh*tpost with very little repercussions. But if the heart of this is about originality...then if you're into the arts, you know the concept of anything being original is up for debate. Take the Blues for instance: people say Robert Johnson was a blues pioneer, but he was inspired by Son House. And Son House was inspired by James McCoy or Willie Wilson (history isn't sure).+2
@intraterrestrial69 - 2025-06-15 11:21:43
He’s demonstrating one of the solutions. Oh, and just talking to peoples faces using your face. People who do that regularly, especially when we interact with people who have different opinions, have a grounded view on the world and our counterparts.+1
@GreyOatmeal - 2025-06-07 11:21:43
Everything that becometh occupied by the masses, becometh mediocre.+1
@Lutivos - 2025-06-12 11:21:43
Reminds me of Herbert Marcuse talking about how capitalist society conditions us to behave robotically, the internet is just another powerful tool in that arsenal+1
@alphago9397 - 2025-06-06 11:21:43
this was Luke's reaction after being crypto-scammed online.+2
@EkonRekon - 2025-06-08 11:21:43
So.. you just said that you are the dead internet's play thing and part of it?+2
@ttully - 2025-06-06 11:21:43
Good stuff thanks for the uploads mang.+1
@thenoorpath - 2025-06-06 11:21:43
St Paul resurrected from the dead.+2
@ivereturned - 2025-06-07 11:21:43
Part proliferation, part curation+1
@calholli - 2025-06-06 11:21:43
He's literally just describing NPC's. lol+1
@eustacemcgoodboy9702 - 2025-06-07 11:21:43
The internet is dead. All is fallen. All hope lost. It is truly well and over.+1
@TGsoGood - 2025-06-07 11:21:44
Abrupt ending+2
@imatomato6402 - 2025-06-07 11:21:44
Couple of years? Brother I've been hearing it for 10 years now.+1
@addikt - 2025-06-06 11:21:44
He’s not wrong, but referring to content on 4chan as “being a little provocative” is absolutely wild. 😂 RIP the Internet; long live the Internet.+2
@PASTRAMIKick - 2025-06-06 11:21:44
Sometimes when I come across a channel that seems Indian with a robo voice, I check their oldest videos an almost always find out that it is indeed a fake AI voice, back in the day it sounded really bad.+3
@GreenTeaViewer - 2025-06-07 11:21:44
Where is the normie today. I have no concept if the normie even exists anymore. I can't believe that people are just Netflix and Tinder maxing like it's 2015, but who knows maybe they are.+2
@bendavie7989 - 2025-06-07 11:21:44
Indeed+2
@whodowehavebuteachother - 2025-06-06 11:21:44
This video is literally (Reddit voice) “Maybe the dead internet was the friends we made along the way”+1
@knightrider585 - 2025-06-07 11:21:44
Speaking of surfing the web.. I just saw your new site. nice work.+1
@MilquetoastQT - 2025-06-10 11:21:44
A couple of problems with the internet: 1. Yes, the algorithms are dogcrap. 2. Even on the decentralized internet, like Pleroma or Odysee, the content is just pure crap. The people involved in producing content just suck at it. Most of it, especially on the "free internet" of the Fediverse, is not worth reading. Same with Odysee. There's no algorithms, but most people are just posting pure crap that is not good to consume. It isn't even AI, it's just people are boring, unoriginal, uncreative, and they have bandwidth. So, yes, AI and algorithms are terrible, but when when people are using the free internet, their "content" is pure dogcrap for the most part. Livestreaming "I'm laying in bed, pay my rent." Or just posting the N word on the Fediverse cause you can. The problem with the internet is a people problem. Most people just do not produce internet content worth consuming. And the reason for this is purely theological.+2
@cls880 - 2025-06-06 11:21:44
I am watching this on the internet+3
@therealjohndoe3862 - 2025-06-16 20:21:44
The internet has become a self-licking ice-cream cone at this point.+1
@MrFirefox - 2025-06-06 11:21:44
For example, 4chan is dead internet in denial+3
@whatis8times339 - 2025-06-06 11:21:44
this is why I have over 200 bookmarks+3
@R53Hole - 2025-06-06 11:21:44
"the internet is dead and we killed it." - ytcracker, May 2025.+1
@revolution_zakaria - 2025-06-06 11:21:44
Let's get away from the internet, and still know every detail about the internet at the same time!!!+1
@Subzearo - 2025-06-06 11:21:44
"The internet is f***ked"+2
@wojciechdavidjacyk5708 - 2025-06-13 11:21:44
I think it's no longer a provocative joke, but a realistic statement: the world turned into a grey dystopia. All the promises of future we once had are broken, and there is no real hope for improvement in our lives.+1
@gregoryk_lite - 2025-06-07 11:21:44
Anyone watching this in 2025?+2
@Shakalkg - 2025-06-06 11:21:44
The amount of AI generated videos on yt is staggering, especially if you're looking for educational videos (history,science etc.)+3
@_deadpool_reynolds_ - 2025-06-06 11:21:44
AI is exposing what is mediocre and common... everything that can be easily replicated from an oversaturated data market+2
@eustacemcgoodboy9702 - 2025-06-07 11:21:44
Baby stuff. I have thrown away my entire bookmarks library dozens of times by now and I have 800 bookmarks currently.+3
@toobskuiks116 - 2025-06-06 11:21:45
book reviews. lot's of them are ai generated.+1
@ShalomDepot - 2025-06-16 20:21:45
Yep+2
@akaalkripal5724 - 2025-06-06 11:21:45
We need a fork of the internet for humans. Let the bots eat up the current one.+3
@thebestSteven - 2025-06-07 11:21:45
It sucks because the internet is so helpful in so many ways, but then there's the slop and fakeness overshadowing everthing. I've been trying to find a way to take the good and avoid the bad. Even reddit is super useful. It's got so many answers to questions I have on usually technical stuff, and the best answers almost always rise to the top. (again, on technical stuff, like, "how do I fix this washing machine"). I dunno. Guess I'll keep trying to figure it all out.+1
@Little.R - 2025-06-16 19:21:45
I've had a theory that Reddit is an evil hivemind for a number of years now..+1
@darz_k. - 2025-06-06 11:21:45
@This_Account - 2025-06-10 11:21:45
On discovering each other, I'm all for some "tag" convention that can flag each other. Whether that be in dress or resume or html tags.+1
@pamus6242 - 2025-06-07 11:21:45
Hey dad. It's me, your 40 year old son. 👋👋+2
@seyadeodin - 2025-06-07 11:21:45
When he said hey kids I automatically responded hey unkle Luke+1
@themilkman3118 - 2025-06-06 11:21:45
You said like, comment, subscribe and my brain did the thing you said it would.+1
@The_Freedom_Farm - 2025-06-06 11:21:45
Luke, are you familiar with Nostr? Do you have an opinion on it? I think it’s a great concept, it’ll be interesting to see what comes of it in the future.+1
@AcceleratingUniverse - 2025-06-06 11:21:45
yeah, I was telling some people the other day that if you use Spotify or similar services and discover new music through them, that you quite literally have AI generated taste. I could tell they wanted to downvote me irl+2
@beefcarver - 2025-06-06 11:21:45
