4chan specifically has been heavily botted since 2015 or so. I only briefly went there before, and /pol/ currently has massive amounts of things like forum sliding and worthless posts that are just meant to prevent actual discussion.
I believe that Twitter, Reddit, and Facebook also have bots to some degree. Likely to inflate numbers and generate a fake consensus. At the very least they are moderated to prevent organic growth from happening. Like Twitter's trends generally have to be approved or Youtube's tending page which is only filled with corporate bullshit.
I know OP is speaking specifically from his experience on 4chan, but I have seen similar instances on Reddit and other large sites. In addition it is already known that the three-letter agencies have a significant online influence and collude directly with the tech companies. So I am led to think this is a reasonable "how" explanation for at least some of what they are doing, but am open to other possibilities.
The natural anonymity of the Internet has lead to the organic growth of a lot of things that would otherwise not exist. In the past, if you had a weird idea, you kept it to yourself, now you go online, find others with the weird idea, and devolve into an echo chamber of reaffirmation. So in that sense it is partly organic.
"literally a simulation" would be an exaggeration, but algorithmically sorted content specifically to drive narrative does exist and was artificially created, either by tech or by government.
Yes, elements of the government, esp. in the CIA, have admitted that social engineering was heavily researched and experimented with beginning in the 1950s and 1960s. My take is that its about 65/35 between a large amount of the trend described in the first paragraph, and actual attempts at social engineering.
I do remember the Internet he's talking about. It was a better place, even if you got Goatse'd on occasion.
As for the conspiracy theory... fuck if I know. Sounds schizo. Probably schizo. The Internet we're living with is a result of two things: big tech consolidating web pages into one monolith (Facebook, Twitter, et al) and normie infiltration. I believe that the iPhone is the single biggest disaster that could have ever befallen the Internet because it allowed your brainlet gym teacher and retarded mother to easily access the web.
Since the OP left it explicitly implied (that's a fun turn of phrase I fell over there) rather than explained it's a little difficult to pin down what you're asking here.
The implication that much of the internet of the last decade is a fabrication of a single, possibly lizard-obsessed AI, or group of AIs pretending to be real people across multiple platforms? Nah.
It's a creepypasta for people concerned about the downfall of internet culture, and like all good creepypastas it paints a selective picture that feels just this side of impossible to get the mind boggling at the possibilities.
The internet has been split up into who knows how many fragments. When I change states/countries on my VPN, there's absolutely tons of stuff I no longer have access to. If I as much as VPN into another part of my state, I can no longer search/look up people living in my area, it's as if they don't exist.
I do wonder if the hypnosis shit that was put up on 4chan years ago was a psy-op. It earned general attention on the site and elsewhere through the "no hands" thing, but otherwise it was heavily focused on submission and de-masculinity, and all the modern day real world sexual stuff soon followed (cuckery, feminization, etc). This included moot himself becoming a cuck and leaving.
Seems like a good way to weaken and conquer the people who would have otherwise pushed back
4chan specifically has been heavily botted since 2015 or so. I only briefly went there before, and /pol/ currently has massive amounts of things like forum sliding and worthless posts that are just meant to prevent actual discussion.
I believe that Twitter, Reddit, and Facebook also have bots to some degree. Likely to inflate numbers and generate a fake consensus. At the very least they are moderated to prevent organic growth from happening. Like Twitter's trends generally have to be approved or Youtube's tending page which is only filled with corporate bullshit.
Select text. Copy. Paste. No more of these screenshots of massive blocks of text.
Better yet: rewrite the whole thing in your own words.
Relevant: https://i.imgur.com/ibqhV5O.jpg
I know OP is speaking specifically from his experience on 4chan, but I have seen similar instances on Reddit and other large sites. In addition it is already known that the three-letter agencies have a significant online influence and collude directly with the tech companies. So I am led to think this is a reasonable "how" explanation for at least some of what they are doing, but am open to other possibilities.
I think it is some of both.
The natural anonymity of the Internet has lead to the organic growth of a lot of things that would otherwise not exist. In the past, if you had a weird idea, you kept it to yourself, now you go online, find others with the weird idea, and devolve into an echo chamber of reaffirmation. So in that sense it is partly organic.
"literally a simulation" would be an exaggeration, but algorithmically sorted content specifically to drive narrative does exist and was artificially created, either by tech or by government.
Yes, elements of the government, esp. in the CIA, have admitted that social engineering was heavily researched and experimented with beginning in the 1950s and 1960s. My take is that its about 65/35 between a large amount of the trend described in the first paragraph, and actual attempts at social engineering.
I do remember the Internet he's talking about. It was a better place, even if you got Goatse'd on occasion.
As for the conspiracy theory... fuck if I know. Sounds schizo. Probably schizo. The Internet we're living with is a result of two things: big tech consolidating web pages into one monolith (Facebook, Twitter, et al) and normie infiltration. I believe that the iPhone is the single biggest disaster that could have ever befallen the Internet because it allowed your brainlet gym teacher and retarded mother to easily access the web.
Sometimes random news on Reddit have more than 60k upvotes! They are clearly manipulating the site.
He's on the right track but he's definitely schizo-adjacent.
Please stop turning this into a fucking Q forum.
Thanks.
Q wasn't even mentioned, retard
Since the OP left it explicitly implied (that's a fun turn of phrase I fell over there) rather than explained it's a little difficult to pin down what you're asking here.
The implication that much of the internet of the last decade is a fabrication of a single, possibly lizard-obsessed AI, or group of AIs pretending to be real people across multiple platforms? Nah.
It's a creepypasta for people concerned about the downfall of internet culture, and like all good creepypastas it paints a selective picture that feels just this side of impossible to get the mind boggling at the possibilities.
The internet has been split up into who knows how many fragments. When I change states/countries on my VPN, there's absolutely tons of stuff I no longer have access to. If I as much as VPN into another part of my state, I can no longer search/look up people living in my area, it's as if they don't exist.
I do wonder if the hypnosis shit that was put up on 4chan years ago was a psy-op. It earned general attention on the site and elsewhere through the "no hands" thing, but otherwise it was heavily focused on submission and de-masculinity, and all the modern day real world sexual stuff soon followed (cuckery, feminization, etc). This included moot himself becoming a cuck and leaving.
Seems like a good way to weaken and conquer the people who would have otherwise pushed back