Big incel energy with this comment

Into the landfills, like everything else

You wouldn’t download rear-heated seats.

This is how Mickey Mouse comes into creation

If you don’t choose to believe in it, it can’t hurt you. That’s verified fact

Salix is right that it alludes to the Dead Internet Theory.

I don’t actually subscribe to the full theory that the internet is already dead and we only talk to bots, but I do think bot activity may become advanced and pervasive enough to create a “Dead Internet” like scenario (or at least fundamentally alter platforms away from what we currently know as the internet experience)

These companies not being able to handle bot attacks without hamstringing major parts of their platforms is a canary in the coal mine for the Dead Internet.

Or maybe load billions more in debt onto a company that was just barely treading water

I had to make sure I didn’t somehow write this in my sleep or something, it’s word-for-word exactly what I’ve been thinking for the past few years.

Many subs are solely focused on generating outrage, hate, anger, being infuriated, and just general discontent. Baiting people with strawmen of groups they dislike, obviously fake tweets/exchanges to get people riled up, etc.

Although none of this is particularly new, /r/fatpeoplehate, /r/____inAction, and other straight up racist subs were vicious to the point of some being banned years ago.

But now it’s more of a general ragebait machine that creeps onto /r/all regularly and can take over any subreddit completely without proper moderation.

Is ensuring an information monopoly for an unethical, profit-above-else driven corporation making the world better?

It’s just like how they forcibly remove you from public squares after you’ve passively listened to people for 15 minutes

The quintessential public square experience

I would rather slowly choke to death