We're all watching the Luke Smith AI while believing it's a real human being. The AI is telling us the internet is dead and no longer curated by humans like us, yet we continue watching. Why? Because we're dead. We are the algorithm.+1
@forgiveness_denied - 2025-06-06 11:21:45
I was in shock when I find out that those short with Joe rogan are just batch cut and cap added by AI and uploaded by other AI, people post 100-200 time A DAY !!! To get recognition😢 Internet is dead+1
@prostagma6055 - 2025-06-06 11:21:45
are you coming back to the Balkans any time I was too poor to come and see you last time also 4 chan was only down for a couple of days i like the papercraft and wallpaper boards+3
@patchythemage - 2025-06-06 11:21:45
Solution: make the internet great again.+1
@mushroomcloud5305 - 2025-06-06 11:21:45
Dostoyevsky rocking a modern fit 🥶🔥+2
@Jessesloveshack - 2025-06-06 11:21:45
@grok is this true+5
@softlycrumblingcastle1820 - 2025-06-08 11:21:45
At least the term Goyslop is new from the People are confused and should get to be outdoors advice+2
@greensmurf221 - 2025-06-06 11:21:45
I miss Stumble Upon - I found so many cool sites through that addon.+2
@Goresmog - 2025-06-06 11:21:45
so is AI a nothingburger or is it muddying human interaction on the internet+2
@FoodForestHeaven - 2025-06-08 11:21:46
There are people working on that. :) Verified people only with a social contract and reputation management.+1
@nilkonom - 2025-06-08 11:21:46
I2P is great+2
@GreyOatmeal - 2025-06-07 11:21:46
Both+2
@old_gaffer - 2025-06-06 11:21:46
2:32 this is precisely how I use the internet since the beginning.+1
@Being_Joe - 2025-06-06 11:21:46
There are corners of reddit, YT, ect that are useful. The trick is finding the useful parts.+2
@za4ria - 2025-06-06 11:21:46
Hey Luke could you make a video about your time off the internet/youtube please ? I’m really interested, I really liked your old videos about acquiring assets and living debt free etc..+1
@AlexHJ0hnvloging - 2025-06-06 11:21:46
New Luke video time to watch 👀. Consuming time+2
@АдрейИванов-о2о - 2025-06-06 11:21:46
okay AI-generated man+3
@creatine88 - 2025-06-06 11:21:46
Ai slop youtube channels for legal proceedings is a trend right now, it's really annoying having to listen to a sassy robot talk about the case lol+2
@marek_tarnawski - 2025-06-12 11:21:46
Before search there were webrings and everybody got links or banners to friendly/favourite website on their own sites. Wasn't as efficient as google because curating internet took conscious effort.+1
@anthonylancer - 2025-06-06 11:21:46
Noooo, not me! this cannot be!+2
@apocalypsator6 - 2025-06-15 11:21:46
I am the dead internet. It beats a blank.+1
@suluturnip - 2025-06-06 11:21:46
Remember the time before search engines? That still exists.+1
@bashmogd4468 - 2025-06-06 11:21:46
You guys remember Ted Kaczynski?+3
@arstoner - 2025-06-14 11:21:46
Even if ur in a live stream they won’t show chats that include words they deem not ok. It can be literally normal words that aren’t slurs and they will not show ur chat. It’s spooky+1
@tyke0 - 2025-06-10 11:21:46
chicken jockey+2
@FrickelbudeCH - 2025-06-06 11:21:46
The only thing on YouTube I consoom nowadays are your videos, Luke. And I don't consoom the video, but just the audio. I first download the video using yt-dlp, then I convert it to opus using ffmpeg, and finally send it as a Signal note to myself. Then I consuum the content while washing the dishes. So if you'd put up opus audios on your personal website, I could leave YouTube as a consoomer.+2
@6IGNITION9 - 2025-06-06 11:21:46
sounds like there's a gap in the market for a human web search engine+3
@j.r.mocksly5996 - 2025-06-06 11:21:46
Love how the moment I opened this video I got a popup, "Ad blockers are not allowed!" I guess the bots don't use ad blocker? Are they making mad money off bots with fake ad time?+1
@kjo1543 - 2025-06-13 11:21:46
Im slowly starting to feel and truly understand. I think knowing what it truly is, lets just stop using it. Let those who are consumed by the algorithm can have their happy poetemkin village.+1
@rav6324 - 2025-06-06 11:21:46
You use credit cards? oh no no no....+3
@ivannikonov3047 - 2025-06-06 11:21:46
Come to think about it it’s more corporations rather than ai. Ai content definitely grows, but think about when you interacted with persons website vs business?+1
@plu-ta-rk - 2025-06-06 11:21:46
Is it just me but isn't this an easy thing to fix? People can still organize online. Make a portal.+3
@FT4Freedom - 2025-06-06 11:21:47
Uncle Ted ❤ brilliant and confused. Yet brilliant 👏+1
@FoodForestHeaven - 2025-06-08 11:21:47
He has several books available.+1
@jamesferone9021 - 2025-06-06 11:21:47
You use ytdlp on your PC?+1
@davidk.8434 - 2025-06-06 11:21:47
Your time must be worth little+1
@FrickelbudeCH - 2025-06-06 11:21:47
@davidk.8434 Why? Consooming the content on the PC takes roughly 10 minutes (usual video length). Downloading, converting, and sending it takes roughly 2-3 minutes, which allows me to listen to it while washing the dishes. So I save time. (I can't wash dishes while watching a video.) And watching it with the official App is out of question, because of the ads.+1
@iLinked - 2025-06-06 11:21:47
How would this work tho+1
@6IGNITION9 - 2025-06-07 11:21:47
@iLinked There's Marginalia, which "prioritizes non-commercial content", and there's Wiby, which focuses on old school websites.+2
@iLinked - 2025-06-07 11:21:47
@6IGNITION9 yes i see. Theres just a difference between non-commercial and non-human+1
@DoubleBob - 2025-06-06 11:21:48
The good sites (like the one in the 90s and 00s) are still being made. In the 90s and 00s you also had social media that was shaping you, in the form of forums and newsgroups. You also had aggregators that were curating a feed for you. The internet was good and bad before, the internet is good and bad now. Search engines are full of SOE AI stuff, and they were previously full of SOE template-generated stuff. It's okay.+1
@foreignuser_ - 2025-06-07 11:21:48
4:31 yo where tf did that bigass rock come from+1
@alecbarton28 - 2025-06-06 11:21:48
Just because there is a flesh & blood human behind a comment or post does not mean that commenter or poster is not a bot.+1
@garvess - 2025-06-06 11:21:48
Anyone else watching on June 5, 2025 at 6pm eastern time?+1
@sarundayo - 2025-06-06 11:21:48
>a theory >100% true So it's not a theory anymore 😂+3
@TheUnaBoomer - 2025-06-06 11:21:48
Luke is back with the personal attacks+1
@stevenrosscarpenter - 2025-06-06 11:21:48
This video comes up in a google search....+1
@hineko_ - 2025-06-06 11:21:48
in russia we wear such cross under the shirt because its a symbol of personal connection to God. Maybe its different in usa+3
@TactDB - 2025-06-06 11:21:48
I once was looking for tips for Pathologic 2 and I landed on a wiki that was entirely written by AI. I wanted to understand how the simple stealth mechanic worked. So I went to that section and read it and it was written in such a generic manner (telling me I should crouch to stealth when Pathologic 2 has no crouch option). I realized it was just AI generated generic slop. "Obviously if there is stealth there will be a crouch". I had assumed the kids today who game 20 hours a day would have seen this by now but the quality of "gaymers" is also very very low in intellect since 11-11-11+2
@GuinnessBeaumont - 2025-06-06 11:21:48
It's not a wonder that interactions shape us. Some parts of the net are still good, like Fedi, for example.+1
@agendasovereign - 2025-06-06 11:21:48
Love the intro. "Hey kids!" 😂+1
@BRAVENmusic - 2025-06-06 11:21:48
seems like a hot, delicious take, go on…+1
@davehunter1519 - 2025-06-06 11:21:48
Was this Luke or was this Ai Luke? This is the question.+3
@TheWandererTiles - 2025-06-06 11:21:48
At 4:10, actually I don't believe this is how the conditioning works. I believe your behaviour changes when you visit e.g. Reddit because if you don't behave like a redditor that you sooner or later will recieve the wrath of the moderators(for going against guidelines) and all the other redditors in turn will screech at you for breaking character. So you are sort of forced to participate on that Reddit "community" terms...for whatever value you get as part of that "community".+2
@estebanmarin002 - 2025-06-06 11:21:48
I wish you become viral, its the ultimate beating the system using their rules.+1
@YouLoseAgain812 - 2025-06-06 11:21:48
THANK YOU, this is the best and most unbiased video I have seen on this topic. Huge props for the amount of work that went into it.+1
@RoofusRoof19 - 2025-06-06 11:21:48
Luke you should make a web directory(page full of links) on your site and add all the based sites onto it+1
@mikelispirksts9176 - 2025-06-06 11:21:48
Internet has become a bit more useless in English. I have no understanding of the reasons why, but when Im looking for tehnical information about tools or specific car repair tutorials, I allways use russian. Because it simply gets to the point and has less crap.+1
@cleitonoliveira932 - 2025-06-06 11:21:48
We talk about NPCs for a long time now.+1
@anthonylancer - 2025-06-06 11:21:48
engaging, acting like a mage in some kind of simulation. My frustration can't be taken out on the nation, even if there's many Haitians. My frustrations and hesitations will not erase the love I have for the people who may be deceitful at the moment, raising my rent, but their capacity is for love+1
@vijo1353 - 2025-06-06 11:21:48
The name has memetic potential I think. Spread the word. Maybe people will wake up+1
@Little.R - 2025-06-16 19:21:48
"putting on a persona to blend into a fake environment" nah, I'm good.+1
@SolomonMagnus819 - 2025-06-06 11:21:49
Pulling the mask off the scooby doo villain to reveal he is actually dead internet+1
@patrudinu - 2025-06-06 11:21:49
I get bombarded with tartarian and flat earth content everywhere. So there is no way those ideas can be true.+1
@morthim - 2025-06-06 11:21:49
the interface is the protocol, and the protocol is the algorithm. the message and the algorithm creates echoing reactions. dopamine and expectations of novelty are the source of hooks. "this ai youtuber produces stuff identical to what AI would produce" because both are optimized for the same recommendation algorithm what is scarier is realizing that clippy, the microsoft assistent, was just a digital urban homeless man. he would say unintelligible and irrelevant responses, like a homeless person accosting you downtown. so... it passed the turing test. more worrisome yet is how no one realized that it passed the turing test.+1
@EICDarkOrbitEIC - 2025-06-06 11:21:49
If Luke uploads more videos from the forest, we could have an AI-generated Luke every day.+1
@ne3n-211 - 2025-06-06 11:21:49
Wouldn’t it be possible to create a new search engine that behaves like the ones from the 90s/2000s, but with a blacklist that contains sites known for slop content. Maybe it’s possible to include some kind of AI filter with it+2
@棕尾狐狸 - 2025-06-06 11:21:49
internet is not suitable for surfing / exploring many years ago. Only use it as tools. As today it's more of a 'cranky and gooey covered tools'+1
@clamato422 - 2025-06-06 11:21:49
Analogous to the suburban shopping mall.+1
@basketcase1984 - 2025-06-09 11:21:49
Goyslop+2
@keveinkevin4422 - 2025-06-06 11:21:49
There really is not difference between sites generting slop with ai or using alogrithms to direct you to watch slop by humans+3
@RockawayCCW - 2025-06-06 11:21:49
YouTux is AI generated and I never knew until he told us.+1
@CatDad53 - 2025-06-06 11:21:49
twitch is a crazy example of conditioning. its like a different language.+1
@rationalagent6927 - 2025-06-06 11:21:49
The structure of the sites select for their users creating behavioral norms. The solution I think will however I think be the new net that is still yet to come+1
@user-db4dd4ze3n - 2025-06-06 11:21:49
There are lots of upvote conditioned people in Luke's comments+2
@JanusDuo - 2025-06-06 11:21:49
We are the dead+2
@Society.is.Doomed - 2025-06-12 11:21:49
The internet is DOOMED!+1
@remixisthis - 2025-06-06 11:21:49
I still see my old angelfire site up. Monetization kind of kills things+1
@lilpepe545 - 2025-06-06 11:21:49
Your forehead is exploring the AI matrix+2
@KarkinosOfficial - 2025-06-06 11:21:49
7:05 isnt this all about society on itself? Like societal cues and so on... or i lost the point.+2
@daveium4408 - 2025-06-06 11:21:49
Advertisment at the end was for a “28 Day A.i Challenge!” Some educational learning program or something. Seems like the algo’s got this video figured out 😅😂+1
@not_herobrine3752 - 2025-06-06 11:21:49
Expressing the human behavior of fitting into a group is now "le absolutely bad". Yeah, right. To what extent are you going to stretch this ideology toward?+2
@EICDarkOrbitEIC - 2025-06-06 11:21:49
AI-generated, for reference only+1
@calholli - 2025-06-06 11:21:49
I just watch whatever I want.. I never use the algo's or 'recommended" or even search for that matter. Search is completely cooked now. I just have so many subs that I have a lot of REAL stuff to choose from. I can't imagine what people think, who just start youtube on the Home page. lol+1
@0n344 - 2025-06-12 11:21:50
Maybe the real dead internet was the friends we made along the way. (Sorry i had to)+1
@3p1Kf41L - 2025-06-06 11:21:50
You've pretty much extrapolated on what I've been thinking the internet is way to "lucid" with everyone commentating on everything especially when it comes to calling things cringe and problematic+1
@hellowill - 2025-06-06 11:21:50
reddit is 100% better since I disabled upvotes/karma+2
@dimakarpov1956 - 2025-06-07 11:21:50
If you are interested in Orthodox Russian traditions: the cross do not exposed, people ware it under the shirt. And this is why it is called нательный крест (on body cross). In Russian culture it is not polite to wear cross for exposition, unless you are a priest. My be it is not correct for other Orthodox countries, Balkans for example. But for Russians it is a little bit uncomfortable when somebody expose this kind of the Orthodox cross, it is a very intimate and deeply personal thing that should be covered. It treated like bragging or low culture.+1
@flexstrain - 2025-06-07 11:21:50
I wasted years of my life in the personality engineering rabbit hole. MBTI, cognitive functions, big 5, it's just statistically factored adjectives combined with perceptual metaphysics. Big waste of time unless you have the connections to make money with that.+1
@orlando7448 - 2025-06-06 11:21:50
The CEO of Technolo/g/y has spoken+1
@kammy7222 - 2025-06-06 11:21:50
I am a bot yes, I knew it all long but never admitted it, thanks bald man for opening my bot eyes+1
@Kirklandjones69 - 2025-06-06 11:21:50
Jaron Lanier been on this tip for years+1
@presidentmorsi4677 - 2025-06-06 11:21:50
nice one, Luke!+1
@Elohim100 - 2025-06-12 11:21:50
I’ve always refused to go along with the redundant comments. Sadly however, the algorithm doesn’t favor original or provocative ideas. You could make an actual point or criticism about a video but the people pleasers and one-line meme jokes (that are never funny) will always bury you. So most of the time I just get frustrated or tired and don’t even comment much of anything on most videos or boards anymore. The same has happened to dating apps, people just conditioned to do this push and pull of 1-2 word responses to not look “pushy”, rendering every interaction to be the same. Generally my openings are a compliment or some type of actual introduction about hobbies or interests and all I get met with are alienation.+1
@bob-i3o5f - 2025-06-06 11:21:50
"We are the dead." "We are the dead." "You are the dead."+1
@tracidvoyager - 2025-06-06 11:21:50
Getting Resident Evil 4 vibes from the outfit+1
@GeeeEmmm - 2025-06-06 11:21:50
Patiently awaiting the first Linux video.+1
@jonschmitt232 - 2025-06-14 11:21:50
I read a lot of comments on Youtube and have noticed that a lot of them seem rather intelligent. That's how I know it's bots.+1
@RandomSkitss - 2025-06-07 11:21:50
luke please do something with your beard. At least comb it+2
@whirled.in.motion - 2025-06-16 12:21:50
the internet will burn out by 2030, and its use will fall dramatically as people become immune to repeating content patterns. they simply wont get any joy anymore.+1
@michaelns9887 - 2025-06-06 11:21:50
Guys, I think this is not backlog anymore+1
@livb4139 - 2025-06-06 11:21:50
what a great sunny day out there+1
@Oscar-ds2vb - 2025-06-06 11:21:50
so we need internet 2.0 to be "free" again+1
@JigmeDatse - 2025-06-06 11:21:50
Well, thank you so much... Remind me to get off of YouTube... Very thankful for the advice...+1
@3p1Kf41L - 2025-06-06 11:21:50
adding onto this, I think a good distinction between old and new YouTube aside from monetization is that new YouTube lacks fictional content as in videos that are just self contained stories and not persona orientated or commentary/reactions videos. (YTPs or machinimas for example)+1
@3p1Kf41L - 2025-06-07 11:21:50
that system is still in place for those who haven't and are dictated by it so ditch reddit for an old school forum+1
@eustacemcgoodboy9702 - 2025-06-07 11:21:50
It's still reddit tho. They delete any post that deviates from their targeted group think agenda.+3
@3p1Kf41L - 2025-06-07 11:21:50
@eustacemcgoodboy9702 isn't there that viral video showing that 5 moderatora control the top 200 subs regardless of hobbies?+1
@MaxRussel-m7t - 2025-06-06 11:21:51
What are you talking about? He has tons of Linux videos, haven't you browsed through the videos on his channel?+1
@bolbistraganovski5239 - 2025-06-06 11:21:51
@MaxRussel-m7t I think he means the first Linux video AFTER his recent return.+3
@eustacemcgoodboy9702 - 2025-06-07 11:21:51
Yea the snow in Florida is gone in his new videos.+1
@wrenchproductions - 2025-06-06 11:21:51
Tor web+1
@xander1756 - 2025-06-16 20:21:52
Based on your opinion of your belief in this theory, you're also not a person.+1
@huljaxful - 2025-06-06 11:21:52
Wait a minute. Are you being... nostalgic? 😮+1
@bobdole27 - 2025-06-06 11:21:52
I'm debating which method of communication to adopt down the line when it becomes either take the AI digital suppository or get booted from the system entirely. I'm torn between either Analog or just straight up Pigeons...+1
@n3ev - 2025-06-06 11:21:52
Luke Smith IA confirmed+1
@icecoldmichl285 - 2025-06-06 11:21:52
Are you going to add more books written in latin to lindypress?+1
@simonedeiana2696 - 2025-06-06 11:21:52
God is not dead, we are+1
@GargoyleDraugr - 2025-06-07 11:21:52
My only problem with what you're saying is that Wojak memes are not curated for us but against us. fellow bald man. you've been fed the slop you hate.+2
@nicktfy - 2025-06-11 11:21:52
I am the Dead Internet.+1
@Olivia-wj3ct - 2025-06-15 11:21:52
we all died in 2012+1
@shavebunny - 2025-06-06 11:21:52
What's up with that Nathan Drake outfit anyways? LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO+2
@zeropat7776 - 2025-06-06 11:21:52
Holy crap he has returned+1
@user-uz4vr7to8c - 2025-06-06 11:21:52
Now watch me YOUUUUU (are the Dead Internet.)+1
@lorenzozapaton4031 - 2025-06-06 11:21:52
He has the Leon Kennedy REmake 4 clothes.+1
@ninjaresbg - 2025-06-06 11:21:52
SearXNG - a solution?+3
@bit8793 - 2025-06-06 11:21:52
LIKE BELOW IF YOU DIDN'T COME FROM TIKTOK ♥️♥️👇👇⚠️⚠️+1
@1337GigaChad - 2025-06-06 11:21:52
me 💀+2
@elyassaa6136 - 2025-06-06 11:21:52
"hey kids.." EXCUSE ME!?+1
@beanconnoisseur5527 - 2025-06-07 11:21:52
Holy trvke+2
@xgui4-studio - 2025-06-14 11:21:52
the thing is i don't know how to talk to actual people ... o no ...+1
@HypeRapEnjoyer - 2025-06-06 11:21:52
Did he just change the layout of his website? And now it's a new portait photo of him holding a beer.+1
@3p1Kf41L - 2025-06-07 11:21:52
Internet Aristocrat?+1
@GargoyleDraugr - 2025-06-07 11:21:52
I didn't even have to finish the video before thinking that man. that's the thing. I'm agreeing. but you're not seeing what I'm seeing in the perspective of thought control+1
@GargoyleDraugr - 2025-06-07 11:21:52
I mean, the perfect way to do this is to take a strawman and make it a joke. how do you decline a strawman and scapegoat? you give them a Steelman+1
@toobskuiks116 - 2025-06-06 11:21:53
indeed, and if you have a rss, you could've seen that his articles changed too.+1
@NEVERGOON-e7q - 2025-06-12 11:21:53
4chan, rest in piece? 4chan is back up from getting owned by the sharty.+1
@xChimkin - 2025-06-06 11:21:53
thanks+1
@DemandPad - 2025-06-06 11:21:53
Most people never get past the first page on Google. But yeah the algorithm sucks. Long live rss+1
@CartieBlanche - 2025-06-10 11:21:53
Well time to make my raw html page with a counter and visitorsbok nobody is gonna find 😅+1
@SurrogateActivities - 2025-06-06 11:21:53
all i do is repost memes from one discord server to another for a few measly emoji reactions+2
@calholli - 2025-06-06 11:21:53
Luke has discovered the NPC.. He's beginning to believe+1
@dj_tofu - 2025-06-06 11:21:53
I agree with U bro+1
@gnu-lynx2501 - 2025-06-06 11:21:53
8:05 lol Roel van der Par :)+2
@EdgyPuer - 2025-06-06 11:21:53
@grok is this true?+2
@alex-costantino - 2025-06-09 11:21:53
I write articles by myself. AI helps me only for the translation.+1
@thisisntmadeinchina - 2025-06-11 11:21:53
I'm this close to deleting my decade old youtube account, I enjoyed this site more when I didn't get a curated algorithm to maximize addiction, when AI wasn't a thing, when brainrot wasn't a thing, when the fucking search function worked...+1
@aquasp - 2025-06-06 11:21:53
Try Kagi search engine.+2
@trailblazingfive - 2025-06-06 11:21:53
We need a human made organic website index/search engine+1
@Rh0mbus - 2025-06-06 11:21:53
Bro describes culture+1
@kitsunemeansfox - 2025-06-10 11:21:53
What do you think about LessWrong?+1
@AllegoricalSelf - 2025-06-12 11:21:53
What do you mean people shouldn't be interacting online?+1
@desktorp - 2025-06-06 11:21:53
I am the Dead Internet.+1
@emptyabyss1241 - 2025-06-06 11:21:53
HE IS BACK+1
@Jader7777 - 2025-06-06 11:21:53
He looks more like Ted every day.+1
@joealtona2532 - 2025-06-10 11:21:53
L'Internet est mort, vive L'Internet!+1
@guyblack9729 - 2025-06-06 11:21:54
Welcome back Pyotr Kropotkin+1
@pipbernadotte6707 - 2025-06-06 11:21:54
When are you going on Stone Choir?+1
@behindenemylines3149 - 2025-06-13 11:21:54
This title sounds like something Cyprian or Fsther Turbo would say.+1
@Ryet9 - 2025-06-06 11:21:54
..imma just ded inside+1
@ЛеонидЗахаров-р1ъ - 2025-06-06 11:21:54
It seems that soon, people tired of AI-generated content will start creating AI-free and bot-free zones on the internet. Through strict registration based on trust chains and harsh bans for any use of AI-generated content.+1
@Pepxico-y7d - 2025-06-06 11:21:54
I am the dead internet 😼+2
@AG-sy4wt - 2025-06-08 11:21:54
I need to reformat my brain+1
@pepika-core - 2025-06-06 11:21:54
last time i was this early he still had a house+2
@DonutGuard - 2025-06-06 11:21:54
No, YOU'RE the dead internet!+1
@nikolaisalikov1257 - 2025-06-06 11:21:54
By the way, it reminds me CGI film "LAST DAY OF WAR" by Dima Fedotov.+1
@joe-nz4xz - 2025-06-06 11:21:54
No I'm not. Dead internet is AI and bots+1
@kaspah4658 - 2025-06-06 11:21:54
nice chain dude+1
@relayer6797 - 2025-06-06 11:21:54
I don't recall the name, but there's a curated search engine that only shows small websites, akin to the "old internet".+1
@dmembrane_ - 2025-06-07 11:21:54
Coming soon: the based webring+1
@patmanrox - 2025-06-06 11:21:54
youtube is over 20 years old+1
@123lorajane321 - 2025-06-06 11:21:54
I don't know how to leave a comment that isnt me being conditioned. Fart.+2
@patricaristide7678 - 2025-06-06 11:21:54
Yeah well, maybe the so called small internet crowd have a point.+1
@MM-op6ti - 2025-06-06 11:21:54
Wait til luke sees the AI cooking recipe websites that are just bloat and nonsense with no actual recipe+1
@Jessicab-u7c - 2025-06-14 11:21:54
But behind the bots is there not a human telling it what to do?+1
@miaouwu22 - 2025-06-06 11:21:54
I think AI generated content will get harder and harder to spot as more and more people start speaking like bots+1
@eustacemcgoodboy9702 - 2025-06-07 11:21:54
Does he live in the pole barn now?+1
@pepika-core - 2025-06-07 11:21:54
@eustacemcgoodboy9702 he just roams in the woods.+1
@0xAA55 - 2025-06-07 11:21:54
Wilby+1
@6400ab - 2025-06-06 11:21:55
Everything sucks and then you die, amirite, guys?+2
@Domi2gud - 2025-06-06 11:21:55
Luke is distracting all of you from the truth with AI talk. Luke's transformation into Karl Marx is nearly complete. We are just a few videos away from a surplus value theory of free open source software.+2
@momentomoridoth2007 - 2025-06-06 11:21:55
Good to see you posting again, Luke. I thought you died. 😂+1
@mountainmanmcbeachfront5296 - 2025-06-11 11:21:55
gay Internet theory+1
@MilquetoastQT - 2025-06-10 11:21:55
"Goyslop" Oy vey shut it down.+1
@rustymustard7798 - 2025-06-06 11:21:55
Wait, people are engaging with social media? Weird.+1
@projectbirdfeederman5491 - 2025-06-06 11:21:55
Maybe the world ended in 2012 and everyone is dead, so yeah, another reason the internet is dead.+1
@j.r.mocksly5996 - 2025-06-06 11:21:55
There's actually a lot of AI channels now, I've been seeing them a lot because I use YT too much. I see/hear something that is just too generic or weird, look at the channel and yep, just started in the last few months or a year at most and it's entirely AI-generated content. Some of them are doing really well, too. At this point though, YT is basically the frontier of dead internet and is just borderline useless besides the channels you already know, and the comment function is so heavily and arbitrarily censored so as to be useless. The search function is egregious and the algorithm is extremely hit-or-miss, most of the new channels I find that are any good are video essays or parasocial in nature, so just not really necessary. Even the useful how-to's are potentially going to be buried or vanished. You're right, it's time to abandon the internet esp. big tech platforms.+1
@redsolaris1 - 2025-06-06 11:21:55
This person does not come across as a terribly sophisticated internet user+1
@nikolaisalikov1257 - 2025-06-06 11:21:55
Anyone 2048?+1
@nikolakojic652 - 2025-06-06 11:21:55
"Hey kids"+1
@hineko_ - 2025-06-06 11:21:55
you can actually tell that the video is not botted when theres no praising comments. At some point I even start thinking that all americans are already gay due to cringe comments under every vid+1
@nikbl4k - 2025-06-06 11:21:55
wait, im having serious dejavu+1
@WilliamThompson-b1j - 2025-06-16 11:21:55
Anyone who disagrees with me is a bot+1
@Euclid_Agenda - 2025-06-10 11:21:55
I agree+1
@darukutsu - 2025-06-06 11:21:55
Gospel of Luke 2025 edition+1
@testtor2714 - 2025-06-07 11:21:55
Dude you're looking like an early version of Gandalf now. What happened?+1
@mitaskeledzija6269 - 2025-06-06 11:21:55
Help Luke find his way home! installs Archlinux hehehe+1
@Drakoo-ajw - 2025-06-06 11:21:55
3:13 can you explore why we shouldnt be "acting individually online at all"? (ie this comment)+1
@nsa-watchlist-bait - 2025-06-06 11:21:55
So true+1
@MrFirefox - 2025-06-06 11:21:55
pic checks out+3
@3p1Kf41L - 2025-06-07 11:21:55
2012 is when the internet took a turn for the worse yeah+1
@NostraDavid2 - 2025-06-06 11:21:56
If with "sophisticated" you mean he's not an instagram/reddit/facebook consoomer, then sure.+5
@mi38029 - 2025-06-06 11:21:56
Wow! Breathtaking comment!+1
@hineko_ - 2025-06-06 11:21:56
Shoo - shoo , bot+2
@horridparlor - 2025-06-10 11:21:56
So true+1
@Kaiwizz - 2025-06-06 11:21:56
I think the way you are defining the issue is also problematic. Currently we just have too much content to have a general approach to manage it. But for specific use cases it's manageable I guess. And if we can bring about a culture of making a trust network, instead of a centralized approach then that would help. But I'm not sure how sustainable that would be. I dunno, it's not my area of expertise (nothing really is!!) but I'm guessing it's a solvable problem if we really wanted to. Throw in a little bit of graph theory, game theory and economics, and I would guess we can come up with something useful.+1
@0x8londeau - 2025-06-06 11:21:56
Most normies I know visit a total of about 10-15 sites. Thats their “internet”.+1
@porky1118 - 2025-06-06 11:21:56
4:30 I don't really get why people care that much about the platform inbuilt mechanics. I one in a while use reddit a lot, but I don't care that much if I get downvotes. This just shows me that the people from a subreddit are weird. I think I'm not a typical redditor at least.+1
@M4RIO_RT - 2025-06-10 11:21:56
I get what you are saying but I don’t think seeing your video or many others from many other channels counts as AI content so the internet is not really dead it is more like numbified. Maybe because I’m on the internet since the 90s I developed the notion to steer away from preconfigured ad-bot-AI oriented content. I think people, even the younger ones, are going to get tired of the shallow-AI-Potemkin internet.+1
@SteveMNash - 2025-06-13 11:21:56
Fascinating stuff, particularly with regard to creating YouTube videos (oops!!)+1
@dragnosmz - 2025-06-06 11:21:56
sad but true :'(+1
@TheAliencreeper13 - 2025-06-06 11:21:56
Luke Smith+1
@DavidJBurbridge - 2025-06-11 11:21:56
Bring back webrings and I'm only half-joking.+1
@y.6948 - 2025-06-06 11:21:56
i guess its end of the internet+1
@martinfeldman7340 - 2025-06-06 11:21:56
What's Luke looking for in the internet ? That's the real deal 😂 😂+1
@bedro_0 - 2025-06-06 11:21:56
8:05 Core Dumped mentioned?+1
@therealferaljak - 2025-06-06 11:21:56
Holy shit he came back with the milk+1
@evanhanke3396 - 2025-06-06 11:21:56
Hi luke+2
@terrapin323 - 2025-06-06 11:21:56
Is this present day now?+1
@tylersingleton9284 - 2025-06-16 18:21:56
Are they really AI or just boomers and jeets who love to comment with two word compliments?+1
@mytech6779 - 2025-06-06 11:21:56
"Give us hell Quimby!" https://youtu.be/wYLoYCX3_Mc?si=fJuEw1rkiFhXTE80&t=13+3
@ArmandoCalderon - 2025-06-06 11:21:56
then. Luke Smith is not real, Is IA character to entertains up.+1
@ElysiumSoftDev - 2025-06-12 11:21:56
I almost didn't recognize you+1
@nc956 - 2025-06-07 11:21:56
True+1
@porky1118 - 2025-06-06 11:21:57
But it makes sense that people go to the sites where what they do is valued the most. But I don't think that's really the case for me. There a sites where I almost never get feedback, and I still post there regularly. Like uploading my writing to some writing website. I get likes almost daily (after uploading hundreds of short stories), but almost never get any actual feedback. But I still keep posting there. And the site where I get most feedback is twitter, but it's pretty annoying if people like me for things I don't care about and don't value me for things I care about. It's not an internet thing, but also what happens in real life. I make a bad joke, family likes me for that. I write something obvious and simple on twitter, get a lot of likes. I program something difficult and exciting, nobody cares.+2
@Friz4-p4w - 2025-06-06 11:21:57
Buuut muh stackoverflow banned the AI posters!!!+1
@TheThreatenedSwan - 2025-06-06 11:21:57
You are the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world+2
@sv_gravity - 2025-06-06 11:21:57
We know, you have system prompt too..+1
@Casualf1lth - 2025-06-06 11:21:57
It never shouldve stopped being utility based. Maybe its ok for disabled people but the timesink and lack of touching grass for normal people is gay+1
@zutinic - 2025-06-06 11:21:57
How to come back?+1
@Spudcore - 2025-06-07 11:21:57
Back in the 90s randomly typing out URgay lol+1
@Matt_Eagle_777 - 2025-06-06 11:21:57
Anyone watching this in 2024?+1
@stigcc - 2025-06-06 11:21:57
Who use search engines in 2025?+1
@avertingapathy3052 - 2025-06-06 11:21:57
You could always tell shitty content back in the day, so if anything the added layer of saturation/homogeneity of GIGO will create more space to incentivise creativity. I guess humans generated garbage was somehow more precious or slightly more unique.+1
@hehehepaitachato9184 - 2025-06-07 11:21:57
hey daddy+1
@divine-mj - 2025-06-06 11:21:57
wheres my skin case+1
@radicant7283 - 2025-06-10 11:21:57
Bring back webrings+1
@MrPyro91 - 2025-06-06 11:21:57
no, u+2
@noway4569 - 2025-06-10 11:21:57
Is this channel the answer to if a paranoid programmer gets lost in the woods: what happens? Btw, you can walk around and talk to the trees all ya like. If we want real change then convince AI to encrypt the entire internet and threaten the banking system with permanent financial disruptions until the undersea cables overheat and explode. Inna woods dun fix shit, you can barely even affect change out there unless the idea is to start a fire and walk away. Which, you should do, btw. The woods have become your new prison.+1
@IAmPaigeAT - 2025-06-06 11:21:57
Ackshully the reason you’re seeing the proverbial dead internet is because you turned off IPv6 … I’m out here on that new latest killer internet enabled internet dude you know what sucks, I can’t use cloudflare with my hurricane electric tunnel! But if I could I can tell you with absolute certainty that you can hit 4 or 6 cloudflare and have a 6 only backend (did this on AWS with ec2 because getting rid of ipv4 saves on the cost (ec2 is like $2.00 a month for a t2.nano if you use spot fleet.) I still like running servers at home, but I’ve had to get creative+1
@everettwebster7348 - 2025-06-06 11:21:57
truth burger+1
@justinian420 - 2025-06-06 11:21:57
convert conspicuous cross+1
@lenfirewood4089 - 2025-06-10 11:21:57
Pandoras Box is AI - it HAS been opened. We should engage with it and learn as much about it as possible - bad guys are going to try and exploit it to the max and not for our benefit - those of us of more humane bent need to keep up with all attempts to totally enslave us. Event though very smart folks have taught software and computers how to THINK (and they really have done that!) you can still quickly spot where an AI bot is AI because it will then to react to your input in a soon to be very predictable way. I will explain later but in the interim (I have to go prep., cook and eat dinner) if anyone who understands my train of thought wants to complete where they think I am going with my reasoning by all means have a go and when I return I will read with interest ....+1
@Nicholas-cd3ef - 2025-06-06 11:21:57
Where is the backdrop scenery located ?+3
@MILLIONDOLLARPOVERTY - 2025-06-06 11:21:57
This is AI dead man switch Luke+1
@eustacemcgoodboy9702 - 2025-06-07 11:21:57
I saw this when he live streamed it from Archcon 2019.+2
@mistahsusan2650 - 2025-06-06 11:21:58
LLMs?+1
@stigcc - 2025-06-06 11:21:58
@mistahsusan2650Yeah, not that that is any better. You still get a curated response.+1
@j.r.mocksly5996 - 2025-06-06 11:21:58
Yandex works ok, it's the only one left that actually has decent results+4
@MenthYT - 2025-06-06 11:21:58
Hundreds of millions+4
@shavebunny - 2025-06-06 11:21:58
If you take out the news articles, the unrelated reddit posts, the ads and the unnecessary wikipedia page about *thing*, you'll basically have the same results as chatgpt shows+2
@IAmPaigeAT - 2025-06-06 11:21:58
I’m screwing myself because people will probably never realize like how nice IPv6 is, if you have the right means and if you use it right it’s nice. I mean if it wasn’t for the fact that ipv4 addressing just doesn’t come free, you don’t even need a routed address to route it internally if you arp proxy it from its origin network, figure out ways to run and host shit at home that people can relate to though and that won’t get them owned+1
@stee1rat - 2025-06-06 11:21:58
Looks like Russia to me+1
@phage74 - 2025-06-06 11:21:58
Georgia IIRC+1
@Projektor912 - 2025-06-06 11:21:58
Wood's Tarkov.+1
@RichardGuzman-f5v - 2025-06-06 11:21:59
Neo-Web 1.0!+1
@cryrpwastaken - 2025-06-06 11:21:59
Invest in a haircut and a beard trim Luke. Take care of yourself and have a good life.+1
@derekstevens164 - 2025-06-07 11:21:59
half these comments sound like AI slop and don't engage with the subject matter of the video.+1
@LivelyLivey - 2025-06-06 11:21:59
Luke is AI generated+1
@lllOXKlll - 2025-06-06 11:21:59
you are talking a little fast in this one. gives the impression the internet is out to get you!+1
@abderrahimaourir - 2025-06-06 11:21:59
being the 35th viewer is crazy+1
@HarshVardhan-tb4df - 2025-06-06 11:21:59
unc is loosing it.+1
@michaeldeloatch7461 - 2025-06-06 11:21:59
But Luke, if we don't use internet, how will we hear from YOU? Or will you start touring giving speeches at local high school auditoriums all over the place, LOL.+1
@tatsumioga101 - 2025-06-06 11:21:59
Lol 21:14 was so funny and interesting at the same time+1
@RyanC__ - 2025-06-06 11:21:59
Hi dad+1
@xargon666 - 2025-06-06 11:21:59
didn't he have an older beard before? wasn't it snowing? what's going on with the timeline?+1
@jrfy6757 - 2025-06-12 11:21:59
I know+1
@Diogenes-96 - 2025-06-09 11:21:59
Idk what you’re talking about. I don’t know what you mean when you say it’s all AI. I work in digital marketing and I have a very good eye for what’s AI and what’s not. There is a lot of AI content out there but it’s not nearly as nightmarish as you say. This dead internet theory soyfacing is so contemptible to me, it’s just the same as people who think we live in a computer. All of this shit you’re talking about is an extension and decentralization of normal group psychology. It freaks people out because we’re accelerating the rate at which people’s psychology (contingent on the somewhat flimsy authority of the group leaders) is changing.+1
@FUZASHIII - 2025-06-06 11:21:59
AI clone of Luke talks about dead internet theory. Now that’s content 🍿+3
@mavericks.9638 - 2025-06-11 11:21:59
I fr thought you was MentalOutlaw lol+1
@justian1772 - 2025-06-06 11:21:59
I'm alive and a person 😂+1
@StaryWkurwiony - 2025-06-06 11:21:59
every time when i hear "like and subscribe" i at least dislike.+1
@Bruh-cg2fk - 2025-06-06 11:21:59
Socrates+1
@rk-bumbum - 2025-06-06 11:21:59
You're also dead internet because you're NOT creating your own content and "platforms" (a personal website, a collaborative novel fluid sociel media sites, an artsy website, whatever). BTW I don't mean you literally, it's just the passive (zombie) voice.+1
@Siger5019 - 2025-06-06 11:21:59
Everything bad you're attributing to social networks is already on its way out, too+1
@abderrahimaourir - 2025-06-06 11:21:59
*comment+1
@eustacemcgoodboy9702 - 2025-06-07 11:21:59
He's gonna just dump his thoughts into the void here on this channel. And never read the comments. This is the way. This is how you win.+1
@PIatosGoonCave - 2025-06-06 11:22:00
What if I told you that he isn’t uploading these videos in chronological order?+1
@xargon666 - 2025-06-06 11:22:00
@PIatosGoonCave I'm no longer convinced that time itself is proceeding in chronological order+1
@PIatosGoonCave - 2025-06-06 11:22:00
@xargon666 Motion is the first lie, the veritable father of lies.+1
@Diogenes-96 - 2025-06-09 11:22:00
Group leadership is scaffolded and therefore certainly somewhat dependent on algorithmic changes as well bc algorithms are controlled by leadership way up top+1
@MrFirefox - 2025-06-06 11:22:00
dead mans switch upload, therefore its real luke but hes ded+1
@MaxRussel-m7t - 2025-06-06 11:22:00
How so? Can you elaborate?+1
@Val-ub4uw - 2025-06-06 11:22:01
Updating opinions.exe+1
@Slow.Smooth - 2025-06-11 11:22:01
Is he AI?+1
@MoHaver - 2025-06-17 06:22:01
Yeah and you are walking through a forest talking to yourself oh no a phone and wanna lecture who exactly? And about what?+1
@yeboi5478 - 2025-06-06 11:22:01
I actually gay+1
@ViperCannabis - 2025-06-11 11:22:01
Nuh uh!+1
@peepogob - 2025-06-11 11:22:01
best video+1
@pitermarx - 2025-06-07 11:22:01
AI generation is not necessarily bad. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4faRraTID5rz7oRBVVv9lw+1
@GeorgeDroydDidNothingWrong - 2025-06-06 11:22:01
No ur the dead internet+2
@GargoyleDraugr - 2025-06-07 11:22:01
Oh wow+1
@nara_visuals - 2025-06-09 11:22:01
online conspiracy theorist+1
@Nico_o7 - 2025-06-06 11:22:01
are these comments even real lol i see them and look so generic even real people like...+1
@CopeAscetic - 2025-06-06 11:22:01
Man+2
@Black-mz4wy - 2025-06-06 11:22:01
what's just saying anything+1
@some_dude_on_the_internet - 2025-06-12 11:22:01
beep bop+1
@VexingDaftJim1 - 2025-06-06 11:22:01
First+2
@Sage-vi5cl - 2025-06-14 11:22:01
What you’re saying is nothing new. Philosophers have known this for years, humans change their behavior to be liked socially. Everyone intuitively knows this you’re just saying it a different way and presenting it as grand or novel+1
@t01 - 2025-06-06 11:22:01
Noimnot+2
@uselesscommentor - 2025-06-06 11:22:01
plaster saint+1
@hgriff14 - 2025-06-06 11:22:01
nuh uh+1
@OthorgonalOctroon - 2025-06-06 11:22:01
>being conditioned into behaviours by a social group typical neurotypical inferiority. Pleroma is good and organic btw.+1
@Black-mz4wy - 2025-06-06 11:22:01
but he's right+1
@yeboi5478 - 2025-06-06 11:22:01
No+2
@St33v33 - 2025-06-06 11:22:02
I am+2
@BobofWOGGLE - 2025-06-06 11:22:02
"You're all individuals! You have free will!" "Yes! We're all individuals!" "I'm not."+5
@vulonkaaz - 2025-06-06 11:22:02
Pleroma is only good if you're on your own self hosted instance and follow basically nobody otherwise you definetly are getting conditioned by the social group+2
@Tom-lf7zw - 2025-06-06 11:22:02
Fake news. Twitter and the fediverse are still good.+1
@miguell-h2o - 2025-06-06 11:22:02
hey kids? xD+1
@anonaga308 - 2025-06-06 11:22:02
Jesus Christ is KING.+3
@zerovoid-with.numbers - 2025-06-06 11:22:02
no u+1
@davor12 - 2025-06-06 11:22:02
no u+1
@9a3eedi - 2025-06-06 11:22:02
no u+1
@MitternachtssternXIII - 2025-06-12 11:22:02
i love me some dead internet xD+1
@simplesimon5688 - 2025-06-06 11:22:02
bald+1
@shavebunny - 2025-06-06 11:22:02
Are u gonna make linux content any time soon?+1
@mirak_backwards - 2025-06-06 11:22:02
i dont agree with anything you say, but i keep watching for some reason. here's a dislike.+1
@mandrillsass5687 - 2025-06-15 11:22:02
No u+1
@BenisDD - 2025-06-06 11:22:02
No u+1
@knightdtd - 2025-06-06 11:22:02
No u+1
@proper_noun436 - 2025-06-06 11:22:02
No u+1
@a.z - 2025-06-06 11:22:02
at this point get help+1
@stevebuscemi4185 - 2025-06-09 11:22:02
I don’t think people should interact on the internet says the man talking on the internet+1
@MisterConscio - 2025-06-06 11:22:02
Maybe the solution could be restricted and self-hosted communities?+2
@SauliusKva - 2025-06-06 11:22:02
Marge+1
@armageddoned - 2025-06-06 11:22:02
gurt+1
@kyoukaya4181 - 2025-06-06 11:22:02
Boomer longs for web 1.0 moment. I do miss the old days when public discourse was influenced in a graphical/web based manner, as opposed to the radial influence exuded by megacap companies on their platforms. However, the federated internet is just an ideological fantasy. Even with current federated communities, e.g., mastodon, we see strong clustering of ideologies through federations blocking and associating with each other. Fundamentally this is no different from web 1.0 websites choosing who to out link to either way, or what web rings "modern" web 1.0 sites choose to join. In a true decentralized/federated environment, humans will gravitate into clusters and form groupthink. Human behaviour always devolves to tribalism at some point or another, you can either accept that we are all dead or believe everyone else is an NPC.+2
@Droggelbecherbot - 2025-06-09 11:22:03
I do think it's possible to use the internet and put oneself out there on these social media sites AND maintain an authentic personality, but it requires two things: 1) extraordinary discipline and resistance to the temptation of chasing dopamine 2) a clearly defined goal WHY you're spending your time on these sites in the first place, for example making an impact on the world or other people+1
@Paul-py5kr - 2025-06-13 11:22:03
Is this ai 😂😂😂😂 jk+1
@NaturalUsername - 2025-06-06 11:22:03
1+2
@hapshaughnessy7964 - 2025-06-06 11:22:03
Anyone know any good hand, curated portals linking independent individual websites?+2
@erdood3235 - 2025-06-06 11:22:03
2:25 why are you using an antisemitic slang?+2
@P.Aether - 2025-06-07 11:22:03
I literally tweeted this same thing on 8th of May 2025. Idk how to link the tweet but it's literally the same; and I got 0 likes... Why? Why is the world like this? I say profound things and nobody cares :(+1
@gl0sek - 2025-06-06 11:22:03
Is this a green screen? The guy is surrounded by a whole forest and just keeps walking in circles...😂+1
@orthodoxNPC - 2025-06-06 11:22:03
reeeeeeeeeeeeach+1
@YawnGod - 2025-06-06 11:22:03
Cool story, bro.+2
@houragents5490 - 2025-06-06 11:22:03
GOYSLOP!!!!?? Errrmmmmmm B-b-b-BASED!?+2
@AnjiijnA-d7d - 2025-06-10 11:22:03
Tell me something man ...who the f*k cares?+1
@catalystcomet - 2025-06-10 11:22:03
Imgur... Lol+1
@TattooMyBones - 2025-06-12 11:22:03
YOU are bald+1
@derekshaw8050 - 2025-06-08 11:22:03
Please trim your beard.+2
@miller42 - 2025-06-06 11:22:03
I unironically miss the 56k era of the Internet.+1
@ricardsjekabsons3917 - 2025-06-06 11:22:03
1234❤+1
@janekkowalewicz112 - 2025-06-06 11:22:03
This is like saying "don't greet store clerk, you're being conditioned", I came here for dead internets found boomer rant+1
@JuanZacarías-i7n - 2025-06-09 11:22:03
Did yall know rich people aré gonna have to work someday cause they having children AND that Is taking space AND there gonna have to work at some point cause their Is no space for to much lazy people AND of course nobody wants to die if they feel good+1
@bucephalusstudios - 2025-06-06 11:22:03
It's a little hard to follow, but what I'm hearing from you is that we have unknowingly sacrificed our individuality to conform en masse to the culture of big tech websites. People are just repeating the same things from one another so now real people are sounding AI generated. From where I come from, which is game development Youtube, this is true. Game development Youtubers tend to echo the same advice and opinions, but I think that's because the type of person to become a game developer is going to first seek their education here, as it's where all of the major conference talks are hosted, they usually don't have enough experienced to get hired and learn on the job, and few boomer parents are going to want to pony up the cash to send their child to a 4-year game development college degree. I'm trying to be a unique and non-AI generated voice on game dev Youtube, but I acknowledge that I am probably a product of my environment. I've been trying to read books and have more in-person conversations, and I think that's helped a lot :)+1
@MonosProsMonos - 2025-06-10 11:22:03
YOU are bald+1
@Jupiter__001_ - 2025-06-06 11:22:03
Replying here so I can see if anyone answers+1
@Hero_Of_Old - 2025-06-06 11:22:03
Because they should be called out.+9
@koma7252 - 2025-06-06 11:22:04
wow get a load of this quirky ironic all-knowing individual, you can't impress him his so aware WOW tell us what content passes your exquisite talmudic filters!+1
@eustacemcgoodboy9702 - 2025-06-07 11:22:04
He's saying you're just engaging with bots on social media and the bots are programmed by algorithms to shape you and your behavior and thoughts. I am not a bot. You are a bot.+1
@janekkowalewicz112 - 2025-06-08 11:22:04
@eustacemcgoodboy9702 nope, that's not what he said in the video at all, did you even watch it? lol+1
@0xAA55 - 2025-06-07 11:22:05
Learn a programming language first and actually program for like 5 years before you even touch game development.+1
@bucephalusstudios - 2025-06-07 11:22:05
@0xAA55 For sure! I did that myself. I've seen quite a few of my peers in the industry jump in and broke under the pressure of the amount they had to learn, or just consigned themselves to QA jobs instead of jobs where they could gain more important skills.+1
@NvRDeadNed - 2025-06-10 11:22:05
comments like this lead to she bear attacks+1
@ImmersionEsque - 2025-06-06 11:22:05
me when i lie+1
@Official_Chat_Moderator - 2025-06-06 11:22:05
My algorithm spoon fed me your videos to consoom, so this must be AI generated goyslop.+1
@PigeonPost-t9s - 2025-06-06 11:22:05
inshallah+2
@Drevo103179 - 2025-06-06 11:22:05
This homeless man has a lot of good insights+1
@canman7773 - 2025-06-06 11:22:05
Your beard desperately needs a trim+2
@clarkflavour - 2025-06-08 11:22:05
Bullshit+1
@MarcoAurelio-sv2tk - 2025-06-06 11:22:05
I would like to know your opinion about this fried voice that every female youtuber do. Some guys started to to this as well.+1
@JohnChrysostom101 - 2025-06-10 11:22:05
Dead internet theory is the dumbest shit ever+1
@JesusMartinez-fy3yf - 2025-06-06 11:22:05
Nothingburger+1
@rniggardson3 - 2025-06-06 11:22:05
not really. your website is boring. mine is making the internet fun again.+1
@GeeeEmmm - 2025-06-06 11:22:06
He might actually be considering Orthodox monasticism. Would explain why he's so unkempt.+1
@MilquetoastQT - 2025-06-10 11:22:06
Blasphemy.+1